Re: 'The Pill'

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PS: I'm letting this serve as a thank you to everyone that replyed to the orignal message.

At Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Keisha wrote: >
>The pill does take about a week to become effective. Until then, you
>are supposed to use alternate forms of protection. Also, if she has
>stopped taking the pill so that her period will start, it should start
>in a few days after she stops the pill for the cycle (usually was 3 days
>for me). I personally despise the pill because it gave me so very many
>problems. I hope to never have to go back to fake hormones. I thought
>I would like them, but for me (and many people down the road) they can
>cause a lot of problems. For me, they gave me yeast infections
>constantly, which in turn gave me vulvodynia vestibulitis. I also think
>they may have had something to do with my pcos (polycystic ovarian
>syndrome) but I can't be sure. All I know is I never "got normal" after
>I got off of them. Please tell her this so she knows the risks. For
>me, however, I'm obviously not on anything because I'm happily pregnant
>with twins! :) I'll be 6 weeks tomorrow and everything does look really
>good. Take care.
>Keisha
>
>>My girlfriend started using the pill recently.

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