March 12, 2012
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1 Child Law
So, I haven’t posted my take on the whole birth control thing. I was just watching an episode of The Daily Show in which Jon Stewart showed a whole bunch of videos of conservatives saying that this bill is being passed just so women can freely have sex all the time and have their birth control paid for, and also the video where Limbaugh called that lady a prostitute or whatever he said. I know from personal experience that this isn’t true. Even though you don’t want to read the details, I encourage you to, especially the men. For a reason.
I posted a bit about this while it was going on. For a number of years, I got one or two periods a year. Obviously, not normal. I went to the doctor once, and they thought I was pregnant (impossible) so they gave me a pregnancy test. It was negative. They didn’t do anything else to try and figure out if anything was wrong (one of the many reasons I don’t like doctors or don’t have much faith in them). Whenever I got my period though, it was usually very heavy. I had to go home from work a few times. I would get very lightheaded and faint and feel like I was going to pass out. I would get as white as a ghost. There was one time I even felt afraid to drive home because it was so bad.
Then a while back, I started getting my period on a more normal schedule. But one time, it was VERY heavy. I had to change a super tampon about every 45 minutes, and I had huge clots, about the size of plums. So I was like, I HAVE to call the doctor, I’m pretty sure I’m dying. I started getting very anemic and frequently felt like passing out. I was almost constantly dizzy. So the next available appointment was a couple days later. By the time I got to the doctor, it was considerably lighter. Also, the period had been going on for 12 days by the day of the appointment. So she tested me for cancer and a number of other things. She prescribed me birth control to stop the bleeding, and to take 2 pills a day until it stops. It took 3 more days until I was done with it. The cancer test came back negative, thank god, but waiting for the results was a bitch. Everything else is normal as well.
Anyway, she continued me on birth control to control my period and the heaviness of bleeding. I’ve been on birth control for several months now, and I am doing considerably better. The prescription is doing what it’s supposed to. I now get a regular period every month and I’m just fine. And I’m not even “sexually active,” so I don’t even use it for that purpose.
I just think it’s funny (not haha) that a whole bunch of men are talking about this and making laws about it and commenting on it, but they won’t even listen to cases such as this. Birth control isn’t just for birth control. It’s been found to be useful for other things, and the FDA has obviously approved it for these other uses, otherwise a doctor would not legally be able to prescribe it to women in cases such as mine. And as I was going through this, I found out that it’s not uncommon for a woman’s period to be out of control. People have also said that it’s cheaper to have birth control paid for and control things such as ovarian cysts than to pay for things like surgeries or doctor visits when the cyst bursts (or whatever happens there).
I just paid $65 for my birth control…3 months worth. When I had health insurance, it was $10 a month. When I got laid off, the full price was $35. I signed up for the WalCard, which is a Walgreens card that offers discounts on some prescriptions. So instead of paying $105 for 3 months worth, I paid $65. Not that this law would make any difference to me because I’m unemployed, but whatevs.
Also, I think that the world is overpopulated as it is, and having birth control paid for if it’s being used AS birth control is a lot less drastic than China’s 1 child law. Just saying. Maybe every country in the world should enact a 1 child law for a couple centuries.
Comments (7)
I so agree with you.
Birth control is a must for the govt to provide. There are so many complaints of all of the babies born on state assistance, and women have abortions to get rid of the baby. Why not stop it before it starts and begin education about using birth control and the realities of having a baby at grade school level. before some idiot reads this and yells that I am advocating handing out birth control at grade school level, I am not. I am saying they need to be educated at grade school level because young girls in grade school are having sex and getting pregnant.It is cheaper to provide free birth control than to support children giving birth to babies.
I always wish that people who want to ban abortion would be forced to adopt all the children that are brought to full term.
I have issues with the opposition to the “one child law”.
All well and good for people to judge about it…but with a population of over a billion people? They have very real concerns about famine, and starvation. I have one child…my choice. But I would not want more if I knew that having others might mean all of them would grow up in hunger.
I am sorry about the cost of birth control. I think the morons who want to punish women for BEING responsible…or punish them for NOT being responsible are simply Neanderthals.
Good on ya…for thinking!
Did it have any side effects like nausea? I have PCOS and the last thing I took (not birth control) made me nauseous, if you dont mind me asking, were there any side effects that were inconvenient?
@Grannys_Place - I didn’t mention that part, but yes, it’s definitely cheaper to have birth control than having a child that’s not wanted. It places harsher financial strains on the public spectrum.
@godfatherofgreenbay - Heh, good luck with that. I’m pro-choice and that’s just one of the reasons why….there’s too many children in the system. If you don’t want a baby or it’s not a good situation or whatever, it’s better to get an abortion. It seems cold hearted, but that’s the way life is.
@galadrial - Well, I don’t necessarily agree with the one child law, I was just making an alliteration to the alternatives. Because, really, there’s not much you can do to truly control overpopulation that are humane, except things like birth control. It’s a different issue but related…you can’t teach abstinence only because it obviously doesn’t work. The state of the planet will continue to get worse the more people that are in it, and one way to help is to reduce unplanned births.
@neon_kaleidoscope_eyes - I actually haven’t had too many side effects. I did notice that I would get a little crampy sometimes, but it’s not too bad, just more of an annoyance. One side effect of the pill is that it can cause water retention, so the doctor also prescribed me a diuretic as a precautionary measure (she didn’t want me to gain weight), which is a pill that counteracts the water retention. It makes me pee frequently, which is nothing more than an annoyance as well.
@crazy2love - hey thanks!
The problem with a one child law, is that where there is not much of a Old Age Pension, you need sons to keep you, not daughters. That’s the perception in the Third World is anyway. There has been and will be a lot of female infanticide going on. Improve conditions and the chance of education and guarantee old age benefits and the number of kids will slowly decrease in families.