I've had multiple friends describe said experience. I never had it first-hand, because I've had dysmenorrhea like whoa since menarche, so it was never an issue, but when I started current job, they didn't cover hormonal contraception, so it was pretty common practice.*
Flash forward to last year when Teenager was having super-bad cramps, and her pediatrician recommended them off the bat (Teenager calls them her "anti-baby meds," which cracks me up, because she still thinks boys are kind of buttheads.). My mother, who had kind of flipped when I left them out on the desk of my dorm junior year, replied that, oh yeah, Oldest Niece had done that. I really wish doctors had thought that way when I was a teen, because I'd have been saved a lot of pain and other problems.
*I was one of about seven women faculty who brought it up during the next contract negotiation. It have never been opposed, just, well, stuffy old men hadn't thought of it.
Re: I am not a religious scholar, this is dregs of memory
Flash forward to last year when Teenager was having super-bad cramps, and her pediatrician recommended them off the bat (Teenager calls them her "anti-baby meds," which cracks me up, because she still thinks boys are kind of buttheads.). My mother, who had kind of flipped when I left them out on the desk of my dorm junior year, replied that, oh yeah, Oldest Niece had done that. I really wish doctors had thought that way when I was a teen, because I'd have been saved a lot of pain and other problems.
*I was one of about seven women faculty who brought it up during the next contract negotiation. It have never been opposed, just, well, stuffy old men hadn't thought of it.