Is it less common to suppress it artificially? I feel like if I was a woman I would do anything to get around needing to have to go thru that regularly. Assuming the risks werent huge I dont get why suffer thru that all the time
But I also definitely dont want children
The options for stopping it completely have side effects that affect different people differently. For a lot of people the options that let you ‘skip’ your period make you spot (little bit of blood) all month rather than have a regular period confined to a week.
Second hand information, but I’ve heard that it’s much more common in Europe for women to stay on birth control pills “permanently”, whereas in North America there is always a week of placebo pills to allow the period to happen. There’s apparently no strong evidence why a period “has” to happen, but that’s the guidelines. 🤷♂️
That started changing in the US in the late 80’s, depending on the specific composition of the birth control.
Can’t exactly speak for everyone who has periods, but I think it’s mostly just athletes or people who need/want to delay or schedule periods around a specific event that do that. A person can get used to almost anything (even if it sucks).
But why resign oneself to it all needlessly?
Because there’s no perfect solution.
Right but unmitigated isnt that like the ultimate pain in the ass?