Reply #15: I got myself fixed when I was 30 [View All]

[geniph]

after having been on the pill for 15 years. I had no problems on the pill; in fact, a few years after I went off it, I went to the doctor complaining that something was wrong because I was having pain during periods. I'd never had cramps before, I didn't know what they were! I also had almost non-existent periods during the whole time I was on the pill, just one day of light spotting on the second day after taking the placebo pill. But I never wanted kids, and as soon as I could talk a doc into the tubal, that's the way I went.

Funny thing is, she forgot to ask me ahead of time if I already had kids. She just assumed I did. Then they were starting the anesthesia and she remembered to ask me - this is after my surgery was already running 6 hours late because she'd been in an emergency c-section all day - and it was really too late for her to back out and refuse to do it at that point.

Then I go and marry a man who'd had a vasectomy. If *I* get pregnant, expect rains of blood, or frogs, or something. It'll be Damien IX.

All that being said, the tubal is a great thing. I can't ever really even tell the doctor when my last period was, because I don't pay any attention to them anymore. There's no reason to.