Vag itch: Is it something more?

[lurne.livejournal.com]

Hey everyone!

( Anyone familiar with a super dooper vag-and-now-everywhere itch? Is this an immune disorder? )

Coming off HBC - extreme mood swings

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Hi lovelies!

I posted here asking about experiences of coming off Cerazette and got great responses, but I think I'm having a side effect from coming off HBC - after a decade - that I wasn't expecting or prepared for and so didn't recognise immediately.

Came off seven weeks ago, and three weeks later I started having this feeling of being 'trapped' in my life and wanting to run away/ get away somehow, like imagining I should get a job in another country and googling it, things like that which are very out of character - I was happy before this or so I thought.
Last weekend all this came to a head and I was uncontrollably emotional, but still didn't link it to hormones. I walked out on my partner - this is he guy I came off HBC for, we were going to start ttc. I felt intensely like we'd grown apart and that I needed to get out/ move on.

Now I've started spotting and oh my god it all came together in my head.
Could all these feelings be down to hormonal changes? I'm confused, scared, wondering how much of my personality and choices are actually MINE?! I saw my doctor and she said she'd never heard of such a radical reaction before but she said it was certainly possible. Any experiences of anything like this to share?
Could it be that I do actually feel trapped and am looking for excuses? Blimmin hormones, eh?

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Searching for answers no one seems to have, and new hindrances

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This post is a follow up to past entries.

Triggery. ( Proceed with the novel, if you wish (re: please!) )

Post-Abortion Care

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Lovely to see that this community is still going strong!

I have a quick concern.. I am probably just being overcautious.

I had a surgical abortion two weeks ago yesterday. I also had a Mirena IUD inserted at the same time.
They said nothing inside for two weeks including fingers etc. They also said two weeks for hottubs but baths are ok after a few days.

I'm not sexually active currently, found out about the pregnancy after a breakup, so it hasn't been an issue.. but I really want to go in my mom's hottub, and I'm very curious to feel the strings for the IUD. but I still have a bit of bleeding. It's more of an old blood type discharge, I haven't had any bright red blood for a long time. Should I be worried? It's been two weeks but I don't want to risk messing anything up if I'm still healing.

Thanks!

ETA: I think I could go in the hottub without a tampon etc without any worries, it's really more of a coloured discharge than anything. Just worried about infection otherwise.

IUD and sponges?

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Hello all,

I'm new here, but have a question...

I have just (like 24 hours ago), had the IUD copper coil fitted. No one told me until after it was fitted that you shouldn't use anything in the vagina for the first period at least... trouble is it's probably going to arrive when I'm on holiday.. and beaches, bikinis, sea etc and no internal menstrual protection don't seem to go hand in hand to me.

I usually use a mooncup, however there are apparently issues with the suction on this and I don't particularly want to risk using it until I'm settled onto the IUD. Tampons risk pulling on the strings apparently.

So are there any other solutions out there? I've been thinking about the menstrual cups that are more like bags, but I don't know anything about those...

Or sponges - do they pose the same risk of snagging on the chords as tampons?

I'm generally only talking about for the first period here.. I think after that I'll probably use pads and then eventually go back to my mooncup as long as I'm soooper careful with the suction.

Does anyone have any experience or know anything about this?

Thanks!

Menstrual Cups

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I recently tried the Instead Soft Cup and it didn't go well. I could get it in and over my pubic bone but it would pop out and slip down slightly. I could feel it and it made my cramps worse. I think it was too big. I would like to try a different menstrual cup, like the Lunette Cup I found at Walgreens.I am wondering since I could not comfortable use the Soft Cup, will I be able to use a cup like the Lunette shape? I know they are quite different but I don't want to buy one and be disappointed again.

Thanks!

Cervicitis + external itch?

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Hi, VP!

I definitely feel kind of stupid making this post, because I'm a nurse and so my instinct is that I should already know this. Which, considering I'm not a GYN nurse, isn't actually true, but it's self-shame. So, anyway -- for the past few weeks I've had an increase in discharge, which has mostly been milky-white and odorless. About three days ago, I started getting some pretty bad vulvar itching, and today there's been an increase in gray discharge, slight odor and some bloody discharge.

I'm in the middle of a pack of Seasonique and have been on it for three years, which means it's been over three years since I've had a menstrual cycle. I take the pills reliably and have no reason to be having bleeding right now related to the medication. My initial thought with the gray discharge was trichomoniasis, but I've only ever had sex with one person, we've been together for six years, and my partner tested negative for it before we had intercourse for the first time. (My partner reaffirmed today, after I asked, that we have both been sexually monogamous for six years.)

The discharge is consistent with cervicitis more than BV, as is the bleeding; what I'm not aware of is if vulvar itch is a symptom of cervicitis, and so I'd love to know if anyone could shed some light on that! In addition, is it possible that it could be trich that didn't show up on a test quite some time ago and is only coming up now? I know it can lie dormant for a long time, but I'm not sure how long.

(I know this isn't a YI, because I get 'em pretty regularly and am very familiar with what my body is doing when there's yeast around. This is definitely not that.)