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YeahTubaMike posted:"Eggnancy" is a loving fantastic word, lol. I stole it from Nicholas Gurewitch. https://pbfcomics.com/comics/eggnancy/
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Nice  I'm adding it to my vocabulary.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Yeah, I heard 2 tablespoons back in the day. I think I figured it out though. It is possible that no matter how much menstrual fluid you lose, only a tablespoon or two of that is regular circulating blood. Like when you shed the uterine lining that leaves some capillaries at loose ends and a tiny bit of regular blood leaks out of the circulatory system. The liquified uterine lining itself isn't exactly blood. Menstrual fluid also contains mucus, anticoagulant, and probably various goos I can't remember at the moment. Fluid produced does not equal blood lost. I think you are right!
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Sep 9, 2020 15:39
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I’ve been on Wellbutrin for so long that some months I just straight up get one day of spotting and then nothing and it’s fuckin’ wonderful.
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I think that's it, too, but also: it's me, I am the "two tablespoons" woman. I have the usual ovulation pains, the period cramps, all the kit. But as for bleeding, my period lasts all of one day, two if it's feeling generous. I had thought that was the rule, somehow 
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Oh my god. You could literally just spend a day on the toilet and have it over with. I wish I was you
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I’m passing at least a juicy juice box’s worth rn
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teen witch posted:I’m passing at least a juicy juice box’s worth rn 100% juice for 0% kids
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Jiru posted:I think that's it, too, but also: it's me, I am the "two tablespoons" woman. I have the usual ovulation pains, the period cramps, all the kit. But as for bleeding, my period lasts all of one day, two if it's feeling generous. I had thought that was the rule, somehow So drat jealous rn. Seriously. I'd put up with some cramping if it meant not having The Shining: Elevators Doors scene every drat month. It'd be really cool if you could reliably feel when it's going nuts, but nah, stealth bloodflood is apparently way more sensible somehow.
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Guildenstern Mother posted:Listen I don't know which one of you tik tok witches cast a spell on the thread that makes other people get your symptoms but I just felt myself ovulate for the first time I and I'm not happy about it. This thread's got big blood energy that cannot be contained by the webzone alone.
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Sep 9, 2020 19:17
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NIX cup (which is more a disc than the traditional diva type cup) has completely changed how I roll. As much as the Diva was a changer, the Nix was absolutely too. That plus joyja period undies have basically saved my sheets. I had a mirena for 5 years and god do I hate having to come back to fertility.
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Sep 9, 2020 20:35
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My wife bleeds a lot. Like a LOT. It seems like a horrible experience. Do you think tampons could be better if they were "disrupted" somehow?
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French Canadian posted:Do you think tampons could be better if they were "disrupted" somehow? I suggest getting a bunch of tech bro millionaires to see what they can come up with.
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Sep 9, 2020 22:32
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Literally A Person posted:I suggest getting a bunch of tech bro millionaires to see what they can come up with. I'm thinking some tech bro-ettes could do it better but still somehow manage to be huge assholes about it. Like...Theranos but instead of a tiny vial of blood that you analyze it's a huge blood balloon that you flush down the toilet. Okay how about a surgical implant that redirects the blood into your colon and then you can sort of rely on butthole tightness to keep it contained until you can poop? I dunno....innovation is hard.
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Sep 9, 2020 22:34
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The butthole... doesn't really deal with liquidy stuff that well lol also that's called a fistula
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Sep 9, 2020 22:53
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Cups are the disruption, it happened 10+ years ago (The best disruption is taking bc that lets you just not have periods, but it doesn't work that way for everyone)
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it turns out if I can recommend any place to go have menstrual cramps it's while you're being sedated and gassed to hell in a dentists chair. I didn't give a gently caress at all the whole time.
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Sep 10, 2020 01:28
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French Canadian posted:I'm thinking some tech bro-ettes could do it better but still somehow manage to be huge assholes about it. Nanobots, my dude. Nanobots that pick up single blood cells, maybe single molecules, and move them to the intestine one at a time. The intestines then reabsorb most of the water as they do, so there is no extra liquid in the colon. Just black poos for a week. Then something goes wrong and the earth is converted to grey goo. Worth it.
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Bro-ettes? Really?
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xcheopis posted:Bro-ettes? Really? 
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xcheopis posted:Bro-ettes? Really? I thought the proper term was “bro-lenes”
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kntfkr posted:
this reminded me of a scene in anne rice's "tale of the body thief" where lestat eats the entire period out of a nun. Skratte posted:it turns out if I can recommend any place to go have menstrual cramps it's while you're being sedated and gassed to hell in a dentists chair. I didn't give a gently caress at all the whole time. i once got mine the day after brain surgery, so i was hosed up on dilaudid for half of it.
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My periods are stupid heavy and I remember when I first bought a cup and looked at how small... I kept thinking, "12 hours? No way." I had to empty it less than an hour later. I am using one exclusively now only because I am home 100% of the day. Otherwise I would only use it when camping or if I was going to be at home for a while. Going to work or just... out with it in was basically asking to get my menstrual blood everywhere. Like, just pulling the bastard out and having my hand COVERED in menstrual fluid, and I am at work in a college bathroom stall, with no way to get to the sink without waddling with my pants at my ankles??? No thanks! I was so disappointed and frustrated when I first bought it. It has never, ever lived up to its promise unless I have had a false start or it's day 6/7 out of 9.
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Am waiting for my period to start. The only consistent symptom I get before it is being ornery and mean. Sometimes even that doesn't happen Also kntfkr posted:Just like a fullness that equates more to what she felt in 3rd trimester of our 1st born than the fullness that you experience after eating. Stomach feels "weird" but not like nausea. She just says she feels pregnant. I think she took a test like a week after I busted and it was negative so I'm a little worried about what her feeling could be if it's not eggnancy. Obvs your wife should take a pregnancy test at some point but she may just be having a weird gut flora event. It could also be false pregnancy especially if there are any psychological stress factors: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_pregnancy If the first test was negative then I would think it was actually something digestive or maybe related to another organ. Displacing pain or discomfort from the real source can be a thing as well. HIJK fucked around with this message at 13:28 on Sep 10, 2020 |
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I've been using cups for over a decade now and will evangelise for them forever, every time I am reminded of the sheer inconvenience of my life before I can't believe I actually lived like that. I'm lucky enough that my period is light enough that I can just leave it in all day and almost never have to change it in public toilets, it means the difference between period and not-period (besides lethargy and chugging period pain tablets lol) is a couple of minutes in the morning and a couple of minutes before bed that I have to think about it, and otherwise I just don't have to think about it at all even a bit. Don't have to keep track of whether I have enough period stuff or need to get more, don't have to guess if my period's about to start or waste stuff using it when I don't have a period. Absolutely love the thing. I do dimly recall that it had a huge learning curve when I first got one and that it was pretty painful inserting and removing for a few periods until my body adjusted, but I pushed through because I knew if I got the hang of it I'd have decades of convenience ahead of me, and I was 100% correct.
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don longjohns posted:My periods are stupid heavy and I remember when I first bought a cup and looked at how small... I kept thinking, "12 hours? No way." As someone who has bled through a super-plus tampon in an hour & 45 minutes, I'm glad that I didn't put any extra effort into trying to get cups to work. I couldn't fit it inside no matter how I folded/twisted it, so I just threw it out & never thought about it again.
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I really want to love my cup, and I did for a couple years, but now I find it just makes me too sore putting it in/out and having it in gives me cramps. I have a saalt soft so it’s already the most comfortable it can be. The first cup I had had a little hard nodule above the stem you could grip with your fingernails. I don’t get why other cups don’t have it, except maybe that it takes away some volume capacity. It’s so much harder to get cups with just ridges out, and the saalt is so smooth it slipped right out of my hand into the toilet even though I’m an ‘experienced’ user.
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I’ve always wanted to use tampons but my vagina clamps shut like a coyote trap when anything approaches it. I went to a gynecologist to get a pap done and he became obsessed with fixing it. He also insisted that it couldn’t possibly hurt me when he inserted his pinkie finger. Despite the fact I was in tears. He didn’t actually do the pap and I did not return to get a follow up.
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Sep 10, 2020 16:29
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If I had to go to a specific penis doctor I would really like it if that person also had a penis.
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Literally A Person posted:If I had to go to a specific penis doctor I would really like it if that person also had a penis. Makes sense, and I generally agree about the principle, but my first gyno was a cis guy and he was really great. Gentle, knowledgeable, all the good stuff.
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Sep 10, 2020 18:12
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I have had decent male doctors and every one of them worked for Planned Parenthood. None of the others should have been licensed to practice gynecology.
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Sep 10, 2020 18:36
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My wife has hated all but one of her OBGYNs, both men and women. Maybe there's just something about that specialty that attracts people with absolutely horrible interpersonal skills?
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My cis male GP is the one who ended up doing the pap smear after and while it was nightmarishly painful, he at least didn’t act like I was overreacting. So definitely not a universal constant among my doctors but it is a constant of most of my old man doctors who are specialists.
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Okay, I have to ask -- how are pap smears SUPPOSED to feel? Because every time I've had a pap smear, I literally haven't felt anything. Do I have a numb cervix or something? Is such a thing possible? 
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YeahTubaMike posted:Okay, I have to ask -- how are pap smears SUPPOSED to feel? Because every time I've had a pap smear, I literally haven't felt anything. Do I have a numb cervix or something? Is such a thing possible? Well mine feel like getting stabbed in the vagina but tampons, transvaginal ultrasound devices and penises all feel like that too, but I’m pretty sure that’s a Me problem.
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HellOnEarth posted:Well mine feel like getting stabbed in the vagina but tampons, transvaginal ultrasound devices and penises all feel like that too, but I’m pretty sure that’s a Me problem. Have you been diagnosed with vaginismus or is it something else?
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HIJK posted:Am waiting for my period to start. The only consistent symptom I get before it is being ornery and mean. Sometimes even that doesn't happen Hi, thank you for this!
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Metaline posted:Have you been diagnosed with vaginismus or is it something else? Doctor said it’s probably Vaginismus. I wasn’t especially interested in going through all the hassle of fixing it with the aforementioned gynecologist. He was not especially reassuring and I’m gay so it’s just a little inconvenient during the Blood Moon.
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HellOnEarth posted:Well mine feel like getting stabbed in the vagina but tampons, transvaginal ultrasound devices and penises all feel like that too, but I’m pretty sure that’s a Me problem. Popping out of lurking to say I had this. It was an issue with a too strong pelvic floor, and was more or less fixed by 3 months of pelvic floor physical therapy. Also helpful was getting Paps done by a midwife and not a gyn. Every gyn I went to was all like "Is it I who is screwing up? No, it's the vagina who is wrong"
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ElHuevoGrande posted:"Is it I who is screwing up? No, it's the vagina who is wrong" This just perfectly sums up men in general.
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