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Sia

Saturday, March 22, 2003 - 08:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I have always blamed Lo-Ovral for making my hair become really thin. Since that happened I've been diagnosed as having underactive thyroid, but I still wonder if that brand of birth control pill contributed to the sudden hair-thinning.

Tabbyking

Saturday, March 22, 2003 - 09:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
when i first went on the pill at age 20, i suddenly developed allergies to penicillin and pineapple! i also became allergic to all metal except for gold. when i had my second c-section, they stapled me, even though they had in my chart that i was even allergic to surgical steel! i got a terrible infection and had to wear a sanitary pad on the incision for about 2 weeks, after they removed the staples 12 hours after my c-section! i am certain all these 'changes' had something to do with the pill. i have heard of hair thinning, too. i also have borderline underactive thyroid....hmmmmmm

Christina

Sunday, March 23, 2003 - 04:47 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I just finished a Red Cross first aid course. A well packed first aid box has pads and tampons in them. They are the best for absorbing.

Christina

Sunday, March 23, 2003 - 04:48 am EditMoveDeleteIP
oh and they are sterile too.

Egbok

Sunday, March 23, 2003 - 05:48 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Urgrace, thanks for the info! And all you young-un's who aren't quite where I'm at....beware, it's coming!

Urgrace

Sunday, March 23, 2003 - 07:49 am EditMoveDeleteIP
As a side note, it is recommended for the younger ladies to begin using this progesta care before you get to the menopausal stage for ease in transition. Start somewhere between 35 and 40, or when you begin annual mammograms. You would never have to experience the irregular periods, mood swings, hot flashes, night sweats or sexual side effects. If you are older start now!

Squaredsc

Sunday, March 23, 2003 - 11:43 am EditMoveDeleteIP
tabbyk, im lol'g at a man thinking the sticky part goes there.

Twiggyish

Sunday, March 23, 2003 - 03:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I use the wild yam cream, too. It does help.

Not1worry

Sunday, March 23, 2003 - 06:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I love this thread. I am going to suggest to my mom about the Progesterone cream. Her hot flashes have made her miserable. Yay...something for me to look forward to.

The only tampons I can use are the O.B. brand. These are the non-applicator ones, which many people may find disgusting. But they are the only kind that fit, the Tampax type are really uncomfortable to me. I don't where them that much, swimming etc. I remember being in the army trying to carry sanitary supplies in my uniform pockets and occasionally something would slip out. I use Always for pads, and I love that they wrap them in non-traditional colors like dark green and purple. So if someone catches a glimpse, it's not immediately obvious.

As for buying supplies...in the military we used condoms to put over the end of a .50 caliber de-armer (just a metal tube womewhat larger and more round than the item a condom is meant to go over. We'd fill the tube with steel shot or water to shoot at a suspect package and disarm it and the condom kept the stuff in). I was in charge of going to the pharmacy on post and request a gross of the biggest condoms they had. That was always fun. They never asked why....

Ginger1218

Monday, March 24, 2003 - 07:47 am EditMoveDeleteIP
OK, PMS in FULL FORM and I could rip somebody's head off right now. ooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh

Weenerlobo

Monday, March 24, 2003 - 08:07 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Sorry to hear that Ginger-gurl. Fred is just about finished packing his bags here, so he must be heading to your town soon.

I love reading this thread; reminds me how nice it is when an intelligent and humorous group of women get together and gab. Not to mention the few menfolk brave enough to enter here. lol!

Squaredsc

Monday, March 24, 2003 - 09:23 am EditMoveDeleteIP
aww ginger, it will be over soon. you just need a nice big bag of hershey's kisses and lay in bed with the remote.

Pamy

Monday, March 24, 2003 - 10:10 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ginger..go post in the Osbourne thread, it will make ya feel better!!
Weener..I agree!

Weenerlobo

Monday, March 24, 2003 - 10:45 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ginger, chocolate covered pretzels will help.

Tabbyking

Monday, March 24, 2003 - 07:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ginger, stay away from the 'protesting the war' topic! lol i had to leave it and i'm not even pms-ing yet!!

Sabbatia

Wednesday, March 26, 2003 - 10:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
PMS? what's that??? As I laugh my evil I've had a hyst laugh!

Lyn

Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 09:46 am EditMoveDeleteIP
PMS, Pass My Shotgun ~ Emme (E! Fashion Emergency) my picture

Tashakinz

Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 10:14 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Been unable to get near the puter at home lately, scanning posts during my lunch here at work. I spilled pop all over my keyboard because I was laughing so hard at the "backwards" way to wear pads. Too funny.

Pass the chocolate. I have PMS and no access to my weight bag until I get home...

Heyltslori

Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 12:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Do any of you ever notice an obvious swelling on one side or the other...like where your ovaries are...while PMS'ing??

Moondance

Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 12:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I can feel myself ovulate... OK TMI (too much information)

Heyltslori

Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 12:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
That's not TMI. Do you mean like you get cramps half-way thru your cycle? That happens to me too.

Moondance

Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 12:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
No, I actually feel it... it fibulates(is that the right word)... it spasms so I know when it is ovulating.

Adding ... it doesn't hurt or isn't uncomfortable just feels weird

Heyltslori

Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 12:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
wow... cool! :)

Moondance

Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 12:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL
:)

Tabbyking

Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 01:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
it's called mittleschmirts (sp?) and it literally means 'pain in the middle'. many women have this mic-cycle and they are indeed, ovulating. the days before that must be pre-mittleschmirts, or PMS. then we get the other PMS after the mittleschmirts!
now for a big laugh, so put down your soda pop. when i worked in OB/gyn one of the doctors got a beige porsche. (you know, a peni$ car.) anyway, 'dyspareunia' means painful intercourse. so this doctor got 'parunia' for a personalized license plate! lol and no one at the DMV or the prisons thought anything of it, since there's no such word. but if dys means 'painful'...you can guess what parunia meant, even though the e wouldn't fit because california licenses are limited to 7 spaces. every time i saw 'parunia' on the street, i would about wreck my car!
all the medical people were falling down laughing.