I’m not sure if this new pill is also supposed to help with a woman’s PMS as well, but there is a new birth control pill poised for FDA approval that is going to come out to market soon that proposes to stop a woman’s period cycle (menstrual cycle) indefinitely, or as long as she is on the pill.  Many women who cannot stand to have their periods may rejoice, but I ask, is this really a healthy thing or not?

It seems to me that women’s periods are meant to happen for a reason, and taking a pill to stop the period seems, well, unnatural at best I guess.  The pill does indicate that it will stop a woman’s menstrual bleeding, but did not indicate whether it stops the moodiness that tends to go along with the period, otherwise known as PMS, the time when men want to stay away from their spouses and girlfriends because they are afraid they might inadvertently p them off.

The name of the new women’s pill is Lybrel, supposedly named for liberating women from the inconvenience of having their monthly period and accompanying bleeding, and is by drug company Wyeth.  Supposedly though, women can already exercise the no period option even on regular birth control pills, simply by skipping their inactive sugar pills at the end of the active hormone pills cycle, and going straight to more hormone pills for the next cycle, thereby avoiding the bleeding cycle, but this new Lybrel product will advertise especially for skipping the period, something the gynecologists say is an increasing demand among women for various reasons.

Most researchers conclude that monthly menstrual bleeding, while a biological fact, is not necessary, and in fact leads to health problems for some women including anemia and other health issues, but other gynecologists do believe that continuously suppressing the period is not good, and women who practice this should at least take a rest from it and make their body menstruate at least once every 12 weeks, which is a lot better than the typical menstruation cycle, which happens once every 21 to 28 days today.