Barely18,

That is a meaningless comments, as are many others of yours. To advance the conversation, some content is needed.

Well am I glad that my emotions are always quite stable.

Can you post the URL for this?

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It's in the original post?

Damn hormones.

EEK,

The link is to a press release from Univ of California - Irvine. I have not located the original study but the school is known for memory research and the lead researcher has done other work relationship between memory and sexual behaviour. Treat it as preliminary. The explanations are rational but it is still a small sample of self-selected individuals all near the same age. We shall see if it is replicated.

I'm sorry, allow me to rephrase that; I didn't mean to say my memory got worse, like Aphrodite says. The vague memory I refer to is remembering how things used to feel different before, but while on bcp I couldn't grasp no more what it was. I figured at the time it had something to do with growing up and such ;) Only when I quit bcp it became clear to me how I had been living life feeling as if I was wrapped up in plastic; unable to really feel and panicking over it. This extreme sudden change back to a person that was "me" in everything I felt, couldn't be explained otherwise. I think the way in which I can remember and recall knowledge isn't much different and certainly as good as it was. If it's different, I can't tell what caused it. Too many variables; a lot has changed today compared to then.

I take birth control pills and my memory is getting worse.I'm more of an emotional person any way so I really don't see the logic in this study.

I see what you mean Aphrodite. Personally; I was more emotional and more easily out of my center while I was on bcp. The moment I quit, it was like a certain peace and calm came over me that I hadn't felt in years (it had been a decade I was on the pill). A vague memory that suddenly became clear as glass. A vital presence of myself inside my body; hello world, this is me, free at last! :)

First thing that comes to my mind; average (perhaps you and I are not much average? ;)). Although there's not much average to speak of after only 1 study, off course.

Second; the influence of the cycle itself. Where in their natural cycle were these women? Our natural hormones do a lot more to us than just triggering ovulation and menstruation. The mere existence of PMS speaks volumes of how our cycle influences our emotions, physical well-being, mental well-being, etc. Where we are in our cycle could even influence how prone we are to go into certain brainwaves (not yet indisputably confirmed, takes more research to get there, but still).

I'm guessing this is not only a question of replicating, but also expanding and focusing. Comparing one to another could make us learn, but in such realms where not many have gone before, it also requires investigating the one and the other. There's a whole world of research ahead on this subject :)

There is nothing in this preliminary study to indicate that memory gets better or worse. It only indicates that with the passage of time, women on hormones tend to recall the emotional factors more clearly than the factual.

The researchers who started this are known for their work on human memory. They are simply following many paths that may affect the human ability to recall events. All the factors involved are not known. This could be considered a follow up on gender based memory studies. And Red is correct: this is not ready for replication but certainly gives a basis for expanding and focusing the study.

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I prefer to remember details that way I can review what happened and try not to fall into the same argument with people for example. That said I'm good at remembering details anyway, but maybe I have always been so because I don't use hormonal contraceptives.

Maybe your memory getting worse is actually linked to your taking BCP's?

Whereas I have always used BCPS and remember every damn thing, tyvm. Sorry, Red, but I've never felt 'wrapped in plastic' either.

As Brandye has said - not everything is yet known so it useless to extrapolate or conclude.

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So, there is an issue whether it does certain things to the formation of memory and then there is the on going issue of whether it impacts negatively on libido (what irony). Life really is a bitch ain't it? Would I be better retiring from life altogether?