Comments on: No more periods?? http://blog.lunapads.com/2006/06/no-more-periods/ periods, politics & personalities Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:34:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Leann http://blog.lunapads.com/2006/06/no-more-periods/#comment-557 Leann Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:20:21 +0000 http://blog.lunapads.com/2006/06/no-more-periods/#comment-557 Crystal can you please tell me how the procedure went? I am scheduled to have this done in Oct and possibly just going to have my uterus removed instead of the nova sure. Not sure, just would like some input. My email address is schemm@netins.net Thank you Crystal can you please tell me how the procedure went? I am scheduled to have this done in Oct and possibly just going to have my uterus removed instead of the nova sure. Not sure, just would like some input. My email address is schemm@netins.net

Thank you

]]> By: suzanne http://blog.lunapads.com/2006/06/no-more-periods/#comment-26 suzanne Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:26:28 +0000 http://blog.lunapads.com/2006/06/no-more-periods/#comment-26 good luck with your procedure crystal. best of health to you. good luck with your procedure crystal. best of health to you.

]]> By: Crystal http://blog.lunapads.com/2006/06/no-more-periods/#comment-25 Crystal Fri, 17 Aug 2007 01:49:06 +0000 http://blog.lunapads.com/2006/06/no-more-periods/#comment-25 OK Ladies, I did some research and here is the answer...it's called the Novasure Ablation. It's a procedure that DOES NOT use hormones and IS NOT a pill and DOES NOT stop ovulation or change you hormonally AT ALL!! It will greatly reduce if not stop your period. PERIOD. I am having it done on the 20th of August. It's FDA approved and really works. However, it will NOT prevent pregnancy. My mother had breast cancer which was caused by excessive use of hormones during menopause so you DO NOT want to mess with taking additional hormones EVER in your life. Not even birth control pills! ANYTHING that stops ovulation is BAD. ANYTHING that messes with your hormones is BAD. Hormone Replacement Therapy is the first thing your Dr. will try to give you when you go into his/her office telling about all those pre-menapausal symtoms...don't do it!!!!! Anyway, ask your OB/GYN about the Novasure Ablation. Also, go to www.novasure.com. OK Ladies, I did some research and here is the answer…it’s called the Novasure Ablation. It’s a procedure that DOES NOT use hormones and IS NOT a pill and DOES NOT stop ovulation or change you hormonally AT ALL!! It will greatly reduce if not stop your period. PERIOD. I am having it done on the 20th of August. It’s FDA approved and really works. However, it will NOT prevent pregnancy. My mother had breast cancer which was caused by excessive use of hormones during menopause so you DO NOT want to mess with taking additional hormones EVER in your life. Not even birth control pills! ANYTHING that stops ovulation is BAD. ANYTHING that messes with your hormones is BAD. Hormone Replacement Therapy is the first thing your Dr. will try to give you when you go into his/her office telling about all those pre-menapausal symtoms…don’t do it!!!!! Anyway, ask your OB/GYN about the Novasure Ablation. Also, go to http://www.novasure.com.

]]> By: Annie http://blog.lunapads.com/2006/06/no-more-periods/#comment-24 Annie Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:25:51 +0000 http://blog.lunapads.com/2006/06/no-more-periods/#comment-24 Kirsten - It's unfortunately possible that when you decide to have children, your body will not co-operate as it has got used to suppressing ovulation. I think this sort of thing is happening to women using regular BC pills at the moment. They stop taking them, but many find it takes a very long time before their body is ready for conception. Just a thought that you may want to look into. As far as endometriosis is concerned, there may be more natural ways/diets to assist in reducing its negative effects. Do an internet search. Kirsten - It’s unfortunately possible that when you decide to have children, your body will not co-operate as it has got used to suppressing ovulation. I think this sort of thing is happening to women using regular BC pills at the moment. They stop taking them, but many find it takes a very long time before their body is ready for conception. Just a thought that you may want to look into.
As far as endometriosis is concerned, there may be more natural ways/diets to assist in reducing its negative effects. Do an internet search.

]]> By: Kristen http://blog.lunapads.com/2006/06/no-more-periods/#comment-23 Kristen Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:54:59 +0000 http://blog.lunapads.com/2006/06/no-more-periods/#comment-23 I have enodometriosis, which causes me to have excruciatingly painful cramps every time I have my period. I chose to stop having it by taking my bc pills all the way through (Yasmin) and I couldn't be happier. Not only do I not have to deal with painful cramps, but I no longer have to buy tampons or schedule any events around my period. When on birth control, your period is 'fake' anyway, as you are not ovulating. After taking the pill straight through a few months of periods, your body gets the hang of the situation and ceases to produce the uterine lining that is shed during your period each month. I highly recommend skipping periods to anyone who is thinking of it! It took a few months of random spotting, but the wait was well worth it and now I don't even have to think about it anymore until I decide to have children! I have enodometriosis, which causes me to have excruciatingly painful cramps every time I have my period. I chose to stop having it by taking my bc pills all the way through (Yasmin) and I couldn’t be happier.

Not only do I not have to deal with painful cramps, but I no longer have to buy tampons or schedule any events around my period.

When on birth control, your period is ‘fake’ anyway, as you are not ovulating. After taking the pill straight through a few months of periods, your body gets the hang of the situation and ceases to produce the uterine lining that is shed during your period each month.

I highly recommend skipping periods to anyone who is thinking of it! It took a few months of random spotting, but the wait was well worth it and now I don’t even have to think about it anymore until I decide to have children!

]]> By: yasmin http://blog.lunapads.com/2006/06/no-more-periods/#comment-22 yasmin Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:25:04 +0000 http://blog.lunapads.com/2006/06/no-more-periods/#comment-22 HI! I just wanted to say that of course having you period is natural, and I want to have it sometimes, to see that I am healthy, not pregnant, etc... But! My periods are very heavy, I loose a lot of blood and I miss school for several days. I don't like the idea of changing my bodys habits with fake hormones. But while I'm searching for a better way, I don't know what else to do. kind regards yasmin HI!
I just wanted to say that of course having you period is natural, and I want to have it sometimes, to see that I am healthy, not pregnant, etc…
But! My periods are very heavy, I loose a lot of blood and I miss school for several days. I don’t like the idea of changing my bodys habits with fake hormones. But while I’m searching for a better way, I don’t know what else to do.
kind regards
yasmin

]]> By: Kari http://blog.lunapads.com/2006/06/no-more-periods/#comment-21 Kari Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:08:39 +0000 http://blog.lunapads.com/2006/06/no-more-periods/#comment-21 Then there is the whole issue of where all the extra hormones are going when women are on the the hormonal birth control/menstual suppression products. About 10 years ago when I took my B.Sc in Environmental and Resource Science one of my profs told me that the number 1 source of estrogen-like substances in municipal sewage was estrodiol from women's birth control pills and hormone replacement therapy. There is more estrodiol in these products than the average woman can use, so the excess gets excreted from the body and ultimately ends up in the water. Excess estrogen and estrogen-mimics in the environment is being implicated in birth defects, early puberty in girls and cancers. Before women make the choice to supress their periods they should stop and think about those who live downstream. Then there is the whole issue of where all the extra hormones are going when women are on the the hormonal birth control/menstual suppression products.

About 10 years ago when I took my B.Sc in Environmental and Resource Science one of my profs told me that the number 1 source of estrogen-like substances in municipal sewage was estrodiol from women’s birth control pills and hormone replacement therapy. There is more estrodiol in these products than the average woman can use, so the excess gets excreted from the body and ultimately ends up in the water.

Excess estrogen and estrogen-mimics in the environment is being implicated in birth defects, early puberty in girls and cancers.

Before women make the choice to supress their periods they should stop and think about those who live downstream.

]]> By: micheyd http://blog.lunapads.com/2006/06/no-more-periods/#comment-20 micheyd Mon, 03 Jul 2006 23:56:05 +0000 http://blog.lunapads.com/2006/06/no-more-periods/#comment-20 I do use pills to skip periods, especially for long travels. I don't find this an anti-menstrual position at all - I still think it's important to have periods, of course, but the evidence might indicate that fewer periods could cut down on the incidence of certain reproductive cancers, such as endometrial and ovarian (which hormonal bc does anyways), and may help women with anemia. There definitely needs to be testing and development of continuous bc treatments, but it's a bit of a fallacy to say that because something is occuring naturally that it's automatically the best option (are you not going to treat disease or wear corrective lenses because that's nature's way too?). If increased nutrition has caused us to have more (and more regular) periods, and if that is detrimental to our health in another way, then are we just to sit back and let nature take its course? My health is important to me, and I'd like to find the best path in this case too. I do use pills to skip periods, especially for long travels. I don’t find this an anti-menstrual position at all - I still think it’s important to have periods, of course, but the evidence might indicate that fewer periods could cut down on the incidence of certain reproductive cancers, such as endometrial and ovarian (which hormonal bc does anyways), and may help women with anemia.

There definitely needs to be testing and development of continuous bc treatments, but it’s a bit of a fallacy to say that because something is occuring naturally that it’s automatically the best option (are you not going to treat disease or wear corrective lenses because that’s nature’s way too?). If increased nutrition has caused us to have more (and more regular) periods, and if that is detrimental to our health in another way, then are we just to sit back and let nature take its course? My health is important to me, and I’d like to find the best path in this case too.

]]> By: Angela http://blog.lunapads.com/2006/06/no-more-periods/#comment-19 Angela Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:14:17 +0000 http://blog.lunapads.com/2006/06/no-more-periods/#comment-19 I really don't like the idea of taking something to eliminate periods all together. I just feel like we should leave our bodies alone as much as possible. I just made the switch to Lunapads so that I would no longer have to worry about the safety of disposables so a pill to eliminate periods on top of that seems ludicris. I think we shed our uterin lining for a reason and I would never want to stop doing that and let it build up inside me. It seems so creepy. I really don’t like the idea of taking something to eliminate periods all together. I just feel like we should leave our bodies alone as much as possible. I just made the switch to Lunapads so that I would no longer have to worry about the safety of disposables so a pill to eliminate periods on top of that seems ludicris. I think we shed our uterin lining for a reason and I would never want to stop doing that and let it build up inside me. It seems so creepy.

]]> By: Heather http://blog.lunapads.com/2006/06/no-more-periods/#comment-18 Heather Tue, 13 Jun 2006 06:00:46 +0000 http://blog.lunapads.com/2006/06/no-more-periods/#comment-18 There are some interesting arguments for skipping periods, including the mention of the withdrawal periods that happen with hormonal birth control use. That said, I have been hormone free for six months, with my copper IUD, after 10 years of hormonal birth control, and I couldn't be happier. :) I don't care that I am getting more periods than I would be not having babies most of my adult life. The trade off is so worth it. It wouldn't feel normal otherwise. There are some interesting arguments for skipping periods, including the mention of the withdrawal periods that happen with hormonal birth control use. That said, I have been hormone free for six months, with my copper IUD, after 10 years of hormonal birth control, and I couldn’t be happier. :)
I don’t care that I am getting more periods than I would be not having babies most of my adult life. The trade off is so worth it. It wouldn’t feel normal otherwise.

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