I agree that it’s a pretty vast topic. I agree that the questions are personalized in the sense that there are many different personal factors to this question, although the bullets I listed weren’t actually really personalized to me. One hope I had with posting to LessWrong was that I trust people here to be able to do some of the “what’s most relevant to include” thinking, (e.g.: everything that affects ≥10% of women between 20 and 40 + everything that’s of more interest on LessWrong than elsewhere (e.g. irreversible contraception)) I agree it’s a tall order though.
For talking to my doctor: I found my experience of talking to doctors pretty frustrating to be honest. I think I’ve learned much more about contraception (including about where my doctors were misinformed) via the internet or friends than doctors. I don’t doubt that there are excellent doctors out there, but it’s difficult to find them. The advice with looking up people who wrote up medical guidelines seems solid.
That being said, while I’m interested in the topic myself, I was mostly thinking that it would be good for the LessWrong/EA community to have a reliable source. (I’m mostly constrained to hormonal contraception and have already tried out a couple, so my remaining search space is relatively small.) I think it could save lots of women many hours of research into which contraception to take + productivity loss from trying out or permanently choosing suboptimal contraception.
You prompted me to try out the D-Mannose, thanks! I’ve had it lying around, but was always to inert to research whether it actually works, so never bothered to take it.
Hi, thanks for this comment and the links.
I agree that it’s a pretty vast topic. I agree that the questions are personalized in the sense that there are many different personal factors to this question, although the bullets I listed weren’t actually really personalized to me. One hope I had with posting to LessWrong was that I trust people here to be able to do some of the “what’s most relevant to include” thinking, (e.g.: everything that affects ≥10% of women between 20 and 40 + everything that’s of more interest on LessWrong than elsewhere (e.g. irreversible contraception)) I agree it’s a tall order though.
For talking to my doctor: I found my experience of talking to doctors pretty frustrating to be honest. I think I’ve learned much more about contraception (including about where my doctors were misinformed) via the internet or friends than doctors. I don’t doubt that there are excellent doctors out there, but it’s difficult to find them. The advice with looking up people who wrote up medical guidelines seems solid.
That being said, while I’m interested in the topic myself, I was mostly thinking that it would be good for the LessWrong/EA community to have a reliable source. (I’m mostly constrained to hormonal contraception and have already tried out a couple, so my remaining search space is relatively small.) I think it could save lots of women many hours of research into which contraception to take + productivity loss from trying out or permanently choosing suboptimal contraception.
You prompted me to try out the D-Mannose, thanks! I’ve had it lying around, but was always to inert to research whether it actually works, so never bothered to take it.