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From: Janie (66.180.141.213)
In Reply to: natural STD testing / birth control posted by js on November 11, 2004 at 8:25 am:
STD testing usually doesn't involve chemicals placed into your body, it does sometimes involve taking blood which while not natural or desirable is acceptable to many. Other STD testing involves cell cultures that can usually be gathered with cotton swabs. Many of them simply involve visual observation, physical examination and/or urine collection. There are many natural methods of birth control and the most effective of them, short of abstinence would involve as many of them that you can follow - combined via the veto method as I call it. If any of them indicate that you might be fertile and you don't want to concieve then you use abstinence or some other form of sexual contact and/or birth control. I have a book at home that describes a few ways to track your fertility cycles on a chart to figure out when you are most and least likely to be fertile. I'm not there at the moment, so can't tell you what the title is. Here are a few websites to check out in the meantime though. http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/natural_family_planning/70551, http://www.fertilityuk.org/nfps25.html and http://www.plannedparenthood.org/bc/WaysToChart.html. I also have a nifty device at home that I haven't seen much of - back when I got it or since. It's really cool. It's based on the premise that your saliva and/or discharge when placed on a slide & let dry will crystalize in an organized fashion when fertile and be unorganized matter when not. It's simply a little round thing that has a small round slide & a smaller magnification lense of sorts on a different round thing that rotates to be above the slide area. You simply lick or deposit discharge on the glass area, let it dry & then turn the magnification dot area to be placed above it and look at it by lifting the whole thing up to a light source of some sort. You focus it by squeezing it a bit. It works beautifully and is great in combination with the other methods. I'll try to post the name of it. I don't know if the company still exists or not though. I'm curious to find out though as this has come up several times this week for me...
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