What the heck.

[mediawar.livejournal.com]

Basically, I'm on the pill, sexually active, and experiencing what Google calls "Implantation Bleeding" (for the 2nd month in a row?) so I'm a little concerned, despite people telling me never to Google anything period-related unless I want to be told I'm pregnant for no reason.

( Timeline, and graphic stuff! )

Thank you all for reading, this forum makes me feel normal...as it answers questions I never ask usually :P

frequent urination following period

[darkest-irony.livejournal.com]

i've been going through these phases for a few years where for about a week or so i would just pee a whole lot.  not only do i pee frequently, but every time i pee, there's a lot of it.  i've started to actually pay attention to when this does and doesn't happen.  so i figured out i always get these bouts of ridiculously frequent urination after my period ends.  i get really sweaty during this time as well.  i just want to know if this is normal or not, and if not, what the hell is wrong with me and what do i do about it?  any insight would be fantastic.  thanks :)

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[lovelytawagoto.livejournal.com]

I went to the Gyno for the first time yesterday, everything went well and she put me on the Nuva Ring.

When I woke up and all day I've been having stomach aches and this afternoon I found thick goopy discharge in my undies.
I've never seen discharge like that before, it's thick, white and looks like lotion and the smell is awkward. Nothing bad or good.
I googled it and came up with bacterial vaginosis, but I'm not sure that's it. But if it is will it show up in my discharge/blood testing?

I'm not sure if the Nuva Ring is causing it this fast, or if I may be having a stomach ache or reaction to eating a huge amount of grapes.
I literally spent 30 minutes eating a huge pile of frozen grapes, so maybe the acid has something to do with it?

Long term effects fo a severe UTI.

[ravens-circle.livejournal.com]

About a month or two ago, I suffered a terrible UTI (blood in urine, clots up the wazoo, kidney pain) it was so bad I couldn't get out of the bathroom (which made it longer for me to be seen) and when I could it was curled on the floor tears running down my face and it hit suddenly, one moment I am coming home from work getting ready for bed and the next minute I have this weird feeling and I am in the bathroom crying while peeing every minute (literally). It was the worse the ER doctor saw (it spread to my kidneys QUICKLY). Now, I still have the pain in the kidney area. Its a dull ache, but it is there and after a while it tends to run me down. So I was wondering with such a severe UTI would it in some way harm my kidney's? And should I have my kidneys checked out?

Sorry if it rambles on and on and on.

Thanks!
ravens_circle

I'm afraid I have an STD? xposted to women's health

[rachelxtina.livejournal.com]

Okay, the facts are: I am 18 years old, I have been living wih my boyfriend for 8 months, I was on the pill for most of it until the last 2 months or so, have sex regularly - never with a condom, and my boyfriend is the only person I'd ever had sex with. He had done it with 3 girls prior and yes actually was tested before having sex with me w/out condoms.

I have gotten many UTI's over the last 8 months. It always seemed to be around when my sex life was much more active. Recently, I thought I was just getting another UTI... peeing all the damn time, sore as hell, etc. But it was worse. I was in pain down there! Absolute pain. And when I got my period, it hurt so much trying to insert a tampon (TMI, I am sorry). I left the state to visit family, and my boyfriend called me saying he had a ridiculously itchy rash all over himself in the downstairs area that kept spreading. He was scared. I told him I had been having a severe burning sensation, but no rashes. Until I took a mirror to it. There were a few (not many at all) scattered bumps that looked like zits. No itchiness. No discharge. Still on my period, but it's bleeding three times heavier and something doesn't feel right?

I sound so stupid but... could it be an STD? Can an STD just form out of nowhere after having sex consecutively for 8 months and without previous partners, etc.? :/

PS: I know going to the doctors is the best idea - and a must. Unfortunately, the boy is a filmmaker currently enduring 16 hour long days back to back on two films, and I do not have health insurance or the money to pay for the emergency room.

Ok guys, I'm starting to really freak out.

[emilyimagine.livejournal.com]

Ok, here's how it goes:

EDIT EDIT:// It came this morning, I think taking the test put my mind at ease, and also my boyfriend got in a minor car accident last night so that was distracting. Thank you all for your help and support!

Here's my little cycle dashboard thing from mymonthlycycles.com

Cycle Dashboard
Last Period
March 04, 2008
Next Period
April 06, 2008
Next Ovulation
March 23, 2008
Total Periods
5
Average Cycle
33 days

I'm not sure exactly when, but I've been having sex in and around ovulation time, well before and well after.
I've only used condoms as contraceptive. On 3 or 4 different occasions, after he's finished 2 or 3 times, we wanted to try unprotected, because we figured that he was for the most part spent. By that time, there wasn't enough wetness going to even get him in all the way, it was extremely uncomfortable, so we stopped and used a condom and continued.

No period.

The longest my cycle has been (that I've tracked) is 37 days and its now day 40. The thing is, I only started tracking In december when I started having sex, so I don't know if my body is getting used to it and easing into old habits or if that has anything to do with it at all. And as much as its a known fact that stress delays periods, I've been extremely stressed out about it.

I've had my regular symptoms, to the point where I think it could happen any minute, but still nothing.

Any ideas? Should I get a test? Is it too early? Is there any way at all that I can induce it? (regardless of what's actually happening with my body) Should I just chill out.

Oh, and even though I'm not exactly sure if it works but I figured it cant be bad for you, so I started taking Vitamin C pills (with bioflavonoids)



EDIT:
ept says negative
am i safe to relax?

Um...lumpy-ness.

[quitemercurial.livejournal.com]

A little over a year ago, when I had an annual exam, it seemed my breasts were lumpy but normal. My last annual was about a month ago, and the lady examining me at PlannedParenthood didn't say anything about my breasts. But, I don't think my breasts were all that lumpy then.

I restarted birth control last month, so I'm not sure if that could help make them lumpy...and my period week is supposed to start tomorrow. I only brought this up because I noticed while showering that my left breast seems different from my right. The left one is overall somewhat bigger than my right, and there is an area (around the sides and bottom of the nipple) that feels like it's filled with fluid or ... something. I don't know how to explain it much better than that. It hurts if pressure's put on it. There is also another bit above the nipple, in one "corner" (top right if you're looking at me, top left when I look down) that's hard, though it's not pea- or marble-sized; nothing is noticeable if just looking. My right breast has some of that fluid-y feeling in comparable areas, and there is another hard spot that kind of matches the left's hard spot, but my right one doesn't feel pain even with pressure applied, and its hard spot is softer than the left's.

Am I splitting hairs? Are they generally symmetrical? Do I have anything I should worry about, or are they just ... lumpy again?

If it helps any, I'm 19, was off OTC from November 2007 to last month, and have had one aunt that died from breast cancer (though no one else has had any cancer on either side of my family).

depo & endo

[iguanasdefuego.livejournal.com]

Have any of you ladies used Depo Provera to treat endometriosis? How did it work out for you?

My gyno/nurse practitioner lady didn't want to do a laparoscopy (not sure why) but believes I cold very well have endo. So we're going to treat me as if I have it and since I need BC anyway, we're switching me to Depo.

Have any of you had a doc that figured you have endo and decided to treat without testing? I kind of want to know, just to know my chances of sterility later and satisfy my curiosity as to why my uterus hates me so.