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[skamp21]

Action Shot had a show at Club 156. They were, as so often happens, playing with three screamo/hardcore/just plain shitty bands who acted totally unprofessional (I know it's a local show and damn near inconsequential, but dammit, people acting stupid and whiny still has the power to annoy me). Oh, and one cool band, Autonomous Collective, who play

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[quixotic]

i don't get how anyone could use those forms of contraception that don't give you a period.. seasonale and depo and stuff. i'm far too paranoid to only have a sign every three months, if at all.

-a

[skamp21]

Yeah. The situation has never come up for me, so I don't know all the different choices in detail. She was on some sort of shots that she only had to go in three times a year and get this shot and she should've been good until the next one. I think she didn't want to have to worry about, say, taking a pill every day.

There is, to me, a certain practical appeal to not menstruating every month, but I think after awhile I would start to get freaked out. Me and my body know each other pretty well and I think that anything that would throw off my rhythms like that would be scary. But then, about the only drugs I ingest are nasal decongestant and caffeine. I'm definitely on the paranoid side. If there was a way to not get pregnant without fucking with your body's chemical balances (and without being a nun), I'd do that.

[quixotic]

yeah.. that's depo-provera. it's usually pretty effective though it has the worst side effects of any one of them, but they reccomend it if you can't remember to take your pill. i don't mean to pry, but is your friend overweight by any chance? the effectiveness of depo can be influenced by weight.

there are some non-hormonal methods that are pretty effective like an iud (they took them off the market for a while because they had some problems but apparently now they're back and better).. those are pretty effective and if you back it up with a condom you're in excellent shape, stats wise.

i'm personally pretty paranoid with backing things up and abstaining if anything ever happens that might affect my pill because my mom had my sister and i while on the pill. she didn't take hers at the same time everyday so that was probably why, but since i need a kid about as much as i need a hole in the head at this point and i'm also opposed to having an abortion.. yeah.. i need all the help i can get.

-a

[skamp21]

Well, she's gone through one pregnancy already, and never really lost the weight from that one (her oldest child is about 18 months old now), so maybe that has something to do with it.

I've also heard that your body chemistry itself can change after a pregnancy, and I found myself wondering if her body had done the equivalent of building up an immunity to the depo. But who knows. The doc probably injected her with sugar water, or some such.

[mandopout]

wouldnt it even possibly be damaging to the fetus to be having the depo shots while you're pregnant?

[skamp21]

Well because of complicated timing issues that I won't go into, she didn't have a shot while she was (unknowingly) pregnant, so luckily that's not a problem.

[soromon]

I bet the five months of morning sickness probably make a lot more sense now...

On the brighter side, it's like she only has to be pregnant for four months instead of nine. Which I would totally go for. Less the missing-the-vitamins part.

[skamp21]

I've been trying to remember if she was inexplicably sick during March or April, and I don't think she was. My suspicion is that her body was so out of whack anyway (she's on anti-depressants and works more than I do and doesn't eat enough, and what she does eat is bad) that she's just used to her body doing unexplainable things.

I could also go for four months of pregnancy, as long as we changed the rules so that four months of pregnancy =/= miscarraige.