Posted by Wendy B. on October 5, 2001, at 11:50:47
In reply to Re: interesting questions! » Wendy B., posted by sar on October 4, 2001, at 16:40:21
>
> > the depo suggestion is on the right track, i think, for the suicidal PMS issue. the GYN drs can prescribe you a pill that will guarantee a bleed for abt 4-5 days every 28 days. it will help, i'm positive. and i'm on the same med-profile as you (wellbutrin/happy pill - you: prozac; xanax as needed for anxiety - you: klonopin, same drug family; neurontin for both of us). plus i take a pill for the bleed. it's a nice light flow (i was initially prescribed it because i was bleeding too much each period). mine's called mircette.
>
> hey wendy,
>
> is the pill you take similar to Depo? i just don't like what i read about Depo, though a doc once prescribe methyprogesterone for me if i was 10 or more days late...(i've just got to get *insurance*)
Sar,i was never a big Depo fan, although i never took it. one little pill every morning, day in and day out, works well for me. low-dose tricyclics: triphasil or ortho-tri-cyclen, besides the mircette, are the ones to ask for. they're all good because they vary the amounts of estrogen and progestin, throughout the cycle. people who balk at taking hormones all the time seem to like these better than the other OCs (oral contraceptives). so it's something close to a a 'mini-pill,' but more effective as a contraceptive. also will decrease your water-weight gain (bloaty feeling) right before the period, or eliminate it.
the only thing i'd want to say as a caution, tho, is that you may get side-effects like emotional lability, or anger/irritability right before your period. some people do. others are so relieved about contraception or their ability to have a *normal* (i.e.: regular) period, they're overjoyed. so watch for that if you ever did want to try the tri-cyclics. the prozac might take the edge off any of the anger irritability, or you could just up the dose the week before your period, etc.
i mention the anger/irritability thing, because maybe 4-5 years ago, i was way out of control with anger, for a week, then 2, then 3 out of the month, before my period. the period would end it, and then i'd get back on the mood swings. i was pulling my hair out! i was on a tri-cyclic, and we switched to the mircette, but i still had swings. the dr suggested i take some zoloft. so that was how i first started on an AD. through my GYN. interesting... it definitely worked, we tweaked the dose from 50 to 100 mg, and i was on it for years. i gained 30 lbs over that time, but i didn't care... for the first time in my life i felt that around the corner there wasn't some fresh disaster waiting to happen. my reaction to the zoloft made me realize i had been depressed since childhood...
it pooped out on me, though, more than a year ago, so that's when i was prescribed effexor (horrible! couldn't get off the couch), and now wellbutrin and neurontin...
you've got to get insurance, yeah. the bookstore doesn't have anything? or you have to be full-time? if they don't that's awful...
> > anywhoo, don't worry your little texan self about girl questions: whomever doesn't want to read can just close the window and move on...!
>
>
> hell yeah, good, my girlfirends know about as much as i do (one didn't even know that these infections are caused by sex) and my mom, when i told her i thought i had a bladder infection, seemed convinced that i'd spent some time sitting on a "cold curb" somewhere. The "cold curb" has been the cause of all gyn troubles she's spoken of since my youth. contrary to her wisdom, cold sidewalks haven't done shit to me...but sex can really do it at times!
cold curbs? you gotta be kidding, right? 'hey mom, i'm having sex!' is she that out of touch? i take it she doesn't 'know' or wishes to ignore, your drinking, too? i'm having trouble seeing how this works when you all live in the same house...yeah, you need older girlfriends. they are a VAST storehouse of knowledge. you can ask them all sorts of questions about sex, and they won't be phased a bit, and they'll go on and on for hours... but luckily, you have us!! (beam)
> > the cervix question: yes, a dr told me that and i've read it. the more he knocks on the cervix, the more your tendency to UTIs will go up. also, just the more you 'do it,' the more likely you are to get a UTI. people at the emergency room have seen it millions of times: they call it honeymooners' bladder infection. another thing: you would have to drink gallons of cranberry juice every day to stop the infections from coming on. buy the cran/urinary tract herbal remedies at the local health-food store, ask the people who work there which one they recommend, each pill gives you a ton more than the juice.
>
> this makes lots of sense to me. the cervix-hitting feels, at times, terribly wrong. i'll score some cran-pills at the HFS and edu'mecate the boy. :) yikes
well, i didn't quite say that he *shouldn't* bump into your cervix! it feels good if it's not too rough. also, you can have a very deep and wonderful orgasm from getting nudged a little there... again, in my experience. but i think i read it somewhere, too.oh yeah! dr used to say 'woman on top' positions were the best when you had a tendency to UTIs, since you can control the penetration better... my drs are so cool, they talk so easily about things like this...
i'm also wondering if drinking doesn't exacerbate the UTI problems? (hey! another reason to stop, or at least cut back...)
> > i do think some partners have a tendency to give you more infections. he ALSO has to pee before sex. you wash after. he washes after if you want to do it again. (are we getting intimate here yet??? sheesh...) the suggestion abt rubbers is ok, although some people are allergic to or sensitive to the latex. it can irritate the hell out of already-irritated skin/genitalia. rubber gloves, to me, are a total turn-off, but to each her own...
>
> this has been unprotected sex (yes, LECTURE ME!), gotta score some condoms along with the cran-pills...
oh, well, i won't lecture you, i've certainly done the unprotected thing before (but i was on the pill). unprotected from STDs and stuff. it was bad, i know, i guess i just trusted my new love-interest enough that he wouldn't have AIDS or whatever else. and it turned out he didn't... other lovers before the last one: one was RELIGIOUS about condoms, because in NO WAY was he going to get a woman preggers, he was adamant. the others were, to be frank, older than me, and AIDS or whatever wasn't even a concept. although i know that's stupid...
>i'm not down with gloves 'cos they would be like, professional or remind my of the gyn or something. i have to get it in my head that if we're having sex, then i should feel comfortable discussing this with him YES YES YES i RESOLVE to discuss it with the boyyeah, well, the gloves i would have a hard time with, but not with somebody i knew really well. you really have a crush on your GYN, hmmmm? washing hands *very* well would work too, wouldn't it? i mean, they wouldn't be sterile, but...
sure, talk to the boy! he's a grownup... he doesn't want you to have UTIs, because let's face it: every time you get one, it cuts back on the time available for sex (you have to take antibiotics or sulpha drugs for 36-48 hrs before you can have sex again). plus, the girlfriend is in pain, and he doesn't want that... you'll be surprised how well and how easily he understands, and he'll have empathy for you...
> > lots of the L-word,
>
> lube? luck? lots of cran? ahhhh...*love*?
>
> aw yiyeah!
>
> saryeah, love, you kook!
wendy
poster:Wendy B.
thread:11893
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20010927/msgs/12155.html