Assorted Birth Control Stories

As we all know, my little change for this week was to go back on the Pill (and take a multivitamin), so I thought I would give a little background information about my history with birth control pills as well as a little story about this most recent acquisition.

I started taking birth controls of one type or another when I was 15. This was not so I "could fuck" as a drunk girl in my graduating class so eloquently put it, but because I had terrible acne and such debilitating cramps that I would spend at least one day of my period feverish and throwing up. True story, to this day, I will not eat cottage cheese because that is what milk looks like when you throw it up. So, I took very low dose "birth control" to control my acne and cramps until I became sexually active. At that point I got my first PAP and switched to a pill that would actually prevent babies. My doctor recommended tri-cyclen because it is low dose and effective. Unfortunately, I experienced some spotting and asked to be switched to something else, so she recommended cyclen which is just 3 weeks of the highest dose of tri-cyclen. I was very happy with the cyclen, I started dating my husband and had another clean PAP.

This was about 4 and a half years ago. My doctor back in the day (whom I really liked) was also a mother to very young children and changed her schedule to only work for 3 hours 3 mornings a week and became IMPOSSIBLE to get an appointment with, so I started going to walk-in clinics to get my prescription renewed.

Then, 2 years ago, I moved to another province and had to start the process of finding a doctor all over again, and as it says at the top of the page, I am LAZY. So I continued to go to walk-in clinics to get my renewals and each doctor said that I needed a PAP and they would only give me 3 months worth of pills, which should give me enough time to book an appointment for a PAP where the doctor would give me a whole year's prescription. I got annoyed with this process and since I am too lazy to get a doctor and book an appointment to get a PAP I ran out of pills last fall and just decided to give my body a break.

*Please note that is truly is because I am too lazy to book an appointment and not because I am uncomfortable with the idea of a PAP. It is not a terrible procedure, I am not nervous about getting it done. EVERY sexually active female should get a PAP test done. I am an awful role model. I don't get manicures and pedicures either because I am too lazy to book appointments. Clearly, laziness is bad.

This fall, with the little changes upon me, I decided that I should go back on the pill, for the reasons mentioned in the previous post (hair-loss, doin' it, pulling out) and I headed back to the walk-in clinic.

To Be Continued...