I keep messing up...

[seishukuhime.livejournal.com]

I had previously posted about having accidentally taken the last pill in my pack first.  I had decided to keep taking the pills from the beginning.  A few minutes ago, at around 12:25am, I remembered that I had forgotten to take my pill at 8:00pm.  I thought it was weird that the pack was on Thursday instead of Friday, so I took both pills at once, thinking that I had forgotten yesterday's pill.  But I hadn't forgotten to take it yesterday, because I was missing one from the end.  I accidentally took tomorrow's pill!  D'oh!  Since the timing is so off, I don't even know what this means or what I should do.  Should I just play it safe and use protection until I've taken my pills consistently for 7 days?

Links round-up: Week ending March 17, 2012

[also-warriors.livejournal.com]

Welcome to our new weekly links round-up. This is a compilation of items from the past week that may be of interest to VPers.
As a reminder, in lieu of trigger warnings, I use keywords describing the themes of the piece. Please skim these before deciding to read the excerpt or click through for the full article. Outside sources are not safe spaces, and mainstream source's comments should almost always be avoided. The links I highlight don't necessarily reflect VP's views, or even my own, for that matter. 

This week's round-up includes: Petition: Prosecute the killer of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin; St. Patrick’s Day, Irish-Americans and the Changing Boundaries of Whiteness; a response to white fat activism from People of Color in the fat justice movement; free pizza with that vasectomy; Peru Passes Monumental Ten Year Ban on Genetically Engineered Foods; Despite High Incidence of Rape, Native Women Denied Right to Plan B; Transgender Traveler, A girl and her room; Anatomy of a Tear-Jerker; eating red meat is probably no more likely to kill you than anything else.
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What have you been reading (or writing!) this week?

If you'd like to see an article included in next week's round-up, send me an e-mail at also_warriors@vaginapagina.com . Non-US and positive links are especially appreciated. (I can't fit all the awesome links people send, but I'll try to post any that I don't include to Facebook, Tumblr, or Twitter.) You can also just take matters into your own hands and post in the comments!

endless period and endless yeast infections

[chipie.livejournal.com]

Hello!

I've had a copper IUD in since August, and it's been good.  But this month, my period has been lasting forever.  It's already been 3 weeks and it shows no sign of stopping.  It's not very heavy but it's more than spotting: a pantyliner would definitly not be enough.

I use a menstrual cup, so the bleeding has been easy to deal with.  The problem is that I also have been super prone to yeast infections lately, to the point where I almost always have a vague yeast infection (I take probiotics every day and use boric acid every time it feels like it might turn into a full yeast infection, and that's been keeping in under control).  I feel like using my menstrual cup is making my yeast infection worse.  I tried to switch to pads, but I find those irritating so I don't like to use them many days in a row.  Fabric pads haven't been working well because I'm bleeding too much to use only one pad a day, but I only have a few pads, and I don't do laundry enough.  I know, that's a terrible excuse, but that's the way it is right now.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to manage the bleeding, how to get rid of it, have to avoid developping a yeast infection, or anything else?

Thank you kindly!

I posted this on iud_divas as well.

Help with endometrial biopsy results?

[sashafarce.livejournal.com]

Hello lovelies! I had posted here over the last 10 months or so needing answers and everyone was super helpful then, so I'm hoping that I'll have the same good fortune this time. To recap: ( Recap of bleeding experiences/procedures of last 10 months )

My endometrial biopsy results read like this: "Fragments of polypoid endometrial tissue with complex glands and extensive squamous morules consistent with atypical polypoid adenomyoma. No evidence of malignancy." Now I obviously know that last part is good, but the rest of it is a bit of a headscratcher. The reason why I brought it to the good people of this community is because it was a headscratcher for the gynecologist as well! His response to me when I asked him to break it down was: "I'm not sure that I can. It looks like you have some kind of mass, but I've never seen biopsy results like this before. I do know that this is worrisome, though." He couldn't even tell me for certain if I had hyperplasia or if potential hyperplasia was simple, complex, or atypical (but I suspect complex since I don't see any evidence of atypia in regards to my endometrial tissue here).

He's referred me to a specialty clinic in a teaching hospital but I'm waiting in line for an appointment/to see if I am approved for financial assistance at this point so I can have a D&C and an exploratory look at my uterus. In the meantime, though, I was wondering if any VPers had experience with this or could help me break down what this may mean. Our best interpretation at this point is that I have complex hyperplasia and a rare-but-benign tumor (the adenomyoma mentioned in the biopsy). I promise I'm not asking for medical advice, just help in making sense of what's going on with my body in the weeks (months?) wait to get treatment.

Thanks so much in advance!

Nausea/Vomiting around Period Time?

[wowthatisminty.livejournal.com]

Checked both the nausea tags and the menstruation tags, found nothing.


( Cut for emetophobes, I guess. )

Left BC pills at home - can anyone advise, esp. in the UK?

[miss-heni.livejournal.com]

So, I'm working away from home, halfway across the country, for two and a half weeks and I stupidly forgot to bring my next pack of HBC pills (Yasmin). I have enough until Wednesday, and then it's the start of what should be my pill-free week, and I should re-start taking the Thursday afterwards. Didn't bring that spare pack with me, and I won't be home until the following Tuesday, so that's five pills I'll be missing if I don't figure something out.

I know that if I go home I'll have to use condoms for seven days after the day I get back. I'd really rather not to have to do that (although I'd even more rather not get pregnant right now, so). But it's my partner's birthday that week, and there'll be a fair bit of going out and partying, and I'd rather not mess my contraception up and have to worry about it, and neither I nor my partner really like condoms anyway.

I wondered whether it would be fine to get my partner to post up my next pack - but not sure if that's even legal, or whether it would get confiscated in the post or something? Or failing that, whether if I go to an NHS walk-in type facility while I'm here and explain the situation, whether they'll be able to write me a prescription for a spare pack? Otherwise, condoms it is :-(

Any advice appreciated!

ETA: Oh, dammit, I've just searched and there's actually not an NHS walk-in in the area where I'm staying. Sexual health clinics? Pharmacies?