Icytrees

This is about a controlled setting and they recorded lasting positive effects on mood for a week afterward.

This sounds amazing. Yes, someone please find us the laughing groups.

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Yep, there's a lot of good information there and I sensed a bit of a lack of understanding about periods and healthcare.

From that same article:

However, sex with a penis in the five days before ovulation can also lead to pregnancy since sperm can live up to five days inside of you when it’s nice and happy swimming around in the type of cervical mucus you have coating your vagina at this point in the cycle.

Change and irregularities in your cycle make it hard to precisely calculate of the day of ovulation.

The context of this is still the comic where a woman with a gunshot wound is complaining of a gunshot wound, where the doctor has asked when her last period occurred instead of taking care of the open would. Something you kinda glossed over in favor of knocking at the weakest part of my comment — my use of the word "nothing." This tells me you don't really care about understanding another viewpoint, you're trying to score a point in the argument.

Anyway, if someone's last period was three weeks ago, they could be pregnant. If it was six months ago, they could be pregnant. If it was seven months ago, they could have an IUD or another birth control, which could cause a drug interaction, so that's good to know. If she's on her period right now, she could be breastfeeding, and studies have shown local anaesthetic will shows up in breast milk.

In Canada, I get asked if I'm pregnant or breastfeeding if there might be an issue, not this roundabout period date bullshit.

Icytrees @sh.itjust.works 3mo ago

I didn't say the menstrual cycle though, I said the last period date. No matter how much time has passed since someone's last period, it doesn't tell you whether they're pregnant or not.

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Icytrees @sh.itjust.works 3mo ago

Riddle me this:

You're a doctor. A patient comes in to your office, 5'3", woman, 175lbs, looks hydrated — you ask her last period date, she says "about four weeks ago."

Do you now know anything about whether or not she's pregnant?

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Icytrees @sh.itjust.works 3mo ago

I can speculate since I have chronic, treatment resistant depression, and I've done one or two (hundred) whippets in my day — Being super depressed makes it difficult to remember what it was like to be happy. If it goes for a while I start to doubt if I ever really enjoyed anything. Small moments of joy are something solid, good and recent to hold onto. Little things definitely elevate my mood when shit gets dark.

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Icytrees @sh.itjust.works 3mo ago

I don't want to assume your sex, but I have a strong suspicion.

I'm highly irregular because of a medical condition, the same condition that sets my ability to naturally get pregnant around 0.01% It's fine, I have a terrible phobia of pregnancy anyway. My condition is not uncommon, nor is it the only one that causes irregular or skipped periods. Most women experience late or skipped periods at some point during their supposedly regular menstruating years anyway.

You know what gets you pregnant? Having a working female reproductive system and making sweet, penetrative love to someone who has a working male reproductive system.

Here are some neat reading materials on menstruating: https://ourbodiesourselves.org/subject-area/menstrual-cycle/p2

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Icytrees @sh.itjust.works 3mo ago

And yet the last period date has nothing to do with whether someone is pregnant or not. A large percentage of women have irregular periods, or don't get a period due to birth control or other factors. A number of doctors have spoken out about the relevance of questions they're required to ask about women's periods in their chart software.

In the case of the comic, she has an open wound on her arm the doctor isn't immediately a-dressing (pun intended.)

Icytrees @sh.itjust.works 3mo ago

Don't forget to touch the grass.

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Icytrees @sh.itjust.works 3mo ago

I go to most of wife’s appointments

Have you considered this could be the reason she gets asked if she's pregnant?

appointments

As in, not an emergency. In an emergency the first imperative is to stop the immediate health threats, in this case the gunshot wound. The doctor doesn't need to know about menstrual health do his ABCs.

Also, as someone with extensive experience with Canadian healthcare, and I've held certifications up to OFA 3 (not a big deal, but it did qualify me to intubate, immobilize, take a health record, etc.) I've been to emergency rooms in four different provinces and I've been on enough different meds to fill a small pharmacy. At most I get asked if I could be pregnant, but that comes after my immediate conditions have been managed and we start discussing meds.

I think either your wife has a shitty doctor, the doctor actually asks if she's pregnant and you're deliberately misquoting to support your argument, or she's seeing her regular doctor for a checkup - where menstrual health is a reasonable thing to ask about and/or has a related medical condition regarding her period.

And completely missing the point of the comic, which is about how the immediate health issue is being dismissed for the reasons I already stated.

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Icytrees @sh.itjust.works 3mo ago

I'm in Canada. I've been to the hospital more than most people. I've never been asked about my period when it wasn't something directly related, and I get put on a lot of meds. Sometimes they ask if I could be pregnant, but that's it.

Asking about the last period when immediate concerns have nothing to do with reproduction is about how women's health and concerns get shafted in ~~some~~ most countries.

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Icytrees @sh.itjust.works 3mo ago

It's more common in the U.S. and other countries where women's reproductive rights have been eroded/never existed.

There's a few reasons, and none of them have to do with women's health. How do I know? I'm a woman in Canada who's been to the hospital a lot for both pre-existing conditions and unrelated emergencies, I never get asked this question.

First, the comic making light of how women's problems are dismissed and blamed on hormones, when multiple medical and psychological studies over the last century indicate women are no more emotional than men, and menstruation doesn't effect mood outside of unusual conditions.

Second, it's about reproductive rights. How women's immediate health problems are ignored in favor of protecting an unborn child they may or may not want. It's further infantilizing because doctors ask about the last period, which indicates nothing, instead of just asking about pregnancy.

Icytrees @sh.itjust.works 3mo ago

That doesn't sound like a pro-tip at all.

Icytrees @sh.itjust.works 3mo ago

That's why I only post their articles with reputable sources and stay away from the music/lifestyle drama. I don't like their new direction but I do like the reporting style. Their health and science stuff is backed up pretty well, the biggest issue being their occasional use of old source material.

Icytrees @sh.itjust.works 3mo ago

I did.

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Icytrees @sh.itjust.works 3mo ago

Would you believe I spent ten minutes looking for a relevant snake dildo before giving up? There's a gap in the market just waiting to be filled.