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Lisa Pryor discovers that, as it is hard to get emergency supplies of the Pill, it's a good idea to keep spares in your wallet.
Well, duh. Although she's right about the illogic of easily-available Morning After Pills but giant rigmaroles to get the long-term pill, DUH. i don't think i ever managed to lose mine- forget to take them, yes, but not lose them. And i'm the Queen of Disorganisation.
And I think she's missed one of the more pertinent problems with pill-prescription these days: Why are some varieties covered and not others? Is it somehow my fault if the PBS covered versions have me spotting all month, and I have to be shifted onto one which costs thirty something dollars a month?

Meanwhile, have you considered doing a PHD in Obsolescence?

In cheering news, the Amish community whose schoolchildren were gunned down last year have donated money to the gunman's widow.

You may have heard that the emoticon :-) recently turned 25. However, The Cranky Proffessor would have us all know that, in 1887, Ambrose Bierce coined the "snigger point" using, like the modern emoticon, a parenthesis, although somewhat differently.

And, in belated medieval news- they're digging up a Viking Queen.

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Lisa Pryor also missed another important point - if you're relying on contraception, you should also always have an alternative around, e.g. condoms or a diaphragm. There are lots of other ways the pill can be ineffective, aside from being 50km away on your bedside table at the crucial moment (e.g. if you've been sick or had a tummy bug and you suspect this may have prevented the proper absorption of the pill in your body).

My outrage about the Pill is not that it's so inconvenient to get (I actually agree with going to the doctor quarterly for a check up before getting a new script, and my doctor always does a pretty thorough check up and asks questions etc.). My annoyance has more to do with the cost of the damn things. If you count the doctor's appointment plus the cost of the pills themselves, you're looking at up to $300 a year or so (depending on brand, Medicare coverage, etc). That's probably not much in terms of a full time income, but compare it to the cost of condoms. You'd have to be pretty busy to use up $300 worth in a year :P And there just doesn't seem to be any justification for that kind of price! I reckon the pill must be one of the highest selling medications, so it's not like, I dunno, drugs for little-known illnesses that have to pay their own way by being obscenely priced for the tiny market (a bit like comparing best-selling paperbacks vs text books in obscure arms of Quantum physics or Medieval philololology :P ).

Anyway...that's my early morning rant. Now I must go and make banananana bread.

i think it's 'cos they *know* we'll buy it, sex or no, for the satisfaction of knowing what your body is doing from week to week.
except that my body sucks, and didn't do what it was supposed to. so now i'm liberated from the shackles of chemical control... and my body *still* doesn't do what it's supposed to!

Yeah, my body was a bit obstreperous in that way too - for a long time, I had a three month cycle instead of the normal one month cycle. Yuck. Mind you, it was my fault because I put on a catastrophic amount of weight and knocked my hormones out of whack. Things seem to be back to normal now (well, apart from being up the duff that is, but that's just proof that everything's back to normal :P ). I must say, I *like* not having to be under chemical control.

I hope your body behaves itself soon!

i hope it does too!
stupid body.

doctor thinks it'll go back to normal when i move out of college and start eating properly, and unless i want to either have sex or have sex and fall pregnant i shouldn't worry about it.