You need to get back in the game!!
Being Anti-Abortion is being Racist, says 538:
Ironic that “they” didn’t allow or encourage abortions for the unkempt immigrant masses. I mean, there was no way the whites were going to win the birthrate game.
An example of showing racism in one’s anti-abortion stance:
And these anxieties over immigration have become explicitly connected to the birth rate in some statements from prominent Republicans. In 2017, when he was representing Iowa’s 4th Congressional District in the U.S. House, Steve King directly made the connection: “You cannot rebuild your civilization with somebody else’s babies. You’ve got to keep your birth rate up, and that you need to teach your children your values.”
And in June, Illinois Rep. Mary Miller called the end of Roe a “historic victory for white life” at a rally with former President Donald Trump, who still holds a tight grip on the Republican Party and may run for president again.
Ah, here is the racist’s motive:
In fact, according to analysis published in the December edition of the population-research journal “Demography,” a hypothetical total abortion ban would lead to more pregnancy-related deaths among non-Hispanic Black people than among any other racial group.
Oh, also sexist:
According to Nicola Beisel, a professor emerita at Northwestern University who studies cultural sociology, sex and gender, women’s ability to have children is treated as a resource instead of a matter of bodily autonomy or a right, which is why opposing abortion is part of the bigger conversation about who is having children. “If women’s reproductive capacity is a resource, the question is, who’s going to get to use it? And for whom?”
I never tracked my period. I was too irregular for that to be useful. (And i replied, “i don’t know” when doctors asked me, even when i showed up pregnant.) But when i was trying to get pregnant, i did notice when i was ovulating, and tried to arrange for sex those nights.
I track mine in hopes that one day I will see 366 days since my LMP and then I can say good-bye forever. I have my doubts that will actually happen though.
It happens and it is awesome (no worries about pregnancy, no wife on pill, etc.). It’s the five years before that which sucks.
Yeah my doctors have been telling me this for at least 7 years. I don’t believe them anymore. At this point I’m well past “the average age”. I can’t go by my mother or grandmother or sisters experiences because they all had hysterectomies except the one sister who is 11 years younger.
Google tells me:
The menopausal transition most often begins between ages 45 and 55 . It usually lasts about seven years but can be as long as 14 years. The duration can depend on lifestyle factors such as smoking, age it begins, and race and ethnicity.
my wife will start smoking if you say it will help. she is in the last n years and it is not pleasant for her
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You think I haven’t googled this? I assure you, that’s all I do when I’m not working or posting on here. 
PS-I’m not as young as I look in my profile pic.
Yeah, that’s the only other time i tracked my period. I was in my late fifties when i finally declared it done. (But i was on mirena, which makes it hard to tell, and may have had a couple of scattered periods even after that.)
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my wife basically had “the change” in an incredibly short time, maybe a weekend of flashes around 50
her sister did not have her’s by 58, and after COVID had a constant menses, for which she was forced into menopause
so much for family history
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I find it weird that they say you’re officially in menopause after one calendar year without a period and if you have one a day later YOU MUST GET A BIOPSY, IT MIGHT BE SCARY CANCER! one year seems pretty arbitrary.
also can’t go by my mother because she was thrown into menopause due to chemo, but i do know she was still regular immediately prior to the chemo, so can sorta kinda use that as a gage. not sure when my grandmother stopped (I think hers was natural), but that seems too removed to apply to me. sister is a year and a half younger.
i also don’t want to say goodbye to it forever. it’s at most a minor inconvenience for me at this point.
I highly recommend a snip and an IUD for those who don’t want to wait.
I wonder if she could have gotten pregnant at that age.
That’s getting biblical…
I really don’t see the point of an IUD since I don’t need it for birth control. Don’t want to pay for it bc I’m a cheap actuary. Plus I kinda wanna know when I’m done. Also TMI I had to have one removed surgically and while I know the new ones are better I don’t want to have to worry about that.
I asked my gynecologist about some bleeding that was probably more than a year after my prior period, and she told me not to worry about it. Granted, it was a very small amount of blood.
In contrast, i asked my PCP about a problem with my period several years ago, when i was still bleeding more-or-less monthly, and he freaked out because of the bleeding, and didn’t engage with the problem until i told him twice that the amount is blood and timing was pretty normal for me, TMI it just smelled terrible and i thought i must have some infection – which i did, and an antibiotic cream cleared it up.
So in my experience, doctors look more at age and amount of blood than at whether you’ve gone a year without bleeding.
I believe everything but the removal is free if you have Obamacare-compliant insurance and go to an in-network provider.
And quite frankly: you can remove it yourself. They say not to, but I removed mine myself. Plenty of instructions on the internet. Doc wasn’t even mad at me. Just asked a few questions to ascertain that I was reasonably certain I’d gotten it all… it hadn’t broken or anything.
Your other reasons are sound, so maybe you still don’t want one, but I just thought I’d mention it. I think I paid over $500 for my first one, but that was pre-Obamacare.
Well, not in Ajstudies’ first experience, but most of the time.
I think it depends on the doctor. I had both a nurse practitioner and then a regular gyn who saw her notes say I should get a biopsy for some slightly abnormal bleeding a couple times. And I’m not menopausal. I’m just a little off a few months. I almost considered doing it when the gyn said she could put me out for it, but still, I decided on hell no. Even out, I don’t want that invasive procedure.
Medical people really like giving endometrial biopsies, so surprised yours did not suggest it.
I sincerely doubt almost anyone could get pregnant at 58 naturally even if they are still menstruating. It’s extremely rare even 10 years younger than that.
actually, in googling it, the world record holder was 59. although, it wasn’t entirely natural. she was taking estrogen.