She had even asked her doctor about the pill possibility and got an answer along the lines of "you've been on this pill for years, anything it would have done to you would have happened long ago."

Yeah, no. Bodies can develop new! exciting! reactions! to anything that they used to happily consume with no repercussions. That's a stupid response.

signed, cannot ingest large amounts of soy anymore, when I used to be able to subsist on edamame and chicken breasts.

Particularly, one would think to freakin' hormones which fluctuate all the damn time even without some extras thrown in.

I feel like many people are oddly cavalier about the pill. They'll stay on it for twenty years without giving it a thought. You're messing with a complex system, you should be doing it for a really good reason. Maybe stop now and again to see what's shakin? Switch to a diaphram? Skip it when you're not dating anyone? Maybe, if you're taking it because your periods were screwy when you were 19 or 22 they wouldn't be anymore?

Off the top of my head I can think of six people who felt peppy and dropped weight once they had their tubes tied and went of the BC they'd been on since they were 17.

And soy, of course, involves Estrogen.

And soy, of course, involves Estrogen.

Yes, it does. (I also can't really eat cheese anymore, which BREAKS MY MOTHERFUCKING HEART.) Ahem.

Lady, what are you doing up so late? Show?

Insomnia!

Actually, I'm getting tired now. Woo hoo!

You just get home from work?

And cheese loss is tragic.

But maybe eat a little? Just today my sister and I were talking about how her dairy sensitivity is worse if she eats NO dairy and then eats some as opposed to always eating a little. I know the first orange or pineaple of a season can cause me to react but the reaction fades after a week or so.

The body is weird.

Yay tired!

And yup, just home from work. Catching up, doing some silly designing (comp CDs don't really need a designed insert, but a) it's MCR and b) why the fuck not?), drinking some wine.

I do eat a little cheese every once in a while (the joys of Staff Meal), but I have to stick with the hard cheeses.

And I just downloaded a Misfits-style font for this insert. I have Officially Overthunk It.

Hey, its MCR. Might as well revel in fonts a little. Gee Way would.

Somewhere there is a good doctor who will believe you have a real problem and help you to sort it out. Keep asking and pushing for an answer.

That's the thing - the doc that said "if that's all you are eating, you should be losing weight" then walked away, was one of the good ones. Or at least, I had made the mistake of thinking she was. I've got broken trust and an unwillingness to spend hundreds of dollars seeing doctors that I have no reason to think will be on my side.

I know hundreds of doctors because of my work and the caring dedicated ones far outnumber the closed minded variety. Do doctors still let you interview them? When I was looking for my ob/gyn and pediatrician we visited a couple different doctors just to interview them. It was no charge, just a meeting in their office to feel them out on their views.

I would call a number of those on your insurance plan and tell the office you are looking for a new physician and could you have an appointment to meet the doctor. It should be no charge. Granted it was a number of years ago that I did this, but it seemed routine to the offices.