No Surprises

[Nachos]

Plan B is good for when you need it, but I'd rather not. The one time I took it I felt horribly ill and then two days later I started bleeding again, not a side effect listed in the pamphlet (though it should be, I looked it up online). Messed up!

[lizpoona]

Anyhow... depending on the website or what have you that you're getting your information from, they are probably trying to put the product in a positive light, so people will use it, thus the "if anything happens at all" qualifier. Sure, there are women who experience no side-effects from plan B, but from my understanding they are few and far between. Those percentages are "this percent of users experienced this specific side-effect in clinical trials", I believe.

I took plan B(or rather, "Second Choice" or something, emergency contraceptive basically) and had NO side effects except irregular bleeding like two weeks later. It was almost as unsettling as having bad side effects, because I couldn't tell whether it had actually done anything.

[Mordak]

I've taken the emergency contraceptive pill twice. On both occasions it resulted in a huge period for a couple of days, and then back to some semblance of hormonal regularity.

[Enigma]

I use just the pill in a long term, never had sex with anyone but each other relationship. We started out using condoms too but with no std risk we got lazy.

To add to the rhythm/withdrawal debate, I was taught in high school health class (our sex-ed) that neither should ever be used unless you want to have kids. They were put into a category of things people use that don't work. I'm not sure if they were playing it up because kids can't be trusted with methods like that, but they really were not fans.

[monk]

I'm not sure if they were playing it up because kids can't be trusted with methods like that, but they really were not fans.

I think this goes along with the thought that many people, and kids in particular, don't plan sex ahead of time. And that's not even mentioning many young women coming out of puberty have irregular cycles so the rhythm method is bad and young men who are likely to be sexually inexperienced may have trouble pulling out in time.

[edit the sad parts]

To add to the rhythm/withdrawal debate, I was taught in high school health class (our sex-ed) that neither should ever be used unless you want to have kids. They were put into a category of things people use that don't work. I'm not sure if they were playing it up because kids can't be trusted with methods like that, but they really were not fans.

Same.

[Mathmo]

To add to the rhythm/withdrawal debate, I was taught in high school health class (our sex-ed) that neither should ever be used unless you want to have kids. They were put into a category of things people use that don't work. I'm not sure if they were playing it up because kids can't be trusted with methods like that, but they really were not fans.

Same.

I think that you shouldn't use rhythm/withdrawal if having kids would be a disaster. The idea being that if you miss a pill or a condom breaks, you're going to notice it right away / the next day (so you can then take Plan B or something), whereas if you get the timing wrong on the rhythm method or you slightly (but not completely) messed up with withdrawal, you probably don't notice until rather later ...

[Meperidine]

I think it's largely the kids-can't-be-trusted thing--of course a teenage boy who pinky-swears he can pull out is completely liable to lose control, and anyone wanting to use the rhythm method needs to get special shit from their doctor like an ovulation thermometer and whatever. I'd never do those things straight up--no simultaneous intercourse orgasms AND no sex more than half the time? No thanks. But it's not like pulling out well in advance or paying attention to what your reproductive system is doing are inherently bad ideas for contraception.