The Pill and the "natural" menstrual cycle  

hell0! I am not a woman, but I know that it is really better to let the things go on their natural way, because with the pills that many people take, there can be often many complications and sometimes women become even sterile

My OBGYN put me on a pill and told me that I should take it the first 3 months like normal, and then for the next 3 skip the inactive pills and just go on to the next package. After that, if it worked well, to do it for 6 months. So, theoretically, that makes for 2 periods per year.

As for whether it increases chances of mutations/complications, I don't think that would happen any more than it would normally with time. As you grow older, so do your eggs. They're all already there and waiting. Menstuation...it's your body doing what it was designed to do! And the building up of the lining is preparing your body for pregnancy. Once that lining sits awhile it breaks down and isn't sufficient to support a pregnancy.

I personally think that once you start playing around with your body and your period you are asking for trouble. As much as I didn't like having a period its the way it is for us females and it should not be changed to only 4 times a year. I think when you do this you are creating problems unnatural to your body and this will cause trouble later on in life. Who knows what will happen when menapause comes for these females who chose to have their period only 4 times a year.

Oh boy....waiting is one of the worst bits, it leaves too much time to do exactly what you've done: worry and wonder and go "oh my god, what if I have THAT?!" I do the same thing, it's kind of hard not to. >_>

Very interesting, I didn't know that the Catholic Church had a hand in the pill's beginning. I was only 11 when I started my period (topic for another discussion, the increasingly earlier ages of menstruation in young girls over the last decade...it's scary), and in the past 12 years I have not once used any form of birth control, pill or otherwise. Granted, I have not been in any danger of getting pregnant, but I suppose I could have talked with my doctor about possibly taking the pill to reduce the horrible cramps I'm prone to getting. I think they've gotten a bit better with time, or I've at least managed to anticipate and react accordingly --1 ibuprofen if it feels like some serious cramps are on their way, but I'll take no more than that. It took a couple years for me to be able to read myself well enough, though; I can think of a number of occasions I was sent home from school because my body said, "Hey, that's a bad cramp and you ate something earlier! Time to clear out your system!" >_< Another weird effect that's stuck around is that I'll temporarily lose the ability to thermoregulate properly during crampin, so NO temperature is nice, I'm just busy shivering one moment and sweating the next. And despite all this, I've opted not to introduce any outside chemicals into my body, even if they are ones I naturally produce...a stance I take with medication in general, unless there is absolutely no alternative. Oddly enough, I've been regular except for a few times when I'll be off by a week or two, and though it's not a 28 day cycle it is pretty darn close.

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Hi Sweet
Well I have had the Marina Coil fitted about 15 years ago
I went to be Sterilised and this new Coil had just come out, so I went for it
I rarely get a Period now, for the last 2 years there has been nothing and it is just wonderful lol but I am also at that time of Life