hivemind question on the pill

[flea]

Is it okay to go off birth control pills in the middle of a pack, or should I wait until the end of the cycle?

Because when the radio has a snippet about deaths due to a cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe, and my brain goes, "I'd like a cholera outbreak so I could die," I'm thinking it's time to stop the pill.

Comments

[mearagrrl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, when I was on my first one and thinking of driving off the road, the doc had told me "dont' go off without talking to us first" and I was like "Um, OK" and made an emergency after hours appointment with the most useless doc ever (not mine) who was like "Um....so...do you think you're going ot hurt yourself right now? Uh....I don't get what you want me to do? Do you want me to check you into the ER?" and I"m like "NO, I just want you tell me if I should stop taking these RIGHT NOW, and I want you to MAKE IT ALL BETTER!" and he's like "Um, sure, stop taking them".

So, yeah, STOP TAKING THEM.

But use backup birth control, clearly.