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Posted on 10/04/2007 7:38:14 AM PDT by jacknhoo
Nursing a nagging headache and a sore throat, Gemma Pickwell queued at the pharmacy counter of her local Boots store on a chilly Saturday morning, her arms laden with cold remedies.
She felt her cheeks flush as she then sheepishly muttered to the pharmacist that she also needed the morning-after pill.
But Gemma's blushes were not simply prompted by the embarrassment of having to ask for such an emergency measure, or the fact that the night before she'd had drunken, unprotected sex with her boyfriend, but also because, shockingly, it was her 60th request for the drug in less than five years.
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What bothers me is that the article focuses on how bad the hormones in the morning after pill are but totally leaves out the fact that they are the SAME hormones from the regular pill. It’s the same thing, just one higher dose rather than many smaller doses. How can the one higher dose be bad but the many smaller doses not be bad? Hmmm... As a prior pill user, I’ll tell you that the many smaller doses are bad too. I’ve never used the morning after pill, so I can’t speak to that.
Just like taking 1 sleeping pill helps you fall asleep but a couple dozen can kill.
Like drinking a handle of vodka in a week is fine but doing that in 1 hour can kill you.
The liver and kidneys can only break down and remove compounds at a certain rate. Taking alot of anything will let it build up in the system and bad stuff usually happens.
But from everything I’ve heard that one higher dose is only like about 3 or 4 regular doses. It’s not a dozen. It’s not even close. I still contend that the regular pill is more dangerous than doctors/the media/people in general would like to admit.
Ironically enough, it was a failed use of the morning-after pill that changed Angela Nielsen's attitude to her contraception.
A 31-year-old freelance PA from Leicester, she had taken the morning-after pill for the 22nd time when it failed to work and she fell pregnant.
"Last year a condom split when my boyfriend and I were making love. Thirty minutes later we were at the local medical centre so I could get the morning-after pill.
"I wasn't worried because I'd taken it so many times before without really thinking about it.
"But then my period didn't arrive and I started to get strange cramps in my stomach.
"I was stunned when I took a pregnancy test and the result was positive.
"Doctors were alarmed that I'd conceived having taken the morning-after pill so quickly after intercourse, and warned there was a strong chance of an ectopic pregnancy, where the foetus grows outside the womb.
"Two weeks later, I miscarried. It was a dreadful experience and one that's made me very nervous about ever relying on the morning-after pill again.
Aren't most women devastated by a miscarriage because they realize that a BABY was lost, not because they "dodged a bullet", like this woman seems to be?
Sheesh. I can't remember what I was like when I was pro-choice anymore. I can't believe I was so cold and dead at any time in my life.
The evidence comes from 2 studies with serial labs, biopsies, and ultrasounds in women whose tubes had been tied, but who were ovulating done in a blinded study, over several months.
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Looking at two different “morning after pills”, one of them has is a high estrogen combination & another is progesterone without the estrogen. The main action of the progesterone only is thinning of the uterine wall, making it essentially an abortifant.
In short, she could be buying herself a heap of trouble sometime down the road, not to mention the immediate risks associated with oral contraceptives, such as blood clots.
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Gonna have a heck of a wake up call with the consequences of years of misuse catch up.
All drugs have consequences.. Nothing is ever completely benign.
Swollen with pride if not with virtue or anything else...
Pride is not much of a virtue.
Would it be impolite for me to comment on how homely she is and to express surprise that enough men were willing to sleep with her to necessitate habitual use of the morning after pill?
You posted: I find it a bit troubling this woman’s interaction with her pharmacy is up for public discussion, don’t you?
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I AM kind of surprised that this woman is willing to talk so freely about her lack of discipline in taking her normal birth control, and her lack of concern about resorting to the morning after pill so many times. It has become less than shocking that so many people not only don’t seem to care about avoidable consequences in their lives, but don’t even seem to care if everyone knows about it. I have always been a believer in people rising to the level or our expectations of them, but articles like this make me doubt the assumptions underlying that belief.
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I would think so, but notice that she's talking about a relationship with her "boyfriend", not husband. To me, that shows a lack of commitment, which indicates a weakness in the relationship. There's no foundation on which to build. It's sad.
Fair point.
Its none of my business what she does. I figure we all will get our chance to justify our actions in this life to a much higher authority than whats found on the internet.
So financially this does not make sense. What it smacks at to me is that she forgets or cannot be bothered to take it.
She could also have free contraceptive injections.
There is a third possibility though they she is used to getting totally blind drunk and then being sick and realised that the pill may well not be affective so as a precaution takes the morning after pill.
Whatever she is totally irresponsible and one wonders and dreads to think what would happen if the pill was not affective and she actually had a child one suspects she would be a lousy mother.
Though I doubt that a doctor would prescribe it that many times, also if she has used the same chemist they would have the records. My local chemist keeps all records of any medication that you get there even some that are not on prescription but a chemist at their discretion can sell you. Often a doctor will not write you a prescription if it is something you can buy over the counter. If she has had the morning after pill that many times from the same outlet they surely are being irresponsible in prescribing it continually.
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