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Tabbyking | Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 03:53 pm     well, bummer, i am ovulating today! hee hee...so i am way off of your schedules;>) anyway, i used to go 40 to 100 days between 'mouses in the houses', but you could bet it would come each christmas eve, every first day of vacation, company picnic, swim party.... |
Squaredsc | Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 04:25 pm     lol who. i can't wait for menopause but i can do w/o the hot flashes and mood swings. heck pms is enough. fanny/tivo/square/unplugged, roflmao. |
Whoami | Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 04:47 pm     I'm hoping I take after my mom. No hot flashes or anything. She just plain stopped having periods! She went to a doctor (about something else) at the time. Her doc immediatly wanted to put her on hormones just cause she was in menopause. She said "why?" He told her cause she'd ummmm....have a difficult time...ummmmm....during sex. She was having a grand old time of that comment. She swore off men (and relationships) a long time before that. Sex was the furthest thing from her mind. When relating her experience to her fellow workers (isn't it funny what one talks about at the breakroom table) she said, "If I need to, I can always buy a jar of vaseline!" Of course, she just about gave everyone else at the table a heart attack! They never took her for having naughty thoughts before that! (now I'll probably get moderated, and it's all my mom's fault! ) |
Squaredsc | Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 06:00 pm     omg who, roflmao. |
Car54 | Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 06:07 pm     I am in perimenopause...and right now I have my friend, Fred, the reds, whatever about 14 days out of the month. It freakin stinks. My mom was older when I was born and she was going through this when I was a kid..I had no idea what was going on with her. Now I do, dammit. And the bad thing is...she went thru hell til she had a hysterectomy in her early 60's. I think this is proof God is NOT a woman. If God was a woman we would have a zippper to pop those babies out and we would have an on/off switch so if we weren't gonna use our equipment we could turn it off. |
Twiggyish | Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 06:12 pm     I could write a novel on this one! Wargod, me too. Tabby, it never fails, either..LOL |
Pamy | Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 08:32 pm     Who ...loved your stories. Oh Car, that does suck! I think you should go to the Osbourne thread and tell us how ya really feel! Speaking of 'it' always comming when we don't want it...I love when my DH head is fresh shaven and it never fails, I will start on the same day he shaves! |
Melfie1222 | Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 09:06 pm     Tuesday 3/18 was the most recent full moon... does that ring any bells for anyone? |
Pcakes2 | Friday, March 21, 2003 - 06:35 am     Try this blend for cramp relief: 4 oz almond oil 10 drops geranium essential oil 15 drops lavender essential oil 5 drops roman chamomile essential oil 3 drops cypress essential oil Mix all together. Apply as needed to abdomen. |
Bandit | Friday, March 21, 2003 - 08:06 am     Car - that's awful! I am fortunate, I guess, that I'm pretty regular in that department. Aunt Flo only stays for about 4-5 days. Especially since my mom was 45 when she had me. I had no idea the two were even connected. I feel so bad for you!!! |
Tashakinz | Friday, March 21, 2003 - 09:21 am     War - you sound just like me; however, I know from a laparoscopy that mine is directly related to endometriosis. There are those couple of special days when anyone who gets between me, the heating pad and my bottle of Darvocet is likely to walk away bleeding from many wounds. Aunt Flo comes to town end/beginning of the month. |
Wargod | Friday, March 21, 2003 - 09:33 am     LOL, Tasha, my poor hubby remembers the one and only time he unplugged my heating pad. I know where my cramps stem from. I had never had them very bad til after my son was born, and then I'd suffer through a day or two. A few years ago, I had a miscarriage and had to have a d and c to, shoot, how did they put it, "to remove remnants." I was told at the time that for most women cramps would get better or completely go away after that, but for some they got worse. Pamy, I need to thank you for starting this thread. I was sent a letter a couple weeks ago telling me it was time for that "dreaded Dr. Appt." and I completely forgot about calling. Now that I've been reminded, I guess I should call, LOL. I don't wanna. |
Squaredsc | Friday, March 21, 2003 - 09:44 am     war, thats a whole nother thread. i hate going to the gyn. i find it only a little bit better now because i have a female doctor. i don't want to sound sexist but i do feel a lil more comfortable with a female doctor than a male. ive had a male doctor from age 18 to oh about 3 or 4 yrs ago. i just find the whole experience slightly painful and degrading. painful cause the darn instrument never fits right and cause my uteris is pointed in a diff direction they have to probe. sorry tmi. |
Wargod | Friday, March 21, 2003 - 10:00 am     Not to mention sticking a very cool metal instrument in a very uncomfortable place. I've been doing them since I was 16, have had men and women, and find it doesn't matter either way. It's not a pleasant experience at all no matter who is doing it. The last one I had, I was left in the room wearing nothing but a paper t-shirt and a paper towel no bigger than a hand towel in a room kept at 65 degrees while the doctor ran next door to the hospital to check one of his patients that was in labor. Now, I don't begrudge any one the right to have her OB/GYN there while she is in labor, but darnit, he could have let me know to keep my clothes on til he got back, lol. |
Car54 | Friday, March 21, 2003 - 10:12 am     I am regular as clockwork too... things would probably be a lot better if I took action on the twins, Fib and Roid... they make things really crazy. I am due for my yearly Dr appt too and I am going to get fussed at by my wonderful (too) female gyn...she has been trying to get them gone for 2 years. I am regular, just goes on forever and between the emotions, the cramps, the heavy heavy flow, it is not fun at all. Square, I had some dreadfully insensitive experiences with gyns before I found mine. I had to have a D&C a few yrs ago and the Dr threw me on the table...I felt like I was getting an oil change... showed up an hour late for the procedure...left me afterward for 2 hrs ...finally a nurse from his office came down to sign the release and give me instructions...she had never seen me before... not the best experience of my life. My doctor now is great, but she does not do surgery or babies...she runs a very limited practice while her kids are little, so she can be a mom. |
Tashakinz | Friday, March 21, 2003 - 10:36 am     I like having a woman ob-gyn - men don't think of things like putting a picture on the ceiling to give you something else to focus on besides what's going on at the other end of the table. Reminds me of a quote from "If These Walls Could Talk" "You can never be too rich, too thin, or too close to the end of the table." lol |
Squaredsc | Friday, March 21, 2003 - 11:06 am     oh war, i hate the paper towel outfits. oh car, i can't even imagine. knock on wood ive never had to have anything other than regular check-ups and the 2 c-sections. but i really hate the paper towel outfits and a cold room or when the blinds don't want to close all the way, grr. oh and the cold instruments. |
Pamy | Friday, March 21, 2003 - 11:30 am     I always bring a marker and draw happy faces on the front of my paper towel dress. I have a great doc and we always joke with each other...it makes it much easier. |
Wargod | Friday, March 21, 2003 - 11:37 am     I always hated those funnies posted above the table. Darren thought my offense was hysterical during our visits to the ob when I was pregnant, but I'll tell you he certainly didn't find the funnies funny when he had his vasectomy. Pamy, I'd be thrilled with paper towel dresses, but my doctor cut cost. You get a paper half shirt and a little paper towel that pretty much covers nothing, lol. |
Tabbyking | Friday, March 21, 2003 - 12:25 pm     when i worked in ob/gyn in san fran, the docs would meet new patients in their office for about 15 minutes, then buzz us to take the patient to an exam room. that way, the first contact between patient and doctor was not with the patient at an obvious disadvantage of being nude the first time they met. i worked with 2 female and 3 male doctors. they were all terrific! |
Tabbyking | Friday, March 21, 2003 - 12:26 pm     ha! and we are going to great america for my husband's work picnic tomorrow and it will be the first time ever that old flow didn't try and tag along! smirk... |
Tabbyking | Friday, March 21, 2003 - 12:30 pm     and car, i have twins, fib and roid, too! (probably better than siegfried and roy or hemmo and rhoid, but not by much!) so far, staying fairly small, but i do have heavier periods and more 'discomfort'--can we scream PAIN!! here? i really wanted a hysterectomy, but the blood thinners ruled out surgery, and now my periods are regular. |
Squaredsc | Friday, March 21, 2003 - 12:40 pm     lol tabbyk, hopefully you didn't talk it up (i mean the picnic not the fib and roid). i also do not and since first meeting aunt flo have never or would think of wearing white pants. i also have a complaint against those playtex pearl thingys. the darn things didn't want to open. i will try not to be too graphic but imagine trying to squat and with one hand trying to push the playtex thing where its supposed to go. i threw out the whole new box and ran to the store to get my good ole tampax. i also wish i had discovered tampax when i was a teen and just starting. i would wear a long shirt or jacket tied around my waist cause i just knew that all the boyz knew when you had a huge pad stuck up your you know what. i only discovered them after having my first child, don't know what made me try them but i did and am glad. |
Car54 | Friday, March 21, 2003 - 12:44 pm     Tabby, my doctor wants me to have the embolization technique.. where they block the arteries to the fibroid and "starve" the tumors..she said I was a good candidate, but then when we really got into the details, she really could not give me any guarantee that it would work, or how painful it would be or how much time I would be out of work, so I kind of put it off. My mom ended up having a hysterectomy after years of horrible cramps and out of control bleeding, and I will never forget her little asian doctor...he did not speak english very well and when he came out after her surgery he was babbling in shock over how big her fibroids were and how many she had. |
Squaredsc | Friday, March 21, 2003 - 12:49 pm     car, all of the women in my family on moms side have had hysterectomies due to fibroids. im hoping i carry my genes from dads side. your poor mom. |
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