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Good grief. How is it the business of anyone other than your doctor what prescription you get and when?I'm so grateful for the NHS

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It's the insurance company. They only paid for one month at a time and we were picking them up every 3 weeks instead of every 4 weeks because we didn't take the "off" week pills in the pack. The early pick-ups finally caught up to us. So I had my doc switch to a type specifically meant to be taken that way. I hope the insurance doesn't jack with me on this, too.

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I first saw a couple of these with English subtitles, but I'm having a hell of a time finding them now. In the meantime, here's the originals. I don't speak Norwegian, but they know how to do do *real* sex ed (warning: very much NSFW in countries like the US):https://www.youtube.com/wat...

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IT IS THIS SUNDAY THANK GOD

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Not knowing how it works is precisely how you end up with lots of white Jeebus babbies.

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If New Yorkers want to learn about Mormons, we'll go to a Broadway musical, TYVM.

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At the last family reunion, I counted 86 cousins. That's just on my dad's side. (There's Catholics, and then there's French Catholics.)

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I bet the special "Meant to be taken that way" scrip costs triple. Insurance company policies really put the "idiot" in idiotic.

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Me too. I still love that movie and feel it holds up, though I suspect that's just me and my former goth-ness. I've also heard the same, and I can only imagine, what a horrible accident.

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Words to live by.

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February 12. I believe that's one week after the Super Bowl.

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Ooh! Tank Vixens ref for the win! I award you ten upfists and an Internet!

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Agree about the red. It's confusing.I can't remember a time I didn't know about sex. My parents first told me the basics when I was too young to remember what exactly they said, therefore no awkward memories. Clever of them.

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The Depo shot keeps me from ever having a period you only get it once every three months. If she hasn't tried it ask her doc about it. Mine were so harsh I was almost paralyzed from the pain and heavy bleeding but that shot saved me.

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I didn't feel like such a great mom when I gave her a laxative for what she thought was constipation but was actually cramps. I've never suffered with any of these things so it didn't occur to me. Plus, she was only 11. She got her period AND awful diarrhea at the same time and CRIED.

"Mom, when is this going to be OVER?!" I told her in just a few days. She said "No, I mean when is it going to stop FOREVER?!"

I stayed home with her that day and let her play video games and eat junk food. There was chocolate involved, probably.

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Remember when Colorado authorized public subsidy of long-term contraception for teenage girls, pregnancy and abortion rates dropped, and Republicans just lost their shit? I wonder what happened with that.

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