Jan. 17th, 2015

[identity profile] ariana-08-08.livejournal.com
Hey

For about a 1 1/2 year I started having this one sympthom of feeling like I have to pee 24/7. It is only a feeling, and if I ignore the feeling I can have "a normal bathroom life", only going about 5-6 times a day.

I have been tested and treated for BV, yeast infection, UTI, over active bladder. I have had an internal ultrasound, two cystoscopy (one where they put me out because of the pain intensity of the provedure), I have had an MRI, I am this wedensday going to have a prosedure where they test the preassure in the bladder.

The doctors have no clue of whats wrong. I tried the IC diet, and feelt no change.
I am 23 years old, still a virgin, have had no sexual contact (penetration or oral/fingers) so an STD unlikely, but have not been tested (its unlikely, but I know that stuff can happen, soneone has to be the one in a million, bacteria don't die the same second it leaves its environment, which is why fingers during sex can transmitt).

But nobody has a clue of what is going on.

I did when all this started lightly read about presistant arousal disorder, but dismissed it because I can't really say I feel aroused all the time, or pain, just this feeling.
But this "need to pee" feeling can be compeared to the "need to pee" feeling one gets right before an orgasm.

I am still able to have orgasms, and it sometimes feels like it gets worse and better (for a little time) when having one (feel better because everything down there gets hypersensitive and I kind of get a little numb for a little while, and worse after this numb feeling gors away).
It feels like this feeling is comming from right outside the urethra, but somethines it also feels like the clitoris might be involved (but again on the outside, not inside which could indicate the bladder).

I only ever had my first orgasm at age 21, I am a virgin (only doctors have been down there, and that after this happened). The only medication besides ordinary pain medication I have taken is The Pill (mycrogynon and merceleon (can't spell it, been a few years since I used that one)).

I almost never drink alkohol (don't like the taste), I don't drink coffe or tea, I drink pepsi max on weekends, I am sligthly overweight (might be on the line between cubby and fat).

I honestly don't know whats going on, and the doctors have to outrule things by trying everything.

I am asking about presistant arousal disorder because I have found wery little information about it. I guess they don't know too much about it.
But to someone that might be familliar with i, could this be it?
I can't say I feel aroused all the time, but there is that simmaleraty between my feeling and what you feel right before an orgasm.
Is there maybe some degrees of this condition (like ADHD, like you can have some letters but not all of them?).
I have considered this to be some neurological ... something, and I think the doctors might think that too but its better if its not and easier to outrule other things, so they're trying everything else.

I do feel like kegal exercise (not really exercise but flexing the muscle myself) makes it worse (as I said it feels like this feeling is right outside the urethra).

If anyone really have it like this and knows what it is, please share. I am not nececarily looking for a cure (have almost really lost hope on that one), but I would at least like to know what it is, and a cure; almost unthinkeble at the time. I can't really remember not feeling like this anymore.

Thanks to anyone that can contribute :) I would really appreaciate some help.
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I'm a 27 year-old genderqueer uterus-owner, I do not mind female pronouns but I have no strong attachment to them. I've been successfully using the birth control patch (first Ortho Evra, in the past year its generic version, Xulane) for over a decade now to prevent pregnancy (and other benefits, like not growing the cysts my ovaries are otherwise apparently prone to).

I was recently advised by my gyno that the patch contains well more than the advertised 7 days worth of hormones, and can easily be used 8-9 days at a time in order to have a cycle of 24/4 or even 27/1 instead of the traditional 21/7 days on/off. Per her suggestion, I've been wearing each patch 8-9 days for the past ~6 months or so. It's worked fine as far as I can tell, though I am still a little nervous about off-label use. Today is day 19 of on-time in my current cycle.

The instructions for the patch say to store it at 77 degrees F (25 C), with brief periods between 59 and 86 F (15 and 30 C) being acceptable. This month has been cold enough, and my apartment drafty enough, that I believe my room has dipped below 59 F at times. Meanwhile, I've had a lot of reddish-to-brown spotting/discharge this month. This worried me enough that I asked my partner to please pull out or use a condom the rest of this month if we engaged in piv, but late last night he woke me up in an amorous mood and I guess was too tired to remember to do either, and did ejaculate inside me. This was probably around midnight at the earliest, possibly as late as 3-4am.

I was at the pharmacy when it opened at 8:30 this morning, though finding the OTC EC and trying to figure out whether my insurance covers this (it apparently only covers EC for minors, which I find a bit strange since most minors must obtain a prescription, only 17 year-olds have access to OTC, why would they specify coverage for exactly one year's worth of people?). I took my single dose of Aftera (cheapest one they had, at $40) by 9am.

I am pretty deeply alienated from my reproductive capacity; it's nice that some parts of the system can feel really good, but most of the pieces further inside have tried to kill me at some point in my life. With a sizeable uterine fibroid, I was nearly able to get my uterus removed the summer before last, but despite my objections they figured out a way for me to keep the damned thing, just removing the growth. I desperately do not want to be pregnant, even for a little bit, now or ever. I've never used EC before; I know I'm well within the window of efficacy, and that it's probably quite unlikely my patch failed anyways, but I'm still extremely anxious about the whole thing right now.

Looking for some hard facts, maybe along with a bit of comfort or sympathy. How likely is it that I will become pregnant from this?
I also welcome your tales of EC use, as I'm a little nervous about how the next few days will be symptom-wise.
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Those of you who squirt, do you notice your self smelling more manly, down below? I wouldn't have a clue how to discribe the change i mean.

[identity profile] i-love-freddie.livejournal.com
I've had the Nexplanon in for 2 and a half years now, had some issues with side effects but I don't have many options as far as birth control goes. Recently I realised that I hadn't checked it for a while, and when I felt for it, I couldn't find it. When I felt around some more, I finally located it - it has shifted a good three inches. It was inserted near the front of my arm, now it's near the back of my arm and I have to press hard to feel it.

I'm a bit freaked out. Is it normal for it to move that much? And could that amount of movement affect how it is working? I'm not having sex very often at the moment (long distance relationship) but I absolutely cannot get pregnant.

I am also quite concerned about how they are going to get it out.

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