Opinions On Birth Control Pills

[Archaeology cat]

[quote name='Raphael' post='1206328' date='Mar 1 2007, 07:56 PM']Anyone else get reminded of Jurassic Park while reading this?[/quote]

I was. Though I thought we'd documented that frogs had that ability regardless. Maybe it's happening quicker now with more estrogen in the water?

[cathoholic_anonymous]

[quote]Have they figured out WHY this is going on? Or are they trying to?[/quote]

The specialist thinks that her heavy bleeding might be to do with the problems with eating she had a few years ago. She had glandular fever then and her appetite dropped markedly. It was like having a skeleton in the house. Even when she recovered from the fever, she couldn't bring herself to eat much. She was diagnosed as anorexic at one point (this was a misdiagnosis) because of her low weight.

Apparently, prolonged malnutrition can really mess up a woman's cycle. But her doctors are cautious about saying 'this is the cause', as they've never seen anything quite like Emma's case before. She has participated in a research study at a hospital in London, together with some other women who have similar problems, but the results were inconclusive.

Apart from the Pill, the doctors' other suggestion was to remove everything. She refused.

[MissScripture]

[quote name='Cathoholic Anonymous' post='1206791' date='Mar 2 2007, 05:29 AM']The specialist thinks that her heavy bleeding might be to do with the problems with eating she had a few years ago. She had glandular fever then and her appetite dropped markedly. It was like having a skeleton in the house. Even when she recovered from the fever, she couldn't bring herself to eat much. She was diagnosed as anorexic at one point (this was a misdiagnosis) because of her low weight.

Apparently, prolonged malnutrition can really mess up a woman's cycle. But her doctors are cautious about saying 'this is the cause', as they've never seen anything quite like Emma's case before. She has participated in a research study at a hospital in London, together with some other women who have similar problems, but the results were inconclusive.

Apart from the Pill, the doctors' other suggestion was to remove everything. She refused.[/quote]
Wow. Prayers for your sister, and that they find out what's wrong and how to make it right.

[Archaeology cat]

[quote name='Cathoholic Anonymous' post='1206791' date='Mar 2 2007, 11:29 AM']The specialist thinks that her heavy bleeding might be to do with the problems with eating she had a few years ago. She had glandular fever then and her appetite dropped markedly. It was like having a skeleton in the house. Even when she recovered from the fever, she couldn't bring herself to eat much. She was diagnosed as anorexic at one point (this was a misdiagnosis) because of her low weight.

Apparently, prolonged malnutrition can really mess up a woman's cycle. But her doctors are cautious about saying 'this is the cause', as they've never seen anything quite like Emma's case before. She has participated in a research study at a hospital in London, together with some other women who have similar problems, but the results were inconclusive.

Apart from the Pill, the doctors' other suggestion was to remove everything. She refused.[/quote]

Definitely praying. And I can see how malnutrition could easily affect that.

[Sojourner]

This was something I came 180 degrees on during the process of my conversion ... up until I started looking into Catholic teaching, there was really nothing I'd seen anywhere that discouraged taking the pill. I can't think of a single wedding I attended or participated in where the bride was NOT on the pill. Even among Christian girls who weren't (or said they weren't) having sex before marriage, it was part of pre-wedding planning -- go on the pill 6 months before you got married. Never questioned.

I never went on it because I didn't like the idea of messing around with my hormones ... but it didn't become a moral/theological conviction until I started studying Catholicism, and the Theology of the Body in particular.