A Dumb Question

[taffimai]

Whenever I go to the doctor, they ask me if there's any chance I could be pregnant. Now, as I do not have sex with men, I find it pretty easy to answer this question.

But I've never understood how straight, sexually active women in the second half of their cycle are supposed to answer that question. Because even if they're using birth control, it's only 99% effective, so there's always a chance they could be pregnant, but they haven't missed a period yet so they wouldn't really know. Is this just code for, "have you missed a period?"

Just curious.

Comments

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

There are certain procedures and meds that are more harmful to fetuses than women, so they have to ask. Generally they follow that question up with "when was the date of your last period?" so they can be sure.

I'm married, and Maze has had a vasectomy, so I usually reply with "hubby is neutered", which also makes them crack up.

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've had that follow-up question when I don't volunteer my sexual orientation immediately. Since my body is a little FUBAR, I generally reply "6 months ago" and they blink a lot. Then I get the "are you sexually active?" and they blink more when I say yes. Usually I take pity on them at that point and come out.