More people need to realize that birth control pills aren't just used for contraception....

[Playinghardball]

[Hell Hath No Fury]

1. Ovarian cycts --

The entire time I was on the Pill I wasn't sexually active. For me the Pill was simply medicine.

[bravenak]

2. Acne.

Helped my acne.

[laundry_queen]

3. Absolutely. They control my migraines

I have hormone-triggered migraines. We didn't actually figure it out until my doctor put me on triphasic birth control pills. I always knew I got more migraines around my period, but I have PCOS and my periods were few and far between so it wasn't a big issue. Until I went on those birth control pills. I was having multiple migraine auras every day. It was crazy. So my doctor then put me on monophasic BC pills and the migraines were mostly gone.

BC pills also help with my ovarian cysts, my acne, my hemorrhagic periods and other ravages of PCOS.

I get really pissed when I hear about BC pills not being covered - they aren't just for BC. And mine are NOT cheap.

[Sweet Freedom]

4. The problem is that

those opposed to birth control for religious reasons don't care about any of this because our pain is punishment for Eve eating an apple.

Reasonable arguments don't work.

[Control-Z]

5. But, the truth is,

it's nobody's gosh danged business who takes the pill, or why.

I'm so tired of this crap. It is time women started treating men in the same way. Only married men, with written permission from their wives, should be allowed to have a Viagra Rx. A woman needs to know if her man is having problems with his male parts. And she needs to insure he is rising above the problem with her, and only her.

Single men, on the other hand, have no medical or social reason to pharmaceutically induce their boners. There would have to be some pretty little slut on the receiving end of his enhancement - and we all know good Christian men want nothing to do with those kind of women.

[WillowTree]

6. And they have always been covered by insurance.......

.......when prescribed for other-than-contraceptive diagnoses.......even back as far as 40-45 years ago when no insurance contracts covered contraceptives.

And that's fact.