Emergency Contraceptive

[velvetdahlia.livejournal.com]

Hello All-- I've enjoyed being in the hut-- though I'm not due of a few weeks, I'm always into menstrual activism.

Here's a great article on Emergency Birth Control-- very informative and empowering. Maybe some on the list will be interested. Please check it out and email it to any woman you know who will need the information (and, let's face it, as long as we are sexually active with men, and as long as we face the threat of rape, we'll need it.)
Things to Know about EC

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[mandolin64.livejournal.com]

ok... i thought about asking this in birthcontrol, but i usually get a quicker answer from you guys here...

i started taking yasmin for the first time two weeks ago today... everything's been going great, i had a few bouts of nausea the first few days, but other than that i haven't had the nasty effects or anything wrong going on.. blood pressure stayed normal, everything's peachy...

except that my period should have stopped at least a week ago... and while it's not like gushing red rivers anymore... it's this obnoxious brownish mucus trickle thingie that looks like what i usually get at the very end of my periods, except it WON'T GO AWAY...

i've been thinking maybe to just finish out the pill pack and start on the second one and it'll straighten itself out, but i just wonder if this is normal for the first time taking stuff like this...

my gynocologist back at home is the one who put me on this, and now i'm at college, so i'll have to go to student health if anything is really wrong, and i can't go until Thursday anyway... so please just let me know :) thanks!

14 Things PMS Stands For...

[amethyst75.livejournal.com]

...this was sent to me by my very best friend and I just had to share with all of you!!

14 Things PMS Stands For:

Pass My Shotgun
Psychotic Mood Shift
Perpetual Munching Spree
Puffy Mid-Section
People Make me Sick
Provide Me with Sweets
Pardon My Sobbing
Pimples May Surface
Pass My Sweatpants
Pissy Mood Syndrome
Plainly, Men Suck
Pack My Stuff
Permanent Menstrual Syndrome
Potential Murder Suspect

The Keeper

[serpina.livejournal.com]

My anxiously awaited Keeper arrived in the mail recently and I tried using it on the occasion of my last period. I cut the pull tab and its positioning was reasonably comfortable, but I found that the light suction in my vagina actually promoted some awful cramping. Has anyone else had this reaction? Or am I just super sensitive? I really would like to make this product work for me, for the many reasons a number of you have laid out in previous posts on the subject, especially environmental soundness, but I just can't stand cramps. Cramping leads to digestive troubles, pain, and general unhappiness, so unless I can avoid the problem, unfortunately I think my little Keeper is going to have to stay shelved in its pretty little carrying case for the moment.

The Keeper

[serpina.livejournal.com]

My anxiously awaited Keeper arrived in the mail recently and I tried using it on the occasion of my last period. I cut the pull tab and its positioning was reasonably comfortable, but I found that the light suction in my vagina actually promoted some awful cramping. Has anyone else had this reaction? Or am I just super sensitive? I really would like to make this product work for me, for the many reasons a number of you have laid out in previous posts on the subject, especially environmental soundness, but I just can't stand cramps. Cramping leads to digestive troubles, pain, and general unhappiness, so unless I can avoid the problem, unfortunately I think my little Keeper is going to have to stay shelved in its pretty little carrying case for the moment.

Wow! Menstrual Art!!

[ex-neolithi.livejournal.com]

Hey there guys--
I hope it's okay for me to talk about this stuff in here...I'm not really promoting a different community or anything. I came across a LJ user, spiralingmoon. Her entire journal is comprised of paintings she has created with menstrual blood. They are incredible. Way great energy!

I think it's a part of her masters work in women's studies.
Just incredible.

Anyway, I know it's not for everyone, but I thought some of you might be interested in taking a peek. It's very menses-positive!

In the hut again

[kickadee.livejournal.com]

And I've got lots to say! :P

I had a 36 day "intermission" between flows this time and a 44 day one before that! I was never anything like clockwork but I used to be a lot more regular and with more like 27 days in between! I haven't gone on or off the pill or anything. Any ideas?

Maybe I shouldn't complain if I'm having my period less often, but I just think it's weird.

And I was wondering what everyone's favorite remedies for cramps are? I don't feel like I can get by without pills--but I wonder if the ingredients in period related meds are really that different from just regular (possibly cheaper!) pain killer?

Oh also, I swear my allergies seem to get worse too! Is that possible? Or are they just around so much that it's easy for them to come around before my period as a coincidence?

Progesterone cream helps with PMS and pain.

[bonniebon.livejournal.com]

I've been using progesterone cream for the last several months, it has been very good so far, my periods have been more regular, PMS has been less severe (but not completley gone, I still get crazy at times, usually when I've forgoten to apply the cream) and my periods have been so much less painful that I kept my IUD even though I had got myself a diaphragm and was all ready to have the IUD removed (so I now have a spare diaphragm heh).

I've been applying the cream from just after ovulation until the onset of menstruation, but also applying the cream directly on the abdomen can help with menstrual cramps.

If anyone is interested, do a search on google for progesterone cream and you should find plenty for sale. I managed to some with natural animal friendly ingredients etc. (I forget the name but it should be easy to find plenty like it).