Diva Cup question!

[neatta.livejournal.com]

So, I'm pretty awful at gauging measurements. Dreadful, in fact. I've recently begun using a diva cup (recently as in yesterday) and am still getting used to inserting it. Each time I put it in, it still seems a bit off. Like not entirely comfortable. I feel like it's not far enough in, but the instructional packet scared the crap out of me with telling me not to put it in too far. I don't have the booklet on hand but it says, as far as I remember, to not put it farther than 1/2" into the vaginal opening or it could leak and/or be difficult to remove. My question is: is there a risk of anything else happening to me if it goes too far in? I want to keep pushing it to try to get it comfortable, but I have this absurd fear that... I don't know, my vagina will implode into a black hole. I know (think?) that there is no risk of TSS with the cup, but I want to make sure that there are not going to be any awful consequences if it goes in a little too far.

help! might be allergic to semen!?!

[tulips-rbetter.livejournal.com]

I am on HBC/the pill, and my boyfriend and I generally use 'pulling out' we have sex with no condoms and he does not cum in me. However 3 times now we have had sex with him finishing in me. Every time I have felt burning in my vagina after. The first 2 times I thought i was just sore because we had had a lengthier session or been more aggressive... but now after 3 time i am worried. I have given him many many blow jobs and have never had a problem with swallowing.

Obviuously I will bring it up with my doctor but she is very hard to get an appointment with and my annual checkup is 2 months away, so I will probably just wait until then seeing as i am in a very busy time of my life and do not plan on letting my boyfriend finish in me again any time soon.

Thanks in advance

Bleeding after sex?

[azaelia-took.livejournal.com]

 Hi everyone. I've checked the tags and the FAQ's and couldn't find anything like this.

My boyfriend and I just recently started having sex. I'm 22 years old, and I was a virgin until we did it the first time (I'm a late bloomer. :) ). We've only had sex three times, the most recent being last night. The first time we had sex, I bled. No surprises there--we were both expecting/prepared for that possibility. The second time, everything went fine--it hurt a little bit, but it started to feel good by the end. However, the most recent time, we stopped midway through to re-adjust position and he noticed that I was bleeding again. I'm not sure what's going on. It was kind of painful (but still trending toward feeling good by the time we stopped), and things are a little sore today.

I wasn't bleeding much (not even as much as I did the first time around).

On my own, after I stopped freaking out, I came up with a few possibilities:
a. that my hymen hadn't been completely broken the first or second time, and that this was just vestigial bleeding from that.
b. that I wasn't "ready" enough and/or we didn't use enough lube
c. the angle was kind of awkward and maybe something got messed up that way
d. that I'm (oh no) allergic to latex. 
e. that because I'd just finished my period a couple days ago, this had something to do with that (not likely--the blood was bright red and not period-looking, if you all know what I mean).

I looked "bleeding after intercourse" on google, and got all kinds of scary-sounding stuff that didn't sound like my problem at all--I feel like this is surface in origin, rather than internal.

I will schedule a doctor's appointment if necessary, but I have no health insurance, and would like to avoid the expense if I can...especially since I would have to ask my mom to pay for the appointment, and that would involve her finding out that I've not only been having sex, but that I've been having problems with it. I'd rather avoid that particular conversation.

Obviously, you all can't tell me what's going on with me, but I was just wondering if this is normal, if I should be worried, and if any of you knew of any possible causes/preventative measures.

Thanks, all.

woops

[dumdedum83.livejournal.com]

I usually take my pill (ortho tri cyclen lo) every morning at 7. I was up last night and when it came time to take it this morning being half-asleep I dropped today's pill and couldn't find it. I immediately took tomorrow's and figured I would just take today's tomorrow when I found it.

Well,I can't find it and it's I already took the next pill type. Does anyone have any experience with this/what to do? I would call my dr., but they are closed on the weekend.

Some additional facts that may be relevant:

I'm in a semi-long distance relationship so I won't have an opportunity to have sex until next weekend, which seems remote. I will probably have sex the weekend of the 17-18. Should I use a condom then?


Thanks ladies.

Turned on but not wet?

[stardust0.livejournal.com]

Ok, let me start off by saying that I'm on the pill...Alesse to be more exact.
I think that may be the problem. My boyfriend lives out of the country and I see him every 2 months for a week.

So, you can imagine there is a lot of sex happening...or trying to happen. My issue is that I get so turned on, but it takes me a long, long time to get wet, and then orgasm. It's annoying, because then I start thinking too much if it doesn't happen right away, which prolongs it even more. But, you see, usually I'm SO turned on - like bright red cheeks, hot in the face turned on.

However, on some occasions, it even takes me long to get turned on! I know this has nothing to do with my boyfriend I find him extremely attractive, and since we don't see each other a lot, I have a hard time keeping my hands off him when I do.

I really just don't know why this happens. I've never had to use lube before, and I don't really want to. I've been on the pill for almost a year now and this issue really started about a month into the pill use. Before then, I would be uncomfortably wet if he just WINKED at me. LOL

It's irritating. Is there anything I can do to fix this, aside from getting off the pill/using lube? Is this even happening because of the pill?

Thanks guys!!