Good story Matt. Thanks a lot. I had a good thing going. Now I have to take the pill.
Actually it's probably a good thing that there is a male birth control pill now, since there's no worries with it that the reason it's working is by preventing impregnated eggs from implanting prop...
yeah... i gotta look into that I guess. All I know is I do not want a kid. Heh.
i heard something on the radio about this drug they're working on that decreases the amount of cycles women have to like 3 or 4 per year... anybody else hear about that?
yeah! But technically women can do that already.. like if they skip the "sugar pills" week and just go straight to the next pack of pills, they can entirely skip their cycle. Some women do this and NEVER get their monthly fun time. I duno if this is healthy tho.
yeah sounds a little scary. actually i know someone who was doing the shot thing. it lasted like 3 or 4 months.
healthy or not, it sounds good to me
hahaha i know right.
It's not a new drug. It's been known for a long time (at least since the early '70's) that if you increase the dosage on standard birth control pills that you can entirely eliminate periods. What they're working on is getting FDA approval for this new regimen that allows women to take a higher dosage of the pill for a while so that their periods completely stop for a few months, then cycle once and repeat.
so you just get your period every 6 months then?
More like every 3 or 4 months. It's not thought to be healthy to avoid it more often than that.
hmm, and they do think its healthy to avoid it that often? It sounds like a reaaaaaaaal good idea, but it seems like it would be very unsafe
There's arguments on both sides as to whether it's more or less healthy. Personally, I think it's a real bad idea since if it fails, then you'll end up taking the pill for a long time before you notice that you're pregnant, and that would be very bad for the baby. (Of course, I do understand why women like the idea of fewer periods.)