I have plain old, run-of-the-mill dysmenorrhea, and by "plain" and "old" and "run-of-the-mill" I mean fucking painful and bloody and debilitating. Guess what helps? Oh, right, those tiny pills I may or may not be allowed to have covered by my health insurance based on whether a bunch of white men in Congress are having a bad day.
Even when this stuff gets mentioned in news articles about the Pill, it's always a side note, like "oh, a few women somewhere out there have endometriosis or PCOS and take birth control for not-purely-contraceptive reasons" - implication: "but that's rare and totally unrelated to this issue". There are a fucking lot of us using the Pill for medical reasons!
(And I don't even need contraception! Dating ladies has its perks, yo.)
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Date: 2012-03-01 09:56 pm (UTC)I have plain old, run-of-the-mill dysmenorrhea, and by "plain" and "old" and "run-of-the-mill" I mean fucking painful and bloody and debilitating. Guess what helps? Oh, right, those tiny pills I may or may not be allowed to have covered by my health insurance based on whether a bunch of white men in Congress are having a bad day.
Even when this stuff gets mentioned in news articles about the Pill, it's always a side note, like "oh, a few women somewhere out there have endometriosis or PCOS and take birth control for not-purely-contraceptive reasons" - implication: "but that's rare and totally unrelated to this issue". There are a fucking lot of us using the Pill for medical reasons!
(And I don't even need contraception! Dating ladies has its perks, yo.)