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Long story short, there was a mix up at the pharmacy, and I was supposed to get my birth control tonight... now I can't get it until Monday night. The boyfriend and I weren't super safe about sex last night, so I went to Walgreens today and grabbed Plan B. So just a quick question...

I took it a half hour ago. When should I take the birth control? Monday night, or am I supposed to wait a certain amount of time?

So it appears that I have my third UTI in four months. Thankfully, this one appears to be really mild. I think I might be unwittingly setting myself up for them, though: I don't always pee after intercourse (I need to start hydrating myself better so that I can use the bathroom after sex), and I often forget to actually finish the run of antibiotics. Once the pain stops, I stop taking the capsules. However, I fooled around with penises all the time before I got on birth control and I never got UTIs. Suddenly I'm on Loestrin 24 and I'm all UTI-full. I wonder, could the birth control be lowering the pH level of my vagina/vulva and therefore be lowering the acidity of the area, therefore lowering my vulva's natural ability to get rid of harmful bacteria?

On a related note, I'm thinking of starting on the capsules I have left from last month's UTI, just to get the medicine into my system since I can't see a doctor until Monday. I know that the capsules are effective. Would this be a bad idea? I can ask for the same prescription since it's a pretty common UTI antibiotic.

Has anyone else had UTI trouble like this? How did you make it stop? (And also, there's no risk of a possible STI because the men I've been with have been monogamous to me.)

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Lately I am preferring the weekly scopes I get from http://www.kimfalconer.com/ who is by the way a published fantasy author in Australia. She writes a keen 'scope (AstroMojo) and I have found her to be darn accurate in the last couple months as well.

SCORPIO: The sun into Sagittarius is good for your bank account. It rarely fails to increase financial prospects or bring the opportunity to make more money. On an even brighter side, this is all done effortlessly with a smile on your face. If you do have to lift a finger, it's because you want to. (Only if you want to!) Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level. - Eileen Caddy

(I have won $240 now off the lottery in the last week or so, and am enjoying renewed vigor in my career/earnings as well. just sayin!)

Also, if you ever go to the http://www.consciousone.com/c1Cards/ site for Doreen Virtue's cards, you may have noticed it changed. No more Doreen, now it's Sasha. Here's a new one I've been enjoying: http://www.voiceoftheangels.com/freereading.html#

Just an update to my post of the other day.

First, many thanks to everyone who commented. The outside perspectives have been of great help, and have given me a clearer idea of what's going on both in my current situation and also inside my head. I asked my father to make me an appointment with my GP to see about some help, and linked him to the post by way of explanation. He happily agreed, and expressed pleased surprise at everyone's responses to my post: they were all so thoughtful and measured, so thanks from him too.

I saw my GP this afternoon, and she's referred me for a preliminary appointment to work out what sort of help (counselling, psychological or psychiatric) will be best. I've also been prescribed antidepressants, which I'm happy about despite having heard horror stories about them. It's going to be a long and slow process, but at least I've started on it now.

As for the events that prompted all this - the saga of Rob and Bob - I still don't know what I'm going to do, but based on my own instincts and everyone else's suggestions, I think for the time being I'm going to try avoiding them while I try to sort my own head out.

So, thank you all again for helping, and for making this community such an excellent place for people to get the help and perspective they need.

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This is one of the toys listed at the Huffington Post article listing...

15 TOYS *NOT* TO BUY YOUR CHILD THIS HOLIDAY!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/27/15-toys-not-to-buy-your-k_n_351369.html

"There's nothing wrong with self love, but we're pretty sure
kids don't need to learn about it from their action figures."

My cycles usually between 32- 37 days however it has been 43 days already since my last period. There is definately no chance of me being pregnant. I'm getting a little worried so I was thinking about inducing it using parsley tea. Would it be harmful in any way? Would it drive my next cycle even more out of wack?

Thank you in advance.

Hello, ladies.

To make a long story short, when I first started at my place of employment I met a girl there who we'll call Erin. Erin and I hit it off, and a few months down the road I eventually came out to her as a lesbian. She was thrilled and told me that she likes girls as well (but primarily men) and mentioned that we should hook up some time. Fast forward to now. We still work together and get along famously. A couple of days ago she invited me over to her house to hang out and spend the night - which I interpreted as hooking up. Somewhere between talking and making out and being semi-naked, it occurred to me that maybe I was just being too aggressive with my actions and had taken her proposals out of context. Mind you, this girl is naturally very flirty and touchy with everyone at work, so I became very self-conscious and convinced myself that she couldn't possibly want to have sex with me. She didn't seem disappointed when I didn't pursue her further, nor did she try to come onto me. The next day I kicked myself a little for not going along with it anyway, and asked her through text if she wanted to hang out again sometime. This time, I specified how she would feel about having sex - to which she replied "Sounds awesome!" but again, my insecurities arose, wondering if she was just humoring me.

Erin is a very beautiful girl, and in my opinion, way too good for me. Aside from feeling like I don't deserve her, she dates predominately men and tends to avoid girls when it comes to relationships. I've developed feelings for her but she's currently casually dating a guy that she seems fairly interested in - except that she's expressed to me that she doesn't want anything serious right now. I feel like I've received mixed messages from her. I can't decide whether she actually has a physical attraction towards me or if it's just novelty. And as far as my feelings go, what am I supposed to do?

Hey all!
I just asked a question about hair thinning in another community because I have noticed my hair is much thinner than it used to be. I am 20 now and when i was 13-17 age it was very thick, curly and frizzy. It is now much more tame (i figured that came with getting older, hormones, natural changes, etc) but someone brought to my attention it could be my HBC.

I started Yaz when I was 18 and I just want to know the details of this. I started searching online and just got freaked out about long-term effects, etc. so I need some comforting and some solid info. Please help! thanks :)

Edit: I forgot to add what my research said.
-some said that due to Yaz's low estrogen that could contribute
-others said because it is anti androgen it should help with hair loss (other BCs have androgens and that can contribute to hair loss?) confusing!

Hey all!
So when I was in junior high and early high school i had really thick curly frizzy hair. I hated it because it was high maintenance, but i did like how much volume and thickness i had to work with. Now i am 20 years old and my hair has calmed down A LOT and i love the new texture of it, but i am starting to realize my pony is tiny. I don't know if i always had this little amount of hair and the texture just changed, or if i have less now, but i don't like it!

So i just want advice! I take REALLY good care of my hair, so i don't need suggestions like "no tight hairstyles, less heat styling, etc" but more like if this has happened to you, anything i can do to help it like vitamins or supplements, etc.

thanks!

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hey everyone,

i have recently started having sex with my boyfriend (very committed relationship, for the record!) and we've both decided that it'd be a fantastic idea for me to go on birth control. i've never been on it before (i'm 18) and i sort of just feel really really clueless about how to even start the process. i've looked up a ton of info on various types and i know i want to go with a combined pill (i'm leaning towards ortho tri cyclen lo) but other than that, i just don't know anything.

is there any advice or tips or general information anyone can offer? warnings, perhaps? i definitely want to get this taken care of as soon as possible; we've stopped the sex for the time being because we are not baby fans at this point, but i know we're both human and can only hold out for so long! :) thanks in advance!

Edit: thanks for your comments guys, i really appreciate the insight and i already feel a lot better about this!

So I figured out who pulled up my herb garden. It wasn't the guy I suspected. It was one of the new guys. And I know where he lives. But I had a nice long talk with the other neighbor in the garden about things we're planting and bringing in trees and the value of rose hips. I need to get out there a whole lot more and make it known that I'm collecting the "weeds" and blackberry leaves for medicinal use.

And what's the big deal with electric blankets??? I LOVE mine, and I was telling someone about it and she looked at me like I had just told her that I bake my bread with baby fat. She said that she would NEVER use an electric blank blah blah blah. So? What's the problem with electric blankets? So there's a huge electrical field over my body. It's not nearly as bad as carrying a cell phone on my body all the time. Not to mention that half the time I also sleep with my cell phone and laptop in bed. An electric blanket is no worse than a cell phone.

And thanksgiving stuff, etc.

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Hey guys,

I'm back again, with other stuff I should have already posted. But at least it is being posted before Yule, haha.

I decorated it with all the usual things, like candles, fall leaves and pumpkins. Pictures of some of my cats that I've lost in the past. And a picture of my grandparents, that is sitting in a small ceramic cauldron that my grandmother let me have. And one of just my grandmother. I actually was the one that found her when she died. I had gone to check on her, because we lived across an alley from each other. And when I went to her room, I found her on the floor, and I tried to wake her up, but she was already gone. So I frantically called my parents, it was my mom's mother..and they ran over to the house. The police were called of course, and we found out later that she had, had breast cancer, but was hiding it, and only getting by with the pain, by taking simple Advil. I left her an offering of Reese's Pieces, because she liked candy in general, but she really loved Reese's products. For the cats I left some dry food in the apple dish. And for my pet hermit crab, Herman, that died just a couple weeks before Samhain, I left some dried fruit, next to his shell that I kept. You guys will probably reconize the orange cat figures from my last post, as I put them on there with pictures of Mamerine when he was a kitten.

The the God and Goddess figures I made from jute twine, and I always have them on the altar. I arranged them to show the Goddess in mourning over the God. And a funny thing happend with that. I was in the middle of setting it up, and had gone downstairs to do something, when I came back the Goddess had fallen forward, with her head on his crotch. I didn't think to take a picture, before I set Her back up, but it made me laugh.



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Just curious about whether anyone else has experienced menstrual-type pain accompanying ovulation. I'm not talking about mittelschmerz, which I've had pretty regularly before. In this case, I'm talking about uterine cramping (centered, not one-sided) along with substantial low and mid back pain. Both are steady throbbing rather than feeling sharp or stabbing, and both are intense enough that they're not responding to ibuprofen or acetaminophen, though that's pretty typical of my pain associated with cyclic goings-on.

According to my FAM charts, I'm due to ovulate any day now. I've had fertile quality cervical fluid for the past 5 days, and I'm actually 9-11 days past when I'd typically expect to ovulate. (I also had a cold and a UTI in the week-ish prior to my average ovulation, so the delay doesn't surprise me at all.)

I'm not experiencing any other symptoms that would make me suspect other causes or health issues going on. It feels very much like I'm PMSing (minus the bloating and the breast tenderness, which I am not complaining about). Only given my fertility signs for this cycle, it seems very likely that actual PMS is the cause of the pain either.

Thoughts?

Thanks!

okay, so i'm sure many of you have seen that TLC show, "i didn't know i was pregnant".
am i alone in being totally paranoid because of this show? i am on birth control, which i always take at the same time every day, but i can't help but hear the little worried voice in the back of my head every now and then. lately i have noticed a lot of nausea, fatigue, and anxiety. i only started HBC about a month and a half ago, so i have been contributing these symptoms to really shitty side effects, since my period was on time last month anyway.

basically, i just feel the need to be reassured that not knowing you're pregnant is extremely rare...right? so many episodes of that show have shown cases where the woman had negative pregnancy tests and was on birth control, etc. i just don't want a day to come where i have a crazy stomach ache only to surprisingly give birth.