Heat on my stomach makes me feel sick, it always has. I'd prefer an ice pack tbh but I think that makes muscle problems worse! Will prob just tough it out with painkillers, off to find some Advil....
― I've got ten bucks. SURPRISE ME. (Laurel), Friday, 17 September 2010 14:49 (thirteen years ago) link
The numbing effects of ice wouldn't penetrate far enough into your body to do any good.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 17 September 2010 15:23 (thirteen years ago) link
It was meant as a compliment to "whatnot" more than anything else. I don't think I've ever said it out loud, and won't anytime in the foreseeable future.
I appreciate that.
― Jenny, Friday, 17 September 2010 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe try naproxen (sp?) - the NZ equivalent is naprogesic, which i used to take and was the only thing that ever helped with my severe cramping (which on a couple of occasions was so bad i almost fainted). it's some kind of muscle relaxant.
nowadays i pretty much never get cramps but i get awful terrible lower back pain almost every time.
― just1n3, Friday, 17 September 2010 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Naproxen is sold under the brand name Aleve here.
― master of retardment (ENBB), Friday, 17 September 2010 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
My pain is less of a pain and more of a presence--I feel two long ovals embedded on either side of my coccyx.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 17 September 2010 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
we love you Kenan, but "use a heating pad/hot pack" is menstruation 101.I have a Mirena and no cramps.
― kate78, Friday, 17 September 2010 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link
lol Kate.
― master of retardment (ENBB), Friday, 17 September 2010 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I never took menstruation 101! And Laurel said she'd never had cramps before.
― kenan, Friday, 17 September 2010 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
One day a kid was called up to the front of class for show and tell. He drew a period on the blackboard.
"What's that, Jonny?""I don't know, but when my sister missed one Mom fainted, Sister left town, and Dad beat up the boy next door."q
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 17 September 2010 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
BTW, I've always been bothered by the "If men had periods, they would brag about how long, painful, and heavy they were" thing. I mean, I can't think of any male-specific non-sexual bodily functions that men brag about.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 17 September 2010 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
are there any male-specific non-sexual bodily functions?
― illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Friday, 17 September 2010 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link
golf injuries?
Enlarged prostate.
― kenan, Saturday, 18 September 2010 06:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Maybe that is actually sexual, in a way, but it's not sexy.
Which illustrates what I was talking about.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Saturday, 18 September 2010 06:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Not literally, I thank the stars.
― kenan, Saturday, 18 September 2010 09:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Right. There's only one part of the male anatomy that's sexy (and useful) when it's swollen.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Saturday, 18 September 2010 10:02 (thirteen years ago) link
My nipples wish to argue slightly with you.
― Underground - Parking (2010) (sic), Saturday, 18 September 2010 12:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Worst menstruation euphemism I've heard recently: Shark Week
― a cross between lily allen and fetal alcohol syndrome (milo z), Saturday, 18 September 2010 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, I like that one.
― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 19 September 2010 02:30 (thirteen years ago) link
This is a memorable mental image.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Sunday, 19 September 2010 04:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Haha whatever pill I was on for the past 2.5 years is the one the new ob/gyn says is #1 culprit of all the bc pills to be a libido-killer. That's...awesome. (FWIW it was Desogen, I am now on Loestrin, which she says "gives you the most free T," one of those women who is on such good terms w/testosterone that she has a nickname for it.)
― Mormons come out of the sky and they stand there (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:43 (thirteen years ago) link
:-)
I've suspected for years that I have a slight testosterone imbalance--I have a low-pitched voice, I'm hairy, I have a large rib cage and broad shoulders, and I have a high sex drive.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link
One of the many pills I have tried made my hair start falling out and I still didn't have any sex drive. Damn you, testosterone.
Too bad it was the only one which didn't have any other side effects.
(on another brand now, got my hair and my migraines back pretty swiftly)
― patapon pataphysics (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Already noticing a difference & enjoying my hormone-free life, btw. We will now return to our regularly scheduled programming.
― I've got ten bucks. SURPRISE ME. (Laurel), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 13:20 (thirteen years ago) link
my brother (28 and owner of one adorable yet surprise kid) has just told me that the withdrawal method works
i just
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 00:49 (thirteen years ago) link
If you got good control, it can be pretty effective! Planned Parenthood sez:Of every 100 women whose partners use withdrawal, 4 will become pregnant each year if they always do it correctly.
― kate78, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 01:00 (thirteen years ago) link
but then there's the always do it correctly caveat...
aside from the accuracy of that, and the stipulation that you got to do it right, you cant flush bedsheets down the toilet
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 01:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Successfully used the withdrawal method for several years. (I had a bad reaction to the pill; my boyfriend always went soft as soon as he put a condom on; we knew we eventually wanted a kid so if I got pregnant it wouldn't be the end of the world.) As soon as we decided the time was right for a child, we stopped and I immediately got pregnant. (Went on to have several miscarriages but that's another story.)
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 18 November 2010 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link
withdrawal never failed me, but Rx birth control did
― 867-5309 (abdul) (roxymuzak), Thursday, 18 November 2010 01:21 (thirteen years ago) link
guys pls dont encourage him
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Thursday, 18 November 2010 01:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I discovered my plan covers IUDs! I feel like I won the uterus lottery!
― rittah shpoaht (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 9 March 2011 01:48 (thirteen years ago) link
my plan = my insurance plan obv
― rittah shpoaht (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 9 March 2011 01:49 (thirteen years ago) link
:D
― ENBB, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 01:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Confirm that they cover the actual device and not just the insertion.
― kate78, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 01:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah maybe I should call again, the benefits hotline guy did not seem to know very many details. "Any IDU?" "Yeah, all of them...I guess.."
― rittah shpoaht (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 9 March 2011 01:53 (thirteen years ago) link
he even answered affirmative to a question about Intraduterine Uvices, very sketchy
― rittah shpoaht (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 9 March 2011 01:54 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― ENBB, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 01:54 (thirteen years ago) link
My experience and tips from upthread:
My first visit for an IUD insertion was a fail because I learned when I got there my insurance covered medication, but not "devices". So, unless I ponied up $1500, I was SOL.
― kate78, Tuesday, March 23, 2010 3:30 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Took me another 2+ years before I head good enough health insurance coverage to get the IUD.
― kate78, Tuesday, March 23, 2010 3:31 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark
Ask your doc or np for some misoprostol to insert vaginally the night before. It will "soften" your cervix and hopefully make it easier to insert. Also ask for some vicodin and valium to take beforehand.
― kate78, Tuesday, March 23, 2010 3:01 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark
― kate78, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 01:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Ask your doc or np for some misoprostol to insert vaginally the night before. It will "soften" your cervix and hopefully make it easier to insert.
thinks: ****aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!****
― blvd money (sic), Wednesday, 9 March 2011 02:00 (thirteen years ago) link
I was really lucky in that my insurance covered both device and insertion right off the bat.
I actually hadn't planned on getting on the day I wound up getting mine so I didn't have any misoprostol, valium, or painkillers. The NP did give me 800mg of ibuprofen and we waited about 20 mins after that to start. IIRC she also gave a cervical anesthetic which prob helped a bit but it all went smoothly and was over really quickly. The sounding hurt more than the actual insertion for me but it was all bearable. NP later told me that I was "a bleeder" and I was thankful she didn't mention that at the time.
― ENBB, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 02:03 (thirteen years ago) link
seriously, so much blood.
― kate78, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 02:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I wound up working with that NP at her family clinic a couple months later and observed a bunch of insertions that she did there. I probably wouldn't have been so gung ho about getting mine sans sedatives/painkillers had I seen those before. I never would have thought people bled that much. That actually how she wound up telling me - after one insertion I asked if it was normal to bleed that much and she was like, "Oh that? That was nothing! You bled a ton more." O_O
― ENBB, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 02:07 (thirteen years ago) link
"family clinic" = "family planning clinic"
Ha I have been having a lot of dreams lately that are just about having cartoonishly heavy menstruation. Maybe my subconscious is prepping me.
― rittah shpoaht (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 9 March 2011 02:10 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry for....dream tmi?
I probably assisted in several hundred insertions before mine but it is a whole different story when it's you in the stirrups.
Don't get scared off, Abbs, it's awesome.
― kate78, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 02:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Seconded. Totally worth it and if you follow Kate's advice and prep beforehand it'll just be that much easier. :)
― ENBB, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 02:12 (thirteen years ago) link