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ballyhoo Nov 21, 2003

Good story Matt. Thanks a lot. I had a good thing going. Now I have to take the pill.

dgiaimo Nov 21, 2003

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...

juicymango Nov 24, 2003

Um, i duno i don't think that's true.. because the pill prevents you from ovulating.. so the egg never gets in the spot where it can be impregnated. And I was reading about this, and in order to us...

thatdarngirl Nov 24, 2003

Ahhh..it's like having sex ed! So..we can still take birth control though..right, because it doesn't kill impregnated eggs?

juicymango Nov 24, 2003

I just really doubt that SOOO many sisters around the world would be taking birth control pills if it was a true fact that it was killing impregnated eggs, which is abortion. Right? I duno, I migh...

thatdarngirl Nov 24, 2003

Actually, I'm so silly..I know how it works! It tricks your body into thinking it's pregnant so that's why you don't ovulate anymore. For the three days (?? I'm not sure exactly how many it is) tha...

dgiaimo Nov 24, 2003

It's seven days that you don't take the pill.

thatdarngirl Nov 24, 2003

Why do you know more about this then I do!!

dgiaimo Nov 24, 2003

Lol. That's a good question. Of course I could turn it around and ask why you don't know more about this than I do.

tinser Nov 24, 2003

cause she's single...as in not married

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dgiaimoOG 2003

So? I was under the impression that most girls (even in the truth) start taking the pill long before they get married just to get their bodies acclimated to it.

yodasucka yodasuckaOG 2003

sum times girls have to take it for medical reasons... i know a lot of girls who take the pill for reasons other then birth control

thatdarngirl thatdarngirlOG 2002

Seriously? Most likely if they're not in the truth and are taking birth control..even if they say its for another reason..it's because they're having mad relations. But birth control can be used for acne problems and stuff like that..but it can also make you gain weight so I don't know why anyone would take it if they didn't have to/want to. Also, what's there to get acclimated to?

juicymango juicymangoOG 2003

Well, some girls have excruciatingly painful and irregular cycles, and BC regulates them, and makes them like 99% less painful. I've known of girls in the truth who start taking a very low dosage of BC (since they don't actually need the birth control part, but they need the hormones to regulate things) as early as age 14.

yodasucka yodasuckaOG 2003

it also clears up acne...

starshiptrooper starshiptrooperOG 2003

OR to use Accutane u have to be using birth contol whether ur *active* or not. They are afraid of pregnacies that will have horrible birth defects, and the lawsuits that came later.

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dgiaimoOG 2003

I don't know. I just remember having this discussion with my mom about it when I was 15 or 16 and I found out that my cousin was on the pill. (She's only six months older than me.) It kind of shocked me at the time, but my mom just said that it's normal for girls to start taking the pill even before they start thinking about dating and marriage just to get used to taking it.

thatdarngirl thatdarngirlOG 2002

Interesting. I'm not sure about this whole getting used to taking it, that's kind of weird. Though, it does making things a bit convenient even if your not married because it regulates everything.

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dgiaimoOG 2003

Hey, are you calling my family weird? You wouldn't be the first...

tinser tinserOG 2002

i can understand girls taking it because they have irregularity problems...but for them to take it just to get acclimated to it or to clear up acne, i think that's a bad idea. It's playing around with your hormones, which is never a good idea. It increases your chances of getting cancer and it can cause a lot of other problems. So, I don't know...to each his own, but i'd rather use neutrogena for acne then mess around with my hormones.

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dgiaimoOG 2003

I'm not saying it's a good idea just that that was the impression I got.

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