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purpleparadox, posting in vaginapagina @ 11:10 pm: Sore boob, maybe from sleeping funny?
So, I had a hardcore nap this afternoon- I passed out at 1:30, woke up two hours later in the same position I zonked out in, and because of that, my left arm felt like a sack of bricks and it felt like I pulled something in my shoulder. Later on, after I got to work at 5, I noticed that my left boob was sore too- I secretly pushed on it to feel for lumps and didn't find any, thank god (I hope my co-worker didn't think I was groping myself, haha), but it was sore whenever I reached over to grab something, and it's sore whenever I lean down. It feels like the one time I accidentally pulled a muscle under my boob (like, close to the ribcage, between my boob and my ribs, not literally underneath my breasts) doing... something, I can't remember what. Also, I stupidly wore the too-tight bra I have today, which squishes the girls too much. Could the combination of a bad bra and sleeping in an odd position join forces to make my poor left boob miserable? It's not overheated or anything, so I don't think it's an infection... no weird marks or anything... Also, does anyone have any ideas on how to lessen the pain? I took a hot bath and soaked in the water for a while, making sure I didn't put any weight on that arm, and it feels a little bit better... but not much. :( It's days like these I wish I was an A cup. XD

fluffyetcrunchy, posting in menstrual_cups @ 10:21 pm: Decisions(and help) on brands
    So, I found out about menstrual cups earlier today when poking around the internet, and I really want to get one. What I need help with is A) Brand, and B)size(its not as stupid as it sounds after you read after the break. I hope).  Thanks ahead of time!


Tags: buying decisions

avidreader7 @ 10:20 pm: Slowness Update
Well, I tried the lot debugger, and it truly did make playing a bit better.  But it was still taking forever to save, and if it's going to take that long to save, I'm going to dread playing the lot (and I'll never want to let them go to a community lot). So I was going to test a large lot in a new neighborhood, but when it came right down to it, I just didn't want to move them out of Riverblossom Hills if I don't have to.  So I packed up the portraits and other irreplaceable items (forgetting to pick up the snapdragons, grrr), moved the gravestones to the community graveyard, and I moved them out.  Here's a few pictures post move.




I didn't want to put a lot of time into building them a new house, especially when I had this great house already in the hood.  This is the Craftsman house that Orikes recently uploaded.  It's plenty large enough for them, it's on a smaller lot, and it's gorgeous, so it works well.

I opened it up and set it up for them, redecorating a little, setting up bedrooms for the kids, putting out the stuff they brought with them, that kind of thing. Then I played it through the first day of spring, just to see if it would play better.  Of course, the true test will be when I play a complete season here, but the one day played much better, and it saved at my old normal rate, which is much faster than the large lot was saving.




Meet the generation 7 heiress.  This is Jane, third child of Emma and Nick. She rolled fortune for me (my first fortune heiress, woo!), and has a rather boring lifetime want of being chief of staff.  Her personality is 8/3/9/3/7, and she's interested in science. Which I guess works well with the chief of staff thing.  I like her a lot - more than her older sister Christa, who is fine, yet she bores me somehow. So I'm glad it was Jane who rolled fortune (Christa rolled family).




Emma (and I) didn't forget about Nick's lifetime want, either.  They got to work on creating baby number six their first night in the new house.  She had to drink some elixir to make it possible, and the sixth baby is basically going to be growing up more with the next generation than with this one, but oh well. At least Nick will get his six married children.  (And yes, there was a lullaby on the first try.)

melodic_lyrics, posting in vaginapagina @ 07:29 pm: waiting room etiquette.
Today I went to Planned Parenthood to get my IUD consult (which went well by the way! My appointment for insertion is the 17th!). Although I arrived around 15 minutes early to fill out paperwork and things, I didn't get into my appointment before 12:30 (my appt. was at noon). That's fine, I don't mind waiting. What did annoy me was that one of the other patients, a 17 year old girl had brought her mother, her brother and her boyfriend. Her brother and boyfriend were probably around 16 or 17. And they were so annoying.

They spent a fair amount of time saying the word "vagina" for no reason, and reading aloud from a birth control pamphlet. Then, as another patient was called back into the doctor's office, they were trying to talk to her, and just being generally disrespectful to everyone around. It took a lot for me not to tell them to shut up. I get it, teenage boys are insensitive a fair amount of the time, but PP isn't the place to act like jerks. And the mom wasn't doing anything to shut them up either, she just kept trying call people on the public phone.

Have you ever had a situation like this? Is there ever a good way to handle it?

At one point the boys were messing with the "please wait here until someone is available to assit you" sign, and got yelled at by the staff.

Sorry for the rant. I hope you guys don't mind.

xinfatuation69, posting in thesims2 @ 09:53 pm: Am I the only person who plays Sims for 7 hours straight?! I have numerous friends and my parents laughing at me over this. Even my boyfriend laughed at me =/ I could still play for another ton of hours too.

agirlsomewhere, posting in vaginapagina @ 09:25 am: Info on STI
Hi everyone,

For the sake of my anonymity I have created a journal specifically to make this post, so please don't think I'm trolling or anything like that, I'm really not. This is just kind of personal.

I have recently been diagnosed with an STI, chlamydia to be precise. I have a fair idea where it came from, my boyfriend knows, as does everyone else who needs to know. I was given zithromax (single dose - 2 pills) two weeks ago and took it. I went back to the doctors a week later for a follow up check and to have my IUD removed. She gave me the zithromax again, saying that because I had a foreign object at my cervix, the antibiotics may not have been 100% effective the first time. I took the second dose exactly a week ago. I'm working under the assumption that I am now cleared of the infection.

My boyfriend went to the doctors a week ago. He had a test but has not gotten the results yet. He is assuming that because I tested positive, he would too, and there's no point in getting the results because of this assumption. He was given the other medication for the STI, doxy something (I can't remember the name but it's the one that comes with all the weird stuff - you have to stay out of the sun, you can't lay down for 30 minutes after taking it, have to drink an entire glass of water with it, etc). His doctor said that some strains are becoming resistant to zithromax and the doxy one would be more effective. He has taken the pills for their full course of one week.

Our problem is, when can we start having sex again? I've been reading up on the internet about it and the general rule is to not have sex until a week after being treated. I guess then that I'm okay, seeing as I was first treated 2 weeks ago, and it has been a week since I took the second dose of zithromax, but my boyfriend has only just 2 days ago finished taking his course of antibiotics. Does that mean he was treated 2 days ago, or does the "one week after treatment" refer to one week after he first started taking the medication?

We don't plan to have sex without a condom until we both go for follow up checks to make sure we are both clear, but this leads to another problem. We've never had an STI before, ever, so we don't know much about this kind of thing. If there is a chance that he isn't completely clear yet, will condoms be effective? I asked my doctor if we could have sex with a condom, and she said that yes, it should be okay. But when my boyfriend and I actually started discussing it, we realised we really had no idea.. What if he touches his penis before putting the condom on and then touches the outside of the condom? Can that spread the infection? If I touch his penis and then touch myself, can that spread it? I read that in women the infection is around the cervix, but we both have absolutely no idea where the infection is in men.

Basically, I'm climbing the walls here and ready to jump him the moment his back is turned, but we just don't want to reinfect each other and ping pong this STI over and over. Any help or advice would be really really appreciated.

Thanks!

kkkayleighh, posting in thesims2 @ 09:14 pm: Ugh. Computer/graphics help?
Finally got the new Graphics card I've been wanting [NVIDIA GeForce 6200 PCI] (for Sims. ;D), but for some reason my computer doesn't want to recognize it. Like, it does, but as a secondary to the graphics card that came with the computer (even though I took that one out..). And it won't let me set it any different than like 640 x 480 and 4 bit color quality. It's also acting as if I have two monitors, which I don't. I've read skimmed the manual, I installed it right, I have PCI slots and it's a PCI, installed the drivers (which it's not recognizing either), etc. I don't know what I'm doing wrong! D; Does anyone know what I should do?
By the way, I've been trying for over an hour and a half. |:

kittysuck, posting in craftgrrl @ 10:39 am: Black + White Ocelot/Leopard-Print Motorcycle Jacket!

So I made a motorcycle jacket! It's based off one I made a few years ago, but I didn't LOVE it. Everyone else did. I like my new one better. So does everyone else :D

ibringshame2, posting in thesims2 @ 05:36 pm: Help!
Hey. I need some help and I'm wondering if any of you can do that for me. I get custom stuff, furniture etc. But nothing shows up. I download the mesh and everything but nothing is in my game. :/ It's all very sad.

Am I doing something wrong?

Tags: custom content

tricia_174, posting in vaginapagina @ 05:20 pm: FAM
In case anyone is interested, I came across a blog today by a woman who is switching from HBC to FAM after 11 years.  Here's the website. 

cinder_andsmoke, posting in vaginapagina @ 03:09 pm: TERRIBLE burning after sex.
about a month ago i felt like i was getting a UTI. i'm very prone to UTI's (especially when i'm using condoms during sex, which my boyfriend and i are at the moment) so i wanted to get rid of it as soon as possible. i got some AZO and went to planned parenthood the next day. since my pee was orange, they had to send the sample to the lab. the dr. wrote me a prescription and i was on my way. my symptoms were gone after a day and then i was completely fine. the next week i went in for STI screening. they said that my test results came back from the lab culture and there was nothing showing that i had a UTI. which i found to be kind of weird since the antibiotics seemed to stop the symptoms. i got a nuva ring while i was there and have been on that for about 3 weeks. throughout the month i've had a few random burning pees. but sometimes that just happens when i'm a little dehydrated so i chalked it up to that.

well, last night my boyfriend came home after a 3 week vacation. when he was fingering me it hurt a little bit. i could feel the nuva ring pushing into me and it was uncomfortable (i have a very shallow vagina). i took the nuva ring out and we had sex. it burned a little at first but then everything was great. until he pulled out of me to switch positions and it was BURNING LIKE HELL. i couldn't go on anymore. i went to the bathroom to pee and i almost cried because it hurt so bad. after a little bit of icing and laying there i was fine. this morning i woke up fine and my boyfriend went down on me with no pain. he fingered me gingerly (hahahaha word choice too good to change) with one finger and it didn't burn. i peed afterwards and it didn't burn at all. i've been completely fine since but we are both pretty terrified to try any penetration now! i'm pretty sure this is not a lubrication issue because i was incredibly wet all throughout the sex and foreplay.

any ideas? a yeast infection maybe? i don't really have any other symptoms but i have noticed that i've been a little itchy lately. i'm thinking of inserting an acidophilus pill tonight and waiting a couple days to have sex and see if it's gotten any better.

also... could this be from the nuva-ring, do you think? we thought that maybe he might've cut me up a little with the nuva-ring and then irritated it with the sex but i'm not sure.

and finally... do you think this warrants a trip to the doctor? i won't be able to go to planned parenthood until monday and i don't have health insurance.

thanks in advance!

gabaruni, posting in cloth_pads @ 05:00 pm: A little worried about moving
Hi ladies! I've been busy making pads for my sisters lately but I've seem to have forgotten that I'll be moving into a dorm in the fall. I keep my pads in a box, but I like hand washing and hanging them up to dry. Soaking shouldn't be a problem if I soak them in my bucket behind the toilet (I have only glanced at the layout of my room so far though). I'm just a little nervous that my room mate won't be supportive of my pads. I can always take them down to the laundromat with my towels/rags and wash them together, but I just keep picturing her (Luckily no co-ed rooms in our dorms) throwing them out in disgust. Just needing a little support and advicee for my panicky self. :) Dollar store solutions are the best solutions :D

Also here's some questions:

1.Is there someone you feel uncomfortable talking about cloth pads with? I blab about it to everyone I know, but I just feel really weird mentioning it to my mother's bf (who kinda knows about it through my mother) We get along okay (note not well, just okay) so I don't really like talking about my health or my period around him. My big sister called me immature, but I don't believe that it's immature to blab about something like that to everyone in the world especially if you feel weird about it with someone. He hasn't asked, but if he did I'd tell him straight facts and still feel pretty weird about it.

2. How many of you like two tone pads? ie: front is different than back in color or pattern. A friend of mine gave me some great fabric-dark with a pretty pattern and it was a little thick so I gave it a checkered back and I love the look. Now I feel addicted to two toned pads!

mertleturtle, posting in vaginapagina @ 09:31 pm: Need a bit of friendly advice....

The last few days have been pretty horrid. I have just been diagnosed with Herpes and have been so so ill this week with flu like symptoms and of course i have the sores which are making me cry and shuffle around. I feel low, confused and quite alone. Does anyone have any rays of hope for me? Don't sugar coat it...i can be brave!

loudmere, posting in vaginapagina @ 04:24 pm: Advice about skipping period while on Ortho-Lo
Hi friends!


I've been on Ortho-Tri-Cyclin LO for 4 months now I guess and for the most part everything has been going as planned.  I'm a Monday start, and the last week (the "period") week of my pills starts on Monday 7/7.  I am getting married on Saturday 7/12.  I usually don't start till like Wednesday or Thursday of my "period" week, and at the moment don't remember how my flow is by Saturday.  I've not skipped my week ever, but am seriously considering just starting my new pack when I should be on my "peroid" week.  I tried calling my GYN today, but her office is closed for the 4th holiday.   So, advice.. should I skip to the new pack?  What might happen if I do? 


Thanks for the help!  I'm currently going crazy making sure I have everything in order for the wedding.. why did I choose to get married 1200 miles away from where I live?!!

piano_diva, posting in vaginapagina @ 01:29 pm: Lots to talk about
Hello everyone :) I'm new to the community. Just joined and loved reading past topics. I have a couple of my own.

I am 23. I got diagnosed with PCOS when I was 17. They put me on Metformin and it started messing with my liver and kidneys and I had horrible migranes... anyway, they had to take me off of it. Some of you that have PCOS have mentioned going back and checking hormones and such, I havent talked about it with my GYN since we decided to stop the Metformin. Is it something I'm supposed to check up on every year? I dont have any large cysts that need removing, and since I got diagnosed I lost 120 lbs and many of the symptoms have went away. Can PCOS kind of fade? Or do the symptoms just fade?

I also read up on the pimples or cysts, boils, whatever people have on their labia or around there... I have something like that, two actually on my outer labia, but they HAVE heads. They look like little whiteheads that are just too deep to get. They stick out and they're hard to the touch. I've tried to pop them but it just hurts really bad. I've read that everyone says they go away, but I've had these for years. Never thought to get them checked out cuz they're so small and haven't grown, and during my check ups my GYN hasn't said anything so I didnt think anything of it. Is it anything serious enough to worry about?

Also, (last thing, I swear) about 3 weeks ago, my fiance and I were having sex. Without sharing too much detail, he slipped out and I landed with the tip of him against my clit and I landed hard... hurt like... I dont even know how to describe it. The pain faded after a bit and so we tried to finish, but when we felt down there, there was a pool of blood everywhere. He was covered in it and it was running down my legs at a pretty fast pace. Kinda freaked us both out. I guess when I was coming down on him, I tore the inside labia on both sides, on one side going from just under my clit down almost to my bum, and the other side about half as long. It also looked like the center split around my pee-hole but I think it was just agitated. Anyway... sorry for the gruesome details. Took a while for it to stop bleeding, after all was said and done, one of his towels was completely soaked and his bed looked like a murder scene. I refused to go to the ER just cuz I really didnt think his penis could tear me like it did. I called my GYN the next day and he said I should have gotten stitches but it was too late by then so keep it clean and come in if it gets infected. It's been 3 weeks, it looks healed, it doesnt burn when I go to the bathroom or shower anymore, and so now my fiance and I are wondering if it's safe to have intercourse again. There are still slits where I was split, but I dont think they're going to heal closed. I don't know the normal "heal" time for down there, so I was just wondering, for those of you that have had surgery or any kind of injury down there, how long your heal time was. I just dont want to re-open anything and go through that experience again. That was the scariest thing I've been through so far, I'll tell you that haha.

Anyway, sorry. I tend to talk a lot. If any of you have any answers or advice, please share. You all are very informative and I think could really help me out.

OH! One more thing. Those of you using NuvaRing. I know the package says if you have it out longer than 3 hours, you're not fully protected until a week of using it again... It likes to catch on my fiance and come out with him during intercourse and afterwards I usually just forget to put it back in until the next morning when I see it on the bedside table and I go rinse it off and put it back. My friend who used it said she's kept it out overnight and her GYN says she's covered still if she just puts it back the next morning, they just give the 3 hour limit so you dont go a full day without using it and expect the same kind of coverage. What have you guys heard or experienced?

99blackballoons, posting in thesims2 @ 03:41 pm: custom content site suggestions
i have a couple of questions. is there a cheat/hack that gives more options for baking? i'd love it if my sims could make cupcakes and cookies but i havent seen anything like that on the custom content sites. second, does anyone have a link or suggestion of a good site to download new custom flowers? im getting pretty bored with the default set of flowers and ive seen some great looking ones in everyone's legacys but cant find them in my searches. thanks in advance :)

docnerd @ 11:49 am: Yeah, thanks a lot, guys...

So I managed to go 3 weeks in the Asylum with a grand total of 2 fires.  And last night, I had 2 fires in under 2 days.  Guys!  When there are fires, SimNerd has to STOP SKILLING, call the fire department, try to put out the flames herself, and then run to the shower, and then pee, and then drink more espresso, and then pee again, and then eat something, AND CANNOT SKILL.

There were casualties.  Oh yes, there were casualties.  Aspirational and otherwise.

Part 4 will be up tonight sometime.  Probably between 8-9 Pacific, but I make no guarantees.  I've got maybe 25 slides left to choose and write; sort of hit a wall on it last night, called it quits, and read the Squeaky Clean Wedding Bonanza instead. 

Tags: asylum, sims

music_simbol, posting in thesims2 @ 02:40 pm: InTeen + Same-Sex Marriage?
I have InTeen in my game, and I like having it. I also want my gay sims to be able to marry whoever they please. For some reason, the same sex marriage hack by TwoJeffs is not working, so my sims only get the Joined Union option, which in my opinion is crap.

I asked about this at my journal, but no one on my flist could help, so now I'm asking you all. Are these two hacks not compatible? And if not, is there a same sex marriage hack that is compatible with InTeen?

Thank you.

(In case anyone was wondering, I'm sure it's InTeen, as if I take it out, the same sex marriage hack works. Also, I have Uni, NL, OFB, Seasons, and FT.)

Tags: mods/hacks

zazazuabubu, posting in thesims2 @ 12:54 pm: Shameless Promotion
Hi there! Just wanted to let everyone know I have a story going on on my LJ, "Ravings of a boy-crazy pseudo-hippy". I'm following the huge extended family in Teardrop Isle, now on the cusp of the fifth generation, and living in 10 (most likely 14 at the end of this rotation) homes. I play in rotation with a season as the time period, and am updating every time I'm done playing a house. As it's not a legacy challenge (not any challenge at all), I don't really have chapters. I don't truly have plot, but due to some of my gameplay rules there is actually a lot of direction being done by me to place sims in careers or guide them to/prevent them from their LTW.

My story does not feature chapter title cards. It isn't in the standard photo, hard return, text format. Periodically I talk about 'hood rules if I think that it might bring light to the situation. That's just the way it is. If that style isn't something you like, this isn't for you.

I'm open to input as to whether people would like me to post about updates. My inclination is not to, or to post once a week and just say which households were covered.

jessecho11, posting in vaginapagina @ 12:38 pm: Vaginal Septum

I just got back from my new OB/GYN, and she diagnosed something that I've been wondering about for a while. 

Apparently, I have a Vaginal Septum.  For those of you who don't know what this is, check here: http://yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com/vaginal-septum.html.

I know I shouldn't be concerned because of this, but after reading some stuff online, I kind of am.  I've been pregnant before, but I haven't ever delivered a baby.  I don't see how this could interfere with subsequent pregnancies, but I am concerned that I won't be able to deliver my child naturally in the future.  She said that it would just tear, no big deal, but I can't help but worry.  She still looked kind of confused

Does anyone have any further information on this?  Any similar experiences?  Anything at all?

Thanks in advance <3


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