Thread: READ we have periods for a reason

Just stumbled across this. That is a really sad story, but one also needs to understand reasons why it would be a good thing for some women to not have a period. I'm not saying all women should go out and get the pill to stop them, definitely not! In my opinion I don't think it should be an option just because they don't want to have a period. I just recently started continuous BC so I don't have them, but it's for medical purposes. I have bipolar disorder and my main mood leveler loses effectiveness with the change in hormones (I get SUPER depressed instead of PMS-y and I'm totally messed up for the week before and week of my period). I know there are risks, as there is with almost anything, but I would rather be a "normal, functioning" individual all month long instead of feeling like I need to hide away for two weeks every month. I just hope and pray that there will come a day when I can quit all my meds and be "normal" again. In the meantime I'm going to keep taking my BC. Honestly when I didn't have this option I often wished during those times that I could just die. So here I am... yes there is a VERY slight chance that I could have complications and die from it, but if this were, wouldn't you rather be happy until that happened (if indeed it were to happen)?

I'd rather risk death by blood clots than my periods every month. I spend the first 3 days laying perfectly still on the couch taking more than the recommended amount of pain killers which is doing nothing while I soak through a heavy tampon and heavy diaper like pad every 30mins for the first half of those 3 days. I spend the rest of the week laying there not caring and often not eating because I'm so weak from blood loss and the constant muscle contractions. I also gain a pound a week for every week that I am not taking birth control pills irregardless of what I eat or exercise due to a hormone disorder.