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Birth control and comprimise
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This is probably a pointless question anyways, as the only birth control I've found that doesn't make me certifaible is the one I'm one. It also didn't matter that much because, thanks to expensive healthcare, the one I'm on was the cheap one for my insurance plan at the time.
However...
Now my insurance has changed and I have to pay full price for *all* concrapectives, so the cheap reasoning means nothing anymore. Also, I'm not a huge fan of periods. As much as I love buying tampons and having Ed yell out super absorbancy and then facing the product as I pay for them.
But anways, there are now lots of pills that hinder your menstrul cycle. I've looked into one imparticular. It gives you four periods a year. Its the same price and I talked to a pharmacist at work and a girl I work with who was on it also. She gets just as nutty as me with 99% of pills. She said it wasn't too bad and the pharmacist said its not as bad for the insane people.
Now, after alot of unneeded information, comes the reason why its in relationships and the comprimise part. I know its my body and I can do what I want and all that stuff with it and I would love to cut down 1/3 of my broken times. However Ed is not comfortable with this. We've talked about it a couple times and it boils down to that he's not comfortable with no periods. Leaves some guessing in there.
Now to be honest, the only safer sex we could have is if we didn't have sex at all. He's completly anal (not literally) with stuff like that. I don't know if he has some accidental kid hiding out there and thats why, but you know, we all have our reasons.
I guess with this rambly post I'm just asking for opinions. I'm comfortable and confident with missed periods and would like to look into changing my pills for something like that. Theres a large chance I won't react well to them and will have to go back with what I'm on anways.
He is not comfortable with missed periods and I take his opinion and what he wants seriously. I don't want to go changing things that partially effects us both without him being ok with it. I really do care what he thinks.
What would you do?
However...
Now my insurance has changed and I have to pay full price for *all* concrapectives, so the cheap reasoning means nothing anymore. Also, I'm not a huge fan of periods. As much as I love buying tampons and having Ed yell out super absorbancy and then facing the product as I pay for them.
But anways, there are now lots of pills that hinder your menstrul cycle. I've looked into one imparticular. It gives you four periods a year. Its the same price and I talked to a pharmacist at work and a girl I work with who was on it also. She gets just as nutty as me with 99% of pills. She said it wasn't too bad and the pharmacist said its not as bad for the insane people.
Now, after alot of unneeded information, comes the reason why its in relationships and the comprimise part. I know its my body and I can do what I want and all that stuff with it and I would love to cut down 1/3 of my broken times. However Ed is not comfortable with this. We've talked about it a couple times and it boils down to that he's not comfortable with no periods. Leaves some guessing in there.
Now to be honest, the only safer sex we could have is if we didn't have sex at all. He's completly anal (not literally) with stuff like that. I don't know if he has some accidental kid hiding out there and thats why, but you know, we all have our reasons.
I guess with this rambly post I'm just asking for opinions. I'm comfortable and confident with missed periods and would like to look into changing my pills for something like that. Theres a large chance I won't react well to them and will have to go back with what I'm on anways.
He is not comfortable with missed periods and I take his opinion and what he wants seriously. I don't want to go changing things that partially effects us both without him being ok with it. I really do care what he thinks.
What would you do?
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I didn't want to have my coil taken out, so I reassured him that I take a pregnancy test each month. I bought them in bulk online, I think it was about £5 for 20 dip stick sensitive tests, and it takes me all of three minutes for peace of mind.
I don't know, hes weird He notices before I do. I"ve got the triphasic or whatever so each pill is a different color, about a week before, he'll be like, oh, you'll be broken in a week, every time I have to open the pill case and be like, hmmm... yeah, I guess the green pills are coming up.
He was like that when I was on the shot. My periods still came regularly but I never knew when, it still managed to be a shock to me, he was always the one who would warn me when its going to be .
im shocked!:eek:
That's what I thought as well, but didn't say anything because I thought it sounded slightly rude.
They dont have an NHS in the US.
Free from who?
There isnt much benefit or state support, if you're really poor then you do get some help, but if you're above the bread line then basically you get bugger all. Unless your a pensioner that is, when you get medicare which means cheap drugs (largely because of the number of old voters).
In some ways America is very different from here, not only in ethics but their government does a lot less for people.
But having lots of kids is good for a country, thats why they are getting younger and us in Europe are getting older.
I'd be surprised though if you couldn't go into some drop in clinics and get free condoms.
Yes and no, they've got loads of land, but huge chunks of it are useless.
We've got enough, more than enough really, its just people would rather live in the South East than the North East.