stress/UTI/missed period?

[pinays.livejournal.com]

basically, my life is a wreck right now. two weeks ago i broke up with my long term boyfriend and i had to move out, deal with work (we moved to a new state together and i had to leave my job) and also started seeing someone else. i've been really stressed out and not eating/sleeping right for a while now. i think i lost about eight pounds and for at least a week i ate little to nothing and slept a total of two hours a night.

i got a UTI and as soon as i started feeling the symptoms, i went to the minute clinic at CVS and got checked out. they gave me antibiotics and those other pills that help with the symptoms. i was at the end of my pack this week (i'm taking minastrin) and i've been on the inactive pills since wednesday. i was supposed to get my period on friday (i usually do) but nothing so far.

i've been having sex but we always use condoms. i've been taking my pill at the same time every day like i'm supposed to. i forgot to ask the woman at the minute clinic if the UTI medications would mess with my menstrual cycle. could this be from all the stress in my life right now?

No sex

[thusbands.livejournal.com]

I became sexually active a year and a half ago. I had a decent sex drive. I didn't need it all the time but I did want to have sex. I went on a few birth control pills and they both took my sex drive away. Then I decided to get Skyla and along with horrible cramps I didn't want sex any more. Ever. Well now I have had it out for about a month and I still don't want sex. I only had skyla for 2 months. I will usually start to want it in the middle of the day. My boyfriend doesn't get here until 8 most nights and by the time we go to bed at 10 I absolutely don't want it. Like last night was valentine's day and I figured we would have sex. Well right when we went to the bedroom it's like it just shut off. I wasn't interested at all. He tried kissing me and doing other things and while it didn't feel bad, it didn't make me want sex either. I just don't get what's wrong with me. I was never like this before and I'm afraid that the skyla broke me somehow. Oh and the times I do get interested and want sex a few minutes in my body just stops. My brain starts thinking of other things and I completely dry up. Even if I want sex. It's like my body decides that, "hey, we're gonna think about everything else besides sex right now!"
Does anyone have any ideas what could be going on. Is there any way to fix it? Does this just happen sometimes? Thanks!

Period pain

[missselene-1.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm 24 years old and not sexually active. My period cramps used to be pretty much the same every month, but in the last couple of months I noticed that they are always bad one month and then mild the next. I'm wondering what could be causing this? I'm not aware of doing anything differently. Could it depend on which ovary ovulated?

Links Round Up: Week Ending 14 February 2014

[frolicnaked.livejournal.com]

Hi and welcome to the latest installment of our Links Round Up. :)

For folks who don't know, the LRU is a compilation of items from the past week that may be of interest to VPers and is intended to broaden the kinds of conversations we have here.

To submit articles for next week's round-up, e-mail vpteam@vaginapagina.com. If you have additional articles you'd like folks to know about this week, feel free to comment directly to this post.

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 sources' 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: whether there is an STI that causes maggots; pornography and parenting; Facebook's gender options; and questioning the value of mammograms.

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In case you missed it, also check our most recent MMMMonday post on coping with the (winter) doldrums.

Finally, as always, feel free to share your thoughts on any of these articles, along with what you've been reading or writing this week!