Comments on: Playing the Menstrual Cycle and PMS Spreads http://longorshortcapital.com/playing-the-menstrual-cycle-and-pms-spreads.htm We dividend our ad money to you. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:04:13 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Carnival of Personal Finance #79 http://longorshortcapital.com/playing-the-menstrual-cycle-and-pms-spreads.htm/comment-page-1#comment-54972 Carnival of Personal Finance #79 Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:02:28 +0000 http://longorshortcapital.com/playing-the-menstrual-cycle-and-pms-spreads.htm#comment-54972 [...] Mr. Juggles of Long or Short Capital: Playing the Menstrual cycle and PMS Spreads [...] [...] Mr. Juggles of Long or Short Capital: Playing the Menstrual cycle and PMS Spreads [...]

]]> By: Personal finance and wealth at A Penny Saved… : Carnival of Personal Finance #79 http://longorshortcapital.com/playing-the-menstrual-cycle-and-pms-spreads.htm/comment-page-1#comment-5092 Personal finance and wealth at A Penny Saved… : Carnival of Personal Finance #79 Fri, 22 Dec 2006 03:54:28 +0000 http://longorshortcapital.com/playing-the-menstrual-cycle-and-pms-spreads.htm#comment-5092 [...] Mr. Juggles of Long or Short Capital: Playing the Menstrual cycle and PMS Spreads [...] [...] Mr. Juggles of Long or Short Capital: Playing the Menstrual cycle and PMS Spreads [...]

]]> By: PairOfSox http://longorshortcapital.com/playing-the-menstrual-cycle-and-pms-spreads.htm/comment-page-1#comment-4971 PairOfSox Wed, 20 Dec 2006 01:32:15 +0000 http://longorshortcapital.com/playing-the-menstrual-cycle-and-pms-spreads.htm#comment-4971 weird, i guess this translates things into html.. but i meant to say "you only need to say /soapbox" because / = end weird, i guess this translates things into html.. but i meant to say “you only need to say /soapbox” because / = end

]]> By: PairOfSox http://longorshortcapital.com/playing-the-menstrual-cycle-and-pms-spreads.htm/comment-page-1#comment-4970 PairOfSox Wed, 20 Dec 2006 01:30:34 +0000 http://longorshortcapital.com/playing-the-menstrual-cycle-and-pms-spreads.htm#comment-4970 That's not what I was saying. The sugar pills are not necessary, which most women know. But I don't think most women know they can start a new pack right away, without waiting through the sugar pills (so they don't need to get their fake "visit from aunt flo"). Doctors have known this for a while, but it's just never been marketed. Different pills affect people differently; othrotricylen became huge because they performed a study relating periods and pimples. A lot of pills do the same thing, but they just never commissioned a study. I know people who have gone on the pill and became depressed or raving psychos, but just switching to a different pill made things better. It's not just the pill itself, it's that certain pill that determines the effects. Believe me, when I switch for 2 months once, I became a crying, fat lady.. now I'm back to just my thin unstable self, but not crying, self. Not to be a total nerd but if you wrote your post in html you'd only have to say / = end That’s not what I was saying. The sugar pills are not necessary, which most women know. But I don’t think most women know they can start a new pack right away, without waiting through the sugar pills (so they don’t need to get their fake “visit from aunt flo”).

Doctors have known this for a while, but it’s just never been marketed.

Different pills affect people differently; othrotricylen became huge because they performed a study relating periods and pimples. A lot of pills do the same thing, but they just never commissioned a study.

I know people who have gone on the pill and became depressed or raving psychos, but just switching to a different pill made things better. It’s not just the pill itself, it’s that certain pill that determines the effects. Believe me, when I switch for 2 months once, I became a crying, fat lady.. now I’m back to just my thin unstable self, but not crying, self.

Not to be a total nerd but if you wrote your post in html you’d only have to say

/ = end

]]> By: Sally Parrott Ashbrook http://longorshortcapital.com/playing-the-menstrual-cycle-and-pms-spreads.htm/comment-page-1#comment-4962 Sally Parrott Ashbrook Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:48:41 +0000 http://longorshortcapital.com/playing-the-menstrual-cycle-and-pms-spreads.htm#comment-4962 The 7 sugar pills a month in BC aren't there to trick women into anything; any woman with sense knows those aren't actual birth control. Women take them to know when they have been off of them for 7 days; they take the sugar pills to make sure they stay on track with the birth control in general. Some studies show having a period only 4 times a year is healthy, but it will be interesting to see whether any complications arise later from taking measures like that. A good number of women I know--all of them in their 20's--have decided to forego traditional bc pills because of the emotional or physical side effects. Birth control should certainly be available, but we need to take an open and honest look at some of the potential outcomes that many women don't realize when they start taking them (eg, depression). /end of soapbox The 7 sugar pills a month in BC aren’t there to trick women into anything; any woman with sense knows those aren’t actual birth control. Women take them to know when they have been off of them for 7 days; they take the sugar pills to make sure they stay on track with the birth control in general.

Some studies show having a period only 4 times a year is healthy, but it will be interesting to see whether any complications arise later from taking measures like that.

A good number of women I know–all of them in their 20’s–have decided to forego traditional bc pills because of the emotional or physical side effects. Birth control should certainly be available, but we need to take an open and honest look at some of the potential outcomes that many women don’t realize when they start taking them (eg, depression).

/end of soapbox

]]> By: PairOfSox http://longorshortcapital.com/playing-the-menstrual-cycle-and-pms-spreads.htm/comment-page-1#comment-4775 PairOfSox Fri, 15 Dec 2006 22:16:11 +0000 http://longorshortcapital.com/playing-the-menstrual-cycle-and-pms-spreads.htm#comment-4775 It's not an attitude issue, a girl I knew in high school who would occasionally get so sick she was throwing up when she had PMS (no, she wasn't drinking the night before). And re: the anti-depressants, apparently some people get practically suicidal when they're PMDDing. They're not just being snippy. Those are pretty good reasons to skip work. It’s not an attitude issue, a girl I knew in high school who would occasionally get so sick she was throwing up when she had PMS (no, she wasn’t drinking the night before).

And re: the anti-depressants, apparently some people get practically suicidal when they’re PMDDing. They’re not just being snippy.

Those are pretty good reasons to skip work.

]]> By: AJ http://longorshortcapital.com/playing-the-menstrual-cycle-and-pms-spreads.htm/comment-page-1#comment-4773 AJ Fri, 15 Dec 2006 21:45:16 +0000 http://longorshortcapital.com/playing-the-menstrual-cycle-and-pms-spreads.htm#comment-4773 Why would people skip work because they have PMS? It's the one time of the month that my coworkers do what I tell them. Disease or management tool? You tell me. TELL ME NOW! Why would people skip work because they have PMS? It’s the one time of the month that my coworkers do what I tell them. Disease or management tool? You tell me. TELL ME NOW!

]]> By: lanoitarus http://longorshortcapital.com/playing-the-menstrual-cycle-and-pms-spreads.htm/comment-page-1#comment-4372 lanoitarus Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:46:07 +0000 http://longorshortcapital.com/playing-the-menstrual-cycle-and-pms-spreads.htm#comment-4372 "Holy shit. You mean Betty Crocker came up with a cake where you just add water?" Yes, but you are aware (I hope), that once you add the water, it still requires baking. And if youre anything like me, that big square cabinet under your stove is full of pans and cleaning supplies and you wouldnt know how to turn it on if your life depended on it. “Holy shit. You mean Betty Crocker came up with a cake where you just add water?”

Yes, but you are aware (I hope), that once you add the water, it still requires baking. And if youre anything like me, that big square cabinet under your stove is full of pans and cleaning supplies and you wouldnt know how to turn it on if your life depended on it.

]]> By: poseidon http://longorshortcapital.com/playing-the-menstrual-cycle-and-pms-spreads.htm/comment-page-1#comment-4311 poseidon Mon, 11 Dec 2006 20:44:01 +0000 http://longorshortcapital.com/playing-the-menstrual-cycle-and-pms-spreads.htm#comment-4311 Holy shit. You mean Betty Crocker came up with a cake where you just add water? Fine if they want to make the housewife feel better about themselves, but to not take that technology, rebrand and cross market to males age 18-45 is f-ing nuts. Short GIS. Holy shit. You mean Betty Crocker came up with a cake where you just add water?

Fine if they want to make the housewife feel better about themselves, but to not take that technology, rebrand and cross market to males age 18-45 is f-ing nuts. Short GIS.

]]> By: Mr Juggles http://longorshortcapital.com/playing-the-menstrual-cycle-and-pms-spreads.htm/comment-page-1#comment-4309 Mr Juggles Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:45:44 +0000 http://longorshortcapital.com/playing-the-menstrual-cycle-and-pms-spreads.htm#comment-4309 "I'm not sure how many of you know this, or want to know this" The answer is zero and zero respectively. Seriously, this is exactly what "Forget-Me-Now" pills are for, so that guys do not have to live with this knowledge after unwittingly having received it. “I’m not sure how many of you know this, or want to know this”

The answer is zero and zero respectively. Seriously, this is exactly what “Forget-Me-Now” pills are for, so that guys do not have to live with this knowledge after unwittingly having received it.

]]> By: PairOfSox http://longorshortcapital.com/playing-the-menstrual-cycle-and-pms-spreads.htm/comment-page-1#comment-4307 PairOfSox Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:12:14 +0000 http://longorshortcapital.com/playing-the-menstrual-cycle-and-pms-spreads.htm#comment-4307 Seasonique, and Seasonal are both just new ways to market old things. I know you guys must discuss "surfing the crimson wave" pretty often on a site like this, but those two brands of birth control are just regular pills, but (I'm not sure how many of you know this, or want to know this) you're basically not taking the week's worth of pills with no hormones in them. The only reason those fake pills are there is to trick women into thinking their normal by bleeding regularly, when they don't really need to. They could have just skipped those fake pills and had the same effect. Doctors have known about this since they came up with the pill. It's like how Betty Crocker doesn't have dried egg substitute in their cake mixes anymore, housewives want to feel like they're really contributing to the cake and baking it themselves. I think companies that make antidepressants are making more off of PMS than those birth control pills though. There's a new disease, called PMDD, Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder. It's just a fancy name for PMS. But now it's treatable with Zoloft. So basically, what I'm saying is that apparently, antidepressants can cure anything, but you might get the runs or constipated. It's a crapshoot. Seasonique, and Seasonal are both just new ways to market old things. I know you guys must discuss “surfing the crimson wave” pretty often on a site like this, but those two brands of birth control are just regular pills, but (I’m not sure how many of you know this, or want to know this) you’re basically not taking the week’s worth of pills with no hormones in them. The only reason those fake pills are there is to trick women into thinking their normal by bleeding regularly, when they don’t really need to. They could have just skipped those fake pills and had the same effect. Doctors have known about this since they came up with the pill. It’s like how Betty Crocker doesn’t have dried egg substitute in their cake mixes anymore, housewives want to feel like they’re really contributing to the cake and baking it themselves.

I think companies that make antidepressants are making more off of PMS than those birth control pills though. There’s a new disease, called PMDD, Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder. It’s just a fancy name for PMS. But now it’s treatable with Zoloft.

So basically, what I’m saying is that apparently, antidepressants can cure anything, but you might get the runs or constipated. It’s a crapshoot.

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