Not tonight, I don’t feel like it…
I remember going to my physician years ago and telling him that the birth control method I was using made me fat, tired and almost completely without the desire for sex. And, we can’t have that! I wanted off of it.
This MALE ob/gyn was very dismissive of my concerns, telling me it was essentially all in my head. He told me that there was nothing abnormal about not having a period while on birth control and that if I had one it would be a cursory period anyway—of no real value.
I was resentful of his laissez-faire attitude about my body. He’d seen me twice (for a total of damn near 11 whole minutes) and I’d been with my body for decades. It felt different. Internally, I felt stagnant and I felt like it took quite a long time for that to cycle out of my system after stopping the pill.
That was years ago, but I relived the experience after reading this transcript of Tucker Carlson’s on MSNBC. New studies suggest that birth control pills might actually be “Libido Killers� and that the side effects of taking birth control pills can go on for an undetermined length of time.
Be creative with your birth control choices. The pill and its counterparts the patch and the shot are all very easy choices to make. But, they may not be right for your body. We have no idea that we may actually be “affecting our culture [and our bodies] in ways that we haven‘t really come to terms with yet, in ways that we haven‘t seen and really aren‘t blaming on the birth control pill that may have something to do with it.�
These days, I am happy that J is snipped, V-safe, shooting blanks…makes my frisky little life a whole lot easier…
birth control, MSNBC, Situation Room, the pill, contraception
November 27th, 2006 at 5:25 pm
C. went on Lupron for 6 months and it brought an early onset of menopause. It killed her libido, and has taken a year of polyamory struggles to build it back up (though lower given she’s now almost 20 years older). Medical science has only a dim awareness of what these things cause, and is totally goal-directed (in your case, to pregnancy prevention).