Pregnancy scare and sensitve-area moisturizer.

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I hope I'm just being paranoid, but:

( Pregnancy Scare. )

Am I just being paranoid?
It doesn't help that slight bleeding and cramps happen to be early symptoms of pregnancy.
How long should I wait until I worry/take a test?



Also, while I'm here, I have really sensitive skin, and lately I've been getting a bit of dry skin around my vag, in like, the creases, between my legs. A good distance from any area to worry about.
I'm wondering if there's a super-sensitive moisturizer that I can get for that area?

BC

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Hey ladies, just a couple quick questions.

Does anyone find that exercise helps counteract mood swings/changes caused by birth control?

And has anyone used Loestrin 24 Fe and noticed weight gain of more than 5 pounds?

Plan B?

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Hi all,

I've been on Yasmin for 3 months, and my bf and I use it as our only form of birth control. I'm normally REALLY good about taking it on time. However, on Thursday night, about 2 hours after taking my pill (which would have been my 1st pill of my 3rd week) I threw up due to food poisoning. Then, last night (Saturday-so my 3rd pill in the 3rd week) I forgot my pack at home and took my pill 4 hours late. Then, my bf  finished inside me last night despite the fact I told him explicitly NOT TO. (He of course denies ever hearing this--why don't boys listen when we talk, hmmm??? lol)

I'm aware that Saturday's pill isn't necessarily missed, and it's possible my pill had time to absorb on Thursday night, but my pill packet isn't too helpful about what I should do/it's super confusing. SO, my question for you is, do I need to get Plan B? I'd rather not mess up my cycle/vomit all day if I don't have to, but what would you all suggest?

Also, if I don't get Plan B, would it be wise to skip my placebo week next week and just continue taking active pills?
Thanks in advance, and sorry for the essay :)

Birth control question!

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Hi! I am on Loestrin 24 Fe and typically wake up in a groggy state of mind every day to take my pill. Sometimes I don't even remember taking it because I am half asleep, but check and end up alright. BUT, I just realized that sometime in the past week, I must have accidentally taken TWO in one day. Oops. So what does this mean? I am supposed to be on my period within the next week, and I haven't had sex in the past week and won't be having sex until whenever I see the boyfriend next (which won't be until next month or so). Once I start my new pack of birth control, do I need to wait a certain amount of time to have sex without backup protection, or should I be ok since it will have been at least 2 weeks, plus starting a new pack? I just have never done this before and would like some tips. Thanks!

Joy of going back on the pill

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There is no question here. No complaint. I'm just so happy I have to share it with someone, and what better someone that vaginapagina!

Two days ago i went in to see my doc for the first time in well over a year. See I was on a state insurance plan and when my father died and I received his life insurance money the stat said i had too much money and i lost my insurance. My BC at the time was way to expensive to get it without insurance and I wasn't sexually active at the time so I had thought it would be fine if I went off. I had forgotten the reason i had gotten BC in the first place, this past year I have missed work, school and life the first two days of my period because of the emense pain. So on to the joy, I now have insurance and was able to get BC again, and whats even more awesome in the year since I've been gone my BC now has a generic, I just paid 46 dollars for three months worth of pills!! I honestly am so happy.

Thanks for listening to this, the rest of the doctor's visit went fine, i've gained 26 pounds which wasn't that good, but I am other wise in perfect health. So thank you again

*goes off and does happy dance*

Dreams/Orgasms

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Hi everyone!

I was wondering, does anyone here have orgasms in their dreams? Or have you ever woke up from a dream where you were having an orgasm to find you really WERE having an orgasm? This happens to me pretty frequently (it did this morning). I'm not complaining by any means, hehe, I'm just curious if it happens to anyone else.

IUD insertion tomorrow

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So tomorrow I get my paragard inserted (YAY!)
I was told that I need to take 800mg ibuprophen, and eat a light meal before I go in. Are there any other suggestions to prepare me for the entire experience? I've read some entries and stuff, they all seems the same. Should I have someone drive me there? And what are some little things that people usually brush ove rin their stories (I recall that someone mentioned to go to the bathroom before you get your IUD...that's really helpful, seriously, to know things like that, since all the stories seem pretty much the same.)
Thanks for your input! I'm freaking out, but I'm uber excited, too:)

took my pill late by five hours

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I usually take my pill at 1:30pm, but I left my phone at home (which has an alarm on it and I completely forgot like an idiot). I ended up taking my pill at 6:48pm. I've been on the pill for almost two years and i've NEVER taken a pill late. I'm so worried...I don't know what to so. Is five hours long enough to lower my protection? I know I can wait 7 days to be fully protected again, but will that really be necessary? I've been feeling kind of distant from my fiance for the past few days and some sex would probably make things a lot more comfortable around here. What would you do if you were me?

recent laparoscopic tubal ligation:

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Hi, all. I had my tubes tied on Friday. Woot! Most of the inside of my navel [and the incision further down, though that one isn't problematic so far] is covered with surgical glue. It itches like nobody's business, and it's starting to look pretty funky in there. Any tips? Is the glue gonna peel off on its own? What should I be doing with it? I don't know!

Thanks! ;)

x-posted, etc.

Edit: Thanks, all!

Post IUD - wondering if I should have waited

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So...I'm just kinda curious. I had my Mirena inserted Friday afternoon (yay), and after everything had settled down down there and I didn't think I was going to pass out from pain, I decided to see if I could find my strings. I couldn't, but figured it was no big deal since a lot of women can't for awhile (still couldn't today. But I also have to keep in mind that my sense of touch is sub-par. So I could be poking them and not knowing it...).

My boy and I took it for a test drive today and had sex, and while I'm not really worried, the more I started thinking about it, the more I wondered:

How many women waited until they could actually find the darn things before having sex, and should I have? I'm pretty sure it's still there (though part of my mind hates me and keeps telling me it fell out when I pooped, though I know that's unlikely), but I do wonder if what I did could be considered risky business.

Like I said, I'm not really worried about it, just curious.

And would the Mirena float were it to fall in the toilet? I would imagine so since itss a bunch of plastic, but again. Curious :) I also can't find my cervix, so if anyone has any tips for finding it, I'd love you :X

(Also? Add me to the numbers of women who didn't realize how much the pill was affecting their moods. I've been off it for a week now and I'm back to my bouncy, happy, smiley self! I was never depressed or anything while on it, but I did notice a lack of energy that's usually associated with my character. I'm now back to boucing off the walls. Yay!)

Edit: I'm also beginning to wonder about the standards of the Planned Parenthood I went to.

They didn't make me take a pregnancy test (though I was on my period, I've seen so many insertion stories where the woman had to take one anyway, despite her period, so I have to wonder), and they inserted my Mirena without checking to make sure my BV was actually gone (I was diagnosed with it on Monday, so my last treatment was Friday night, quite awhile after my insertion. It was diagnosed as a "slight" case of BV, and they were aware of it, but I still wonder about that). They also didn't schedule me for a follow-up appointment, like I've seen so many women here do.

They also wouldn't do a PAP smear on Monday because I hadn't been sexually active for at least three years (just three weeks), which while I'm cool with that and unconcerned about my cervix, I'd never heard that before.

There were other things I thought about too while I was waiting in the room for my Mirena, but I don't remember them at the moment. Do these sound like little things and thus I'm being paranoid, or would you be concerned, too?

random bleeding

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I'm posting on behalf of my friend..

Her period ended on Sunday. On Thursday she got some handloving and her hymen broke. She described it as " a massacre" in her pants. On Friday she had spotting that wasn't enough to make it onto her panties and nothing Saturday. Today there was enough blood to make it onto her panties! Any idea what's going on!? We're getting kinda worried!

More Birth Control Yays?

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So I opened my pharmacy bag this evening and realized... I am about to start on my third pack of these particular BC pills.

Clarification: I am about to start on my third continuous pack of these pills, my fourth with them overall.

Let me explain why this is a Big Deal: I've been on HBC for nearly 2 years with the intention of trying to use it to eliminate periods and withdrawal bleeding. (Mine are no fun due to adenomyosis.) In that span, this is only the second time I've made it to a third continuous pack. Mostly, I get painful breakthrough bleeding -- that does not leave -- somewhere during my second pack of pills.

Before starting this pack, I actually debated letting myself bleed this coming week, just to play it safe. It seemed almost like tempting fate to try skipping a second withdrawal bleed. Then I thought, "Hell, why not? It's working."

Besides, I've got a couple of things going on this week -- not to mention in the coming month or two, hopefully -- that would make shedding my uterine lining really fucking inconvenient.

And then it hit me: 1) How much I plan my life around my periods, which is scary; 2) How much I can plan my life around my periods because of HBC.

I'm almost embarrassed to admit how... scared I was (am) of my periods and the lengths to which I'll go to avoid bleeding. Less because of the pain/vomiting/etc. directly and more because of everything I can't do when I'm experiencing that. While I'd never in a million years let anyone tell me to "suck it up and deal" or think that anyone else should have to do so, there is definitely a part of me that expects that of myself. I don't like having to say, "Sorry, rest of self. I know you had plans, but we are doing what the uterus wants now."

So I'm pretty excited that I might be able to skip "periods" on a more regular basis without having to over think or worry excessively about it. I've been trying this for so long without the success I'd hoped for that the possibility that this Might. Actually. Work. is difficult to wrap my brain around, is almost frightening in its own right. I almost don't want to get my hopes up about this... but of course I really do.

There's my birth control "yay," my frustration, and my worry all in one. What are yours?

Very long cycles - caused by EC or something else?

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I know I've posted about this previously, but the issue hasn't gone away and I'm becoming more anxious.

First, some background: I'm 23. Until I was 15 I always had pretty regular cycles of about 31 days. I then went on the pill, and was on it constantly until I quit last summer. I had a couple of normal-length cycles, then a 38-day cycle, which I think was the longest I'd had in my life at that point. No idea why. Then, in early November, I had to take the morning-after pill. That cycle was 56 days long (I had several negative pregnancy tests, definitely a late period and not a miscarriage). The next two cycles were 52 and 51 days long. I had near-daily mild cramping for the first two cycles after the EC, but it's gone now. This brings us up to today: just about five months after the EC.

I'm in otherwise good physical and emotional health, with no unusual stresses on my system, and eat a normal diet. I don't seem to be having any other related symptoms - except that my last ovulation was unusually painful. I have a bit of acne, but I always had that except when I've been on the pill. No other PCOS symptoms, hormone troubles, or anything like that.

So I am wondering: Could the morning-after pill still be affecting my cycle lengths after five months? Or could something else be causing these long cycles? Do I need to see a doctor?

Pregnancy symptoms or false alarm?

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I know, you guys have probably heard this multiple times over, so I'm sorry to ask, but I felt I had to.

I've been on the Pill (Ortho Tri Cyclen Lo) for almost three months and I haven't been having any adverse reactions to it. My boyfriend and I are both STI-free and have been messing around without a condom; he has rubbed against me, but there hasn't been any full-on intercourse. In the past few days, though, I've been experiencing a bit of nausea, breast tenderness, and fatigue- I always start my menstrual cycle at or near the end of the month, so I'm sure it isn't that. It could be a poor diet or stress, perhaps, but do you think I should still get a test?