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Women looking for a simple way to avoid their menstrual period could soon have access the first birth control pill designed to let women suppress monthly bleeding indefinitely

Sheldon J. Segal, a scientist at the nonprofit research group Population Council, wrote back that a British study found no harm in taking pills with much higher hormone levels than today’s products for up to 10 years

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/05/21/no.more.periods.ap/index.html

Lybrel, a name meant to evoke "liberty," would be the fourth new oral contraceptive that doesn’t follow the standard schedule of 21 daily active pills, followed by seven sugar pills — a design meant to mimic a woman’s monthly cycle.

Match the words in column 1 with the definitions in column 2

column 1……………………..Column 2

1. abortion…………………..A. Preventing conception
2. surrogate…………………B. one to eight weeks after conception
3. fertility…………………….C. complete dialation of cervix
4. ultrasound………………..D. afterbirth depression for moms
5. conception……………….E. fertilized sperm and ovum
6. homebirth………………..F. alternate mother
7. abstinence……………….G. nonviolent birth
8. vasectomy……………….H. determines boy or girl
9. embryo……………………i. female sterilization
10. ovulation………………..J. mutual masturbation
11. 2nd stage of labor…….K. terminating pregnancy
12. breast feeding…………L. birth of the child
13. lamaze method……….M. mixed blessings for some women
14. c-section……………….N. male sterilization
15. postpartum blues…….O. beginning of the 3rd month
16. pregnancy……………..P. sexual arousal
17. 3rd stage of labor……….Q. midwives
18. miscarriage……………….R. bonding between mother and baby
19. alternative insemination…S. missed menstrual period
20. Le Boyer method………….T. spontaneous abortion
21. Male infertility………………U. implantation of partner’s sperm
22. 1st stage of labor………….V. afterbirth of placenta
23. fetus………………………….W. impatient doctors
24. tubal ligation………………..X. low sperm count
25. outercourse…………………Y. natural childbirth
26. contraception……………….Z. no intercourse

Hi. I have always felt really different around the time of my menstrual period. I become much less tolerant of things and my moods change frequently.

Today, though, which I think is one or two days before my menstruation, I’ve been feeling a strong sense of sadness for no reason at all and it frustrates me. I also find myself not caring about anything and wanting to do anything to get rid of this illogical pain. This frustrates me because even if I try to do something that makes me happy, I have no care for it and just become frustrated.

It’s strange. Once my period is done, I slowly feel better and back to my normal self, like my emotional turns have never happened.

Would it be a good choice if I started using an anti-depressant, or a birth control pill such as Yaz to help with this? Or is it simply me exaggerating the need for PMS relief? I am really not sure if I have PMDD, but I do feel really different around the time of my period. If you do think I have PMDD, what is the best brand to use?

NOTE: I am only seventeen, but I will turn eighteen next year. If I’m not allowed to take any anti-depressants because of my age then I am ok with waiting until next year to start using it. I would just like to ask you if I actually have PMDD and what I should do about it later on.

Thank you.

If a woman has sexual intercourse two days after her menstrual period has ended, can she get pregnant?

I know that what you see/what is discharged during a woman’s menstrual period is the uterine lining (endometrium) after shedding from the uterine wall, but what exactly happens to the unfertilized egg/ovum/gamete during/at the start of a period? Does it break and that is part of what is discharged, or what?