Abstainance only birth control!

That will definitely increase your sex drive.

I should add that Ativan has been helpful for me; I know other Buffistas have taken it, and I think it's been helpful for them, too.

Ativan probably saved my life when I was going through the divorce. It was a godsend for me. (Valium was also nice, but the Ativan was much more useful, since I needed to be fully-functional more often than not.)

Huh. I should look into the Nuva ring.

um ... I was on Zoloft for six months or so after I had my stroke; I was badly depressed and, seemingly, it's good for your brain. It helped.

Ativan and Zoloft. I'll look them up--thanks!

I liked the Nuva ring. I had mildly stronger cramps and sore boobs than with the pill, but it was nice to put in and then pretty much forget about it.

I liked the Nuva ring.

Count me in the love camp. Which reminds me, I need to find a GYN here and get a new perscription. My cycle is SO much easier when I'm on the ring. Living in NGA land means the other benefit of the ring isn't such a big deal.

sj, yup. Not bragging since I've gained every ounce back but post-preg I was thinner than I had been in 10 years. It was nice while it lasted.

I gained 20lbs with Liv. No diet.

I gained 68 with Em! And then lost 76.

JZ's on the Nuva ring now and she likes it.

I am going to get yelled at by my boss later today. A lot.

Nobody puts Scrappy in the corner gets to yell at Scrappy! Not even a little.

The Nuva ring intrigues me, but I'm so happy with the IUD that I have no need to switch.

I'm not really stress eating the refined sugars all that much. More the potato, bread, and cheese food groups. Mac and cheese, cheese pizza, various cheese-based spreads on crackers. Yummy, if not nutritionally complete. And great with wine. Oh, hey, that's fruit, isn't it?

Hee.

It actually stops ALL my compulsive eating, not just sweets. I think the lack of blood sugar bounce has a lot to do with how I respond to stress.

If I stop eating refined sugar (ha!)* I find that I feel SO. MUCH. BETTER. It makes me sad, because I'm like Homer Simpson in the episode where he finds the sugar truck that crashes and he keeps the pile of sugar in the backyard.

Eating sugary foods doesn't lead to overall compulsive eating; but it's like a cocaine addict (I imagine): I eat something sweet and then I HAVE TO EAT MORE OH MY GOD even if the second (and third, etc.) servings don't taste as good as the first.

*When I say "stop eating refined sugar," I mostly mean candy, cookies, cake/pie/pastry (which is hard when my co-workers brought in a pie AND a cake today) -- stuff with a very high sugar rush. I'm okay with yogurt that has sugar, with things like zucchini bread (although I make it myself and it doesn't have a lot of sugar in the recipe), etc. Basically, if it has fiber or fat with it, I'm pretty much okay, as long as I've had other non-sugar-y things to eat that day. But things that are just Pure! Sugar! Injection! just fuck me up big time. (And give me serious gastrointestinal distress, I've found, which is weird as hell.)