The Birth Control Thread - Because Aunty Flow Motherfucking Blows

[Wheezy Asthmatic]

Anything implanted into my body is a strong NO. But the ring is basically like a round plastic tampon. It's not stuck in there until a doctor removes it. If you don't like it, you pull it out.

Isn't there a ring that's inserted into your arm?
I swear I saw a commercial for that recently which like just gave me a fucking anxiety attack.

 

[Miss Misery]

Isn't there a ring that's inserted into your arm?
I swear I saw a commercial for that recently which like just gave me a fucking anxiety attack.

There's Norplant, which is a SERIES OF TUBES inserted under the skin, usually in the bicep.

But the Nuvaring is just a flexible plastic ring, about 2 inches in diameter, that you shove in your vag once a month and then leave in for three to four weeks (three if you want to have a week off for a period or four if you want to just keep going sans period) and then pull out. Penis-having partners can feel them a bit but they don't interfere with sex and you can always take them out for an hour or two while you're getting down. The side effects are far far less than what you get from oral BCP. And you only have to think about the damn thing once or twice a month. I've been using the ring for a decade or so and I love it.

 

[Snusmumriken]

Glad to know there are so many KF women I can bust in.

But ask yourself: do you want to bust in KF women.

OT to each their own for birth control choices, but I just don’t see the point of IUDs. I can’t see taking a pill every day or using a condom being that much more inconvenient than having a fishhook shoved through your uterus ffs. Maybe I’m just sensitive to pain but I’d rather be abstinent than go through that.

 

[georgyjobe]

But ask yourself: do you want to bust in KF women.

OT to each their own for birth control choices, but I just don’t see the point of IUDs. I can’t see taking a pill every day or using a condom being that much more inconvenient than having a fishhook shoved through your uterus ffs. Maybe I’m just sensitive to pain but I’d rather be abstinent than go through that.

The IUD is more effective by about 4 percentage points than the pill, and the copper one is a nonhormonal option for women it really fucks with. It's also really helpful for women who are on drugs/don't give a fuck about the number of kids or abortions they have - Medicaid really pushes it on abortion providers for women on opioids for example. If you're already up in there, the doctor can do it really quickly and bam, the state isn't paying for a $500 procedure for the next five years, or worse a baby addicted to drugs.

Not to say I'm encouraging them. I know someone who bled for 3 months straight when it went in, and she complained and complained for months afterwards about the pain but the doctor said she just had to wait for it to settle. Turns out it became embedded in her. Nooo thank you!

Spoiler

Also, way too young, I read some sort of domestic violence account of a man pulling an IUD out of his wife because he was mad about her going on birth control. Can't get over that prejudice.

 

[Wheezy Asthmatic]

There's Norplant, which is a SERIES OF TUBES inserted under the skin, usually in the bicep.

That is going to be a hard pass from me, chief

 

[Fliddaroonie]

At least in the country I grew up in, the pill is often given automatically to young women who go to the GP with tiredness and fatigue. If tiredness is the only reason for taking the pill, make sure you get a blood iron test to make sure you aren't anaemic. I had to live with undiagnosed anaemia for almost 10 years until I moved country and got an iron test because my original doctor just gave out the pill without any testing, and anaemia symptoms are much worse during a period.



This really is the best form of contraception for most women because it doesn't increase the risk of blood clots, breast/uterine cancer or mood swings like hormonal methods do. It doesn't help at all with PMS or tiredness though so it might not be your best option.

Edit: This isn't really related to lolcows, so maybe it should be in the "health and fitness" section of general discussion?

Not to nitpick but a lack of iron is not the only cause of anemia and it is inaccurate to conflate solely iron deficiency with anaemia.

Other causes include lack of b12 (or any of the other things needed to make erythrocytes) pernicious anaemia, which is caused by a lack of Intrinsc Factor and aplastic anaemia, which is caused by a RBM disorder or malfunction leading to a drop in erythrocytes and thus the O2 carrying capacity of blood.

So you should not ask for "an iron test ". You should ask for a count of your erythrocytes, or a hematocrit test.

 

[LurkNoMore]

Kiwifarms the White Nationalist/White Supremacist Neo-Nazi doxing site where women both A) post about birth control and B) are stupid enough to think they can tell men not to have opinions.

Wow, never thought those things would all end up in a sentence.

 

[C.Elegans]

Not to nitpick but a lack of iron is not the only cause of anemia and it is inaccurate to conflate solely iron deficiency with anaemia.

Other causes include lack of b12 (or any of the other things needed to make erythrocytes) pernicious anaemia, which is caused by a lack of Intrinsc Factor and aplastic anaemia, which is caused by a RBM disorder or malfunction leading to a drop in erythrocytes and thus the O2 carrying capacity of blood.

So you should not ask for "an iron test ". You should ask for a count of your erythrocytes, or a hematocrit test.

Spoiler: medfag sperging

I'm a recently graduated medfag (not a doctor, in medical research) but when giving advice to people on the internet I just think its for the best to make it as simple as possible. Also you have to be careful, if you go to the doctor and ask for a "hematocrit test" or especially mention aplastic anemia, a lot of the time they will think you have been researching on WebMD and can think you're a hypochondriac (something I can only say from experience). It may depend on the country or whether you go private/insured but if you ask for an iron test usually they will give you a full test of average erythrocyte size, SD, ferritin levels etc. That's what an "iron test" is, it's just a colloquial term. Sometimes they will also test B12/folate levels as a differential diagnosis. They don't expect patients to have to ask for exactly what biomedical test they want to get it, lol. It's their job to help YOU figure out the problem not the other way around. Iron deficiency also causes the overwhelming majority of anaemias in women so is often the first thing to test. B12 deficiency and aplastic anemia are rare and come with additional, more severe symptoms that the GP will also take into consideration if needed.

Tl;dr asking for an "iron test" at the GP is completely fine and you will get the test you need. It was just kinda nitpicking lol

 

[Dufe]

The wife has the pill for anemia. But her sex drive sapped af. Anybody got viable advice?


I must be at a low point asking kf for relationship advice....

 

[AngryItalianAmerican]

I would go to a doctor.

But my two cents would be to stop fucking like a jackrabbit and stop taking birth control and depo at least for a trimester. Your body is starting to reject all those chemicals you are injecting. Eat better so you lower your dependency on vitamins (as good as they are they still have an assload of chemicals that sediment on your kidneys.) Only when you feel fully detoxed from the birth control go back to it.

And tell your boyfriend to eat your pussy for a minute and stop trying to dislocate your hips.

 

[Crunchy Leaf]

I’m shocked this is a thread. I didn’t realize people on here got laid.

 

[Wheezy Asthmatic]

The wife has the pill for anemia. But her sex drive sapped af. Anybody got viable advice?


I must be at a low point asking kf for relationship advice....

Exercise, sunlight, and the occasional glass of wine if it's that bad. Sometimes all it really takes is a leisurely walk for 30 min a day though to help perk back up. Go with her. Have a conversation. That also helps.

 

[The Last Stand]

Birth control is generally bad for societies, period. The moments you tell people they can fuck with no consequences, they do. Whilst 99.9% of the time it goes perfectly well, if you have a society of just 2000 people fucking once a week, you have at least one unplanned pregnancy a week. (I know, technically this decreases after the first pregnancy but the point still stands.)

After this, then dad runs away because he just wanted to bust and mum is left with the kid with society writ large paying for it. Society has to pay for it economically, via taxes. They have to pay for it politically, as unmarried mothers create voting blocks. And they have to pay for it socially as fatherless men are overwhelmingly involved in crime, especially crime against women.

One of my most controversial opinions is that birth control should be illegal, and I didn't come to that conclusion lightly. I used to think it was a 'privacy of their own room' kind of deal, but technology and its consequences is something that all of society gets a say in. Especially when it comes to children, that society ultimately exists to protect and nurture.

Your mom should've used birth control.

 

[Owlflaps]

The wife has the pill for anemia. But her sex drive sapped af. Anybody got viable advice?


I must be at a low point asking kf for relationship advice....

Obviously you need a new wife lol

Serious answer: Light exercise and diets rich in folate are helpful. Ferrous sulfate or any form of iron supplements may help, but your wife should refer to a doctor before taking them as they might interfere with the pill. I'm also anemic, so I understand the struggle.

 

[Szfynks]

Reading this thread makes me glad my future husband is getting the snip this year.

 

[Weed Eater]

I had that stupid Nexplanon implant in my arm. The first three months were great until I randomly started to get sick practically every other day, then every day, then every single night. I couldn't lay down, I couldn't sit, everything was uncomfortable in my body and I even lost weight due to this bullshit because who the hell wants to eat food when you're constantly puking your guts up. The mood swings/changes got pretty bad too, and it ultimately led to me demanding that a doctor pull the bullshit out. The E.R. first denied me because "oh well we didn't do it so it's not our responsibility", so I went to a Planned Parenthood copycat and demanded they take me in due to the fact that I was sick nearly every day and couldn't function properly.

All in all, fuck birth control. Your fiance/boyfriend is a retard if they can't successfully pull out every time. Condoms also are fine, just invest in Okamoto/Crown, they're thinner than your usual Trojan so I don't want to hear bullshit about how your dick "can't feel a thing".

 

[Android raptor]

I got a hormonal iud over a year ago. Highly recommend.

Wild to see the a&h anti-birth control crowd shitting even this thread up.

 

[MetalParakeet]

I'm pretty happy about being sterilized but nothing has made me more grateful than reading some of the dumbass posts in this thread

 

[ADHD]

Glad to know there are so many KF women I can bust in.

Just a reminder to those without a uterus: This thread is in the Salon. No one here wants to hear about what anything in this section makes you want to do or not do with your dick, or your moral opinion regarding birth control. Please behave yourselves.

 

[AMHOLIO]

Shout outs to my fellow gorls who need it and couldn't be more grateful for it as well as everyone who's had a bad experience with it. Medication is a fucking gamble and I wish our bodies were less fake and gay about it.