#mirena

Period Drama Appreciation Week 2024

Day: 4 Favorite Relationship

Vlad & Mirena (Mina) in Dracula Untold

During the upcoming presidency, it is likely that people in the US will lose many options that keep them from getting pregnant (contraceptives). The right-wing Project 2025 is against birth control pills, abortion, emergency contraception, and the government-provided health insurance ("Obamacare," Medicaid, and Medicare) that helps people afford these.

If you or your partner are concerned about the possibility of losing access to those options soon, you can ask your doctor or Planned Parenthood about getting a Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive (LARC). The two kinds of LARCs are IUDs and the implant. If you get a LARC right now, it can protect you for years, without you having to do anything to maintain it. A LARC isn't permanent, so you can get rid of it if you later decide that you're ready to have a baby.

Hormonal Intrauterine Device: 3, 5, or 8 years of protection, depending on brand

An IUD is a T-shaped object that a nurse or doctor puts into your uterus. It's tiny, just a little more than an inch. The procedure for getting an IUD isn't surgery, it lasts just a few minutes, and it goes much better if you ask for an anti-anxiety medicine and the right type of painkiller.

Hormonal IUDs work because they slowly release progestin. That's the main hormone in birth control pills. Like pills, they can make your periods get lighter or stop, which is helpful for people who need to get rid of cramps and PMS.

Of the brands of them in the US, the FDA currently approves of using Kyleena for up to five years, Liletta for eight, Mirena for eight, and Skyla for three. Kyleena and Skyla are smallest and therefore easiest to insert.

I have more info in my tags about IUDs.

Copper IUDs: 12 years of protection

The other type of IUD is a copper IUD. Instead of changing your hormones, it works because copper makes the place unfriendly to sperm. Another difference is that this kind can make your periods heavier. Its brand name is Paragard. The FDA approves of using it for ten years, but studies show it's still good at twelve or longer. More info in my tags.

The birth control implant: 5 years of protection

It's a rod the size of a matchstick. A nurse or doctor uses an applicator to put it under your skin in your arm. There, it will slowly release progestin to protect you from getting pregnant. It can make your periods get lighter or stop. The FDA approves of using it for three years, but a study shows it's still 100% effective five years later, and so does another study. Its brand name is Nexplanon, which has improvements over the older Implanon, such as being visible on X-ray. More info in my tags.

Some honorable mentions

There are some other contraceptives that last a long time but aren't considered LARCs. The diaphragm and the cervical cap are two kinds of plastic cap that you put on your cervix each time before sex, and you can keep using the same one for two years. The birth control ring, Annovera, lasts one year. Each injection of the birth control shot, Depo-Provera, lasts three months.

Hormonal intrauterine device

UNIVERSAL PICTURES PRESENTS

THE 1ST ENTRY OF WHAT WILL BECOME....

THE BEGINNING OF A

DARK UNIVERSE 😈

In the 15th century, Vlad Dracula is the Prince of Wallachia and Transylvania. As a child, he was a royal ward in the palace of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and was trained to be a soldier in the Sultan's elite Janissary corps, where he became their most feared warrior, earning the moniker "Vlad the Impaler, Son of the Dragon", but became sickened by his own actions and abandoned his past.

Vlad III (Luke Evans), prince of Wallachia, is known as a just ruler. With his beloved wife, Mirena (Sarah Gadon), Vlad has brokered a prolonged period of peace and ensured that his people are protected, especially from the Ottoman Empire.

However, when Sultan Mehmed II (Dominic Cooper) demands 1,000 of the country's boys, including Vlad's son, for his army....

Vlad makes a deal with a monster that will enable him to defeat the Turks --

BUT IT WILL COST HIM HIS HUMANITY.

HE WILL BECOME SOMEONE ELSE...

HE WILL BECOME SOMETHING ELSE...

IN ORDER TO PROTECT HIS FAMILY, HIS PEOPLE & HIS KINGDOM🏰

HE WILL BECOME 1 WITH THE NIGHT 🌙

& HAVE DOMINION OVER THE CREATURES OF THE NIGHT & THE ELEMENTS OF THE DARKNESS 🦇🌃🌙

IF HE CAN RESIST THE URGE FOR THE THRIST OF HUMAN BLOOD 🩸

HE WILL REVERT TO BECOMING A MORTAL ONCE AGAIN

IN 3 DAYS

BUT IF HE SO CHOOSES TO DRINK EVEN 1 OUNCE OF BLOOD 🩸

HIS SOUL BELONGS TO THE NIGHT 🌙

INSPIRED BY ACTUAL HISTORICAL FACTS & EVENTS IN THE REAL LIFE OF VLAD THE IMPALER

& MIXED IN WITH THE MAGIC OF SUPERNATURAL FANTASY

UNIVERSAL PICTURES PRESENTS

THE 1ST MOVIE OF THE DARK UNIVERSE 😈

& HOPEFULLY WILL HELP BRING IT BACK

&

THE PERFECT MOVIE 🎥 FOR THE HALLOWEEN 🎃 SEASON

WITNESS THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE MONSTER 👹, THE LEGEND

DRINK 🍸 & BECOME

DRACULA 🧛‍♂️

LUKE EVANS

IS

THE HISTORICAL FIGURE

VLAD THE IMPALER

IN

DRACULA 🧛‍♂️ UNTOLD 🩸

HAPPY 10TH ANNIVERSARY TO UNIVERSAL PICTURES

DRACULA 🧛‍♂️ UNTOLD 🩸

EVERY BLOODLINE 🩸 HAS A BEGINNING 🦇