Help getting blood stains out.

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

Hey. I'm hoping this it on topic.. since we all know what the stains are from. I know that sun will take out poop stains in diapers.. will it work on blood? Most of the undies in question are white but some are colored. I've tried stain removers and bleach, but those only helped minimally. I've never liked stains, but now it's even more embarassing as our laundry machines have broken and for the time being we're doing laundry at the Laundromat or at my IL's house.

Thanks!

Inducing periods

[xcrimsonxfearx.livejournal.com]

Ok, I'm not sure if this is the place for this question but someone suggested this place. If there is a more appropriate community please let me know. Now for the question...


Ok, I was thinking about my own situation of not having my period 20 months Post Partum, and all the shitty tests and stuff i've had to do this past month and now talking about inducing a period from some pill i believe.

I was wondering if anyone else has been through this situation of not getting a period LONG after your child's 1st year and breastfeeding past 18mos...?
What have you done in this situation? Did you let your period come whenever or did you induce it?

I am wondering if there is any side affects to inducing a period, I don't want to stop breastfeeding my son but the doctor doesn't want me going 3yrs with no period and my husband and I want another child soon.
any advice would be greatly appreciated....

Like I said if this is the wrong community for this question, let me know (hopefully with the right community for it lol) and i shall move it there ;-)

Thanks for any help :-)

Planned Parenthood donations

[mollydwyer.livejournal.com]

So, for the past few months I have been having issues with my vag and I finally made an appointment at PP to get it looked at. I know I have some sort of infection. Okay so my appointment is this afternoon and I called this morning to see how much the exam would be, since I have practically no money right now. Last time I went there they asked for a donation and I paid about $60. The woman on the phone told me since the exam is $260 they "will be expecting a LARGE donation." I have at most $10 to my name right now. I'm afraid to go in and give just that but I can't give any more and I really need to get myself looked at BADLY. I'm afraid that woman will be there and yell at me or something, even though that sounds really stupid. So.. should I go in and explain the situation to the person at the desk before my appointment and make sure it's fine? I really don't want to cancel the appointment but I don't want to look ungrateful either for the services.

My other question is.. if I do have some sort of infection,
1. how soon will they be able to tell me?
2. do they give you a prescription? I'm assuming they don't give you the medicine or whatever at the PP?

Basically, if I go in and they find out what's wrong and I do have an infection (I think it might be BV) and I only have this $10 will I be alright? I'm getting a check sometime in the next few days so I can pay for a prescription..

A second opinion? PID or HBC adjustments?

[cherylee7110.livejournal.com]

Just yesterday I posted here: http://community.livejournal.com/vaginapagina/9526233.html

And an update...

I went in to have my doctor check out the pain. When I was getting undressed, I noticed that I had suddenly started bleeding! It was pretty badly too. It was period-like but it's not time for my period! It just ended!

I brought this up to her before she examined me. She pressed on my lower abdomen and it hurt like a bitch. It was more when she pressed in versus when she let go. The pain is more right under my belly button and about a palm sized area on my right lower abdomen. When she tried to use the speculum, I cried. She wasn't even able to lock it open because of the pain. She said there was quite a bit of bleeding so she stopped.

She constituted all of this pain and bleeding to my birth control! She said that I'm in pain because I'm having breakthrough bleeding. I've been on three type of birth control since last May and I have NEVER experienced this kind of pain OR ANY breakthrough bleeding/spotting. I'm on Trivora-28 and she says that my body is trying to adjust to the different hormone levels in each of my pills. I'm supposed to wait it out for two more pill packs and see if this keeps happening.

I'm not a doctor in any way but... this isn't my normal period pain. Maybe I'm just overreacting because I just recently had PID and I'm worried about my fertility. This pressure is constant. I can feel that something isn't right. It's not painful unless there is pressure applied to my lower stomach (ex: sitting down, standing up from sitting down, bending over, standing back up from bending over, pushing up against the counter when I'm doing dishes, pushing up against the windowsill while handing out food though the drive-thru... etc.). I'm not saying that I think my doctor is lying to me. I think she's wonderful but I'm just scared that she missed something.

Should I wait this out like she said or get a second opinion? I'm so stressed out and for the past month, I've been in some sort of reproductive-area pain. I just want to feel normal again!

I'm sad.

random itching?

[goth-kittykat.livejournal.com]

hi all.  i have a question to ask regarding itching obviously.lol, i've had some problems with itching before. it was where your hair grows(i don't know what that's called, i think it's mons pubs) and i went in to get it checked before because it was accompained with some muscous and i was told i had a yeast infection. i got the pills and took them and things were fine.

now recently(as in this month it started) my vagina(i know vagina is internal but i dont' know what else to call our reproductive area in general terms besides that) is itching..it's weird because usually it'll be toatlly fine..but then randomly it'll start to itch where the labia majora(the outside lips) are..and when i scratch it it doesn't really start. i don't shave my hair but when i move it aside i see nothing that is red or looking iritaed. sometimes it also itches on the mons pub area which is right above the line that leads to the clit. and weirdly enough sometimes the itching is triggered when i get aroused(but not when i'm playing with myself). any suggestions on what this could be? i'm a virgin but i've had vibrators and my ex's fingers around that area, but besides my own those are the only two things that have been around there. i haven't gotten tested for anything because i don't think you need to get tested if you've gotten fingered by someone else. should i see someone about this? i don't have a gyno and i live on a school campus, they have a day they have women come in to examine some womens issues but their really limited.

on another note, i found this website that i think is really wonderful. you can freely donate tampons and pads to women in shelters by following instructions on this website:
http://www.tampontification.com/donate.php

i thought itwas good information to pass onto a group like this.

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[atomicsparkle.livejournal.com]

Is there anyway way to stop a period or cut it short?

First time pill user problem

[peeping-angel.livejournal.com]

Hi, I was refered here from another comm (medical_qs ). Just wondering if any one could give me any advice on this little situation and help my paranoia!

I've been on Microgynon 30 for one month now and have experienced what seems to be excessive breakthrough bleeding every day (compared to the light amount that most people say is to be expected). But I hear this isnt THAT unusual so I haven't concerned my self too much by it. However, after my 21 days I followed the rules and am on my 7 day break and my period seems alot more excessive than it usually is when I wasnt on the pill and I have had alot more stomach cramps. Is this normal when you start using the pill or do you think I need to change to another brand? I dont really want to go to the doctor early and him just tell me to wait and see what happens as this is a waste of his and my time!

Any help would be greatly appriciated please =)

HPV Virus

[design-girl-00.livejournal.com]

I live in the United States, and there is an epidemic here of the HPV virus (more in certain areas of the country). There are over 100 different types of this virus. Some can cause cervical cancer, some can cause genital warts, and some will never really be anything at all during your life. Well, this past week I had a colposcopy to check my  "abnormal" results from my last pap smear, and she said that I have the HPV virus, but nothing appears abnormal at all, and it should be nothing to worry about. Very common she said. Hmmm...I am a "worrier" and I just hate knowing I have it. She said it's not pre-cancerous and it's not warts, so she said not to worry. She asked me "Do you worry about the freckles on your face?" I said..."well, not particularly." The point she was trying to make was that I don't worry about my freckles turning to cancer, so this is like the same thing, and not to worry about it. 

For me, I have an issue with accepting that I have it. That it's okay, as the gyno said. I don't even notice that I have it. Absoulutely no change physically or sensually. But just to know I have it is a lot on my mind. My question is: Does anyone else have HPV and feel comfortable telling me about your experience or diagnosis with it? I feel uneasy not knowing which type (out of the 100+ types) that I have...do you? Do you know which type you have? Also, if anyone knows anything that might help me accept this new part of me, so that I don't feel afraid to have sex again with a new partner. Currently I am not sexually active with a partner, but when that time comes, I don't want to feel hesitation or insecurity. Help?

Gardasil fear?

[xhiddenx.livejournal.com]

Am I the only person afraid to get the Gardasil injection?
I'm not afraid of needles or anything like that but it scares me that it just came out. I keep thinking back to my abnormal psych. class when my teacher said, "When any medication comes out they force it onto as many people as will take it to gather further studies so it's best to wait awhile and see if any side effects come up later from it like paxil did."
And I keep thinking, "Okay, this stuff just came out...what if I wind up sterile or something?!"
I know I'm being overly paranoid but does ANYONE else feel this way?
I want to take the shot because I don't want HPV and I know it helps prevent some of the viruses...but then I'm hung up on it being new.
Hmm...

frustratration with spotting/periods/getting off hbc

[br0ken_dolly]

okay, background info:

i was on otc-lo for years. eventually it stopped being the best option for me for bc, and i went though the essure sterilization procedure. right beforehand, i got a depo shot so i'd have bc that wasn't the pill while i waited for the essure to do it's thing. (3-6 mos following the procedure before i would be sterile.) this was about june/july. so three months later, or early september, when the shot wore off, i spotted for a couple weeks. (very light spotting, enough to be annoying as hell for my sex life.) getting a second depo shot wasn't an option since i didn't like those side effects, either. anyhow, i was so annoyed with the spotting that i went back on otc-lo for one month (i had some refills, and i just wanted to stop spotting for my birthday in mid-september). mid-october or so, i had typical withdrawl bleeding from the otc-lo. it lasted a couple weeks, stopped for a few days, started again.

i was spot-free for a little while (couple weeks tops, sometime in december, i think). two weeks ago, i had what i figured was a real period. it lasted about 6 days, annoyed me, but stopped.

on tuesday i started spotting again, for about 8 hours, very light, and i had this stabby crampy pain. i finally whipped out a calendar to mark stuff down, and this was 2weeks to the day from when i started what i figured was my period. so, i figure it's ovulation pain (i used to have that as a teenager, so i figure i'll be having it again because of the timing), and spotting from that, and from what i understand, that lasts 24hrs tops. no spotting in the evening or night, but mid-morning yesterday, i spotted again. nothing in the evening/night, but today i spotted MORE, and most of the day. it's almost... drippy (ew) rather than a pink discharge or previous periods, and bright red. i guess 48hrs is technically up *now*, but would i really bleed that much (and bright red that falls in the toilet?) when ovulating? i can't figure it out, and the info i've found doesn't make a heck of a lot of sense.

am i still adjusting to the lack of hormones? it seems like a long time, and it's so annoying and unpredictable, i'm frustrated and irritated. and it's been so long since i've ovulated for real (plus i was never regular that i can remember), i don't have a clue what to expect or comprehend. ugh. so frustrating!

any clues? anything's appreciated. thanks :/

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[hydrocarbons.livejournal.com]

i'm looking for an image to show a friend, and figured someone here can help.

i remember it was from a russian website, and it was about different types of vaginas/labia. anyone know what i'm talking about, or where it was?

thanks in advance

SKIN TAGS from shaving?...is the gyno SURE they aren't warts??

[design-girl-00.livejournal.com]

While I received great information on HPV in my post below, I was asking for more personal experiences and any suggestions as to how I can learn acceptance of it. I have done extensive research on it, and know what it is, the different types, etc. etc. but I have moderate OCD and can't help but wonder if the gyno made a mistake telling me that my HPV isn't something to worry about. Here's the reason why: At my last regular annual checkup pap smear, I spoke with my gynecologist to ask her about something. I thought I might have HPV...the kind that causes warts. I won't even get into how I feel about that! 

But anyway, Do any of you women SHAVE pretty much everything in your pubic and anal regions? I cannot stand hair down there for the most part, mostly b/c I'm OCD and it's just something that bothers me, and so I used to shave everything. Pretty much a do-it-yourself brazilian bikini wax. Well, I thought I might have a wart near my anal opening, but after much personal examination, wasn't convinced. At the pap smear I asked my gyno to look at it, and to see if it was HPV. She said that I had skin tags from shaving. SKIN TAGS....It just makes me wonder if these skin tags aren't warts. they have now gone away, and so it scares me that maybe they were warts from HPV and have now gone away for a while, and may come back. I am probably just worrying too much and not trusing the doctor, but...

Does anyone Shave EVERYTHING down there and has anyone ever gotten SKIN TAGS as well? If so, did yours go away or stay there....can you tell me about your experience? Please, respond with only answers to either of these two questions in the form of opinions or personal experiences, as I have done informational research already. Thanks!

ovulation bleeding pt. II

[xdancethemawayx.livejournal.com]

so yesterday i posted about possible ovulation bleeding, but i have more concerns (cuz i'm that kind of gal). today at school my spotting turned into gooping up my panties something fierce

( maybe TMI )

so, my plan was to start taking my pill on the first sunday of my period, like my RN said, but i'm wondering if this IS my period. ugh. my body is not liking me right now.

thanks all.

kind of freaking out here...

[birdwingbones.livejournal.com]

so, i'm totally going nuts worrying here, and i need some advice/support.

lately i've been really itchy in the vaginal area... not the usually in the vagina itself, but around that spot where the lips meet the leg... very very high inner thigh.  it's pink, but gets irritated when i itch (which obviously doesn't help, but i'm a big wimp).  there's also a smell, totally not described as fishy, just bad when i get out of the shower.  otherwise, it's pretty normal.  i've never had sex and i don't shave.  i'm totally freaking out.  at first i thought it was a YI, but the smell is really freaking me out and i can't get the gyno for a few weeks.

i've tried everything.  i wash the area with baby wash, i wear cotton underwear... i was even on some azo pills we got at the pharmacy.  but i'm pretty sure i'm dying.  please, someone, anyone... help!

oh, i forgot to mention... i've had more discharge than normal, but it's not abnormal looking...

Relationship Milestones

[ruari-explained.livejournal.com]

I've recently started to see someone new and it got me thinking. How do you decided when to advance the relationship physically (ie kissing, oral, spending the night, sex)? Do you have a set amount of time, like 3 dates before having sex for example, or does it depend on the person?

I just feel silly thinking like "Well, on Tuesday I'll do this for the first time, and then when I see him next week, we'll go to third base. If things progress well, I'll let him stay over on the 23rd..."