Sep. 5th, 2008

[identity profile] immortalece.livejournal.com
I think I ahve one of those bartholin cysts (did I spell that right?)
I noticed yesterday that it felt like I had caught a piece of hair and ripped it out, kinda a little twinge that didn't go away and it was red. This is on the right side just behind the vaginal opening like 2 millimeters behind, so it isn't directly beside it. But from the pics I saw thats what it is.
Now today I woke up and it hurt so I had a nice hot bath and felt around and theres a big (pea sized) squishy lump, so I grabbed a mirror and it is bright red and angry looking. When I dried off with my towel it hurt like a bugger and now there is a tiny spot on it that looks like a made a rub burn when drying it off, but does not appear to be open and draining.
The horrible part is I just started my period today! Great timing eh? So wearing pads is irritating it even worse! So I have been sitting on a heating pad and hoping the heat makes it through the pad to the cyst, and I've been rubbing polysporin with that numbing stuff into it so it doesn't hurt.

Is there anything else I can do? and should it hurt this much!? I figure it isn't an abcess cuz it's still pretty small.

Also if I do need to have something done to it, will the doctor sedate me? I am a huge wuss and ahve really really bad panic attacks. I even need to be sedated to ahve cavities filled.
[identity profile] belle-m.livejournal.com
I noticed a very strong, vinegar-like odor from my vagina yesterday. Really, it's quite vinegary. I've experienced this before, so I'm not worried, but I was going to ask if that's indicative of any specific phase of your cycle? Post-ovulation or prior to it? Closer to your period or not?

I had my IUD removed 3 months ago, and had to take Plan B (yeah, yeah..) last month, so I'm trying to figure out exactly where I am.
[identity profile] villagetheatre.livejournal.com
I noticed today, and I don't know why for the first time, but one side of my labia is much bigger than the other... almost as if it looks a tad bit swollen. Is that okay/normal? Also, I think I have a yeast infection and I just put cream on it because my vagina's been itching me a bit lately... that doesn't have anything to do with my bigger labia, right? Thanks!
[identity profile] notknowhow.livejournal.com
Hi ladies!

I have a terrible head cold. The kind that makes my nose run and my head hurt, and my sinuses full, and coughing and sneezing and all that lovely jazz (my boyfriend gave it to me. at least we are miserable together).

BUT this cold effected the way I poo, i guess everything is out of whack, so I thought that it might be connected to my cooch issues too!

In the last couple days, i've had to go pee ALOT but never really had much pee in me. And when I do pee it smells...not bad but different then usual, more sour and strong. I also get an AMAZING 5 second, maybe more, pressure-pain right after I go pee, when I'm still sitting. Sometimes when i'm not peeing i get a stinging kinda feeling, or just pressure pain.

I don't have any discharge, or blood in my pee, or anything like that. And the last time I had sex was on Saturday. I was having ALOT of sex before that (just moved across the country, leaving the boy friend behind).

Could this be a delayed reaction UTI? or related to my head cold? or just my cooch acting up? Should I be hi-taling it to the doctor to get anti-biotics before i'm in agony, or should i wait it out a bit to see what happens?
[identity profile] on-my-heart.livejournal.com
Ok, so I skipped my period last month, JUSTTTT so I can have it at the beggining of this month, because my wedding is at the end of this month. I'm SUPPOSED to take my ring out on Tuesday. My bridal shower is that Sunday, and I'm pretty sure I'll still have it....so, how bad would I fuck things up if I took it out 2-3 days early, but then still put it back in exactly 7 days after? I'm not worried about being 'protected', because I physically can't get pregnant right now, I'm worried about messing up the bleeding and stuff.

Right now I'm doing the 3/3/1, so can anyone offer any advice??

first pap!

Sep. 5th, 2008 02:01 pm
[identity profile] mprfctn.livejournal.com

hello there lovely ladies, i've read memories about this but most of them seem dated so why not ask again and see if it sheds new light onto the subject... or something of that matter, haha.

so this tuesday i'm going to get my annual physical and they also want me to get a pap smear. it'll be my first one, i'm 20 and became sexually active at the beginning of this year, if that changes anything. i'd like to go on birth control, because well i don't want no babies right now, my periods are irregular, and the cramps on the second day [read: the DREADED SECOND DAY OF DOOM] are killer.

will they ask me questions about my period? will they ask if its regular and blah blah blah or will i have to bring that up myself? or will they even suggest birth control if i say my only means of protection is condoms? if they don't should i just be like "sooo... about birth control... can i gets me some?"

ALSO, from reading memories i hear you have to get nekkid. i thought it was just from the waist down? do you really have to go completely commando and wear that little gown? bahah.

i'm, as you might be able to tell, not exactly nervous about the whole ordeal BUT any lovely first time pap smear stories might ease the mind a tid bit.

OH OH OH, and i'm on my parents insurance, will they know for a fact that i get a perscription for BC? i mean... i don't exactly mind but me and my parents don't talk much, we just don't have that brady-bunch-family-togetherness-and-share-everything sort of thing... if they do figure it out i'll just say my doctor suggested it and i fell for it just like i fell for signing up to register to vote because the union lady at my work said i should because "ITS YOUR FUTUREEEE".

i think that's all my questions, i might be back to ask more later, haha.

[identity profile] josiethefiend.livejournal.com
Alright VagPagers. It's Friday, I'm in a deplorable mood at the office, and I'm curious. If you're anyting like me, you love a good steamy page turner. I'm curious. What's your favorite raunchy story/book, or scene from a book, or series? I find that reading my favorite bits here and there is the cure for any low-libido blues I might encounter here and there. I find it a little more pleasing than porn, where, let's face it, it's very rare that the participants are visually pleasing to me, and/or that the the scenes are anything like MY fantasies and desires.

For me, the sexy bits of The Black Jewels Trilogy by Anne Bishop, or likewise the Merrideth Gentry books from Laurell K. Hamilton, are hard to beat.
[identity profile] curlysue123.livejournal.com
Hi, I just had a question and I'm really not sure what it relates to persay.  I have been on birth control for over a year now, have changed brands several times but have been on my current birth control for 4 months now.  I am a perfect pill user, 3pm everyday, and use condoms as backup as well (and even have gone as far as using spermicide on top of the pill and condoms a couple times!!).  I just finished my period a week and 2 days ago and have not had sex since my period but this week I have had an abnormally large amount of vaginal discharge.  Not like a ton, but enough that my underwear is pretty stained by teh end of the day (sorry for the gross details).  I have had on and off vaginal discharge since I've been on htis pill, but not this much and for a whole week.  There is  not any itching or burning and it's starting to concern me.  I told my doctor when I saw her last week that I had some on and off vaginal discharge so I am chaning pills again next month but since then it has gotten worse.  Any thoughts?  It doesn't really have a foul odor or anything either, nothing out of the norm, just the amount.
[identity profile] udntknomeson.livejournal.com
my period began on the 30th. i just finished it yesterday and today i had unprotected sex with a little accident afterwards. what are my chances of being pregnant ?
[identity profile] jackdiamond.livejournal.com
By charting for about a year, it appears my luteal phase is about 17-19 days. My cycle is sometimes 26, but is usually a perfect 28 days. Does this have any real life relevance, or is it just an interesting quirk to look out for? Am I hyper-fertile, or is my body just all about early ovulation?
[identity profile] ghost-of-freud.livejournal.com
Hi all,

For the past three and a half years I have had a mirena IUD. Since insertion I experienced some hormonal side-effects, and although these were relatively minor at first, over the years they seemed to intensify to the point where I was no longer wiling to tolerate them. Last Friday I went to the clinic and had my mirena removed. At the time of removal I had just reached the end of my period - by this I mean that the menstrual flow had finally stopped that same morning.

I was warned that I should not proceed with the removal if I had had unprotected sex more recently than seven days before. And at the time I was SURE that I hadn't. However, during later discussions with my husband he insisted that we had had sex without a condom that Wednesday, two days before the removal.

During the last week, I've noticed a variety of weird symptoms. These may be due to withdrawal from the mirena hormones, but obviously I'm also paranoid about the posibility of pregnancy. I'm very tired, and I have experienced nausea, headaches, and (weirdly) constipation.

Can anyone with a better grasp of the menstrual cycle than I estimate the probability of any sperm hanging around inside me at the same time as a viable egg? Naturally I am hoping that the answer will be "very unlikely". I am terrified at the prospect of pregnancy, and this is intensified by the knowledge that if I AM pregnant, it's due to my own stupidity. :(
[identity profile] loveofdaisies.livejournal.com
I was on sulfamethoxazole for a uti and fluconazole for a yeast infection. I finished my last dose of my antibiotic (sulfamethoxazole) last saturday and took my one-dose treatment of fluconazole for my YI on monday.

I'm on the nuvaring and sunday-thursday was my ring out week. I never could get a clear answer on whether or not the antibiotic and YI treatments would interfere with my protection and my fiance and I were doing super about backup...until tonight. we didn't clearly discuss whether or not he should pull out and he went inside me.

so now I'm freaking out. I don't know if I need to go get EC tomorrow or not. being a poor college student doesn't leave a spare $50 for it, so I'd rather not have to buy it unless it's necessary, so I just need some (kind) advice. I know it was dumb that we didn't discuss our backup option beforehand (so no lectures please), but I really need to know what to do.

googling doesn't really give me any straight answers either. I was under the impression that antibiotics don't interfere with the nuvaring (because of the way each are absorbed) but there are several websites out there saying that antibiotics could interfere...so I don't know. I know that there just hasn't been enough conclusive research in either direction, but pregnancy is definitely not an option right now.

any words of advice would be great. thanks. :)
[identity profile] pooperscoop.livejournal.com

 I’ve been getting my bikini line waxed for a couple of years now and I noticed little red bumps quite a while ago but was too stupid to realize what they were. About a year ago I finally realized they were, obviously, ingrown hairs but by then it was too late and the hairs are too deep now. I went through some pretty painful digging with tweezers to get them out and there was blood everywhere but it was too painful to go on. I honestly think that there is no way to get them out now. I’ve read up about some creams but living here in Hong Kong I doubt I could find any. I have tried baby oil and tried squeezing them out but nothing seems to work. They look like little brown and red marks now.
[identity profile] flightybynature.livejournal.com
Hello everyone! Ok, so starting about two weeks ago, my breasts became VERY tender, and achy. My nipples were constantly hard and very painful. Usually, when AF is approaching, my breasts are a little sensitive, but nothing like this. I also experienced some very mild nausea, and serious irritability. This went on for about 10 days, and I starting to believe that maybe, just maybe I was pregnant (my husband and I are casually trying- as in, we're not charting, and I'm not taking my temp YET- we're just going with the flow for the moment). Then, on the 30th, AF crashed the party >_<. I definitely had MUCH worse cramps than normal (I never need meds, but this time I had to take 3 advil at regular intervals in order to function), and my flow was definitely heavier than usual, and pretty clotty. So my first question is- could this have been a chemical pregnancy? I know they happen all the time, and I'm not stressed about it, just curious more than anything. Secondly, AF ended yesterday, and my breasts are still extremely tender- enough to make me wince any time I take off my evil evil bra. How long before I should be concerned? They are both sore, and I don't have any abnormal discharge...there are not abnormal lumps... I'm just really, really sore, and not used to this at all with my normal cycle. Thank you all so much!
[identity profile] babydiego.livejournal.com
Not sure if this is OK to post here but just delete if it isn't, I won't be offended -- I promise!

So I was watching a documentary earlier about a heterosexual journalist who went to live with 4 or so lesbians in a house for a month to live the lesbian 'life'. She ended up, after a bit of a struggle, finding herself sexually attracted to 2 females, evening going so far as to make out with both of them and then proceeding to slightly fall for her lesbian flatmate.

The basis of the documentary was to really establish whether sexuality is fluid and if everyone (as it's sometimes claimed) is somewhere between gay and straight. I, myself, if someone would ask, would label myself as a heterosexual woman. However, that's not to say I have not found myself lusting over women occasionally.

The point of this post is to ask you lovely women whether you have ever 'switched teams' or have discovered your bisexual side and how you came to this realisation? I'm just very interested in hearing people's stories really. I find the whole thing rather interesting and. . . exciting. :)

Once again, if this is not allowd, feel free to delete.

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