This dude is way too sane for the Republican party, no wonder he’s losing.

Normalizing this idea that all oops babies are great fortune directly contributes to these attitudes that dissuade or prevent women from accessing contraception. Who tries to make sure they don’t get the most important human thing, which is offspring? Cyborgs, mostly. Infantile “women” who aren’t ready to take on the…

Then use spermicide and condoms until you can get something more reliable.

Agreed. But it needs to be and, not or. I don’t want kids, but I want you to be able to have them (if you want them).

But there are so many other ways to bring up and discuss baby ambivalence; you would think an adult with access to an IUD would have, I dunno, really thought about the method she was using when she got it? She comes off as a wishy washy idiot for that reason. The fact that you can’t have an oops baby with one is the…

You should be using a secondary form.

How difficult is it for Molly Fischer to understand that not every method of birth control is for every person at every time? Is she incapable of this notion that if you want to spontaneously decide to have children (and holy SHIT what a terrible way to decide to have children) then an IUD is not for you? It is such…

I think the efficacy rate has two things going on: condoms alone are not nearly as effective as people would expect/wish they were, and people using the pull out method tend to self-select so it’s going to be a bit more effective than if EVERY person used it.

Weight watchers is a stupid waste of money anyway, count a damn calorie and never have to worry about losing your proprietary reference materials again.

As far as technique, it’s good to be able to swallow dry. From a medication efficacy standpoint, you need to be drinking water with these pills. NSAIDS, thyroid drugs, antibiotics, and certain ARBs and ACE inhibitors especially need water to be fully effective.

In community and hospital pharmacy it is very common. It’s also something the patient doesn’t necessarily see; for antibiotics for children especially, the doctor might write it to be dosed by weight by the pharmacist. I was in pharmacy for 10 years. I see it often but can probably count the number of times the…

But the point is that the doctor can’t anticipate anything that the pharmacist can’t.

The college of obstetrics and gynecology is a pretty expert source, don’t you think?

This was meant as a reply to faryl below. Thanks mobile.

I don’t know if you’ve heard of this profession where people obtain a PhD in pharmacological science. Those who practice it are called pharmacists (chemists in the UK or if you’re 90 years old). They are extremely knowledgeable and very good at explaining this sort of thing.

But this risk is fairly low, and there is no screening a doctor can do that the pharmacist can’t. I think your idea of what the doctor can protect someone from is a bit overblown.

A pharmacist is just as able to anticipate or react to those needs as a physician is. The formula for choosing a dose or type of OBC is not a complicated one, and if it were, frankly a pharmacist would be better equipped to handle it than would a doctor.

For that matter, nearly any pepper spray available has a UV dye marker.

This is an MLM. If there’s more info on how to become a seller for their product than there is info to obtain it, the product is not the product. You are.

I don’t care for their face washes compared to St Ives, but I almost always buy the Up and Up equivalent otherwise.