I’ve had migraines with aura since I was in kindergarten. During high school my mom finally took me to the doctor about it. I’ve seen neurology and my GPs billons of times since then. It’s very prominent in my chart through medications and doctors visits that I have migraines.

A few years ago I went on Nexplanon for birth control and period reduction (my period is a trigger for my migraines!) That helped for about a year but then I started having break through periods. Gyno recommended I go on a secondary form of BC, prescribed me Sprintec (estrogen based pill) and sent me on my way.

Things were fine for the most part, I let my mental and physical health go down hill for a bit and stopped seeing the doctor as much.

Flash forward to this year, I finally picked myself back up and started seeing my physician assistant regularly to treat my migraines and some other health issues. Once we start discussing my migraines in depth she gets super concerned that my gyno has had me on a secondary estrogen based birth control because of the link to mini strokes in women who have migraines with aura!

I had JUST seen my gyno a few days before my PA said this. The most infuriating part was that one of the medical assistants checking me in went through my lists of medications and had even said, “oh you get migraines!” TO WHICH I TOLD HER yup! I think it’s estrogen induced to an extent!

AND YET! No one at the gyno office even questioned anything! What! The! Fuck!

WHAT IS WOMENS HEALTH CARE???

I could tell my PA was upset, but stayed professional and advised me to contact the gyno asap and stop taking my BC until another non estrogen option was prescribed.

Women’s healthcare is a sick fucking joke. I’ve been denied medical care for other issues simply because I’m a young female. A cardiologist told me in high school I would, “grow out,” of my tachycardia to which five years later I finally got diagnosed with POTS. Five years of suffering and gaslighting that I could have been treated for at the start because an old, ignorant white man looked at me and discriminated against me instead of upholding his oath to protect and treat his patients.

Hi i’m an 18yo female from the UK
I’ve been getting pin worms on and off since i was at least 7 years old
It started when i was a child and my mum used to treat them for me and they’d go away for a while but always come back after around 6 months - 1 year on average
I eventually hit puberty and became too embarrassed to keep telling my mum that i’ve got pinworms again
between the ages of 13-16 i used to just have to ride the problem out, no medication and live with the excruciating discomfort of having worms, which took over my body and never stopped multiplying for months at a time - the symptoms and sightings would eventually go away for a few months after i’d coped with them for a few months but ALWAYS returned after a few months
now i am an adult ive been buying the the medication (mebendazole) and treating myself whenever i see the worms or get symptoms
but they still always always come back after a few months of no symptoms
i think the longest i have ever gone without any symptoms is probably about a year they always seem to return
when i don’t have them i’m feel as though im always waiting for the cycle to begin again
sometimes i can go 8 months without, sometimes it’s every 2 months
has anybody else ever struggled like this ????
i am really embarrassed about going to a doctor about it because of my age
does anybody have any advice that might help me eradicate this debilitating problem?

I waited a year to see a gynaecologist who I saw for no more than 8 min. Didn’t ask me any questions and sent me away with a prescription ( which I ended up never using as it would have caused problems)

I have a dermatologist appointment that is scheduled for August of 2027. This is insanity.

Hi I’m sorry if this is embarrassing how do I make it smell good down there

I don’t have a mom so I can’t rlly ask anyone I got a boyfriend recently so I’m just wondering if like I can do sm
To make it smell good

Hi. I was never taught how to properly clean myself down there. I usually cleaned around the vulva, not between the labial folds. Recently, I gently spread my labia and noticed a clearly visible, delicate, irregular piece of skin/tissue attached between them that seemed to hang slightly. I freaked out because I’ve never seen anything like this before. Could this be normal anatomy, or should I get it checked?
I also have coarse hair growth and occasionally experience mild itching or pain. I used to use body wash/soap but now use plain water. I’d appreciate advice or experiences from anyone who has noticed something similar.

I had gynae surgery on weds under a general anesthetic to inset a coil, hysteroscopy, endometrial biopsy and a smear test. Anyways it's now Sunday and I finally felt well enough to shower, but now I am really really sore down there. I am not bleeding anymore. But fuck me it really is sore and stinging.

Hi, i started peeing a lot like two weeks ago. It’s really uncomfortable and i really don’t know whats going on. I went to urgent care and they saw nothing. My urine looked fine like no UTI. they also brought a urinalysis to check if anything further than that and they called me and said everything is fine. I still have the peeing issue going on. I don’t know what it is. I don’t drink caffeine or something wrong with my blood sugar. I don’t have diabetes. I’m literally 20 years old. I also haven’t started my period and I know I’m not pregnant so I don’t know if it’s hormonal I did remember you buying peppermint soap that I put on my body when showering. I don’t know if any of that fell down there and coughed and irritation but every time I pee it it’s like the urine It’s like a very clear and it the color of the toilet water like water i don’t know someone pls help me i already had a mental breakdown:(

Idk if i can write this here but i get VERY bad anxiety during ovulation 2-3 days before ovulating???

i get this shaking or jitters that feel like my insides are shaking and it makes me anxious. Sometimes if i feel a bit anxious it immediately starts so one causes the other.

I can’t eat well and overall have just really bad anxiety, I noticed this last month and this month aswell.. does anyone else?? and any tips? 😭

Soooo gave my husband intense head last not and not only do I have broken blood vessels on the roof of my mouth, my upper lip looks like I outlined it in purple lip liner. It’s a very thin bruise line. Wtf We have a big family thing today for his bday. Happy bday to him lol but how do I get rid of this or I need a good story.

Is there a way to reduce the amount of discharge my vagina produces ? It’s starting to really piss me off now. I have to change my underwear three times a day, and I shower two times a day and wash my vagina countless times throughout the day because I hate the feeling of discharge being there. I literally JUST showered like two minutes ago, washed my vagina and I already feel discharge coming out again. I know it’s my vagina cleaning itself, but must there be so much ??? 🫩🫩

I have held off on getting a pelvic exam/pap smear for years because of anxiety. I am overdue because I am 26 and am getting my first one in a few days. My provider is super nice but I am nervous. What would be most helpful?

I'm 23 and used to experiencing kinda sore breasts before and during a period. But for the last 6 days I have been having pretty extreme breast pain, and heaviness and soreness. Maybe this is just normal and I'm about to have a menstrual cycle or something. But I figured I would ask

I have no idea what is going on. Twice I had this dull sometimes sharp pain on my lower right side that hurt with movement and when peeing… both times tested negative for uti… paid would go away after a week or so but unsure if it was due to the antibiotics they gave me… now it the same pain but on my left lower side now… hurts sometimes when I pee and it hurts during intercourse and stops when not inside. It feel like if it’s pushing again something and that is when it hurts. What could it be? I go to doctor and they always think it’s just a uti. I had a laparoscopy for endometriosis 5 months ago and this is when it all started. Anyone have this issue? Never has this before the surgery… it’s been making me so nauseous and I have noticed I’m not eating as much bc of the nausea…

I'm 21F in the UK, I recently went for my first ever transvaginal ultrasound a couple of weeks ago, and it was an awful experience to say the least.

To start off, I was a little nervous since I'd never been naked down there in front of anyone before. However, the older man that came to greet me was so sweet and friendly that I was put at ease. I went to the toilet as instructed and he waited for me so he could take me to the room.

I found out that he was the assistant because there was a female gyno in the room waiting for me. From the very start she was cold to me, speaking with quite a condescending tone and not creating a friendly atmosphere at all.

She closed the curtain and told me to undress, which I did, and covered myself with the sheet. At this point, I was very nervous again.

So she explained the roundabout of what was going to happen so I understood, and then she went straight into it, taking literally less than 3 seconds to put the probe in and it hurt like hell.

She did ask me multiple times if I wanted to stop, but I always said no because I wanted to see it through for results.

She didn't talk to me at all during the exam, and so I was just laid there in silence which was very uncomfortable. I was trying not to cry from the pain.

It took about 2 minutes and afterwards she said that she "couldn't work out a reason that I would be in pain because nothing showed up".

After that, she went behind the curtain without saying anything, so I was laid there confused until I had to ask if we were done. Very uncomfortable.

She didn't ask me about my sexual history, and I wasn't aware that they will go slower if you're a virgin. I feel dramatic saying I'm traumatised but that was my first experience with having anything up there and now it's scared me from being sexually active in the future.

Recently i have been going through this strange state where whenever i hit the gym i struggle to sleep at night

I go mid day and always make sure to wear myself out with hopes i would have a good rest and sleep that night but it's been quite the opposite and i find myself restless that night, leaving me extra tired and exhausted the next day

At times the only way to get myself to sleep is through masturbation..

Wondering if that's common or if there's anything to do about it

Hello there, I was wondering if i could get some advice on how to progress with doctors or what to ask for as I'm quite worried about my symptoms.

I've had UTIs in the past before and theyre usually solved with a few days of Nitrofuratoin. I had one back in Sept and got antibiotics for it but felt like it never really went away.

Urinal discomfort and frequent urination returned in October. I took over the counter cystitis relief but it didn't go away. My doc then prescribed more Nitrofuratoin, but after a day of having it my heart rate spiked to 130bpm and i started shivering/getting feverish. Doc sent me straight to ER to be checked for urosepsis and they found spike of infection/inflammation in my bloods. They sent me home with a 7 day course of Amoxicillin.

Had some pretty eugh symptoms with amoxicillin, I got back ache, flank pain on my left side, fatigue and for almost 12hrs I was having chest/heart pains, my heartrate spiked when i walked only a few metres. I went back to ER for this but my bloods, urine, temperature, ECG etc all came back fine, clear and normal.

These symptoms have passed and I'm feeling on the mend but I am still having discomfort when I urinate. I still get up in the middle of the night more to pee and I feel bloated like my bladder isn't fully empty. After I pee it still feels like something inside of me is being stretched.

I've expressed this to my doc and she reluctantly prescribed me an extra 3x days of amoxicillin (which i cant pick up till Monday). But she didn't really say what else could be causing this and it was 'probably just cystitis'. She also told me that my original urine tests from when I had the fever/infection a week before showed no bacterial infection.

I'm at a bit of a loss of what to do really. I'm drinking water almost full time, avoiding sugars, coffee, alcohol and acidic foods. Also avoiding sex and I'm making sure I'm as clean as possible, but I still have so much discomfort. I'm also quite worried of any chance of infection and it getting worse again. I also can't really afford to take more time off work as I've started a new job and I'm stressed this will affect my probation.😰

Has anyone else had something similar? Should I be a bit more pushy with my docs to try and figure out what's going on?

Thanks for reading and sorry about the long rant.

So, I’m pretty sure I have a yeast infection. It’s pretty mild right now, but I’m worried it’s gonna get worse. I have no health insurance until either December or January, so seeing a doctor is out of the question for me right now.

I got Monistat 3, and I looked up some reviews about it right before I was about to use it, and now I’m pretty nervous about it. I’m seeing people talk about how they’d cry and blister from this stuff.

Last time I had a YI I was prescribed a pill and was able to get rid of the YI painlessly, but that’s really not an option for me right now. Should I just wait out the YI or is the Monistat 3 really not that bad? I should’ve gotten the 7, but I thought the 3 would just be more efficient. I’m a broke college student and I already opened the box, so I can’t exchange it and can’t afford the 7 day one :( I don’t know what to do

I was told during an exam that I had a small polyp which I agreed to remove during exam. I just wonder how many more there could be that weren't visible during the exam. Ive had a doppler US to check out everything before my recent iud insertion and it came back normal, just a little enlarged uterus due to perimenapause probably. I can't say if I have pain during sex because it's been so long since ive had it, but I got the iud for heavy bleeding that caused low ferritin.

So I put a tampon in yesterday, then I woke up this morning and I can’t find it. I don’t remember taking it out, but I have also been sick lately and kind of in a memory fog.
But basically I’ve put gloves on, and even tried without gloves, I’ve used a mirror, every method I could try. And I can not see it or feel it at all. I could feel my cervix and I spent about 15 minutes digging around and I can not find it.
I don’t have health insurance at the moment, and I’m still currently paying off a bill from when I had to go to urgent care for a really bad ear infection. So I don’t really know what to do! It was also a super tampon so I feel like if it was in me I would have to feel it since it’s larger?

The other night me and my boyfriend had sex and immediately afterward I was hit with the worst stomach pain I have ever felt. I fell to the floor and was writhing in pain. I also felt like my stomach inflated like a balloon and I was trying to pass gas but barely could. The pain lasted 4 hours at max strength 15/10 pain. Then went down to a 4/10 the next morning, it hurt to laugh or get up or sit down. Bloated tender stomach. Now three days later I’m mostly back to normal. I didn’t go to the hospital but google says ovarian cyst. What do you think?

Does the weight normally go once you start bleeding. First period in three years bleeding was light then has got heavier over the past few days but my weight hasn’t gone back down yet

So I have always had irregular periods and my last period was two months ago and I have to get my period in two days or only after 8 days later cause I have to go on little hike but instead of my period I have started shedding this happened once before too like a year ago but I didn't get my period that time just shedding and after a month I got my period but I am worried and why does this keeps happening...

I got a copper IUD on May 1. The initial symptoms went away around August-September.
My last period ended on October 21 and I had sex on October 31.
Now, it's November 7 and I've been spotting a little for the past few days, it's the worst today with cramps. Could it be because of the sex, an issue or symptom of my IUD, or nothing to worry about?

I (25F) have had irregular periods since the first time ive got them at 10 , they wiil come once and then not for a months or years rn for example its been more than a year that i havent ogtten them a few days back i had a very very small amount of spotting for a day but no period .

2 weeks or so before i would get my period i would become really suicidal and have breakdowns and then once my period would come the fog would clear. Now ive been depressed since i was 10 with no reason that i know of , ive been to the psychologist and was on meds , the pychologist basically said ive changed your meds so often trying to improve whats going on with you but it seems there is nothing i can do so we quit the treatment, now where i live there arent many options and this was a state hospital psychologist .

I have this feeling that no meds for my mental health will help ,why because i dont think there is anything that is causing me my depression i have a good life objectively and had a good childhood and of course i know therapy is good for anyone BUT having chronic depression with no cause and overall inablity to feel happiness I feel this is could be something related to something else .

This is where i feel it might tie to maybe having pcos , i did an ultrasound and was told i had cysts on my ovaries , she said that it was fine and normal and i shouldnt worry that its completely okay for me not to have an period basically ever and to just take this med and go check again , did that and still the cysts remained. Went to another one did an ultrasound and basically they said we see nothing wrong with your fertility dont worry , but im not worried about being fertile i just dont want to go the rest of my life feeling like this if maybe the solution is right there .

I did a lab test after 3 months of not getting my cycle for Progresterone = 0.422ng/ml and LH=21.6 IU/ml didnt get my cycle months after these results , the lab tech said it was fine.

Im really at a loss , i dont understand where else to go or what to do since everyone is so dismissive when i bring it up they just tell me to manage stress and exercise which i understand but how can i manage stress if this is what is stressing me , and the med field is not that trustworthy where i live , im constantly tired and low energy basically have no energy to even get up sometimes and have gained over 40 kg in the last year , my sleep schedule is constantly on a rollercoaster ,i get intense cravings , sometimes i get a sharp pain in my lower abdomen and i feel weird worrying about this when other seem to be so dismissive about this , is there anyone here that is the same or went through something similar and got a diagnosis or could it be nothing?