We don't get enough credit

I really don't think women get enough credit for what they have to put their bodies through on a daily basis. After almost six years straight taking "the pill" for reasons other than what you might think, I made an executive decision to stop taking it. It began to effect me in other ways than what it was supposed to and I didn't like the effect it was having on my body. So about three weeks ago I just stopped taking it. I felt great to begin with but as the medicine and hormones began to work their way out of my system, I began to feel worse and worse. I was more tired, more cranky, more apt to everything negative that can happen to ones body. And then, I just get off the phone with my doctor after explaining the inexplicable pain I am experiencing and she says the cause is the pill and the, now, lack of hormones my body is recieving. Hmm. So lets get this straight: Taking the pill is supposed to be good for you, but it wasnt. So I figured that taking myself off the pill would be the solution, yet I was wrong again. Oh and on top of all of that, there is a strong possibility that I may never be able to get pregnant. Why? Because in the six years i've been dosing myself with hormones, no one has ever checked to see if the medicine was actually accomplishing its task. And after a certain amount of time, you run a huge risk of infertility- something which I was not aware of. How kind of my doctors to share that information.

See, this is the kind of thing women have to deal with. We simply have no choice. And while we think we are doing our bodies good by the choices we make, we run the chance of restless painful nights and waking up to discover that we have done our body more harm than good.

Men don't have to deal with anything like this.