If you're in NYC go to Callen Lorde - they will fit you and fill your scrip for a diaphragm

A friend's doctor wouldn't prescribe one for her; told her "this isn't the '70s." I took from that that he wouldn't get a pharmaceutical company kickback but maybe I'm too cynical.

YES this is true. I also live in NYC, and whenever I need to get a new one, I always anticipate a wait of a few days. I just buy the thing, insurance be damned. I don't let doctors bully me into "trying" hormonal methods anymore, and my mental health thanks me for it.

I know there are women who get icked out, but honestly, If someone is so uncomfortable that they can't insert or remove a diagram, I'm surprised they're ok with inserting and removing a penis.

I guess it's just seen as too old fashioned? I don't know. I started on it after pretty much everything else didn't work for me in spectacularly dramatic ways, plus I was going to a gynecologist at PP at the time, so the doctor definitely did not discourage me. I was disappointed that it wasn't suggested earlier in…

Team Diaphragm! Three years and no baby! I fucking love that thing.

I've never tried the implant because before I got to it, I gave up on hormones completely. It was probably the end thing on the list. After experiencing, in order with each pill tried: painful sex, no sex drive, no sex drive, no sex drive, serious depressive symptoms around my period (I sobbed openly in a market…

I could never tolerate any hormones. I instantly turn into the suicidal puke factory. I have used a diaphragm for the last twelve years. Yeah, it's weird but my body is used to it. It has worked! I don't recommend it to people, though, because I have a very strange personality and the diaphragm suits me. I'm…