TravelMate (pee standing up)

[zerovixen.livejournal.com]

Has anyone here ever used a travelmate/pee mate before? I was thinking of getting one, but can not seem to find one on ebay/amazon (I was looking into one of the plastic ones) are there any stores online/offline that sell them. It would be so much easier to do then completely de-robeing my bottom half. Not sure about ordering from there site since I haven't ever ordered from them before.

Link-http://www.travelmateinfo.com/
Link #2 (more info about standing to pee for females)- http://nbtsc.org/~ganimede/stp.html

Gyno

[xvxsmittyxvx.livejournal.com]

if you go to the gyno can they tell you if had a misscarige a few months ago.

Nipple tenderness

[niki28.livejournal.com]

I've noticed my nipples have been extremely tender for a few days. I also have what I believe to be ovulation pain in my sides. Could the nipple pain be related to ovulation?

Bloody stool

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Okay, so this is the vagina, but its close to the vagina, and you ladies are good with things like this, so here it goes:

Is it possible to have bloody stool, but not have any illness? On monday, when I had a BM, i noticed that it was really red but there wasnt any blood, I figured it was because I had some red food the night before at the super bowl party I went to. Then Tuesday, there was a really obvious amount of blood in the toliet but and on the stool, but when I wiped, there wasnt any red. The same thing happened today, but there was A LOT more today then yesterday. I've been all over WebMD looking up things that has the symptoms of bloody stool, but I dont have any other symptom of anything but that. Help?

Waxers in London

[jessalyn.livejournal.com]

Hullo fellow vagpag'ers, this is targeting all U.K. based members :)

I was looking around and trying to scour entries here in hopes of some recommendations and much to my dismay this post didn't get as much attention as I was hoping.

Because of recent events (read: getting a boyfriend in London), I'm looking for a new (and hopefully GOOD) place to get my woo waxed-- all of it. I let it go last semester and later regretted it because I forgot how painful it was for me to actually have pubic hair :( So I'm looking for places in London as the places I've found in Leicester (where I go to school) do not seem to impress me much. I'm hoping there's a few Londoners about that might be able to lend some assistance? Maybe even a better place to look/ask?

I'm preferably looking for the West London area. But any tips would be great either way!

Experiment with Sex Drive

[beloveddoll.livejournal.com]

Hey lovely folks!

I checked through the memories and the tags and such and I couldn't find what I needed. I'm sure it's around, but help a sistah out!

I am on Microgestin and absolutely love the short, light, and predictable periods! I had originally hopped on BC to regulate the red tide...so, that has been an awesome thing! But, I have been with my boyfriend for nearing 3 years. I can think back to our early relationship (pre-birth control) and remember being unable to contain how much I wanted to jump his bones! Sure, this could have been from having a new relationship, losing my virginity and the whole "new" aspect of our love...but, for about a year or more, we've sort of lost that spark. Now, we only have sex like, once a month (usually on my first or second placebo day) and I am currently on the move for some experimentation.

I want to ditch my BC for a month to see if my freakishly heavy sex drive returns. I know the usual symptoms (irregular bleeding, random spotting, etc) can occur, but would it severely hurt me to give a month off a try? I'll probably hold off this experiment till April because of Valentine's Day and our 3rd Anniversary in March...but, what do you all think?

I'd also like to mention that I don't MIND only having sex once or twice a month. And, fortunately, neither does my boy. We have great communication and such, so I am lucky! :) I'm not depressed and I do enjoy having sex when we can succeed in getting me riled up...it just never crosses my mind anymore! Hell, I went from masturbating daily to not touching myself for the last 4 months! Eek!

Thanks, lovelies. Ya'll are the best!

Yaz and acne :(

[eins-zwei-drei.livejournal.com]

I just got switched from Lo-ovral to Yaz and have been taking the Yaz pills for about 5 days. I got put on Yaz because the Lo-ovral stopped doing a good job with my PMDD and I had been having skin problems but my acne was clearing up and my skin has been perfect the last couple weeks or so. But now I'm on Yaz and I'm breaking out and it's painful. I hate having acne. It isn't that bad, I mean I don't have tons of zits but a few really huge, painful, red ones :( Has anyone broken out when beginning Yaz? I was told it was supposed to make acne better!

Strap ons?

[stufey.livejournal.com]

So what would be a good site to go to to look at Strap ons?
My hubby and I found a new girl and I think it would be fun to have a penis of my very own!

Soy and reproductive health

[arularia.livejournal.com]

I've been aware of the phytoestrogens in soy and soy products for awhile now and after starting to do some reading on fertility awareness (and especially Katie Singer's The Garden of Fertility) I decided to try and avoid as much soy as possible in my diet. That was over a year ago, give or take. I never really saw in great improves in my reproductive health, but I figured it wasn't hurting anything so I stuck with it.

Last month I was diagnosed as insulin resistant and I probably have PCOS. My endocrinologist recommended that I try the South Beach diet or something similar to complement the effects of the metformin that he prescribed. So, in the interest of not letting things turn into full blown diabetes, I heeded his advice and cut out all the bread, rice, pasta, potatoes, etc. in my diet. It's been a burden since I don't have the space, equipment, or time to prepare my own meals because, as a college student, I reply on my student meal plan. Because of my food limitations, I started drinking soy milk again about two weeks ago so that there would be something easy for me to consume before taking my medication in the morning. I was fine with this decision until a few days ago, but now I'm second-guessing the decision and going through a bit of what I guess is "buyer's remorse."

At the absolute most, I'm drinking a glass (8oz) of soy milk a day, but lately I've only been having it every couple of days.

So here's the question:

I'm working to lose weight to help with the insulin resistance (halfway to my 10% weight reduction goal!) and trying to convince my ovaries that it's okay to ovulate. Is the soy going to hamper my progress toward either of those goals? Even if it's not necessarily bad, would cutting it out help me get there a little faster? Is there some kind of limit that as long as I stay below it, I can have soy and not worry?

If anyone has any links or something that they could point me to or information they can give, I'd really appreciate it.

x-posted to vaginapagina and pcos

Winter Dryness

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I searched the vulvapedia, but didn't really find what I was looking for. Feel free to redirect me if I'm wrong.

Florida has been having an unusual cold snap lately and everybody seems to have cried panic and turned their heaters on. I like to be toasty, but the situation indoors is causing havoc with my vagina. My inner and outer labia are so dry that the skin has actually cracked in some places...it's like having a yeast infection but even more annoying because I honestly don't know what to do about it. My normal cure for "winter skin" is to put lotion on my hands and other extremities, is it safe to do this to my vagina? I don't want an actual yeast infection on my hands.

period an YI

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So i THINK i'm over a recent YI, and i was supposed to get my period a few days ago. It hasn't come. Could this be because of the YI or just something else random.

attn: "victims" of BV and/or vaginitis... HBC related?

[thatsnotflab.livejournal.com]

Hi there- I'm new to this community and have been reading the BV-tagged entries, but still had some questions...

( background info & questions )

sorry this was so long and kind of splattered all over the place- i'm just anxious to get feedback from people who have actually dealt with this and hope i can have a normal vagina (and sex life) again! thank you so much in advance!

possible oversensitivity to YI treatments, suggestions?

[hikaruuchiha.livejournal.com]

Hey people. Well, I've already been through the VP article on YI's and such, but I was thinking it'd be best to get a few responses from some of you lovely ladies here. See, the last time I had a YI, I decided to treat it with a Monistat one day thing, but in the end, it turns out my body was way too sensitive in it, and almost literally screwed me over for about two weeks.

I've got another YI now, and now that I know about VP in advance, decided to check the suggestions it had for YIs. The yogurt and garlic thing seem like great ideas, but I'd still like to try an over-the-counter cream thing. Only trouble is, I'm kinda scared to pick one, since I don't know how my body would react. So I guess what I'm asking here is which brand (including generics) and which dosage would be best in my case. I thought of a clomatrizole 3-day treatment. Also take note that I'm diabetic.

thanks a bunch in advance. :)

Wanting a baby

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Me and my husband really want to have a baby. I was diagnoised with PCOS (poly cycstic Ovarian Syndrome) a few years back. We have been having unprotected sex for almost two years and nothing. 
Just wondering if anyone had any advice for me? 
I've been to my doc but she just said keep trying.
I've only just started to 'track' my period and was contemplating fertility drugs.
I don't know... help. :)  

Period twice in one HBC pack?

[asphodelx.livejournal.com]

Okay, so I've been taking OTC-Lo for the past two years with little to no problems. I take my pills everyday at 6pm - like clockwork, I have a extremely annoying alarm on my cell phone to make sure I do.
However, for some reason I got my period on Jan 26 - Right at the beginning of my third week of pills (last week of active ones). I don't think it was spotting because it was just like one of my normal periods. It ended around Jan 31-Feb 1.. I figured to stay protected I should finish out my pack, so I went on taking the pills as normal. However, today, a few days into my sugar pills, I'm bleeding again?!
I'm a university student, but I honestly don't think this is stress related because it's the beginning of the semester. Everything with the family and SO is fine, too. I haven't changed my diet at all either.

Any idea why I'm getting this again? Which would be considered my 'period'? Should I start a new pack? Will my next month be screwed up again?

Thanks in advance!