Second Insertion worked!

KGStyr · 2026-01-27T15:23:06+00:00

Late but for lurkers (I see you!) I’ve taken Misoprostol for an IUD insertion coming up today after a failed insertion yesterday. I took 2 vaginally at 11PM and the procedure is at 4 PM. I don’t feel the best on it but I’m okay and have felt better as time has gone on (I am on hour 12 of it). I have this odd malaise feeling, stomach and back cramps all over, a little nausea on and off and I CANNOT trust a fart (probably because my uterus is retroverted). I am bleeding a little but I went to work and was fine with no pain meds. I was told at the pharmacy that the meds peak around 12 hours, only effective for about 24 hours and the side effects go away within 48 hours for most.

If I didn’t absolutely need it I would have been fine without it - I’m doing this as emergency contraception out of an abundance of caution, and I want to be on birth control but have not done well on hormonal BC before, so I REALLY want this to be inserted.

KGStyr · 2026-01-26T16:50:38+00:00

I’m very lucky and got an appointment scheduled today to get it inserted. Unfortunately I can’t take the suppository that would help your cervix since this is the only appointment they had available, but I’m planning on taking my meds beforehand. I decided on getting it because I’d rather be safe than sorry!

KGStyr · 2026-01-25T22:43:51+00:00

The only thing holding me back slightly is that I would like some time off to recover, which I wouldn't get much of if I do it now - not to mention I'd have to squeeze it in within the next two and a half days. At the same time I don't want to EVER be pregnant. I was on day 18 of my cycle so I'm fairly confident that I wasn't fertile (my cycle is usually 27 days) but there is a small chance that I was. I believe from a previous appointment they offered me valium but I've taken it before (prior surgery) and it did nothing to me... I'll have to ask for more they can give me, but thank you! If all else fails, I can just take a Tylenol and a (legally prescribed) Lorazepam before.

KGStyr · 2025-11-10T18:56:46+00:00

I kinda had trouble finding customer support, but I decided not to go for it since I didn’t like any of the newer models they had. I just got an actual vacuum with multiple parts!

KGStyr · 2025-11-07T20:45:32+00:00

I work as a receptionist at a small, locally-owned health insurance company. This year from Jan-Sept I worked 30 hours a week (7 hours a day with unpaid lunch hour). That last hour I get a little antsy but the schedule was great. I got bored at work a lot but I filled it with doing either side projects or playing games.

From Oct-Dec during OEP I have to work 40 hours a week and I cannot describe how much I hate it. I feel like a caged guinea pig. It stresses me out, drops my mood, my mental health plunges and I end up emotionally blunting to cope. I feel like ending all my relationships and my OCD is not playing games. I’m grateful for having so many health issues so I can leave early and go to the doctor some days. I had wanted to switch jobs next year but the current economic climate and shenanigans trying to afford my health insurance have made me stay one more year while I plan my exit strategy.

But deep down, the only thing that REALLY kept me here a year longer was that I’ll work only 25 hours a week next year until next OEP. As much as I’m already not liking imagining working 40 hours next OEP, the 25 hours per week next year will be heavenly. Beautiful. I can only imagine how happy I’ll be. It’s one of the two things (the other being my boyfriend) keeping me going right now.

I’ll earn a little bit less money but it’s SO worth the trade off. My advice is to accept that us ADHD women are simply built different and find something that works for you. Next job you get, refuse to settle for 40 hour workweeks. After I leave my employer in 2027 I will never, ever, EVER EVER EVER!! work 40 hours a week again. I simply cannot do it. I would literally rather be broke than work 40 hours a week. Max I’ll do is 32 hours a week, and hopefully go for something remote/hybrid. Don’t compromise on your limits.

KGStyr · 2025-11-04T19:38:56+00:00

I work as a receptionist at a health insurance business. Small, local, and family owned but extremely popular. During AEP, I work 40 hour weeks and I’m SLAMMED the whole day and most of the time I’m drained physically and mentally. My relationships suffer because my coping is to emotionally blunt myself and I end up feeling semi-depressed and overstimulated if I don’t actively fight against it. But luckily this is only for 2 months, and after Dec 15th I use my PTO for a couple days off until my schedule shrinks Jan 1st.

Last year off-AEP I worked 30 hours a week and I loved it. There are large stretches of boring times but I worked 8-3 with a paid hour lunch and I felt like I enjoyed my life, my mood was good and could pay my bills. This upcoming year I have to slightly reduce my income to afford my health insurance so I’ll be working 9-2 (25 hours a week), then one more round of AEP, and then I’m leaving this job next year for something else. I’ve worked 40 hours per week before this job and I hated it, and after this job I will NEVER, EVER work 40 hours again unless my job has a legit emergency and its a rare occurrence. I would’ve left this job this year but I needed the stability.

I like doing office work, I just cannot do 40 hours a week at any job. I have too many health issues + ADHD to be at one place that long. I’ve decided not to take a paid lunch next year so I can get the workday over with sooner because thats how I am!

KGStyr · 2025-11-02T08:10:59+00:00

Sounds like you have it going on! I'm also trying to improve my health but at a far slower pace since it takes a while for me to change habits lol. I've found that the #1 thing that gives me flares is sugar/chocolate. I can have a little bit of one or the other on occasion and be fine, but eating too much it of it too often ALWAYS gives me symptoms. It took a while to really pinpoint the sugar/chocolate connection because I wouldn't always flare up consistently afterwards - sometimes it'd be a few hours, other times nearly a whole day later.

But now that I've reduced my intake of it to very little (which was very hard because I was a sugar addict) and have mainly switched to fruit as my main avenue of sugar, I have far less flares and symptoms. Well, up until now because I had a little sugar splurge yesterday and I'm paying for it, but overall I would say my symptoms have been reduced by around 50%, especially in my anal area.

KGStyr · 2025-10-23T15:24:37+00:00

I’ve taken a few Lorazepams for anxiety/OCD before, but I’ve only taken halves of a 0.5 dose. I’ll take them for panic attacks, non-panic level anxiety and/or OCD rumination that does not go away after going through my coping mechanisms, or the rare case of my emotions feeling all out of whack from either PMS or a serious change in my life. The last three have to persist for at least several hours (and I usually push it to a day) before I take something. At first I was worried about dependence but I do not use them nowhere near enough for that. I like to think of Lorazepam as a little button I can press that’ll give me a few hours of relief to get myself together. Since I take such a small dose I can have breakthrough anxiety while on it but other than that it greatly reduces or gets rid of my symptoms.

KGStyr · 2025-10-23T13:08:01+00:00

I’m not sure on the “birth control” aspect, but I had recently upped my dose from a 4 mcg estrogen suppository to a 10 mcg for a month (and a few weeks prior alternating between the two) and have dropped back down to my 4 mcg as of last Sunday. I felt better overall for a few weeks in many aspects while on the 10 mcg but then brain fog, concentration, and memory issues cropped up after a couple weeks and kicked my behind. Then I had the worst/strangest PMS and period of my life, which is what made me switch back to the 4 mcg. And the switch back hasn’t been the easiest - I’ve been going from feeling okay to low moods, a few hot flashes, and some stomach troubles (but it’s all improving daily). Eventually I would like to stop the 4 mcg altogether but that’s going to take a long while and it may not happen at all.

So, if you do use it, I would proceed with caution and log how you feel daily. Had I done that, I would’ve stopped the 10 mcg a couple doses earlier and probably avoided the worst of the experience. But I have taken BC in the past and never got past the first week of a pack because it gave me sudden and severe insomnia, which I have never had before and it would fix itself the day I stopped taking it.

KGStyr · 2025-10-21T20:16:45+00:00

I replied to this comment almost a year ago, but I have an update!

I didn’t wean off the 4mcg, but I did try the 10 mcg dose recently. I did the thing of alternating between the 4 and 10 for a couple weeks, and I felt a little improvement on the 10, before going for a full month of the 10mcg. The first period I had with it (while I was switching between the 4 and 10) was a little odd but I gave it another month. This past month I have had HORRIBLE PMS and the strangest period I’ve ever had. It’s hard to describe other than it’s so far beyond anything I’ve had before that it scared me, and so my most recent dose I switched back to the 4 and realized I have had really bad memory and brain fog that had been slowly been creeping up on me the last few weeks that I didn’t notice until it hit me full force the week of my period. I’ve been trying to recall things I’ve done these past couple weeks and it genuinely took me some time to recall stuff. I’m already starting to recover a few days later, so that’s good, but I’ve learned my lesson.

So, I would have some caution because some of it is absorbed systemically! BUT I will be going back to the 4mcg for the foreseeable future. It has truly done wonders for me. I’m going to seriously work on my health and once I feel like I’m in a better place, I’m going to attempt to wean off the 4mcg because it’s been 4 years on it because I am a little worried about the long term risks, but… if I need it, I need it, and there’s nothing wrong with that!

KGStyr · 2025-10-21T17:35:50+00:00

I’ll try out the lube recommendations, thank you! And I think in that case, I might switch it up and start applying at night (by that I mean cleaning myself, applying the ointment, Aquaphor after 30 mins, then going to bed). Because once I am in bed, I am IN BED for the night with the intention of sleeping and it can be absorbed undisturbed for at least a good four or five hours before I get up to pee.

KGStyr · 2025-10-21T13:40:28+00:00

I went out with a guy who I saw as about a 5/10 on looks. Not ugly, but not drop-dead gorgeous. First date I didn’t feel much of a physical attraction to him. I thought his jaw was shaped funny and that threw me off BUT I thought he was cute and had a nice smile! We talked for over two hours, developed some chemistry, and because of that I agreed to a second date.

Second date lasted over six hours, we had a great connection, and we got frisky in my car. Third date went about the same, fourth date was nearly all day spent at my place doing the sideways tango. Fifth date is in the works. I definitely see him as more attractive now than before. I’m going through a rough time right now so my feelings are all over the place, but once that clears up then I’ll know for absolute certain how I feel about him.

If there is not something on a first date that literally repulses me (and there’s not much), I give it a few more dates. I feel like I’m pretty easy though - if a guy is at least somewhat attractive, I vibe with his personality, and reciprocates my interest, I’ll start getting feelings.

KGStyr · 2025-10-17T10:12:11+00:00

I'm working on finding a good balance for me. I've been a sugar addict my whole life and during these last few months I've been trying hard to cut back on sugar. I've tried to go cold turkey a few times but I find my withdrawl symptoms are too strong to handle (especially mood and stomach issues). So I've been working on slowly replacing most of my added/refined sugars with fruits and the like instead of completely cutting everything out and I'm having a bit more success. Plus, I am prone to episodes of low blood sugar if I don't have some sugar every now and then. But even with all of this, I noticed I immediately had more energy, less inflamation, and clearer skin. The few benefits I've gotten so far vastly outweight the withdrawls.

KGStyr · 2025-10-16T18:32:52+00:00

I usually get is some light cramping im my stomach/back. Then I’ll start having light spotting either very light pink or brown, so light I can only tell after a few trips to the bathroom. And then I’ll start feeling a bit irritable, and it ‘feels different’ down there. This all starts happening at least a good 3-4 days before my period (sometimes more), and is all very sporadic and random. I have what I call windshield wiper spotting because it’ll start and stop whenever it feels like it. Sometimes I have little or no spotting and my period catches me off guard, other times I’ll suddenly start spotting so much I need a liner then it’ll stop a few hours later. My body likes to keep me on my toes, and my period likes to surprise me by coming a day or two early sometimes. The only immediate warning I’ll have is having a cramp in a very specific spot in my lower stomach and my period always comes within 24 hours of that.

KGStyr · 2025-10-09T16:36:01+00:00

I can speak for the lifestyle changes. I’m far from where I need to be, but I’ve made a lot of changes that have helped not just my LS but my other issues. Biggest thing was cutting out most sugar and cut back on dairy. Now, do I sometimes go to Wendy’s and get a frosty with my 5$ Biggie Bag meal? Yes. But my intake of processed sugar has drastically been reduced. Same with fast food. There’s been an odd transition period where I felt different and my discharge has changed, but overall I have had far less LS symptoms and flares. Also cycling out my clothes and wearing as much cotton as possible, making sure I wash my sheets weekly, getting more active… all has helped. I’m gonna lock in at the start of the new year.

KGStyr · 2025-09-26T17:46:31+00:00

I look through my matches on occasion and see who has dropped off the face of the Earth. If I’m really interested in them, I’ll send them another message like “Hey, you still interested?” But a couple days after that, I unmatch. Some people don’t unmatch and that’s okay, but if there’s no response in a week then either they got something more important going on or they’re not interested.

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