In fact, women may take combined pills continuously for as many years as they like so long as they do not have a reason to avoid them. There is no therapeutic benefit to having a period periodically (21/7, 21/7). Some women benefit immensely from NOT having periods.

Fortunately, expulsion of rings is not common. Expulsions are no more common than 2-5% of women, but you are clearly in that percent, so you will need to check regularly if you continue to use rings as your contraceptive.

How many copies would you like? You can order Choices from our website: www.managingcontraception.com or by calling 404-875-5001. We think you will love it!

She looked around the circle – one face at a time – until she saw her friend.

If students and the medical staff of 500 of our best colleges and universities could learn what is happening through the St. Louis CONTRACEPTIVE CHOICE PROJECT, it could perhaps be the most important single avenue for disseminating information about this remarkable research and service project.

If you want to talk to someone about what bothers you, best that you NOT make an appointment to see a psychiatrist. Instead go to a psychologist, social worker, minister, priest, rabbi or a family practice physician (although these days family practice docs usually are unable to spend much time talking to patients).

Our wish is simple: that our elected officials in Washington act as though they really wanted to get to the bottom of big issues by putting aside the polarization that is paralyzing our efforts to move ahead.

A national survey of 1,800 unmarried men and women age 18- 29 developed and fielded by the Guttmacher Institute for the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, found that that 38% of men and 44% of women believe that:
“It doesn’t matter whether you use birth control or not; when it your time to get pregnant it will happen.”

For better or worse, men and women differ intellectually, emotionally, and sexually.