Nov. 7th, 2011

[identity profile] somuchfail.livejournal.com

Hi.  Obvious sock journal is obvious.

I'm 25 and had PIV for the first time Saturday afternoon.  I'm posting here because I'm still bleeding heavily and in more pain than I think I should be.

I had my hymen surgically removed almost eight years ago.  I'm on the pill (Ortho-Cyclen) and haven't taken any late or missed any.  It's nowhere near time for my period.  This pain is vaginal, not uterine; and the bleeding doesn't resemble my period in any way (flow, consistency, color, etc) - I know sex can sometimes stimulate an early period, but this would be a *highly* atypical period for me if that were the case.  We used a condom; I have no history of latex sensitivity.  I was plenty wet and he was extremely gentle, but I still found the sex excruciatingly painful.  He's had recent STI testing that's been entirely negative.  I'm in enough pain now to make sitting and wiping uncomfortable and am changing a well-saturated maxi pad every few hours.

Normal?  No?  Ideas to make the pain go away/chill the bleeding out?

Thanks.


[identity profile] fushigi-na-chou.livejournal.com
Halloween weekend was the start of my new pack of Aviane 28 (Alesse 28). My first pill should have been taken that Friday night (10/28) at 8 PM. Due to Halloween plans and getting caught up in all the festivities, I didn't take it until probably 2 or 3 Saturday morning, about 7 or 8 hours later than I should have. Saturday night was pretty much the same story (got caught up in drinking and festivities, completely forgot my pill until 2 or 3 in the morning). I had sex Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. I posted this same question in the [livejournal.com profile] birth_control community, and the response I got regarding compromised protection was that, since it was the start of my new pack, I was essentially extending my placebo week without protection, at least for those extra 7 or 8 hours, which puts me in a weird gray area, but nothing definitively dangerous. I wasn't all that concerned until they posted that comment, just because I know from last time going off birth control, it took a full 28 days for my cycle to return, and I didn't have any spotting or anything before then. I assumed, perhaps naively so, that there's no way my ovaries could have gotten overly excited in those 7-8 hours and woken up and released an egg.

At any rate, I'm noticing that with this pack (which is my fifth pack), my boobs are sore the first couple of pills in (which doesn't seem usual for me -- when I first started, they were sore the whole month, starting about the end of the first week of active pills, then by pack three they chilled out and were only sore a week or so before my inactive week), and I am mildly crampy. I'm trying to do the math and telling myself that it is far too early for either of these symptoms to be an issue, even taking into considering my late pills. I'm trying to tell myself I'm just being psychosomatic, again, and noticing everything going on in my gut region to the extreme. It doesn't help matters that I had strep from Tuesday night to Friday (at least my symptoms of that were gone by Friday), and antibiotics of course mess with everything. Though, I was feeling mildly crampy before I got sick, for what that's worth.

(In addition to symptoms I'm feeling or think I'm feeling, I had someone ask me out of the blue yesterday if I was pregnant. What. the. crap.)

Someone please tell me I'm being an idiot and that I can't possibly be pregnant and that I need to abstain from sex forever because I will always think I'm pregnant unless I do. =o=
[identity profile] nyssa.livejournal.com

The time has come for me to get back on birth control. At this time, I cannot afford the more expensive methods, such as an IUD or Implanon.

 

However, I have been on the pill twice (Alesse and Ortho-tricyclen, I think) and it went pretty badly. I have also been on OrthoEvra three times, and that went even worse. I just got incredibly sick on all of them...for example, the patch made me throw up all night every first Monday (after reapplying the patch after the week off). The pills weren't much better.

 

Now I'm just scared to pick a new kind, because I don't know enough about the science to know what to avoid or what might be a good pick...

 

Any help? I was vaguely considering Depo or maybe NuvaRing, or even another kind of pill as long as it was different enough from the two I tried already.

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[identity profile] effydesmarais.livejournal.com
I'm pretty sure I have some kind of infection. Maybe a yeast infection, but I'm pretty sure it's something else. Anyway, I'd like to get it checked out, but because of my vulvodynia and vaginismus, examinations are horrific for me, and I avoid them like the plague. I really can't stand the thought of being examined.

So is there a way for them to do it without examining me, or examining me in a really gentle/non-invasive way?

I'm in the UK by the way, just in case examination procedures differ from country to country.

Also, is there any way you can clear up an infection - yeast or otherwise - by yourself at home with natural products? Or is that just too much to hope for?

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