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from:msnbc.comText messages little help in remembering the Pill
Seeded on Thu Sep 2, 2010 4:37 PM EDT (msnbc.com)
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The article doesn't mention the possibility that the women weren't able to immediately pop a pill every time they received the text message. If you get the text while you're stuck in traffic, you're likely to forget about it by the time you get out of your car.
Oh joy another obvious thing has been confirmed by a BS group study! I wonder how much money they wasted on this one...
Should have put the money into cancer research.
Two comments, both by user names purporting to be male. Interesting that one of them is negative. Here's something perhaps neither of these males is aware of:
Half of the pregnancies in this country are unintended.
Consider that in terms of those who are anti-abortion and anti-choice. This study doesn't look quite so BS, does it?
Women bear the brunt of making the birth control choices for the most part so this information is useful to them and their physicians. It's an appalling failure rate for the pill.
Some of those pregnancies are the result of rape.
If people want to be anti-abortion that's their right.
If they forget their own pill it's their fault.
This is just a ploy to sell more birth control pills.
The more we take, the more we will need.
Big pharmaceutical companies dominate everything.
Where is the research on Retinitous Pigmentosa?
Yeah, look that one up.
If you're not responsible enough to remember to take ONE pill, then you aren't responsible enough to be having sex (risking a possible pregnancy - no birth control method is 100% ).
Trust me. You won't need a text message to remember you have a baby every day.
let me get this right-the sole responsibility women have to prevent pregnancy which carries a 95% effectiveness rate or some such thing is to take a pill and women need to be reminded to take it?? maybe a suggestion of the study is that there should be someone there to force it into the waiting mouthes of these women to ensure that someone that stupid and forgetful not get pregnant. a really ridiculous study, a really stupid population. any questions?
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I find it hard to believe that the average is five missed pills per month. I've been taking birth control pills for seven years and miss maybe one pill every six months. I don't take my pill at the EXACT same time every day, but it's within a two or three hour time frame. I keep them on my night stand so that I won't forget about them, since I see them right before I get in bed.
I would be curious about the results of a long-term study, with a wide range of age groups. I probably did forget more pills when I first started taking them than I do now.