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I fed the medical profession again today - they took enough blood for several dinners.
Actually I was mostly there to get new prescriptions, and I happened to mention that I generally take several packets of my contraceptive pills together in a row. The medic gave me a Look when I said I didn't see any reason to have thirteen fake periods a year when I could cut it down to four. She said "That's not good enough."
This irritates me rather, because basically the only reason they made the pill on monthly cycles was to imitate regular cycles so that people wouldn't get freaked out and accuse doctors of being unnatural. It seems to me that doctors ought to appreciate this.
I toyed with the idea of saying that it helped from a niddah standpoint, but decided against it. I took good care to choose a non-Jewish doctor, because this is an awfully Jewish geographical area, and I really don't want to end up having Shabbat dinner with someone who's been probing my orifices - and explaining niddah to non-Jewish doctors takes more time than it's worth and tends to get you weird looks.
So I let it drop and shall merrily do as I darn well please. It's good enough for me.
Actually I was mostly there to get new prescriptions, and I happened to mention that I generally take several packets of my contraceptive pills together in a row. The medic gave me a Look when I said I didn't see any reason to have thirteen fake periods a year when I could cut it down to four. She said "That's not good enough."
This irritates me rather, because basically the only reason they made the pill on monthly cycles was to imitate regular cycles so that people wouldn't get freaked out and accuse doctors of being unnatural. It seems to me that doctors ought to appreciate this.
I toyed with the idea of saying that it helped from a niddah standpoint, but decided against it. I took good care to choose a non-Jewish doctor, because this is an awfully Jewish geographical area, and I really don't want to end up having Shabbat dinner with someone who's been probing my orifices - and explaining niddah to non-Jewish doctors takes more time than it's worth and tends to get you weird looks.
So I let it drop and shall merrily do as I darn well please. It's good enough for me.