necessary evil

Being a girl is just so much fun! Birth control sucks. As i sit here nursing what wants to become a migraine i needed to complain. We want to have sex and enjoy it birth control becomes the necessary evil. Gee, who has to deal with it. me or as in most cases the woman! I've said to a few people once we decide on number five or not it'll finally be my husbands turn. One visit to consult. one visit snip snip and I don't have to think about it anymore! Yippee for me! Hopefully rob agrees to it or we may have a problem. Think this may be part of my very convincing arguement.
Its recommended for us lovely ladies to start seeing the fun doctor(gyno) at i believe 16 or when you become sexually active. For me that would have been 15. Two visits a year for your annual and pap. I just turned 34 so thats fifty eight visits so far. Not even counting the extras when you get pregnant. And all the good invasive things that go on there. Plus not having any control of your body for nine months each time. Just extra goodies.
Now birth conrtol. You must keep up with these visits in order to keep getting your birth control so theres no hedging the numbers. I have been on three different types so far. I know there are a lot more out there but for me its juts been three. Each one in addition to the lovely risks you now hear listed on the tv has come with their own special side effects for me and my body!
First up was the patch. A sticky patch like a band aid you put on certain parts of your body and leave it for a week. Of course in the course of a week it doesn't look very good so you try to put it somewhere rarely seen. Three patches for a month, the last week no patch and you get your friend! Along with my friend and all her joyous effects on my body i began getting migraine headaches. I have always gotten bad headaches since I was little. these migraines... well they suck ten times more. There were times i could not go to work much less do anything but lie in bed with the room in complete darkness and a pillow over my head to keep out any and every possible sound. If i was lucky I'd cry myself to sleep the pain was so bad. The longer I was on the patch the worse they seemed to get. They wouldn't be gone when I woke up after awhile and would hang around for a few days. I had to learn to cope with it and function beyond the pain. Somehow I did. I figured losing a day a month in pain was the necessary evil i'd put up with to enjoy a good sex life with my husband.
Next we had Jacob and when I wanted the patch back cause I was used to it after having been on it for three years they would not give it to me. It was not recalled per se but there was a big stink about the blood clot risk and my dr. would no longer prescribe it. Now My good dr. was touting the greatness of the ring. the new brith control option. This bendy ring goes up like a tampon and stays for three weeks. Was not thrilled with this at all. Was in fact quite pissed and called a girlfriend to bitch about it. "Oh, i'm on it and its great!" she tells me. So I suck it up and give it a shot. This first month wasn't too bad but i felt my contacts weren't quite right. The next month it got even worse and I could barely wear them. Something was just not right with my eyes. Back to the dr.
I get the lowest dose pill they have. Bacause of the reaction I had to the ring they don't want to chance anything else. Sure, now I have to remember to take a pill every damn day! not happy. I stash the pills with my toothbrush and do not have any problem forgetting them!
These pills aren't all that bad. You have 24 real ones and four fakes. You take the fakes so you don't get out of your routine and thats when your supposed to get your period. Funny thing is I NEVER get it when i'm on the fake ones. I also only get it every other month now. Thats a side effect i don't mind. First I was worried about it but the dr. said as long as i get it i'm good. I do have to track when it actually shows up still but every other month its almost a gift. I still feel the fun effects once a month but hey less grossness is always good. My body always knows when I've been off them. By the fourth fake pill day I get a slight headache like yesterday. Today I started my new pack but because my body hasn't registered the real pill yet I still have my annoying headache. It doesn't ever, or at least not yet, go into a full- blown migraine or anything but i can always feel it may have the potential. Thats when I know i must take tylenol. Extra strength. three at a time. Thats what my body likes. Take them for my cramps and my toothaches too. Went through a Bj's big bottle of them in about a month recently. Yes not good but I'm still here. I don't think u can OD on tylenol. Pain I've had quite enough of it and will do whats necessary to get rid of it. I've finally started with a hopefully good dentist... but thats another story