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As someone who has spent over 30 years suffering from acute period pain and all manner of unpleasant menstrual problems, I say what a great idea - bring it on! I wish they had invented a contraceptive pill that stops menstruation a good deal earlier than they have, and I don't see why it should not be healthy.

Yes I know all the arguments, - mainly that having a period is "natural", "normal" and healthy for a woman, but is it really natural, normal and healthy to be doubled up in pain for 10 days every month for 30 years or more? And is it right and acceptable that a woman gains at least 7lbs in weight (mostly water) each month, causing her to need a whole separate wardrobe for half her life? Or for her to lose at least 2 days a month off sick from work due to appalling cramps, excessive bleeding, anaemia, exhaustion, and all the other menstrual symptoms? For every woman who sails through her monthly cycle with ease, plenty like myself, do not.

At the end of the day, menstruation is a way pf showing a woman is fertile and is able to conceive a child. But if she has already completed her family, is not in a serious relationship, or simply does not want a child, what is the point of it? It is painful, messy, sometimes embarrassing (if you are as "heavy" as I was when I was younger), and can completely ruin holidays, travel plans, exams, job interviews, and any manner of daily life that may just happen to coincide with the aptly named "The Curse".

It is worth noting that one thing that seems to have been forgotten in this debate, is the fact that, even with the old-fashioned pill that allowed women to have a periods, it was not really a period , - it was just a placebo to fool women into thinking that their bodies were reacting "normally". Put simply, a period occurs when you ovulate, and tw weeks later, the lining of the womb is shed if that month's ovulatory cycle has not resulted in pregnancy. With any form of the contraceptive pill, you do not ovulate at all, because the cocktail of hormones contained within it stop ovulation happening. So the "period" at the end of the 3-week cycle with the old fashioned pill, was really just a false bleed , caused by withdrawing progesterone from a womans ' body, and designed to make women feel "mormal". It was never a proper period at all, so where is the problem.?

Of course, as with all medication, stirct tests and guidelines must be in place before women are advised to be put on this treatment, especially in the case of younger woman who may well want to have a family later in their lives. One would need to be very sure that the mixture of hormones in this new pill did not affect their fertitily later on. But providing that has been tested to the best of the medical profession's ability, I say this new contraceptive pill is a great idea.

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