vaginapagina | cross-posted...

I am at war with Cosmo magazine ;)

Alright... girls who have ever been on birth control pills... lemme know if i'm right or if they are. Because their insistance is making me kind of angry.

They had an article last month, where a doctor stated that the Sunday Starter rule was made so that girls would not get their periods on the weekend. What they failed to realize is that a period on BCP is actually withdrawal bleeding, and it takes a couple of days for the hormones to get out of your system to cause that (right?). So if you end your active pills on saturday (for a sunday starter), then you won't get your period until tuesday or so. In which case, unless it's shorter than two or three days, you WILL be on your period through the following weekend. Right? Am I totally off my rocker here?

The lady who wrote me back (who didn't sign her name. big surprise.) INSISTED that if you start your pack of active pills on a sunday then 21 days later you get your period. What the hell. So I wrote back and yelled at her some more.

Now, what I don't get is that this doctor works in the OB-GYN department of research at Pittsburg U! You would think she'd know something about this! Unless it wasn't her that wrote me back and just someone who works at Cosmo. blah.

Anyways, just needed to vent ;) I don't think I'm wrong here. Any opinions about this?

Thank you to everyone in this community who helped me learn more about my body and the things I was putting in it. Maybe more people should join ;)