I don’t want to say I’m better than anyone else because I have a very low opinion of myself in general.

Goddamnit, Lindy West I love you and miss you dearly!

Yeah, what I was thinking too. Periods do not predict one way or another whether your reproductive system is working. So I don’t get that at all. Seems like BS to me.

Lindy you - yes YOU - are a treasure. So wise. So brave. A real role model.

Okay, you guys know how one time I met Ruth Bader Ginsburg? Well, there was this other time that Lindy posted on Jez about a cure for c. diff being poop transplants, which was hilarious (of course). I commented on that post (it was before Kinja was doing the greys thing, and I can’t remember what the system was like,…

LINDYYYY!!!!!

Oh God, so, SO missed.

<3<3<3Miss you, Lindy!

You are greatly missed around these parts, Lindy!

Four more Mirena until safely in menopause age! No period since 09! Look and feel great! No babies!

......periods don’t have anything to do with DNA, that’s why women only have them for half their lives and why they’re so easy to illuminate with naturally occurring hormones or a natural occurance like pregnancy. The only way to stop semen production is through surgery or injury, it’s lot more close to being…

I don’t know the complete science behind this, but when you’re on BC you’re keeping your body on a constant or predictably cyclic level of hormones, which doesn’t interfere with your bone health. You’re not “losing your period” exactly, as the level of fake hormones prevent it from happening in the first place (as it…

I had been using my pill to skip my periods long before it was a thing. Now I have an iud though

Back in the day I took BC pills and gave myself a period once every 6 months. I'm pretty sure I was still a woman then.

I remember the first time I read about this, I was so so so so so mad. My periods tend to be AWFUL, birth control or not, with hormonal migraines to boot. And finding out that I could have been avoiding them altogether was infuriating. I went on seasonique, which at least cut me down to four periods a year, and now I…

nope. i feel fine. i have mirena and i got it last august. immediately my period was lighter. my last period was november. yesterday i had the tiniest bit of spotting, but wiping after peeing took care of it. i feel fantastic and i don’t have a period! no more cramps, no more period shits, no more tampons and pads and…

“It’s our identity.”

Got my first IUD in Dec., not a drop since. Gotta say it’s pretty awesome, but took a bit of getting used to — not having the monthly reassurance that I am not *with child* is sometimes a bit unnerving. Also I find that I will sometimes get some of the period symptoms (cramps, bloating, PMS) but not be certain if…

WHAT! ALL THEM PERIODS WE’RE BECAUSE SOME GUY THOUGHT THE POPE WOULD BE MORE CHILL WITH THE IDEA OF CONTRACEPTION? ALL THOSE PERIODS WITH PAIN THAT IS TERRIBLE? I AM ALARMED. CAN YOU TELL.

I’m period free and life has never been so amazing. Ladies, you don’t have to live through that misery, get on the IUD bus if you can!