#i guess every time i hear someone (without any known health issues that’d interfere) like ah time for my monthly Week Of Pain And Misery | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

seilon · 28 days

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I wish I could tell every young person with a uterus (especially with bad cramps and/or dysphoria and/or depression, etc) that there is a decent chance they just straight up don’t need to live with that. don’t let the stigma surrounding contraceptives and the expectation that you should just ride it out and suffer win. for the love of god if there’s a chance you can lighten or even stop your period and it’s symptoms all-together, unless there’s a legit health concern, your doctor should at least make you aware of that option. I want every young person to know that “birth control” is not just for birth control and it has the potential to make your life infinitely easier to live. do not give in to anti-pill propaganda im serious

#kibumblabs #I remember being in late high school and my doctor suggesting it because of how terrible my dysphoria/related depressive episodes related to #menstrual cycle shit is. and like. im not saying it was a flawless transition but good god im serious it changed my fucking life #not to the extent testosterone would but it was still like. a Big Deal #because I was like. what the fuck. I’ve been suffering through this shit for years. and no one told me this was a thing? we’re all just #expected to suffer? because it’s ‘Normal’????#this whole time I could just. turn the bleeding off. or at least Down. turn off the debilitating breast soreness and swelling. etc.#anyway im not sure why im thinking about this but #i guess every time i hear someone (without any known health issues that’d interfere) like ah time for my monthly Week Of Pain And Misery #i want to shake them by the shoulders like. YOU DONT NEED TO LIVE LIKE THIS. PLEASE I JUST WANT YOU TO BE AWARE OF THIS.#and yes i know it doesn’t work for everyone or sometimes there’s side effects that make it not worth it or what have you #but for a huge huge huge amount of people. they just don’t know it’s an option. because it’s labelled Birth Control. and because there’s #this long-standing quiet fear mongering about it that makes it seem more dangerous and sinister and promiscuous than it is #similar in a lot of ways to other stigmatized hormone treatments. like. well. you know #doesn’t help that when you first get your prescription it comes with the worlds biggest list of Potential Issues (most of which are either #minor temporary or unlikely)#grahhghhhhhhhhh anyway. on a seperate but related note shout out to my fellow tboys who either didn’t have their periods totally stop on t #or (like in my case) they came back after like Years for whatever reason and that had to be dealt with via supplementary contraceptives #cw menstruation

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