The Marvelon is gone (Day 197)…
September 13, 2007
Ten years is a long time to spend messing with your hormones, but if it means a decade without fear of getting knocked up — not to mention less acne, bigger boobs, a more regular cycle and fewer cramps — most women will gladly overlook the potential side effects and start popping the birth control pill as soon as they even think about becoming sexually active.
I first went on it when I was about 16 or 17. My brand loyalties jumped around from Tri-Cyclen to Alesse and finally Marvelon, but I was fairly satisfied with all of them — they did what they promised to do, and as a result I’m most happily not pregnant (sorry, Mum).
But because I’m not in a relationship now, I figured maybe it was time to go off the pill, at least until I find myself with a boyfriend again. In the green scheme of things, this also means reducing all the packaging that inevitably comes with each prescription, not to mention the excess estrogen that ends up going down the toilet and into lakes and streams, where it turns poor little frogs into hermaphrodites.
Of course, swearing off the pill for the rest of the year won’t be very green if it eventually leads to my accidentally increasing the population by one, but there are alternative means of contraception — I think I’ll save that, however, for another post.
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