We partnered with Nurx to create a series of infographic explainers about women’s health issues. This one tackles skipping your period on birth control — why people skip, how to do it properly and what to tell your ob-gyn.
Leave a Comment
More stories
Guides
Dermatologists’ Guide to Winter
Chapped lips, dry skin, and eczema flares? Winter is the gift that keeps on giving. The cold, dry air isn’t…
Zocdoc Reports
Virtual Mental Health: How Talkiatry is Closing the Care Gap
Each month, millions of people visit Zocdoc.com or use our free mobile app to search for quality healthcare providers. This…
Guides
Find Your Ideal Provider with Zocdoc’s Guided Search
Navigating the vast landscape of healthcare providers can often feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. You want…
This is so contradictory to women’s health – how can you suggest to women as a doctor that it’s safe and healthy to skip periods? By skipping periods for the reason of convenience is like telling women that our natural biology is inconvenient and that we are born with functions that we don’t need – from an evolutionary standpoint, this is so wrong. The menstrual cycle is a CYCLE, therefore, skipped periods are a sign of malfunction and a weakened reproductive system. Are you seriously suggesting that one of the perks of skipping periods is saving money on tampons?? That is so insulting – are you suggesting that we are broke and in a position to need to save some dollars every month that would make such a huge difference to our lives? That saving $15 a month is worth throwing a wrench into a perfectly good bodily system? This is so disappointing, and perfectly illustrates one of the many reasons why I don’t trust MD’s anymore.
1. There are body functions and organs even that are extraneous. Menstrual cycle helps increase the chance of a woman getting pregnant. If a woman doesn’t want to at a point in time there is no use in having a period.
2. Missed periods on their own are a possible sign of malfunction in the body but if you are inducing it via birth control is not a health issue because it is artificial and not due to hormonal or other health issue.
3. It’s good you are lucky enough to have the money and be able to make ends meet without worrying where the money is coming from. Over half the country lives paycheck to paycheck and now with Covid this is just getting worse so it is very applicable to many women in the US.