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Originally Posted by Precedence

I confess that my nurse is adorable.
And sweet.
And very, very polite.

But my god D: She butchered my blood test.

"You have wonderful veins" she says... Sadist.

It's all bruised and sore now T__T -cries-

Precedence. Oooooo. I use to have a thyroid problem and get lots of blood tests down (years ago)....Feeling it for you. I hope you are okay. Big warm hug.

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Originally Posted by Bar Wench

Oh, and also - is everything ok Precedence? nothing too serious I hope?

Probably nothing I didn't already know.

Luckily, a diagnosis doesn't compound the effects of what I have. It just reconfirms the cause. xD I've lived with it this long, so it's all good.

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Originally Posted by Mac31

Precedence. Oooooo. I use to have a thyroid problem and get lots of blood tests down (years ago)....Feeling it for you. I hope you are okay. Big warm hug.

I got...

A full blood test, HL, Fasting Glucose, Fasting Lipids, FSH.

FSH to confirm PCOS, and my doctor was awesome enough to give me another Gyne referral because they screwed up my laprioscopy to diagnose/treat Endo. I was on the waiting list as 'priority' for over a year... So yeah, something was up. Lol. This time I'm going to really push for a female doctor. :x

Last month I told the hospital to take it all out. Everything.

-Wiggles fist- They refused, and stabbed my bum with a painkiller needle instead.

Anyway, that's my anecdote for today.

Small consolation, I'm sure... hope you're able to get on top of it soon babe.

Mac, my housemate is a nurse and seems to think I might be having some thyroid issues ATM - perhaps you could shed some light on the symptoms?

And I guess I don't feel violently toward this woman, more like an unshakable distaste. She reminds me of one of my old friends who I now find totally lame and intolerable. Oh well, hopefully she'll be out of my life soon enough.

That really sucks Precedence. I know of a couple of women who have requested a hysterectomy after suffering terribly from PCOS and ovarian cysts for years, and they have also been refused on the basis that they may want to conceive one day. I can kinda understand that POV, but shouldn't it ultimately be your choice to make?!

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Originally Posted by Bar Wench

That really sucks Precedence. I know of a couple of women who have requested a hysterectomy after suffering terribly from PCOS and ovarian cysts for years, and they have also been refused on the basis that they may want to conceive one day. I can kinda understand that POV, but shouldn't it ultimately be your choice to make?!

Pretty few doctors would allow a 20 year old under their care to have a hysterectomy for that reason. I actually have yet to have any cysts that I know of. But my doctor will be checking. My pain is from endometriosis primarily. Unfortunately for me, even if they remove everything I don't actually know if it'd cure Endo. :/

The thing is on that point is that.. Infertility is present in about 30 per cent of women with endometriosis. On top of that, PCOS has the highest rate of infertility + The miscarriage rate in some studies suggest that it could be as high as 45% or more.

Sooo... Probably safe to say I'm infertile, which funny enough disappoints the BF more than me. .-. But I'm going to ask my doctors for more information on that. I was never really interested in the idea of being a mother anyway. I have a lot of irrational fears on that front.

I confess that I momentarily derailed this topic! -coughs- Carry on ladies, carry on.

Don't worry too much about that babe, I'm sure we're all interested in hearing about lady bits!

I understand what you're saying about infertility. I don't mean to be a downer but one of those women with PCOS was an ex of mine, she had gone through two miscarriages with a precious partner before I came along. Funnily enough she was never overly keen about being a parent either, probably a good thing all told.

But on a brighter note, I used to work with a woman who was told she was infertile after surviving lukemia in her younger years... These days she is a loving mother of two naturally conceived children, and she only had a casual lover at the time. I guess there's always hope. Who knows, maybe one day you might change your mind, stranger things have happened. I never wanted kids until I hit my late twenties, now I can't wait to be a mum. Please don't think I'm being patronising, btw.

I confess, instead of going to sexpo with my straight girl friends, I'm going to a car show with the boys cos let's face it...I have a car but I don't have...

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Originally Posted by Bar Wench

Small consolation, I'm sure... hope you're able to get on top of it soon babe.

Mac, my housemate is a nurse and seems to think I might be having some thyroid issues ATM - perhaps you could shed some light on the symptoms?

And I guess I don't feel violently toward this woman, more like an unshakable distaste. She reminds me of one of my old friends who I now find totally lame and intolerable. Oh well, hopefully she'll be out of my life soon enough.

Sorry BW..just saw this. I had an over-active thyroid and I actually loved it. I had so much energy. I would get up at 5 and go for a massive bike ride, come home go to gym, clean the house,.go for a run..and I would eat and eat and eat and eat...but I would be losing weight. Of a night I wouldn't sleep well and would wake up hungry in the middle of the night and had to get up and eat a piece of bread or two. What triggered it for me was as soon as the weather started to warm up. I remember one 25 degree day and I struggled that much with the heat, I was lying down on floorboards at home to get cool. After I was diagnosed people would say that they noticed my eyes seemed a little bulgy and my neck had a bulge. Took me a few years to get my levels down and then they went back up and I had to have radiation therapy..which seriously was no big drama. That took a while to kick in and I am back to abnormally normal.
If you have under active, then it is the opposite, eat little but put on weight, tired all the time. Women as they get older 60+ often develop an underactive thyroid.

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Originally Posted by Precedence

Pretty few doctors would allow a 20 year old under their care to have a hysterectomy for that reason. I actually have yet to have any cysts that I know of. But my doctor will be checking. My pain is from endometriosis primarily. Unfortunately for me, even if they remove everything I don't actually know if it'd cure Endo. :/

The thing is on that point is that.. Infertility is present in about 30 per cent of women with endometriosis. On top of that, PCOS has the highest rate of infertility + The miscarriage rate in some studies suggest that it could be as high as 45% or more.

Sooo... Probably safe to say I'm infertile, which funny enough disappoints the BF more than me. .-. But I'm going to ask my doctors for more information on that. I was never really interested in the idea of being a mother anyway. I have a lot of irrational fears on that front.

I confess that I momentarily derailed this topic! -coughs- Carry on ladies, carry on.

Precedence I agree with BW. I had a sister who suffered similar to what sounds like you had. She doesn't have children, but that is through choice. She is able to though. Doctors only know soo much. I was told I would never be able to run again (I had an accident when i was 17). I run and run and run now. I know yours is a bit different, but as hard as it is, try not to think the worst. Plus there are huge developments in medicine. Trust your instincts. Don't be bullied into having something you don't want to. Big Warm HUG.

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Originally Posted by MaggieB

I confess, instead of going to sexpo with my straight girl friends, I'm going to a car show with the boys cos let's face it...I have a car but I don't have...

lol... hey id rather check out the hot rides... cos theres always sexy ladies lounging about there too... its a mini sexpo.... where is this sexpo you talk of?? is it in vic?

I confess, the main reason I watch and love Once Upon A Time is all the eye candy ... yum!

Going back to the gym etc was sposed to happen last week... I don't think it's even gonna happen this week...

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Originally Posted by madamemoloch

My confession:

I am really terrible at undoing bra's, in fact I have no skills whatsoever, you can ask anyone whose bra I've tried to remove.

And to add to my falling lesbian cred...

I have only seen the first 3 seasons of L Word.

You'd think women would be awesome at it, but I agree. Bra's are like an IQ puzzle you have to do before you get to play!
I haven't even seen the full 2nd season

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Originally Posted by undawundawoman

lol... hey id rather check out the hot rides... cos theres always sexy ladies lounging about there too... its a mini sexpo.... where is this sexpo you talk of?? is it in vic?

Nah the one I was talking about was in Brissie…and yes, the car show had many many lovely ladies in rockabilly (one of my favs & really why I went!! ;p) had good music too love anything rockabilly

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Originally Posted by lucie86

You'd think women would be awesome at it, but I agree. Bra's are like an IQ puzzle you have to do before you get to play!
I haven't even seen the full 2nd season

I was talking to my friend yesterday about this…I was exclusive to carmen so I haven't seen any season in full :|

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Originally Posted by lucie86

You'd think women would be awesome at it, but I agree. Bra's are like an IQ puzzle you have to do before you get to play!
I haven't even seen the full 2nd season

One handed snap. Practice makes perfect tho. Just hope you never come across a front opening bra. They are evil!!!

The best part is when Schecter dies.

I got through most of the second season before I lost interest. There's only so much I can take of Shane and her dumbass ratty haircut. I think it's more the following she got IRL, I don't know if any of you guys have seen photos from OS L Word conventions, but that character has a lot to answer for when it comes to mainstream lesbian 'style'. I could scream every time I see a twink wearing a dumb lesbian hat these days.

Not to mention the clueless straight women who tell me that I look 'Just like Shane/Ellen' because that is their only frame of reference, and apparently it is a compliment and a perfectly acceptable way of telling somebody that you're totally fine with them being a homo (Nudge nudge, wink wink). I swear I could be a four-foot, frumpy redhead and some still vacuous airhead would still attempt to score brownie points by spinning that line.

Did I mention I'm on my period today?

You look like Shane & Ellen....? How tha?!

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Originally Posted by linkin

hope you never come across a front opening bra. They are evil!!!

I think the trick with them is knowing that they open at the front, instead of groping around unsuccessfully for ages before she decides to let you in on it.

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Originally Posted by linkin

You look like Shane & Ellen....? How tha?!

That is my point. I don't. It's just a covert way of somebody letting you know that they're ok with you being a lesbian without actually discussing the fact. Kinda like when somebody asks you if you know somebody else who is also a lesbian. Whenever that happens I'll usually reply 'Umm... I'm not sure... How would I know them, do you think?' and usually they will either get all flustered and backpedal, or just come out and say that that person is a homo.

Or is it just me that gets this?

BW I get what you are saying! Except I get the opposite:

"Really? You're.... you're gay? I'm so sorry, I couldn't tell. You just don't look like you would be." I have to be honest, it isn't really their fault that they didn't know. I regularly forget to put on my flashing "CAUTION: RAGING HOMO" sign and my pride rainbow onesie.

And really, when it comes down to it, anyone wearing a dress is a total cock fiend.

Well this is true. I was privvy to a similar conversation a while back, when there was a queer night down here and some random middle-age woman barges into the toilets drunk as a skunk, and starts ranting at my high-femme ex - saying that straight women shouldn't be allowed at homo events and that young girls (my ex is almost thirty, btw) are all all about status and are actually destroying the cause by filling in time waiting for the right man to come along.

Jeez, way to go moron. Maybe you can't get laid because you're a redundant old troll?

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"Really? You're.... you're gay? I'm so sorry, I couldn't tell. You just don't look like you would be." I have to be honest, it isn't really their fault that they didn't know. I regularly forget to put on my flashing "CAUTION: RAGING HOMO" sign and my pride rainbow onesie.

I sooooo can relate inkling. Its like do i really have to put on my tie, hat and my rainbow bands just so i look gay to you?!
Gee wonder if i should borrow your flashing sign for the Equal love rally this weekend.

I never have before, but I'm starting to judge people for the decisions they've made / are making.

So I'm a fan of Quentin, which makes me a fan of Reservoir Dogs... Theres a scene with Mr Blonde where he goes all psycho dancing to Stuck in the middle with you... And for some demented reason, that has me concerned about my well being, I find that one of the hottest scenes ever. It's just not right... Seriously. The dude cuts off an ear for the love of god.

I confess that I am calling in sick today for no other reason than to take advantage of myself.


.... Does that mean I have a problem?

naaaaa i dont think so inkling.. i envy u actually ;-)

Jeez Inkling, the whole day? How long does it take?!

lol@ BW ... more than 5 minutes and id be getting another hand.

I must have missed the memo about only being allowed one orgasm a day....

And what's the point of having a whole day off if you can't romance yourself a little bit first?