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Meghan's avatar

At first, I thought, “wait to comment so you aren’t the first one, commenting 13 mins after it’s posted,” but fuck it, it’s not high school and I don’t have to be cool.

Repro hormones started really messing me up in my late 30s (looking at you, Mirena), so I’m the other side of the spectrum here but it’s still valid to need them!

Yesterday, I went on metformin for pre-diabetes, and said “hell no” to the idea of “trying to change my lifestyle” first because my eating/exercise lifestyle is already really fine, and medication helps with the genetic cards I was dealt. (To my dr’s credit, he suggested medication first and only apologetically broached “lifestyle” in a way that said he’d had way too much experience with medication-averse patients, and he was awesome when I cried in the exam room, yay for young doctors.)

Anyway, yay for science, and if it works, don’t be miserable and sad! Women are expected to be perfect and low-maintenance (what am I, a car?) and ace every test and never complain, and thanks for popping into my inbox with an essay that made me feel proud of myself rather than like a virgin who can’t drive.

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Janet's avatar

“ I’d track my period, and that would be useful primarily in telling me why I was probably so fucking mad some days.”

Oh yes

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