I assume this is quote of an American woman, ignorant of this issue. When I say many don't know about this even there, or it seems so, pizzaboy says I know it and I'm a middle aged man.
Originally Posted By: carmela
That being said, I've never heard of a woman bleeding "to near death state" and a doctor saying, "here, take these pills, this should save your life and stop all that massive bleeding."
I don't think that if it happened to you, you'd be so eager to talk about it with the rest of the world, as it is with many other women. You most likely would go to a doctor, and will be told to come back if it didn't stop by day 10. You could search about it online, here is an example: http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Womens-Health/Period-wont-stop/show/26045
When church fights so that their insurance plans do not cover birth control, that means a woman would have to buy her own LD out of her own pocket. That means this sort of pill is not covered. Prescription by a doctor of a Catholic hospital is one thing, you being covered to get the pills cheaper is another issue. And the asshole O'Reily and many of the GOPers saying buy your own birth control pill yourself woman is another issue again.
And yes, I too had not heard a woman bleeding to acute anemia and her doctor saying "here, take these pills, this should save your life and stop all that massive bleeding." but guess what, it happened to me. Just so that you hear another woman saying that. I don't think I'd have to be ashamed of that, this is just what religious upbringing wants us to behave, so that our issues not get addressed properly.
I have no issue talking about this sort of stuff and neither do any women I know. This also happened to me and I got up in the middle of the night passing clots of blood as big as grapefruit. My husband took me to the ER. I wasn't given birth control pills. I was given a D&C procedure. Pills were irrelevant at that point. I was bleeding severely and in need of medical treatment. Not pills. It seems our definition of "bleeding to near death state" is very different. When you used that phrase, I took it to mean: life and death situation, immediate emergency, 911.
I know the uses of birth control pills in all situations, but I wasn't thinking about a long, extremely heavy period, when I read your question. If a woman develops severe acute anemia, where death is possible, and there is tremendous loss of blood, a blood transfusion better be given. My definition of bleeding to "near death state" is: Get this woman help NOW, else she dies; in which case pills are useless. But if for whatever reason that were the case, a Catholic hospital would do whatever it took to save a life, and I'm sure their morals wouldn't dictate letting her die. But again, we were on different pages with our definitions of bleeding to near death state.
As far as paying out of pocket for birth control pills...we pay $1,100 per MONTH out of pocket to purchase health insurance for my husband, myself, and our 2 children. So to throw another pack of pills on my tab if I needed them, the hell i care.
Anyway, I appreciate your reply, I have read your posts in the past. You're obviously a well educated, intelligent, well spoken woman. I do read down in General Discussion every once in awhile, although, I broke my own rule of not posting in these hot topics, God knows why.
