Empowerment and my pills (crossposted)

[bitpsych.livejournal.com]

I am TOTALLY getting my IUD on Friday. WORD **UP**! Take that, Planned Parenthood biznatches.

I did something extremely empowering yesterday. I popped out Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday's pills from my pack (the last four active pills, since I'm close to the end).

I threw them away.

I dropped them into the garbage, one by one. I am sick of so many hormones. I am sick of not being myself. I want to be Jenn, not some psycho bitch on estrogen.

They're gone. Gone gone gone. I am not taking another birth control pill, everyone.

Anyone that's already on Ortho-Cyclen need some pills? I've got nine months' worth left. I'd prefer to give them to someone who actually PAYS for their pills so they're saving money and I'm being a good person. I've also got a cute little case to send with them :)

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[bitpsych.livejournal.com]

I wanted to like them, I really did. I had no problem taking them, I loved not getting pregnant... but my mood changes and zero sex drive were getting to me hugely.

[ex-willendor41.livejournal.com]

i use them for a medical condition. 9 months worth? how much? they're so expensive.

[rainbowpussy.livejournal.com]

ditto...

[bitpsych.livejournal.com]

I probably SHOULDN'T give them away. I'm going to see if I can't find a friend IRL who already has a prescription for them. There is no way that I can verify any of the people in this community are actually on it, and I could be in serious shit for giving it to them. :/

[bitpsych.livejournal.com]

I am not selling them. Come to think of it, I probably shouldn't even give them away for legal reasons.

I don't know just what I'm going to do with them, but shipping prescription mediation is probably legally dangerous.

[ex-willendor41.livejournal.com]

yeah. come to think of it, you're right.

you could make an art piece with them.

or mosaic something. :)

[ourika.livejournal.com]

There’s a woman in the birthcontrol community who IS making an art project of old pills. Actually, I think she said she’s still trying to get as many pills as she can. She’s asking for any kind of bc pills, and she’s asking if people can specifically send their sugar pills (since they don’t need to take those – I wonder if it might also be because they’re not any kind of medication… she didn’t mention that.)

[justkimu.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

I used BC for quite awhile...I was worse on them, then when going through PMS.

:)

[heyitsheather.livejournal.com]

i am totally interested...and i pay for my BC :( how much are you asking? my email is imissmanhattan@aol.com

[bitpsych.livejournal.com]

I'm not asking anything. I would never sell prescription meds.

I probably SHOULDN'T even give them away. I'm going to see if I can't find a friend IRL who already has a prescription for them. There is no way that I can verify any of the people in this community are actually on it, and I could be in serious shit for giving it to them. :/

[ourika.livejournal.com]

*grins* What community _didn’t_ this get posted in? Gosh, I’m almost beginning to think that your new IUD excites you since I’ve been seeing this everywhere ;-)

[bitpsych.livejournal.com]

Not really so much the IUD, but the THROWING AWAY OF THE PILLS, got me so excited that I crossposted into two or three. ;>

I was also in the computer lab between my and my boyfriend's classes ending, and got bored. ;)

[ourika.livejournal.com]

*grins* I’ve taken pills twice in my life. Once, I didn’t get to throw any away. I took the entire pack and had such bad side effects that I refused to take another.

The second time, they were prescribed as emergency contraception (my pharmacy refused to sell ECP) and I got sick. I mean, super sick. Violently, uncontrollably sick. I have never been that sick in my life. And the doctor had told me that I’d have “extras in case this happened again.” I got up the next day after I was all done with this, and I threw the entire pack out. And did it ever feel good!

[bitpsych.livejournal.com]

Why did your pharmacy refuse to sell ECs? That's not cool. Using regular combined pills as EC is never good for your tummy :/

[ourika.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, believe me, I and my projectile without warning vomit are well aware of how not good they are for your tummy. I don’t know, and I was too upset to find a new one before my doctor’s substitute left for the day (and this was all discovered at about 4:30 so I didn’t have time to find a new pharmacy!)

Before my next prescription of any kind, I will go elsewhere. That particular Walgreens says that EC is against their policy and they don’t believe in it because it’s wrong or some shit. I don’t know.

I found out afterwards that there are two different types of pills they can prescribe to be used in that manner and my doctor’s sub prescribed the worst type. I didn’t check the type at the time, but my doctor was VERY angry at my having been prescribed that kind when I went to see her on Monday and told her what happened.

Oh well. All gone and over and done with. And to make it all worse, the IUD was there. I had freaked out over not being able to find the string for nothing!

Which reminds me, did your doctor find your string for you?

[bitpsych.livejournal.com]

No, my boyfriend gallantly offered to reach up there and find it. ;)

That's messed up. A pharmacy is no institution to make judgement calls on what is wrong or right. If I ever get EC again, I'll try and fill it at Walgreens and write a very angry letter if they don't give it to me ;)

[ourika.livejournal.com]

Awww… how sweet and altruistic of him. My bf did, too, but he couldn’t locate it any better than I could. It wasn’t a distance problem for me. It was due to the fact that it had curled up and been covered in mucus to the extent where it seemed like a natural part of my vaginal wall! He still can’t feel it, and I can’t blame him. I can barely find it myself. The string has softened to such an extent that it’s really hard to differentiate from my body. When I go for a doctor’s appointment, she’ll straighten it out and take the mucus off, but that doesn’t last long (I tend to have lots of string goo inside me…)

Don’t go to a WalMart pharmacy. They have gotten letters and they still have a store policy that prevents it. They say that it’s not an ethical thing. They say it’s a price thing. They say that they don’t get enough prescriptions for it to make it worth their while to keep it on hand! Yeah, I know, balogna.

If I didn’t have an IUD, I’d probably have a prescription for it on hand just in case. But with the IUD, I’m really not concerned about anything!

Question: I’m having a discussion on a different discussion board about IUDs – did your doctor say anything about what you should or shouldn’t do if you did somehow get pregnant with your IUD? (abortion, remove the IUD immediately, etc.)

[bitpsych.livejournal.com]

My doctor told me that it's a ridiculously small possibility, but if it were to happen, me and the fetus would have some serious complications, and the IUD was to be removed right away. I don't recall totally, but I believe she also said that taking it out may disturb things to the point where I'd have a miscarraige, anyway. I think she purposefully left the abortion issue up to me, however (I got this put in at an abortion/women's clinic.) ;)

[ourika.livejournal.com]

I’m on another IUD discussion group, and a woman with a copper IUD was talking about a bunch of women she knew who carried their babies to term with their IUDs still in.

My doctor told me that I would either need to get an abortion or to have the IUD removed right away, but even if the IUD was removed right away there were risks to me and the fetus as well as risks for miscarriage. My doctor also left the abortion issue up to me but explained to me that my two options were removal or abortion. I’ve got an awesome pro-woman’s choice doctor. When I say pro woman’s choice, I mean, she leaves EVERY choice up to her patient. I walked in and said that I wanted an IUD. I was asked why. I explained my hatred of hormones and that I’d only been on them once but I hadn’t liked it. She did tell me that it might take a few tries, but that she believed she could eventually find a hormonal bc that didn’t cause me large numbers of side effects and that I could also consider a diaphragm. I told her I understood that but I still wanted an IUD because I didn’t want to control my body with hormones and I have problems with spermicide. And she said okie-dokie (after a full exam to make sure I was healthy and a consultation to make sure that I was not a high-risk STD patient). She believes that a woman knows what she and her body needs. She listened to what I had to say, and she did not try to talk me into anything. She did make sure I knew all my options (as I already said).

I love my doctor. I am so glad that I found her. And you found your place by walking by and saying, “huh… lets try here.” I found mine by getting a list of doctors that were covered 100% by my insurance and then picked the one that was halfway between my office and my home!

[bitpsych.livejournal.com]

... how is carrying to term with an IUD still in possible? All I can think of is a fetus growing around it like a trellis ;P IvyBaby!

Your doctor sounds tres aweosome -- We're the lucky ones, I guess. There are still OBGYNs out there who will tell patients horror stories about abortions, and tell them that the pill and IUDs are all abortive, and that they're terribly immoral. Ick.

[ourika.livejournal.com]

I have this image of the fetus growing completely around the IUD, too, but not like a trellis! I keep picturing a child x-ray being taken and finding the IUD is in the center of the heart where the muscles grew around it! It's an odd, scarey picture.