Aug. 1st, 2008

[identity profile] lady-borg.livejournal.com
I need help, I am going mental. 

I have it and I nned something to make it go away, 
Keep in mind over here is 530 in the morning and I cannot get anywhere, I have tried flushing it out...but doesnt work so well when I have been trying to get to sleep. 

I have an interview today and I need some your handy tricks to tide me over

also is it true that left untreated or it persists for only a day I can get a kidney infection from it? 

please help, I have only had and hour and half of sleep due to this and I just woke up from me almost wetting myself due to this.
[identity profile] miss-klutz.livejournal.com
Next Friday I am having surgery to get my septate hymen removed. 

Has anyone else had this procedure done?  How much blood was there afterward?

 I will also be on the end of my period but I hate pads so I'm trying to see if I could get away with panty liners.
[identity profile] photocopyme.livejournal.com
So, there was a post (that I can't seem to find) where someone was talking about their lady bits being dry and had some vaginal acne and some regular, normal vaginal bumps.  In one of the comments, someone suggested taking a bath using some oatmeal bath stuff.  I've been having a similar problem with being dry and itchy down there.  So, last night I got some oatmeal bath (just a generic wal-mart brand, I'm poor..heh) and I tried it.  And I noticed that I haven't been dry or itchy since then!  However, I suddenly have produced a lot more (or I guess just thinner) natural lube than usual.  Is this a side effect of the oatmeal bath, or is it just because I've been eating healthier and not drinking as many sugary drinks?
[identity profile] xx-socold-xx.livejournal.com
I posted a few days ago about being concerned about how painful my first pap smear would be since it hurt too bad for me to have sex or anything.

I had it this morning, and I about died. It hurt so bad that I got overheated and almost threw up. I also felt really weak afterward. It wasn't the doctors fault. I liked her a lot and she knew it was my first one so she walked me through everything and was very careful.. The pain was just excruciating when the speculum was opened up. :(

I'm guessing I'm just honestly really small and not so stretched out. Has anyone had that kind of pain with their first pap smear (or following ones, for that matter)?

Thanks :)
[identity profile] anairdna.livejournal.com
I just lost my job and therefore my insurance(i got to have the insurance less than a month..:(... luckily i had just enough time to manage to get a pap done).

Not that my insurance covered my birth control pills anyways, but thats a whole 'nother can of worms with me.


I seem to remember there being a website where you could find out if you qualified for programs that would help you out with the cost of various birth control pills. Does anyone happen to have the link lying around?

(and before its suggested, Planned Parenthood is not an option for me. The one here is terrible... I get treated like crap there from refusal to give me information to misinformation to refusal to acknowledge my concerns about my body and possible problems, and my fixed place on their "sliding scale", I end up paying about what I paid at the pharmacy for my pills, and they won't accept new financial information for me anyways...no matter what happened with my employment situation.)

Edit: if it wasn't made clear in the first part, I have already had my pap for the year. my problem lies in the ever-rising costs of birth control. i seem to remember a site that you signed up and if you qualified, they sent you something to take to the pharmacy with you that would get you a lowered cost. that's what i'm looking for here. i have a year's worth of refils at my pharmacy.
[identity profile] talklikelions.livejournal.com
hello again, all,

went to the gyno a few days ago and got the full works done due to cheating ex boyfriend. Well everything came back normal, except for an equivocal HSV 2 test. She didn't give me the numbers on this, but I am FREAKING OUT.

I texted the cheating ex and told him to get tested and he said he did a few weeks ago and was negative. But then he also started accusing me of making my test result up to try and scare him and that it was me "plotting" things with his ex girlfriend to freak him out (he gave her HPV about a year ago and she has cancerous cells on her cervix now, so he seems to think she and I both are making these things up in order to "get him back". He accused her of lying about it too.)

So I want to believe that he was negative, but alas, I'm still really worried that he could be lying. Before him, I hadn't had sex since last August, two different people but only once for each, neither one came anywhere near me, used condoms (though it slipped off one of them). They were both relatively inexperienced, and neither had any signs of herpes (one was a virgin), although I know that that doesn't mean much.
Before that was the first person I ever slept with and I haven't even seen him in two and a half years.

According to this, wouldn't that mean that, were the test equivocal because I DO have it and the antibodies aren't strong enough, it came from the most recent ex, who I last saw about 2 and a half months ago? It seems as though, were I to have the virus, it would have shown up as positive if it were from anyone in my past.

I'm really freaking out here guys. I feel like I'm going to throw up both with the accusations from former boyfriend and from not knowing if I have it or not- they want to re test me in 6 freaking months. I cannot go on like this for that long.

PS- I've never had an outbreak, a sore, or any signs or symptoms of initial infection, like the cold or flu like things. In essence, nothing physical at all.

Any ideas or help? Please? Anyone else had an equivocal test or know much about them? Ahhh!
[identity profile] superrose.livejournal.com
Hello, I've posted a few times, each time updating my timeline... well, I'm 33 weeks pregnant now with twins. They (the doctors) think I'll carry until 37 weeks, which puts me at the tail end of August, or first few days of September. I'm still working. I work an hour and a half from my home, and the doctors have said I may continue so long as I get my medical records from the hospital, in case of emergency. My next ultrasound is not scheduled until August 21st. As of the last one (July 14th) Baby A was head down, Baby B breech.

So I'm wondering (and I know this is a touchy subject, but I have no opinion or preference even with all the research I've done) if I should sign up for a C-section, or try for a vaginal birth.

The last thing I want to do is to go through labor and have a baby... only to be rushed to surgery as well. But if I schedule a straight C section... I don't think I'll have 4-6 weeks to recover correctly if I have to care for two babies at the same time...

So, I'm just wondering what your preference is, and why, and what experiences you've had. I'm looking for tidbits on healing, regaining former body shape, health of babies and mom, recovery time, ease or hardship of birth experience... anything like that.

Oh, and as a side note... I think I am opposed to episiotomy (spelling?) ... that surgery they do on your vaginal opening to facilitate the head coming through and avoid tearing... what are your thoughts on that? (I'm thinking I'm big enough down there already and I don't want someone cutting me on top of everything else...)

Thanks so much!
[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/fluidmotion-/
I'm currently travelling around South America. Last month my boyfriend and I went to go see Machu Picchu. We left our stuff in a nearby town and went to spend the night in the tiny town with no road-access just below Machu Picchu. Unfortunatly after we arrived I realized I'd forgotten my pills in the other town, so I went to a pharmacy to try and buy another pack of the same pills.

All the pharmacies only had one kind of pill with a different composition than mine (Alesse)

Alesse is
levonorgestrel 100 µg and ethinyl estradiol 20 µg

the one they had was something like (I don't remember exactly)
levonorgestrel 70 µg and ethinyl estradiol 15µg give or take, I don't remember exactly!!

Anyways, I bought them and took one pill for the night, and the next day returned to my regular pack.

During placebo week I had a late/light/short period that was mostly of the brownish-variety.

Anyways, am I ok? Is there any chance that the change in pill could result in pregnancy??

Thanks so much!
[identity profile] moonpaleflower.livejournal.com
Hi everyone! I've put this under a cut because it's a little longer than I'd intended. :)

Expanddubious orientation? )

Edit again: Wow, thanks everyone for your wonderful responses! I feel so much better about having a more laid-back attitude about sexuality. :)

uh oh

Aug. 1st, 2008 05:08 pm
[identity profile] not-to-lucky.livejournal.com

me and my girlfrend were messing around and i started to finger her and i think i could have had some semen on my fingers from 2 days ago and i heard that they can survive outside the body for like 3 days so were freaking out that she might be prego because she has been in excrutiating pain for a while now and she's been puking a bit to and were really starting to freak bout it cause were only 16 what do you think the chances are that she's prego?

please help us 

thx

[identity profile] udntknomeson.livejournal.com
so about a week ago [last wednesday]. .i had non consensual anal sex with a boy i had just met. .after dealing with some emotional trauma. .like asking myself how do i feel, what do i do. .was i really raped. .the typical worrier i am set in. afterward, i was really sore. .there was blood in my stool. .but the past couple of days a wave of worry washed over me. .though the sex was protected. .yesterday i was examining my anus in this like 10x magnifying mirror. .and i didnt really see anything unusual. .but the worry grew and grew. today, i looked again, and it looks like little tiny. .tears have appeared. now when i was examining yesterday, the skin was very dry and i was kind of pulling on it. .so i don't know if that's what might have caused it? i haven't noticed any other significant symptoms, and yes i do know outbreaks don't always come with symptoms. .i know no one here is a doctor [or actually there might be some, not saying you could exactly diagnose me] but i've been to the doctor a lot in the past few months and i don't wanna have to burden my dad again. .or the free clinic :/ i was wondering what any one else's opinions might be? i'm trying to calm myself down. .but it's not really working :/ thanks everyone.
ETA
i've added a NSFW picture under the cut
[identity profile] gilbo-baggins.livejournal.com
Sorry to ask yet another antibiotic question.  I've read through the memories and vuvlapedia, but I am still a little confused/freaked.

I'm on HBC and during my last pack of pills on was on amoxicillin. I used back up protection while on the antibiotics and planned on using it for 7 days after.  (Because I know that's what's recommended).

But figuring out the 7 day thing got tricky.  I took the last antibiotic pill at 8am on a Sunday.  I always take my HBC at 10pm.  If I don't count that Sunday's pill as part of the 7 I need to be protected again, I only got 6 pills in before I started my placebos.  (I could have stacked, I know, but I wanted the reassurance of getting my period).

Got my period.  Then I planned on waiting 7 days into my next pack of pills to resume condomless sex, but we had a little mishap after only 5 pills.  Pre-cum did make it into my vagina, but he finished in a condom.

I really don't think I need EC...but there is that nagging little voice that keeps saying "what if" in my head.   Reassurance?  Advice?  Thanks VPers!!!
[identity profile] wooletsgo.livejournal.com
I'll try and explain the best I can.

I started to have sex with one of my guy friends about 3 months ago. I visit him for a period of a week at a time since he lives about 5 hours away from me. I just recently visited him last weekend and we had sex when I was on my period. We had unprotected sex again and had lots of it. Today, when I'd pee it would hurt the last like 2 seconds of it. I've gotten a urinary tract infection before from having too much sex and not peeing enough before and after sex so I was like "Uh oh! I'm getting a UTI." My pee also has a bad odor. I've never had this before. I just started getting a discharge too that's not really white. It's more off-white, light brown and it had little teeny tiny black string looking things whenever I'd wipe and little bit in my underwear. I don't know what the hell these things are. They are extremely small, but very noticeable. I'm going to go get tested for STDs sometime this week. He says he is not STD positive, but you can never be too sure. I don't need anyone to tell me that I was stupid for having sex without a condom. I already know this, and it already happened so there is nothing that I can do about it. I just want to know if anyone knows about this discharge and this odor smelling pee. Thanks for the help!

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