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07 December 2009 @ 10:12 am

i went to the doctor today about the random discharge (dark maroonish (so blood) but mostly mucus-y/translucent and pretty copious compared to normal).

he couldn't think of anything it could be other than BV. so... he's putting me on antibiotics and sending out to see if i have an STD.

great. here comes a yeastie from hell...

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07 December 2009 @ 09:25 am

whereismyperiod.com

Hello again -

I have a few questions. I stopped taking my birth control pills after my period in October because I was expecting to get an IUD. In November, my body felt a little wonky but I ended up getting a full blown period that lasted a quite a few days - even longer than I expected. This month, however, my period is mysteriously MIA. I have been sexually active but using a condom successfully for each time (which has been about 3-4 times). Last week I was experiencing cramps like I was going to get my period, so I was expecting it to come. However, it stil hasn't. I was about due yesterday or saturday. Yesterday, I took a home pregnancy test with a negative result, which was relieving, but it still doesn't answer the question of where is my period?

i do have some stuff coming out of me - its very very very light and kind of a light light brown color. i hsve a pad on and thats the only way i can tell. its not even enough to warrant a pad.

I have been stressed lately (finals, graduate school applications, impending graduation ugh school), but I have not missed a period before IN MY LIFE. Could this just be a result of coming off of the pill?

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07 December 2009 @ 02:54 am

IUD

Greeting fellow BP-ers!

Okay, I am sure there is a post somewhere here containing the info that I need, but I am in a hurry at the moment, so I hope no one minds if I just make a new post.

Anyway, I recently went off HBC because it was messing (annihilating) my sex drive. I am going to go back on it for the time being though because my husband and I really enjoy having condom-less sex. I was wondering about how my the IUD's(non hormonal) run and if one could get one at, say, a planned parent hood. Also any information/advice would be greatly appreciated. I am a menstrual cup user and I have never given birth. Also, what are some of your personal experiences with them?

Thank you in advance!

D

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06 December 2009 @ 10:48 pm

It only burns when we have sex!

So for quite some time now I have been having an issue with a burning feeling during sex. Usually right on penetration and all the way through sex. After we are done, the burning stops immediately until I urinate. Then its intense burning.

I had told my doctor about the after burning (because at the time that was the only problem) and she suggested using more lube. We took that route and lots of lube does not make a difference.

I am currently on the Depo Provera shot (the first one and I don't plan to get anymore shots of it) I used to be on the pill (Lutera)

I have no signs of a Yeast Infection. Or anything else that should raise a red flag for me.

This burning that I am experiencing is really causing a strain on my marriage because we are unable to have sex. It's horrible because we are newlyweds too.

Any suggestions would be beyond amazing for me.

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07 December 2009 @ 01:21 am

HBC Causing Anxiety Attacks?

Hey VP saviors!

This is my first time posting and I'm in need of some advise. I'm 20 yrs old, been on the NuvaRing for 4 months, was on a HBC pill when I was 18 (I can't remember which one!) but only took it for 3 months. Throughout middle school and high school I would have 'mild' anxiety issues that were manageable by breathing or meditating but when I first started bc I began to have bad unmanageable anxiety attacks. I would wake up in the morning in a cold sweat and my heart was racing. I would be insanely overly sensitive, over think things and burst into tears when I was alone and it scared the hell out of me. I went back to my doctor and she put me on the lowest dose possible to hopefully curb these side effects. No such luck so I subsequently stopped taking the pill.

( About 6 months ago... )

Typing this all out makes me feel a lot better so I apologize for spewing my life story to you all. You all are just so amazing and I come here every day and learn something I've never known about my body before. I appreciate you all more than you'll ever know.

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07 December 2009 @ 01:07 am

Uterine spasms?

For the past 2 months I'd say, I've been having muscles spasms in my uterus or that is where it feels. My first thought was a baby kicking because its almost exactly how it felt at week 20 when I felt my daughter kicking..the fluttering feeling. I seriously doubt I'm pregnant. I've been on birth control since last February and I take it perfectly. I've never missed a period either. I'm wondering if this is a cause for concern?

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06 December 2009 @ 11:35 pm

Nuvaring, breakthrough bleeding, and St. John's Wort (and Paragard just for fun)

In the next week or so, I'm planning to hit my local student health office for a birth control prescription. I'm getting married next month and while my divacup has made my life so much easier, the thought of trying to empty and reinsert it while wearing a pouffy dress has me terrified. Hell, terrified isn't even the word. So I'm planning to stack some hormones and just skip the whole damn thing.

I've been debating whether to go the oral route or give Nuvaring a try so I decided to do a little reading on the Nuvaring website. There was a note that use of St. John's Wort can increase your chance of breakthrough bleeding. I knew it could decrease your protection, but my brain never clicked that anything that decreased your protection could also cause spotting due to the dip in hormone levels. Now I'm wondering just how common that is. I don't take St. John's on a regular basis, but I do use it on occasion when I'm going through a rough patch.

I've had a Paragard IUD since March 2007 so my hormonal protection can be compromised all it wants. I'm looking at this strictly for stacking purposes. Any thoughts? Or experiences with stacking Nuvarings period? Anecdotally, it almost seems like people experience more breakthrough bleeding with stacking the ring as compared to other methods, but maybe that could be alleviated if I stacked them after three weeks instead of four? (Since I'll only be using it for two months, I can eat the cost of a week less use time per ring.) The only thing I have any experience with stacking is the patch, but it makes me itchy and seeing it on my skin isn't a sight I enjoy.

Any thoughts? I'll also openly admit that I'm hopelessly lazy about daily pill taking which is another reason I'm looking at the ring. (And why I currently have the IUD--cause even the weekly patch was starting to ask a bit much of me.)

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06 December 2009 @ 10:25 pm

Hi everyone, just a quick question about discharge. Tonight I noticed what looked like little black strings in my normal vaginal discharge. Is that anything to be concerned about or just one of the many variations in discharge? Thanks!

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coley_ouellette

06 December 2009 @ 07:17 pm

Weird discharge, normal?

Help me out Vag Pag... The other day I noticed a dischagre from my vagina that looked as if I sneezed on my finger, it looks like snot. The day before the discharge happened, or at least I noticed, I had bled a tiny bit. Is this nromal?

Info that may help or might be further help in my "is this normal or not" question: My last period was a week early and it started out a bright orange color and returned to a normal period blood color a few hours later. I also expierenced a different kind of cramping which almost felt like a burning pain. At the time I was weight lifting so that could have caused the weird cramps, not sure. But, I've never had spotting between periods before and I know that is normal but I just thought I'd ask with the discharge happening an all.

Thanks for any help in advance.

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lowexpectations

06 December 2009 @ 06:15 pm

hair removal question - silk'n product

i saw a commercial for Silk'n hair removal product.

http://www.silkn.com/

Basically its pulsed light. from what ive gathered it sort of burns the hair off, or something like that. im not really sure because the videos and stuff on their web site seems sort of vague.
its like $600 USD so not exactly cheap where id buy it to just give it a go and no big deal if it doesnt work.

im a little concerned with the safety issues, but the site refers me to their booklet, which comes with the product. anyway, skin safety concerns aside, the product can be used on the under arms, arms, legs, and "bikini line"

if i were to get this id not want to use it just on the line of my bikini area. id want to use it on my mons pubis and outer labia.

so my questions are:
1. has anyone ever used this product anywhere, and has it really worked?
sub question: have you ever used it on your mons pubis/labia for hair removal, and did it work out alright, or where there complications because the skin is more sensitive down there?

2. does anyone have any ideas as to if there would be more health concerns with the area getting so much light, since it never does otherwise?
(im a little fuzzy on this, but im under the impression that you must apply sunscreen before giving yourself a "treatment." that being said, is it safe to be rubbing sunscreen down there? is there a special sunscreen people use for tanning booths, or for sensitive skin? i dont know what all is in sunscreen, but if anyone has used sunscreen down there please let me know.)

thanks!!!

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06 December 2009 @ 05:56 pm

Gyno question / orgasm inquiry

Hello everyone! First time poster here....

I have 2 questions I wanted to raise just to get some opinions/insight...

1) I've been to the gyno once before and have scheduled an appointment for December. It didn't even occur to me until after the appointment was made that I may be on my period on the day scheduled. I'm not completely certain though because my period's irregular (hoping to get on birth control for that after this visit)... do you think I should reschedule for a day that I know for sure I won't be on my period? I imagine that could get pretty awkward in the doctor's office...

2) I've recently begun doing more sexual things with a guy for the first time. We haven't slept together ('m a virgin) but we've done everything else, oral and otherwise. I've noticed that when he's fingering me or going down on me, my clit gets super sensitive right before I orgasm. I have to pull away from him and I know he didn't understand why I did it. It gets to intense to the point of almost painful. Is this a normal reaction? I also notice it whenever I masturbate on my own... I know when to stop touching it. The feeling only lasts about a minute or so... is there any way to have my clit not be as sensitive?

Thanks for any help you guys can give me!!

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cacophonicpulse

06 December 2009 @ 05:36 pm

why must a woman's orgasm be so complicated?

I feel the need to vent.

I just recently mastered the art of reaching orgasm while having sex. As some of you can imagine, I'm freakin' thrilled. It took me ten years to figure it out, so it's about time! However, I pretty much have to go through the same motions, stay in the same position, and repeat the routine step-by-step in order to get there. It works every time, but it takes so much of the fun and spontaneity out of sex. There's no variety and it's getting repetitive. I've tried switching it up or sacrificing my orgasm to do something different, but I'm left feeling unsatisfied. I never minded sex without an orgasm before and I do now that I know it's possible if I want it.

Ugh.

I'm gradually training myself so that the same strategy works in different positions, but it's really making sex feel more like work rather than play. It's frustrating.

Can anyone else relate?

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06 December 2009 @ 04:59 pm

Hey everyone - So, I'm seeing a new guy whom I've yet to sleep with. I've had HPV for a little over a year - not the strain that causes warts, it's a possible cancerous strain. I'm debating whether or not to tell the guy I'm seeing. I'm a very honest person, which is why I think I should, but a part of me is afraid he'll re-act badly because so many men [in my experiences] know so little about the STI. I've also been told by many girl friends that it's not an issue worth telling and that some have even been advised by their doctors that they don't necessarily have to tell their future sexual partners.

What's everyone's opinions here?

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06 December 2009 @ 07:39 am

bleeding duration, after stillborn delivery

on november 22, i gave birth to a stillborn baby. i was totally surprised by the pregnancy. my periods have never been 'regular', i'm 40 and have had only one pregnancy before this,17 yrs ago. also, i had intermidt bleeding over the 5 months, enough to make me dismiss the indications of pregnancy. since the delivery/miscarriage, i'm unsure what to call it, i have been bleeding. i know that some light bleeding is normal after a DNC, or a birth, and that's how it started. painless and light flowing. but the past couple of days, the blood seems to have increased instead of coming to a stop. it's blackish, and it has small clots at times. i guess it's all over the place. my question is this: has anyone had a simular experience, in which they can give me some kind of idea of where i should be, recovery wise? i'm not having sex, by the way. just thought i'd add that. thanks!

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06 December 2009 @ 03:22 am

vag smells disappear when I shower?

Okay, so whenever I don't shower for a day or so my vagina smells pretty....gross.
I can't really describe the smell--it's very acidic, and kind of...like a weird italian dressing?
LMAO. Disgusting I know, but according to my gyno there is nothing wrong with me.
[A few months ago though, my gyno said I had bacteria in my bladder which caused my clit to smell in the process]

Anyhow--whenever I shower and wash my vulva [with Dial soap] the smell afterwards is just the normal, musky vagina scent.
(1)Is this how everyone is? If you don't shower for a day or so the smell is bad/worse than if you had?

p.s. I know washing your genitals with soapish stuff in general is bad for the PH of your vagina, but I've never had problems with it.

Oh and what's even weirder is that my boyfriend says (2) my nipples taste like my vagina! WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT? And it's true, I've kissed him after he's had my vag and nipples in his mouth and they're the same taste! What is wrong with my nipples?? Oh, and they usually taste like my bad vag smell, even if my vag smells normal. WEIRD.

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06 December 2009 @ 02:40 am

Plan b side effects - long term?

Hey guys. Lately I've been feeling.. very anxious and rather depressed. It's been more of a really happy, really sad, or I'm feeling nothing at all. It's been kind of a long term thing, off and on since last.. March. Lately it's been pretty consistent, and I'm really not digging feeling like this all the time because it's starting to worry my husband who is currently deployed and unable to do anything - he is not liking me being alone at all right now.. I'm not on any kind of HBC - but I was wondering, I did have two accidents earlier this year and ended up taking Plan B - Once in March, and once in May. Unfortunately I think I may have taken one in April as well but I can't remember because everything was so hectic then and I can't remember. I know Plan B is basically a massive amount of hormones (I really don't know much about it.. lol) and I was wondering if it's possible they threw off my balance so badly that I'm still feeling side effects? I never had this problem before March, ever, but I can definitely remember having problems since then.. And at the moment I'm not terribly alone, I'm with family in FL until my husband comes home.. so I was just wondering if it's possible?

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05 December 2009 @ 08:58 pm

started pack early by accident :( !!!

Today I was supposed to take my last Saturday peach pill.. instead i absentmindedly started a next pack and took the first Sunday pill.
Should i just discontinue use of the new pack i started and wait until my next period to start fresh? Or should i continue the new pack although i started a new pack.

edit: if i do continue to take my active pills from the new accident pack do i just add on an extra fake day with no pill to make up for the previous months missed day?

Sorry about the stupid questions, its just this has never happened to me before (ive been on the pill for about 7/8 months ;_;)

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miss__artichoke

05 December 2009 @ 08:54 pm

Cipro and Tendons

So yesterday I got hit pretty hard with a kidney infection. All of a sudden around 5pm I had to pee and the feeling never went away. I was sobbing from the pain by 8am so I caved in and went to the part of the ER reserved for people with mild problems. The doctor was an ass. He smacked me in the back to check my kidneys with no warning which caused me to burst into tears (and he didn't apologize, just acted upset because I was interrupting his speech). He tried to tell me I had no blood in my urine (when I clearly did, he eventually looked back over the test results and admitted his mistake) and tried to prescribe me Codeine which I'm horribly allergic to (and got upset when I told him my allergies, AGAIN). I ended up going home with Cipro and that bladder/kidney numbing stuff that turns your pee a fun neon orange.

I took my first dose at 1pm and tried to nap. I woke up with an ache behind my right ankle. Apparently ruptured tendons are a nifty side effect of Cipro. My entire right leg is pretty stiff and achy. I finished a dose of steroids for some asthma related problems last week, which, from what I read ups your risk. So I'm wondering at what point do I become concerned? What signs should I look for? I could have slept weird, too. I just want to treat things as soon as I can, I've had to deal with too much lately.

Also, shot in the dark, but has anyone with gastroparesis found a way to lessen the burping up medicine taste? The Cipro went down okay but for the longest time I was burping up my lunch and the most awful medicine taste. It doesn't help that I'm extra nauseous from the infection. :T

Sorry this isn't strictly vag related.

Thanks everyone!

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05 December 2009 @ 08:51 pm

Very strange vulvar pain, freaking out a little.

I posted the other day about a possible UTI, but something else is happening... and I have no clue what it is. I woke up this morning, and my whole vulva was... aching. Not a burning or stinging pain, or itch, but this heavy intense ache. I get a similar pain on my period sometimes, and it feels like my vulva's trying to fall off... it would happen if I were standing for a long period of time, and sitting down would make it feel better immediately. But what I have now is different. It hurts BADLY and it's constant, no matter what I'm doing: sitting, standing, lying down, whatever. It feels somewhat better when I put pressure on it with my hand or something, though the initial moment of the touch hurts. Through the day it has been getting worse and worse, and has spread to my anus and even as far as about halfway up my butt cheeks. When I go to the bathroom I still have the UTI pain during urination, but now the ache in my vulva gets worse then, too. Throughout the day, I've had moments of sharp pain on small spots of my vulva, but they don't last very long. There is no redness or anything, no irritation, but my labia majora are slightly swollen, the same way they look after I've had sex. Ice seems to dull the pain slightly, and I spent about an hour in a hot bathtub, which felt somewhat better, but the ache came back as soon as I left the tub.

Does anyone have any idea what could be happening right now? I'm freaking out a little bit, and I can't find anything that suggests similar symptoms.

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05 December 2009 @ 07:42 pm

[Ack! No subject.]

Anyone have tips for dry/chafing labia minora? It's driving me crazy.

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05 December 2009 @ 04:53 pm

Green tea and menstraul cycle; cycle irregularity

Has anyone had experience with green tea affecting hormones and/or menstrual cycles? I ask this because my cycle is way out of whack for the last month.
( Details about cycle, etc. )

With no other lifestyle change, what could precipitate such a change in my cycle? Basically, what should I pursue next or ask my doctors to pursue?

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05 December 2009 @ 11:07 pm

Irregular Period.

Is there anything that will just let me get my period straight away???

What would a gynecologist do if I made an appointment with one? I keep missing my period every other month and it's driving me nuts.

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05 December 2009 @ 02:34 pm

Two periods a month

Hi everyone,

I'm 19 years old, I got my period when I was 11, and up until I was about 17, they were pretty irregular. Then for a full year from 17-18, they became perfectly regular. But now this is the third month in a row in which I've gotten two periods, about one every two weeks. I think it may be due to too much estrogen from soy - I became a vegetarian/mostly vegan last year and started eating way too much of it. Do you think that could be responsible for my extra periods? I know I really need to go to the doctor, but I've never been, and I'm dreading it... I was hoping I could just make this go away on my own by decreasing how much tofu and tempeh I eat, but now here I am again with another period. Also, they're now coming more clotty than they used to, which has me alarmed.

Again, I know I need to go to the doctor, but do you have any ideas on what it could be?

Thanks for any help.
-M

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beccalicious_xo

05 December 2009 @ 12:40 pm

Bleeding after sex?

Hey all,

Last night my boyfriend and I went to his Christmas party, of which his boss pays for a hotel room for everyone. We made the best of the free hotel room prior to the Christmas party, to say the least. We started having sex without a condom, but once we got "into" it, he put one on. Once he put one on, it did get a little more rough, but not as rough as I've had it before.

When he pulled out, there was blood on the condom - and I thought no big deal, right?

So we finish, I get dressed,, and we go to the Christmas party. Now, imagine you're on your period wearing a pad and you feel the blood pass. That's what I felt. So, I excused myself and went to the bathroom to find my underwear covered in blood like I had a period. I freaked out as I didn't have a pad/tampon with me and wiped it off as best I could and made a makeshift toilet paper "pad" until we went back up to the room. I told him and he quick googled it on his blackberry, but every response we got there was "STI STI STI STI STI!!!" which I know that neither of us have.

We went back up to the room and no further sexual activity happened as to not enhance the bleeding. I woke up this morning and there was only a small spot of blood on my underwear.

Is this "normal"? Is it possible he just tore me? Or...? At first I thought it might be my period coming early, but I am on the pill (LoEstrin 21, if it matters), so I doubt that would happen. There was no cramping / pain.

Thank you guys, you rock :)
~B

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05 December 2009 @ 10:59 am

First time poster...

Greetings,

I am a 29 year old female who is on the birth control pill Ocella. I would say I have sex 5 times a week (sometimes 7, yes...he is a horny man and likes me to relieve him at least once a day!) with my boyfriend of over 2 years! I will admit I am not skinny, but obese...I wish I could lose this weight! My problem, I have been on Ocella for well over a year, at 1st I was on Yaz but Medicaid wouldn't cover it and I have not missed a pill!! Recently, when I have been taking the pills for the week my period is suppose to begin, my period has becoming later and later. Well, this time...my period has not come at all and I start my new pack tomorrow...:\

I am bi-polar and suffer from depression, I am currently on generic Welbutrin for this and maybe 6 months ago the dose was increased! I have to be on a low dose birth control pill otherwise I end up in an evil manic state! Threw most of November I was so darn depressed I could barely function! I have finally snapped out of it, but my appetite is in the toilet! I normally love food and clean my plate, one reason why I am plump but recently...well, I have not really wanted to eat! My main concern is that I maybe pregnant. I don't want to be, financially...I can't afford a kid for I am on disability and I also inherited my mental illness which I do not want to pass on to a child!

Some other history:

Before I met Rodney, I was having some issues with my "monthly visitor!" From the beginning my period often skipped a month here and there. Then about 3 years ago I would bleed for almost a whole month, spotting at times and heavy at other times! My periods were so heavy that I would have to wear 2 pads and in less then an hour I would bleed threw! My GYN put me threw a serious of tests which showed nothing. I had a couple options, birth control pills for one or my GYN could go in and scrap the lining of my uterus and while in there he would use a small camera to look around! At that time I was not with anyone...and about to dry up from the lack of sex, so I decided the surgery route! Well, my insurance said..."heck no," for though my GYN took my insurance the hospital he would have done the surgery at didn't! At that time I met Rodney and went on the birth control pill!

Since being on the pill, I have been suffering from severe Vaginal dryness! I was sent to a specialist about this that sat there and called me fat and told me to lose weight! He accused me of snacking on potato chips, which I hate to say it...I rarely snack and I can't recall the last time I had a potato chip! My GYN apologized left and right for the nasty way the specialist treated me, but it was not his fault!

My Mom - After having me started to develop cysts on her ovaries! The doctor kept removing them only for them to come back bigger and bigger...she had to be spayed in the end, thus I ended up being an only child! My Mom was much younger then me when all this happened! There is no other family history that I know of...

Thanks for you time, and sorry for my ramblings...but I am truly worried!

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05 December 2009 @ 08:31 am

Owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

So
I am 18, lost my virginity almost a year ago, and I have sex fairly regularly now (1-2 times a week) with my monogamous partner. He has had previous partners and has been tested for infection, but the test came up negative. (I was tested recently too, it came up negative)
When we first started having sex, it hurt reallllly bad. Even with lube, lots of lube. KY.
I went to the gyno to ask about this, she examined me and said everything was fine, I just need better lube, so she suggested I get Astroglide. I did, and it works better than KY.

But it hurts like the searing pain of a thousand hells every time he enters me!
While he is in, it isn't so bad, but the initial entering is TERRIBLE. Every time. And I feel so bad for wincing because he obviously doesn't like to see me in pain. Still using Astroglide, so things are a little bit less painful, but still really painful.

I found out I had a latex allergy a few months back, and went on the pill. Now we do it condomless (I take my Yasmin religiously). I could understand if the pain occured after he ejaculated (isn't sperm a base?), but it is just the initial entrance now..

Has anyone else experienced this? Any hints or tips?

[And no, he doesn't have a huge terrifying penis! It's not small, but it's not a foot long or anything either]

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05 December 2009 @ 01:24 pm

Hi everyone!

I won't go into the backstory, but I used to have very heavy periods. I've been on Depo-Provera for seven years, where I had no periods at all.
I have now stopped the hormonal BC completely.
I was due to have an implant by the 25th Nov (12th week after my last Depo), but for medical reasons, the decision has been made to stop all hormones.

Having been on Depo for so long, it could be months and months before my periods come back. I'm getting prepared for them - buying in tampons, getting a mooncup, getting heavier cloth pads, etc.
So that's all fine, and I think I'm ok in terms of preparation and knowing what I'll need.

Last night though I had pain really far down my tummy, right in the middle, just above the bikini line.
Now... I've not had periods, or any kind of associated pain, for seven whole years.
I can't even remember what it was like. (I have memory issues, and I'm on morphine, so my memory is very fuzzy, and trying to remember what a specific type of pain was from over 7 yrs ago... not happening).

I do have bowel problems, and I get pain in the middle of my tummy, but it's normally an inch or two above where it was.
Also, my bowels were just fine last night. If I'm having bowel issues, I'll notice it... mostly by being on the loo all the time!
It didn't feel like the bowel issues pain either.

My question is... how do I tell if I'm getting uterus / women type pains?
I cannot remember what it all felt like at all.

I know I don't remember having had this pain type at all recently..
It was really, really painful, but only lasted a short time, fortunately. Though I had taken morphine, and tramadol, which is likely to knock a lot of pain on the head.

Also, if it is womany type pain... is this just my uterus getting used to no hormones? Changing with lack of hormones?
All the info I've read about coming off Depo, it's highly likely I won't get my period for around 6 months, but it could be anywhere up to 18 months because I was on it for so long.
Of course, it could also be tomorrow...

I doubt this is pain heralding a period though.
I used to get terrible cramps and diarrhea starting the day before my period, and lasting throughout.

Oh also, since I'm here... on the coming off depo and starting periods again.... will they just start as they left off? So really heavy, horrible diarrhea, ickiness?
Or will they kind of settle in slowly again? (Though I've heard terribly scary things about people bleeding for months on end after depo....)
Any information would be very gratefully received.

Thanks!
And if I've got typos, or questions are a bit badly worded... I'm sorry. I'm very morphine'd up!

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05 December 2009 @ 01:55 pm

So, I gave birth 5 months ago and had an episiotomy. The scar is really funny looking, it's an indentation that ends in a depression about the size of the tip of my pinky. It was a bilateral cut, so the scar goes off to the side. Sex is painful, too painful to acually have penetrative intercourse, but it seems this usually resolves after 1 year. I can orgasm from clitoral stimulation, and the scar doesn't hurt then. I can't find pictures of post-cut vaginas, so I don't know if this scar is normal. Should I go to the doctor about this? Nothing was said about it at my 6 week post partum check-up. I am doing kegels, but they haven't helped the pain.

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05 December 2009 @ 01:54 am

questions: butt yeasties? bad doctors and yeastgard.

1. this is not about vaginas specifically, but a part very close... my roommate and i have both been having itchy buttcrack syndrome lately and it's driving us nuts (we're both women). i've heard it's possible to get an external yeast infection there - but would that be possible without it spreading to the vulva? it seems unlikely...
if that's a no, then what could be causing this? we're both STD-free. is it possible that inside air conditioning almost constantly is, well, causing drying and then moisture issues? kinda like mild diaper rash?
i'm in college and i'm posting about having diaper rash. i think i just hit the wierdness nadir.

2. some background: my roomie went to her doctor this summer for a checkup and to be put on birth control. the doctor did no pregnancy test before prescribing (although my roomie clearly said that she was sexually active) nor did she ask if she was using other protection (to rule out the need for a pregnancy test).
although, again, my roomie is sexually active and has had problems for years with extremely irregular periods (which she also mentioned), the doc didn't say anything about a pelvic or STD tests, and didn't even perform a urine culture (i realize none are strictly necessary but it seems like something a doctor would suggest in the situation?) today, she (roomie, not doctor) finally took the prescription in so she could get on birth control.
the doctor didn't even write the prescription correctly - she just put "loestrin" and the standard part about one per month for however many months. there are, according to the pharmacy, five different types of loestrin.
am i alone in thinking this is a pretty crappy doctor? after this, which was the last straw in the situation, she's getting a new one, but i'm still just kinda shocked that a doctor would mess up a prescription that badly, on top of showing no interest in someone's health.

3. the discharge i mentioned in my last post is still here. it's starting to become annoying because i'm running out of underwear and don't want to do laundry... but that's an aside. i'm probably going to start using tampons tomorrow.
anyway, at the pharmacy today, thinking it might help (and certainly couldn't hurt), i grabbed a box of Yeastgard probiotic suppositories. has anyone used these? good/bad results? i'm hoping i haven't wasted money on snake oil.

thanks!

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05 December 2009 @ 12:09 am

Why is it normal to sometimes have diarrhea while on your period? How avoidable is it?

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