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let me hear your voice tonight ([personal profile] alexseanchai) wrote2013-02-01 01:54 pm
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one hopefully not offensive, one tmi

Has that one joke (the one where Reform Judaism means the rabbi and her wife are both pregnant) been updated to say the rabbi['s|and her] husband [is|are both] pregnant?

ETA: Had the joke wrong. It actually goes 'At an Orthodox wedding, the bride's mother is pregnant. At a Conservative wedding, the bride is pregnant. At a Reform wedding, the rabbi is pregnant. At a Reconstructionist wedding, the rabbi and her wife are both pregnant.'

'Spotting' in context of menstruation is, one, not nearly as much as even a really light period day, two, not necessarily the same color as any period day, and three, not actually related to starting a period, yes? Nobody ever defined the term for me, and the Lutera pack says my period's not due till I start the last week of the pack which is Sunday, so I want to be sure.
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[personal profile] kaberett 2013-02-02 11:13 am (UTC)(link)
A withdrawal bleed is due to the drop in hormones in the final week of taking the pill, not due to a drop in hormones due to egg death. So where a period is shedding of uterine lining due to egg death i.e. a pretty good indication that pregnancy hasn't happened, withdrawal bleeds have nothing to do with egg release or death. This is why it's really important to take placebo pills (in standard 21+7 pill packs) for no more than 7 days, even if the withdrawal bleed hasn't finished - by the 7th day ovaries can have "woken up" enough to actually release an egg, so pregnancy is possible. (This is also the case for unprotected period sex, but there ovulation cycles are more closely tied to bleed cycles, and it's quite rare for people to ovulate *that* early in their menstrual cycle.)

Broadly speaking.

Luck!
alexseanchai: Katsuki Yuuri wearing a blue jacket and his glasses and holding a poodle, in front of the asexual pride flag with a rainbow heart inset. (Default)

[personal profile] alexseanchai 2013-02-02 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah. I'm not sure that's it, then--this started sometime between the Thursday and Friday pills, and I still have the Saturday pill to go before I hit placebo week. I think, because I started on the 13th and monthlyinfo.com says I was due on the 19th, my body just realized it's not in fact pregnant and it's time for a couple days of misery.

Thanks.
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more tmi, also ouch

[personal profile] alexseanchai 2013-02-03 09:08 am (UTC)(link)
And I have documentation that I was up complaining about intense cramps at nine yesterday morning, and it is now four in the morning and I am complaining about intense cramps, which means I am heading for a land speed record re duration of same. It's always two days with cramps at most, and only one day is intense, and I can't take more Premsyn yet cause I just had some at midnightish, which is just as well since I seem to be down to a dose or two in the bottle.

Also we have gone from teeny quantities of brown stuff to larger quantities of pink stuff. Still not the lots of bright red stuff, so visible evidence that something's changed with the Lutera, but plenty for me to absolutely require menstrual pads instead of panty liners. And I'm not supposed to take the first of the placebo week pills for another fifteen-odd hours.
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