Question on parsely tea

[elfbabe.livejournal.com]

I've always had a very regular, very predictable 4-week cycle that's never given me any real problems beyond some very nasty cramps, especially in the last couple of years... but this spring/summer, it's going to be a real problem. First, there's my high school graduation, in which I'll be wearing a very nice, very white dress, then there's my 2-year anniversary with my boyfriend, and then a really close friend is visiting from Canada for a week, and I really don't want to be incapacitated/inconvenienced for any of that.

I've figured out that it will all work out just fine if I can move my period up by a bit over a week over the next two-ish months, and it seems like a good dose of parsely tea would make that possible, if I try to bump it up by 4 or 5 days one time and 4 or 5 more days the next... but... will it actually work like that? Can I make my body do that? If I have a bad experience with the tea the first time I try it, it's not going to hurt anything too much, but I'd just like to know if this is at all do-able.

Hehe

[nic0le.livejournal.com]

I was just wondering if anyone else has a name for their little visitor every month? Mine is Miss Patty!! (pad-e)..lol

bc pills and daylight savings time

[isolt.livejournal.com]

I hate daylight savings time. I never know quite what to do about when I take my birth control pills. Do I just set my alarm for the same hour as always, or do I set it for an hour earlier (so that I can keep taking them at the same time)?

argggh. I only have a week left, if I take all of them an hour later, I can't screw things up too badly, can I?

Merry Meet everyone

[inanna.livejournal.com]

Well, it took me a little bit to figure out how to post to the community.... amazing what FAQ's can do for a woman :)

My moontime has arrived, with surprisingly little fuss. No cramps, no HUGE moodswings (although some small ones).

About a year ago i started using cloth pads - ones i made myself as opposed to buying them, i am too cheap - even though i am not a great seamstress. Well, one month i forgot to wash them right away and they got really icky, so i threw them all out. So i have been using disposable pads for a while now, but i want to go back to cloth. i was going to sew more before this moontime, but it didn'thappen... perhaps i can get off my butt and make them today. They aren't difficult, just time consuming when you sew as little as i do.

But, it does explain why i was craving bread last week - i wasn't paying as good attention as i should, so i didn't link the two.

Nice to meet you all!

blessings...
inanna

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[hissyfit.livejournal.com]

i forgot that my period is due in a couple days. i also forgot that i always have intense emotions right before my period. i always get very unhappy. i always want to break up with the person i'm with or, if i'm not with anyone, forcefully coerce someone into being with me. i'm very destructive between ovulation and menstruation. so, instead of making any big decisions about my life right now, i'm going to wait until i've had my period and then re-think. i think that's going to be the for the best.

Parsley Tea for inducing menstruation

[wildfl0werz.livejournal.com]

Has the parsley tea thing worked for anyone ?

For those of you who don't know what I am talking about,.. See here: Parsley Tea for Missed periods

*growl* *snarl*

[vangie.livejournal.com]

*sob*

well, i'm here for a few days... i've finally given up on putting in an instead correctly... they must be too big for me or something, they *always* leak... switching back to tampons... which brings me to another problem... i have to change them at school, and my cunt chooses today of all days to be dry as the sahara... which means i took four tampons to school, used three attempting to change it at lunch, and the last one during my free mod... as i type i can feel the pete-damned thing... i think i'll just put on a panti-liner for play practice and hope my flow isn't too heavy... i've never had problems inserting tampons before... any help?

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[hissyfit.livejournal.com]

i went to the student health facilities for my annual std screen today. i like to do it just to make sure. it's a safety precaution. i had no reason to think that i DID have an std, but i like to be safe. and clean. you know.

so i went in, and the nurse-practitioner pretty much just turned me away. i told her that, though i've had more than one partner in the last year and a half, that i haven't had sex with a person who was biologically male. she laughed and put her hand on my arm in a very warm, this-is-a-wonderful-joke-between-friends kind of way. maybe she thought that i wasn't comfortable with using the term lesbian. i don't know for sure, but she didn't use the word during our conversation. she just said "people... in your circumstance". i felt condescended to, as though she was tittering at my phase with girls and touching my arm warmly to let me know that it's all right to experiment, and that she doesn't disapprove. i don't know. maybe i was just reading into it. she said that "people... in my circumstance" aren't really at risk for stds other than herpes and hepatitis b. since i have no open sores, got all of my tattoos in sterile shops, and am in the middle of my hep b vaccination she said that i didn't need a screen. she said that there was no reason. i felt somehow cheated.

then she launched into ways that i could go about losing weight. i went in for an std screen. AN STD SCREEN. not weight-loss tips. she tried to give me weight watchers information. she tried to give me pamphlets. i almost cried there in the office. i said that i was already working on it and that i didn't want her pamphlets. she smiled as though she had done some sort of huge good for the world. she had a pointy little tongue that she kept sticking out as she wrote, and wiry salt-and-pepper hair. she gave me her card. i threw it away.

i'm not going back to that clinic.

and i think that i am officially pre-menstrual. i don't feel entirely sane.

It's a comin...

[eve223.livejournal.com]

I woke up this morning couldn't button my pants and now there is turmoil in the lower part of my belly...It's on it's way...

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[dancewhore.livejournal.com]

i just came across this website... i don't know if anyone has seen it before though...

we should all make homepages in tribute to our vaginas! :)

Sea Sponges

[inanna.livejournal.com]

i was wondering how you all like the Sea Sponge. Tampons give me cramps - really bad. i have considered using a sea sponge, but i am scared i will have the same problem. So.... are they worth it?? :)

thanx and blessings...
inanna

Menstrual Product Poll

[cixous.livejournal.com]

I'm just curious - what is your favorite menstrual product? Why? Which brand do you use? Do you use tampons with applicators or without and why?

[Poll #26904]

hihi

[julisana.livejournal.com]

Wow...they have a community for everything nowadays, don't they! Fun! So yes, I too suffer from that great monthly occurance. Suffering right now at the moment...but anyway, I just wanted to say howdy and all that.

Also wanted to ask if anyone had any advice on how to maybe lessen cramps before they start, or once they do start, get rid of them quickly. I get rather violent cramps...and i'm bound to the bathroom until the adivl or whatnot kicks in. Suggestions, ladies? Please

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[sweet-sunrise.livejournal.com]

I have pretty regular periods and have had for the past 8 years. To my knowledge or rather memory I have never missed one...but this time around I have. Now there is no possibilty of pregnancy *God knows im not getting any*. So my question is, those who are regular, have you found yourself skipping from time to time? It could be stress related im sure but I've had cramps...horrible cramps for the past two weeks. It's really odd.