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"Aunt Flo has left the building."
Posted by Estee on 05-23-07 at 07:26 AM
Also: that friend isn't crashing on your couch every month, the cycle to nowhere just got tossed to the curb, it's time to start including a lot more semicolons in your sentences 'cause the end stop ain't happenin', you really are just going to freshen up, and as a matter of fact, that actually happens to be a stray bit of string.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/05/22/no.more.periods.ap/index.html

Okay, so it's not the best odds in the world and there hasn't been a medication without some bugs to work out since the first headache victim started picking willow bark splinters out of their tongue. But at least for now -- don't care: dancing...

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"RE: Aunt Flo has left the building."
Posted by mom2bjm on 05-23-07 at 07:42 AM
Hmm.. Regular and expected or irregular and unscheduled. I think I'd go with the first.

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"RE: Aunt Flo has left the building."
Posted by kingfish on 05-23-07 at 08:38 AM
LAST EDITED ON 05-23-07 AT 08:38 AM (EST)

The moods that accompany these visits? I hope they also abate.

And just to say, I'm happy for all of you for whom this is a life improvement.

You deserve it.

"RE: Aunt Flo has left the building."
Posted by Buggy on 05-23-07 at 08:42 AM
There wouldn't be the up and down swings since the amount of hormone is steady.
For some women it would make them moodier, but that is true of all BC pills.

"RE: Aunt Flo has left the building."
Posted by Buggy on 05-23-07 at 08:40 AM
I think it's brilliant!
Why menstrate unless you are trying to conceive.

It's too late for me, but I would have gladly skipped the years of sickness and pain that having periods caused me.

The article says there is a slight failure rate with the low dose BC pills, makes me think women would be more apt to use condoms, which is healthier for them as well.

It's another choice, it's about time.


"RE: Aunt Flo has left the building."
Posted by jbug on 05-23-07 at 09:07 AM
I saw this on the news this am too.
My first thought was "is it healthy" for a woman not to have her period.


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"RE: Aunt Flo has left the building."
Posted by Estee on 05-23-07 at 09:10 AM
I'm very patiently waiting for the first person to say it's a sin for a woman not to have her period.

One week, tops.

"RE: Aunt Flo has left the building."
Posted by Buggy on 05-23-07 at 09:19 AM
I wager if anyone does, it'll be a man.

"RE: Aunt Flo has left the building."
Posted by Estee on 05-23-07 at 10:15 AM
Jerry Falwell, right?

Oops. Too late.

"RE: I'll bite"
Posted by Sagebrush Dan on 05-23-07 at 12:24 PM
If God didn't want women to have periods, he wouldn't have created sentences.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
—Mark Twain

"RE: Aunt Flo has left the building."
Posted by Buggy on 05-23-07 at 09:18 AM
The Doctor on the Today Show said it was NOT unhealthy, and that once women stopped taking it, they resumed menstration and were able to conceive just fine.

It's not like the period is stuck in there.

"*giggle*"
Posted by Breezy on 05-23-07 at 09:25 AM
Buggy said stuck in there. *giggle*
"RE: *giggle*"
Posted by Buggy on 05-23-07 at 09:28 AM
I am here to serve
"RE: Aunt Flo has left the building."
Posted by jbug on 05-23-07 at 09:35 AM
I'll be the first to admit not knowing how all our 'inner works' work.
Hopefully soon I won't have to worry about this any longer.
~~~ sigh ~~~


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"RE: Aunt Flo has left the building."
Posted by Buggy on 05-23-07 at 09:38 AM
You don't understand how your cycle works?
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Posted by Breezy on 05-23-07 at 09:42 AM
The faster I pedal the faster I go!

"RE: Aunt Flo has left the building."
Posted by HobbsofMI on 05-23-07 at 09:59 AM
I know in women athletes lose their period because they don't have enough body fat for it. Woman gymnast even stop developing because of it.


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"RE: Aunt Flo has left the building."
Posted by qwertypie on 05-23-07 at 09:33 AM
And the pill looks HUGE.

That is the package? Oh, nevermind

"RE: Aunt Flo has left the building."
Posted by KeithFan on 05-23-07 at 09:56 AM
Half of the study group dropped out, and of those that stayed only 59% were without bleeding/spotting.

This isn't new and improved at all. It just the same drug combo in shiny new packaging- probably going to make the cost significantly higher too.

"*looks confused*"
Posted by Estee on 05-23-07 at 10:00 AM
Shiny packaging isn't new and improved?

Commie.
"RE: Aunt Flo has left the building."
Posted by Ante Bellum on 05-23-07 at 10:14 AM
"Man."


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"RE: Aunt Flo has left the building."
Posted by MKitty on 05-23-07 at 12:42 PM
I agree with you Keith..this is not new...at all. I have been skillfully changing my period for years through extended taking of BC pills, or going for three months straight without stopping and thereby eliminating my period, all with my doctor's blessing and guidance and without any side effects whatsoever. I would have to see the drug combo, but I doubt this is significantly different than most BC triphasal combos.
"RE: Aunt Flo has left the building."
Posted by AyaK on 05-23-07 at 10:15 AM
Women that have been using Nuvaring (vaginal ring) only have quarterly periods, so the first step to breaking the monthly cycle has already been taken.

That said, I've always heard that not having periods at all had been linked to endometrial cancer (from the doses of estrogen used), which is why doctors discourage women from using Nuvaring to block periods completely (as some reportedly have already been doing). I don't know how Lybrel works, so I don't know why this isn't an issue with Lybrel.

"RE: Aunt Flo has left the building."
Posted by nailbone on 05-23-07 at 11:15 AM
So can the compnay be sued for Lybrel?


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what?

"RE: Aunt Flo has left the building."
Posted by cahaya on 05-23-07 at 12:21 PM
Only after engaging a Tart lawyer.


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"RE: Aunt Flo has left the building."
Posted by emydi on 05-23-07 at 01:52 PM
that would be me
"RE: Aunt Flo has left the building."
Posted by blacknwhitedog on 05-23-07 at 10:22 AM
Yay if it works for you. I used to be on Seasonale- only 4 periods per year. However I had to go off it because of the hormonal side effects.
"RE: Aunt Flo has left the building."
Posted by blacknwhitedog on 05-23-07 at 12:20 PM
yes Seasonale svcked- I was constantly spotting
I'm now trying Loestrin 24 but my doc wants me off everything- she said I could try Mirena (it's an IUD with hormones) or uterine lining ablation- (not for the future fertile)
"RE: Aunt Flo has left the building."
Posted by J Slice on 05-23-07 at 10:37 AM
I was on that Seasonale crap. 4 periods a year.

Yeah, that's all well and good, but when one of the periods is 6+ weeks long and it makes you anemic, it's time to consider other options.


That was a miserable 6 weeks. No sex, and roughly 781654 tampons.

"RE: Aunt Flo has left the building."
Posted by Estee on 05-23-07 at 11:09 AM
6+ weeks long

it's time to consider other options.

'The sweet release of death' being really high on the list.

"RE: Aunt Flo has left the building."
Posted by J Slice on 05-23-07 at 11:13 AM
Believe me... the Tampax company's stock must've skyrocketed throughout that ungodly experience.

I've returned to the relative un-joy of having 12 a year, but it beats the hell out of six weeks of misery.


Step right up.

"RE: Aunt Flo has left the building."
Posted by mysticwolf on 05-23-07 at 10:01 PM
Your post reminded me of our Snow Leopards. They don't quite understand why, but the assumption is that it's weather related.

They normally range in the Himalayas, with temps of 40F above to -20 below. In captivity the females stop ovulating completely during warmer months. But, during colder months they make up for it, going into heat every 2 weeks.

It's made me at least wonder if human females have the same kind of temperature, or other, constraints that we just haven't recognized given our controlled environments. (Other animals, including PBs, have food/weight constraints that may also apply.)

My guess is, yes. But, in our "advanced" society where we manipulate our environment, we'll never notice.

In short, would it be unhealthy for a woman to hold her period in abeyance? Looking at nature, I can't think it would be. Happens all the time.

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Now. How we're holding it in abeyance? That might be. There may be more natural ways. But none that I can think of that most women would welcome.

"RE: Aunt Flo has left the building."
Posted by cahaya on 05-23-07 at 12:13 PM
Next news item: Teen Gets Pregnant After Using Lybrel

Take your pick: "It didn't work even though..."
A. "I made sure my boyfriend took it every time."
B. "I made sure I put it there every time."
C. "I got the purple ones that my friends at school traded me for my mom's Zoloft pills."

"RE: Aunt Flo has left the building."
Posted by miamicatt on 05-23-07 at 12:45 PM
Today? I'm really excited about this.



Sadly it's got levonogestrel. Which gives me other troubles.

"RE: Aunt Flo has left the building."
Posted by frisky on 05-23-07 at 11:14 PM
LAST EDITED ON 05-23-07 AT 11:16 PM (EST)

I thought Depo Provera was the first product to knock women off the cotton pony.

If it's anything like Depo -- no thanks. Depo was one of the factors that led to a complete physical, mental and emotional meltdown several years ago (one good thing came out of that period of my life -- OT. )

I loved the first two months. The third month was, well, let's just say it was an ewwwy mess and leave it at that. The depression and moodiness from the extra hormone pretty much finished the job.

I will watch this closely. Nice to know they're researching things like this, when the erectile dysfunction and baldness studies are always in the news.

ETA: This is just based on my own experience. YMMV. My severely disabled niece takes Depo shots because her having periods? Would be a nightmare for SIL. She does just fine with Depo.


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