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bell_flower
note: I did learn on CF websites that antibiotics and other medications can interfere with the Pill. Thankfully this information is more commonly known than it used to be.
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Cambion
Birth control failures are still about 95-98% human error. People are dumb and don't know how to use it properly, whether it's hormonal or barrier methods. For the longest time, I was too scared to rely on the pill for contraception because I'd heard so many stories about women getting knocked up on it in spite of the 1% failure rate. But then I started paying closer attention to the details in these stories and noticed a common theme: almost every single one of these women didn't take their pills consistently/correctly. They'd take it every other day, or once a week, but still expect it to work as if they took it every day. Yes, there were one or two in there who took it like they should (or so they said) and still got up the duff, but a vast majority didn't take it right. All I can say is there's a reason why birth control pills have two failure rates: "perfect use" and "typical use."
This, of course, doesn't take into account the women who were flushing their pills behind their husbands' backs in the hopes of a "happy accident" glue baby and calling it a birth control failure.
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Cambion
Birth control failures are still about 95-98% human error. People are dumb and don't know how to use it properly, whether it's hormonal or barrier methods. For the longest time, I was too scared to rely on the pill for contraception because I'd heard so many stories about women getting knocked up on it in spite of the 1% failure rate. But then I started paying closer attention to the details in these stories and noticed a common theme: almost every single one of these women didn't take their pills consistently/correctly. They'd take it every other day, or once a week, but still expect it to work as if they took it every day. Yes, there were one or two in there who took it like they should (or so they said) and still got up the duff, but a vast majority didn't take it right. All I can say is there's a reason why birth control pills have two failure rates: "perfect use" and "typical use."
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randomcfchick
I doubt there's any research out there, but I'm willing to bet that genuinely CF people have a better batting average when it comes to birth control use. Not perfect, of course. No one is. But as I said...we have a very high motivation to get it right!
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I doubt there's any research out there, but I'm willing to bet that genuinely CF people have a better batting average when it comes to birth control use. Not perfect, of course. No one is. But as I said...we have a very high motivation to get it right!
Oh there's no doubt in my mind that contraception magically works better for childfree people than it does for the non-childfree. Most likely has something to do with the fact that we REALLY REALLY do NOT want to be pregnant while the average person doesn't really care if they get knocked up or knock someone up... at least not until a "happy accident" happens, in which case it'll be an endless stream of "Hurr durrrr nobody told me that doing/not doing (thing) would make me/her pregnant!" But then, the average person's idea of birth control ranges from trying to pull out to remembering to use condoms once in a while during sexy times.
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