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

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

Hee! Yes, we had the same thing: you went to the Health Center and had a 99% chance of either being diagnosed with mono or being told you were pregnant. I think it's fairly universal.

[halfspokenwords.livejournal.com]

It must be. A few years ago Student Health convinced me I had mono-- before they did a blood test, which was (of course) negative. It was that much worse because I had gone there specifically to make sure I didn't have mono, so I couldn't even dismiss it out of hand.

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

*facepalm* I swear, they must get mono meds kickbacks or something.