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Saturday, 26 January 2008

This song was fun last night

Low (feat. T-Pain) - Flo Rida

Posted: Jan 26, 2008 13:27

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Birth control pill lesson for me

Some time around the year 2000 I got a call from my dad. He was in the hospital in Syracuse, I was at work in Boston, and he said he had a pulmonary embolism. I did not understand the severity at the time, that he was lucky to be alive and I remember asking him if he wanted me to come home. Why was I giving him a choice? Because I was dumb. Luckily he said he wanted me to and he told me he was scared. That's when I became scared too and got home ASAP. So he ended up being okay eventually after a few stays in the hospital and now he's on blood-thinners daily. They found the cause to be he was homozygous Factor V Leiden (FVL). Because FVL increases your risk of clotting, I was tested because having FVL is a contraindication for the birth control pill because birth control pills also increase your clotting risk so the combo of the two is bad. I was tested and turned out to be heterozygous FVL, not as bad as Dad who has 2 defective copies of the gene, I only have one but since my Dad now has a history of clotting and I have a defective gene the doctor said I couldn't take the pill anymore. I don't think I was on it at the time but I had been in the past. So ever since then I've dealt w/ it and it kinda sucks but whatever. Yesterday I thought I'd go to the doctor and see if I could get it. Really I had no idea of what the risk was. I felt I was willing to risk the clotting not to get pregnant. I'm kinda healthy, I don't smoke and I run most days so I figured that would lower my risk. Plus I'm not that concerned w/ living so if it killed me oh well. The nurse practitioner was just not having it. There was no way she would give me a prescription for the pill w/ my medical history. She said if she gave it to me and I died she would be in trouble. She showed me her formulary and it specifically said no pill if the patient has a FVL mutation. Fine! I tried though. So anyway I just was looking up trying to find the risk and what I found is a woman heterozygous FVL on the pill is at a 20-30 fold increased relative risk or an absolute risk of 1 in 500 will develop a clot versus a woman on the pill w/out FVL is 1 out of 3500. So the nurse told me to try the Today Sponge which I thought was off the market, I remember using that when I was like 17 before I got the pill, and of course you can't forget the Seinfeld episode where Elaine bought up all the sponges because they were discontinued and then wouldn't sleep w/ anyone unless they were sponge-worthy. Turns out it is back on the market, new hipper packaging coming soon, haha! Got some yesterday but since they are on the market I hope I don't get all conserving w/ them and have to find sponge-worthy people.

Posted: Jan 26, 2008 12:28

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