no boys allowed in the room!!!!

I loooooove it but yeah it made my periods heavier. Or...this might be a weird way to describe it but it made them wetter?? Like I felt the blood was thinner and soaked through more stuff (whereas I guess before it was...thicker but there was less of it?)

It has leveled out now, probably took almost a year though. And I'm still a little bit heavier than I was pre-IUD--but not the magic gushers of the first while.

Because if anyone knows where to find that rainbow magic unicorn gushing period wave img, that's basically what it was like minus the rainbows, magic, and unicorns.

http://www.vh1.com/celebrity/bwe/images/2010/09/SHINING-ELEVATOR-DOORS.gif

That's not what I was thinking of but it'll do.

Here we go!

http://www.lunapads.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/blowup.jpg

Oh yeah that one.

i've never seen that
i like the one from the overlook better

I like the munchy tampon monsters in the 2nd one.

totally classic image

my sister has been going through awful thyroid-related stuff for the past year, too - complicated by diabetes - but i've documented most of it already in the familyproblems thread. to top off her list of illnesses/diagnoses/injuries-due-to-bad-care, today i got a msg from my mum that the recent laser surgery they performed on her eyes (bc she got some weird spontaneous burst capillary or something), which was supposed to have a side effect of improving her eye sight, has actually over-cooked her eyes and now, at the age of 26, she needs an $800 prescription for progressive lenses.

Today I purchased BCPs from a Mexican pharmacy (no Rx required, 20 USD) PRO: available, cheap. CON: do not match my former pills at all. But seemed like the best option to get me through a month before I'm back in the states and can go to PP for the first time in like 20 years (I only have catastrophic insurance atm)!

jfc your poor sister, j! I hope someday soon the tide turns and the rest of her life is the best any life has ever been, because she seems to have the worst luck! :(

Q how much is the bc? When I used to be on it (no work insurance) they were $7 a pack with a looming price increase to $10 on the horizon around the time I stopped taking them. But, Canada. It was undoubtedly subsidized.

^^ ~3-4 years ago I went off the pill iirc

Someone said something incomprehensible to me on the stairs at work which I only worked out was probably a secret woman code for "your bra is showing" when they added "did you forget what colour you were wearing this morning?" and now I feel a little self-conscious.

(it's a dark top which also doesn't match either of the two bras I have in nominally the same colour so I just wore a black bra, is that so wrong? apparently)

I suppose we have a special bra thread I could have posted that on but I'm going to hide here in the girls' corner and try not to move my shoulders for the rest of the day.

i was watching this fantastic satyajit ray film recently, about a woman who goes out to work because her family can't get by on one income, and she's a door-to-door saleswoman of domestic machinery to wealthy respectable women, and every time the camera's behind her you can see her bra through her choli and it's totally not an issue.

so eh, whatever, you are like this amazingly beautiful heroine, out in the world of work with a visible bra, people just gotta deal.

admittedly i am in a v 'at least you are wearing a bra!!' mood, because this morning i got up and put on a wash and then realised that all of my bras were in that wash (i threw out loads of old underwear recently and have not restocked yet). and so today is... weird-feeling.

I don't mind showing the straps or it showing through a flimsy fabric (I try not to wear see-through tops but that's more because of the areas of flesh not hidden by my bra tbh) but the combination of realising the v-neck goes a little lower than I thought plus "oh you must be colour-blind"-level comments = a little more than I felt ready to cope with at 9:30 in the morning

now it's not 9:30 so yeah, other people better deal

ah yes, end-of-week laundry problems

People who care about fashion tell me that blue & black are fine together these days, also people round here go to the shops with their pants showing. I know work is different, but we live in visible-lingerie times.

Listen, I used to work with a nice girl from Minnesota who would wear like nice dress pants with a waffle-knit long underwear top and a white bra underneath. Not only was the top massively inappropriate for the bottoms (truly wtf) but every inch of her bra was visible through the waffle.

Apparently her boss never so much as raised an eyebrow and one of her co-workers was confused that I thought this was remarkable.

I can only file this under "People: Wtf?"

I know work is different, but we live in visible-lingerie times.

otm!!
when i realized this and stopped fretting about whether or not people had to suffer through seeing my bra straps/body, i started feeling a lot more comfortable about getting dressed every day!

i totally know how it could be embarrassing or whatever, but this is a serious case of DNS

if I didn't wear blue with black or brown with black, and I didn't wear purple because that is for mad old catladies (why yes hello) and I didn't wear all black because lol goths, then that rules out basically everything I've worn for the past 15 years except pyjamas, and I hear pyjamas in public are frowned upon too

im finding it v surprising that someone would even note that your bra was visible

Yeah, unless it was in a "heads up, your zipper is down" kind of way, it is a really annoying thing to say.

it seems really old fashioned. like we're all walking around in terror that our slip might make an appearance

it says more about the person who said it than the person whose bra strap was showing
DNS, move on immediately

I hate it when my cotton, nude colored, generic, ugly-utilitarian bra shows because it is so not attractive. Cute bras, yeah, so what if they show.

So a few weeks ago I mentioned that an ob-gyn delivered bad news to me. So I got a second opinion and did all the testing over. It was sent to the same lab and my results were negative for everything! I'm okay? I think I am, pretty sure, never had any issues, symptoms. This whole ordeal just makes that doctor seem creepier. I am complaining to the medical board because of how inappropriate he was doing the pap, but as for the test results...lab to blame? Human error? I am complaining about how he handled the whole situation as well, being so discouraging of a 2nd opinion and just a real asshole.

Another odd thing was my new doctor received results in a week while creepy doctor didn't call me about my supposedly, super serious test results for three weeks. Same lab!

i'm glad you're complaining. the results thing is weird, maybe creepy doc's lab was incompetent enough to mix up results

Same lab the my new doctor used.

oh i missed that somehow, sorry.

Maybe whoever sent off the specimens got it all wrong at his office.

As much as docs like to blame stuff on front office, the front office is THE LLC (i.e., the doc's) responsibility. He/she is responsible for the front office staff and the management of the practice. Nice try with the "blaming the office staff" (not directed at your case specifically, tera, just in general). That is 100% bullshit because this is YOUR staff and YOU are responsible for their performance. "But I didn't go to med school to learn how to run an office" does not exempt you from having your company run well.

I get soooooo pissed at the blame-the-office-staff thing. You are the CEO and/or partner in your practice, take fucking responsibility and fix it, or accept that YOU are incompetent.

2.5 weeks, still bleedin. not pregnant. blood tests n ultrasounds in my near future. yay.

:(

I hope everything is okay! Also maybe take an iron supplement you poor thing.

Oh bummers Trayce. Hope everything gets resolved quickly.

otm. safe travels, and cosign iron supplement

Its got worse in the last 24 hours. I feel ok, but pretty sore and a bit run down. Doc gave me a scrip for some med that will make my blod clot more. I want a 2nd opinion from the pharmacist or something before I take it tho. Wouldnt a clotting med be bad for a smoker?

Good idea on the iron tho. I might make mysef a big steak for dinner.

oh man, i have no idea how to answer that question but i wish you the best of luck.

on a completely different note, i have been looking through my diaries. i started with a particularly bad one because i honestly couldn't remember what had really gone down during that period of my life, and then i went back to the first one, which started in 1986. that's the one where i saw dirty dancing and it affected me lol profoundly. my writing is huge and loopy and childish, but i was definitely going through some...hormonal changes.

then i read that whole thing, which took me from 7th gr through 10th gr. then today i found the one after that, which contained a detailed description of my first make out. i don't know if i feel old or disembodied or confused or what, but reading my goofy childish handwriting and trying to digest that i am that same person is making me feel suuuuuper weird.

i dunno, the whole thing is a bit much. not sure why i am putting myself through this?! i was an exhaustive cataloguer of my life and its details because i knew that no one else would remember all the things i wanted to remember (or care), so i guess what is kinda making my head spin is that in some visible-only-to-me ways, i haven't changed at all.

Oooh sometimes I hate reading old diaries and things. I found some stuff in a drawer cleaning up on the weekend and it was me writing whiny letters to an ex that I never sent. Made me feel gross bringing it all up again.

I have all my old diaries but I don't know why. I don't want to read them and they are taking up valuable space. I can't bring myself to get rid of them, though.

Don't get rid of them!! I kept mine because someone has to care about my life and that person is me! This is why I wrote everything down in the first place iirc.

If you want to store them you can store them safely in my basement and you have my solemn word that I will not go anywhere near them.

Aw that is a kind offer! You are making me reconsider getting rid of them. Not bc of the storage solution - just bc of your enthusiasm for their preservation.

save every signpost from the road to agatha.

Please please do not discard!! I will hold them in the back of a closet for you until you want them -- we're not going anywhere! That's your life and you can't discard it. I insist!

Im glad the horriblest bit of my life didnt get journalised.