Sounds like it’s worth a try! Definitely ask your doctor about their other patients’ experiences, though. Different people seem to feel the hormones differently. (Or not at all, in my case - though I take Zoloft and Wellbutrin for depression, so those could have outweighed any Mirena brain effects.)

When I was having insane periods, my gyno suggested Mirena to help control them. One of the ways Mirena works is by thinning the uterine lining, and I had a whole lotta lining to be thinned.

Heh - you got it! My great-grandparents were all Eastern European Jews. My parents and grandparents were born here, but my parents spent plenty of time with their extended families when they were growing up. Weirdly enough, neither of them grew up with parents who yelled. I get the feeling they’re making up for it.

My folks just hit their 50th anniversary. They communicate by bickering. Lots and lots of bickering. And yelling. Like, so much bickering and yelling that as a kid I wished they’d just split up so I could get a moment’s peace.

They managed to work Deliver Us From Eva in there, at least. And Forbidden Planet, of course. There seems to be a rule that every "stage to screen"-type class or film festival must include Forbidden Planet.

I imploded roughly annually, usually around February. You’d think someone might have recognized this was a pattern, but no: I was one of the smart kids. Smart kids don’t blank out on tests or cry for hours when they get a lower grade than they think they deserve. Smart kids are allowed to get frustrated sometimes, so…

This was my mother’s idea. She knew that I was getting to an age where girls can feel uncomfortable about seeming too smart and speaking up in class, and she wanted me to be in an environment where I wouldn’t have any qualms about participating. When she told me this year’s later, I said, “Um, Mom.... Have you MET…

So, I went to a junior high school program for the highly gifted. We were located on the campus of a regular ol’ school, and we were mixed in with the other students for gym and some electives.

Normally, I’d get a Friday night drink from my favorite bar and take the long weekend from there, but my favorite bar had to close this week because they lost their lease after 20 years, because the building’s new owner seems to think he can start a successful new bar in an area that people only came to at night for…

Since my first name is pretty heavy for a baby, my family’s called me by a diminutive since birth. So does everyone who knew me as a kid, and a whole lot of people who’ve only known me as an adult. I think it’s nice, though. The people who use it tend to be people who care about me.

My parents claim they thought long and hard about what to name me, but I don’t buy it. Ashkenazi Jewish tradition is to name babies in honor of the dearly department. Three of my great-grandmothers had the same first name. Now, I came along a couple months earlier than expected - I wasn’t premature, but a cascade of…

If anyone did deserve it, it would be him... But if we’re going to say that women prisoners being assaulted is wrong, I think we have to say the same about prisoners of all sexes and genders.

I had just arrived at a tiny theater in Hollywood for a rehearsal. We were gathering on stage when the last cast member straggled in, holding her brick of a cell phone in its ersatz leather case.

Every week that Rick Perry spends thinking about the cha cha is one less week that he spends thinking about the content of my uterus. I may vote for him on ths show as a long-term harm reduction measure.

I was meh on the movie, but a couple of my friends found it helpful for understanding the book. They had trouble with the book’s non-linear aspect, and the movie is nothing if not linear. Once they had the basics of the story from the movie, they found the book much easier to follow.

Uh... Excuses? That was the landscape I experienced, and as I said, it was BS. It’s why I was part of the campaign to move to an affirmative consent policy at my university: Because people were coming in with the “only no means no” attitude and thinking that they were so enlightened.

Oh, hey - here’s an episode summary, if anyone’s really curious.

That’s pretty much what I was taught. The idea was that you wanted to remove any doubt, because if you reported the incident, everyone would be trying to find whatever wiggle room they could to make a rape sound like it wasn’t actually rape. So you had to be really, really sure that you said “no” loudly and clearly,…

I will always have a soft spot for Drew because way back in the ‘80s, he was a reliable source of sex- and drug-related information for teenagers. Back in the dark ages, if your parents didn’t want to talk about sex, your easily-accessible sources were pretty much your friends (...yeah) and Very Special Episodes of…

Another celebrity hack grabbed stuff from iCloud. Two-factor authentication is not immune to phishing by bros who are pissed that a woman of color got to be a Ghostbuster and they didn’t. Apple doesn’t seem to care.