kfk@ccieng2.UUCP (10/10/83)
WRT the discussion on the pill versus other forms of birth control: My wife was on the pill from the time we were married until about two months before she became pregnant with our son. She and I both agree that it made her rather a nervous and more emotional person. She was not prone to sudden emotional outbursts before we were married, and she wasn't on the pill then. After we were married and she started taking the pill, she became prone to them. Almost immediately after she went off the pill, this propensity disappeared almost completely. Now that our son has been born, we're going to be experimenting with a diaphragm, just to see how it goes. We may go back to the pill, but in many ways I hope not. I am not suggesting that this is any kind of scientific proof that the pill causes the average woman to be more emotional. My wife may just have a not-quite-recognized allergy of some kind which the pill aggra- vates, or it may have been entirely psychosomatic. I don't know. What I do know is that she was much more calm after going off of it. Curious about the causes (anybody know anything more about this?), Karl Kleinpaste ...![seismo!rochester or allegra!rocksvax]!ritcv!ccieng5!ccieng2!kfk
smith@umn-cs.UUCP (10/26/83)
#R:ccieng5:-16900:umn-cs:15500001:000:303 umn-cs!smith Oct 25 18:49:00 1983 Adverse Reactions to the Pill: Yes, such things happen to Pill users, but everyone seems to react a bit differently. I've known women who did not have mood changes, and I've known women who had weight changes (water retention?) instead. It's always a case of deciding if the hassles are worth it.