Similar experience — I get the 88-cent walmart brand zyrtec (though I shell out for the real Sudafed because I really like the 24-hour formula and there's no generic for that yet), and the walmart brand excedrin, ibuprofen, whatever. My husband on the other hand is brand-name everything, and it strangely seems to…

See, I need that alternate form of input — music or tv or something, in order to get anything done, or I get an inevitable headache. *wrote her dissertation to two seasons of Babylon 5*

Check around - there are hospitals and community health centers out there giving them for free or next to it. There were at least a couple back where I used to live (a few hundred thousand people) and even out here in the far reaches of the midwest, I still got one for about $100.

I'd add the implant to that list. It's been a great thing for me, and easier to get for a younger person than an IUD (the doctors don't argue with you so much about it...)

I have a PhD and I'm glad I don't have to trust myself to take the pill every day anymore. (Impanon FTW). I can't remember to take my allergy medications half the time, and I get miserable when its time to take those.

There's the implant. I'm on my 2nd implanon (waiting for the tenure track job to try the kids thing). It lasts for 3 years, can come out anytime, and doesn't come with the cramping of an IUD

I liked that. She was, in so many ways, the most perceptive and analytical of anyone in that group, and that includes the scientists. My little geeky heart was happy.

lol, I basically just did the same thing, congratulating myself on my matchstick implant :D

This is why I have the little plastic implant in my arm. That and the fact that no-estrogen birth control is better for my migraines and my sticky blood...and progestin-only pills are even harder to do right than the regular ones.

Oh dear! I'm 4'10" and barely a 6, which means I am currently wearing little girls' shoes.

But she's got the same "sample size" problem as Sofia. She doesn't have the luxury of Janie Bryant (bless her beautiful soul) and her custom-made wonders on the red carpet. Part of making it in Hollywood is cultivating relationships with designers — few enough designers want to dress her because of…

Lol, yep. Trying to teach people that "stability" means having a center of gravity over your base of support gets a little awkward when I realize that when I look down...I can't even see my base of support. Stupid little feet. XD

I fully support getting properly fitted and all that fun stuff It's been amazingly better...but it doesn't solve everything. They're still giant bags of weight hanging from my chest, applying a torque in an awkward place, pulling my center of gravity forward, forcing me to think about my posture all. day. long. And…

It's a great metric for whether or not I should do something — is it worth putting a bra on for?

Once again, not in my size. *really, honestly, trying not to cry about that*

It's...different. There's so many aspects of the fit that would never be noticed if they're wrong....until a giant mass of breast tissue is in there straining every stress point of the engineering. *sighs* Someday, I'm making my own.

Please let it be true....

Aww, thanks. :) I'm actually better now than I was in grad school. And I learned a dirty little secret when I started taking something for my anemia: Iron pills make people constipated. Which for me, means going back to quasi-normal. :D

H-CUP-CLUB FTW. I think health insurance should include an unlimited bra allowance because it's TOTALLY A HEALTH ISSUE PEOPLE. You win for good ideas today :D

My head's tilted backward because I'm short and everything is tall.