#the female reproductive system

[rulemakingrat]

i’ll make this as brief as possible.

i have had menstrual bleeding for 15 weeks straight.

i was on norethindrone (combo pill birth control) for years, which was prescribed by my endometriosis specialist. when i began having severe breakthrough bleeding, i didn’t think anything of it- it’s just endo, right?

no.

after bleeding heavily and passing clots for two weeks, i contacted my regular OB/GYN APRN. she seemed unbothered by my issue and suggested changing my birth control to Yaz (different combo pill). i was reluctant, because my actual endo specialist had prescribed me the original birth control because he liked it most for endo control. but whatever… i’d take the chance to stop the bleeding.

two more weeks of bleeding (now at four total). i contact my OB/GYN again and she says my bleeding is totally normal and i should wait 3 more months to “wait for the birth control to kick in”.

i immediately made an appointment with a new endometriosis specialist, as the aforementioned one moved to cancer care and i could no longer see him.

to see this new endo specialist, i have to have a transvaginal ultrasound, which is understandable. during the excruciatingly painful process, a cyst on my right ovary was found. but that’s not all.

they found adenomyosis and a cyst on my right ovary.

in one week, i get a wombo combo of a procedure: total hysterectomy with excision of endometriosis, appendectomy, and cystoscopy.

my mental and emotional health has been a roller coaster. i’m incredibly angry at my OB/GYN for dismissing me and just putting me on another birth control instead of investigating my symptom of month long bleeding.

actually, i’m not angry. i’m indifferent. i feel indifferent about everything knowing that an organ that feels so essential to my own womanhood is leaving me. but i’m also glad i’m losing my uterus. it has made me rethink what makes a woman a woman. i’m also glad i’m losing this damn thing that has made me bleed and cramp like insane since age 11.

point is: if something seems wrong with your reproductive system and your provider doesn’t listen to you, get a second opinion if you can.

i know i’m glad i did.

[chronurgy]

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[mxmorbidmidnight]

Whenever I speak to an AFAB person there’s almost an 100% guarantee they have some kind of health issue that they should be seeing a doctor about, but don’t because “I’m just being dramatic”. I know people who have had relentless chronic pain to the point they are unable to move an entire limb, people who had asthma for years and never saw a doctor about it, girls I’ve grown up with who will be gone for a considerable amount of time and when they come back say “oh you know just period cramps”. I’ve experienced this myself, subconsciously dismissing my own pain due to the amount of times I’ve walked into a doctors office or spoken to an adult I trusted and been told “it’s good for you to struggle a bit” “it’s not that bad”, “stop trying to get attention”.

A medical issue that is debilitating or uncomfortable in your life is something to see a doctor about. You’re not dramatic for not wanting to be in pain all the time, for not wanting to feel terrible and tired and sick. Being in pain all the time is not just something that you’re supposed to live with.

Dismissing people for their pain is yet another thing that makes health care inaccessible.

[xenasaur]

I am a sensitive tranny who requires specialized environments (discord servers populated exclusively by transfeminists)

[pseudomonaslisa]

the way people talk about the reproductive system vs other body systems is so weird. "each sperm furiously tries to be the first to get into the egg" what the fuck are you talking about. it's dna with a flagella. nobody says "the urinary bladder desperately contracts to get all of the pee out 😖😩"

[limited-hero]

is aithne (dave) trans?

Bc if he's the son of Ganondorf there is only 1 gerudo male born every 100 years

And if ganon is that male how would Dave be gerudo and male? And regardless of genetics all gerudo would be born female.

Just a question for team Dave!

[f1-disaster-bi]

Once again apologising that I haven't posted much when I said I was going to.

I wasn't going to post this, but it's important to talk about and I want to encourage people to listen to their bodies, especially those of us who have a uterus and female reproductive system.

I went to my doctor back in June after a almost 2 years of changes to my menstrual cycle that were impacting my life. I got extremely lucky because I have a doctor who actually listens to me and immediately he scheduled tests and appointments and got me on a Borth control that works for me (I've had several bad reactions to different ones).

Unfortunately, some of my tests came back with traces of abnormal changes, which was scary because that could mean nothing or it could mean pre-cancerous cells or it could be cancerous cells. I got the news pretty quickly and got an appointment that I went to today.

I went in nervous and expecting the worst. The gynaecology staff were so nice and sweet and funny. They made the experience so easy and lovely despite the bit of discomfort I was going through.

Luckily, it seems as if I am in the clear. I had a minor procedure to remove some small, what is most likely benign, growths, and a biopsy, and was home after about thirty minutes. They were happy with what they saw, no immediate worries, and they don't think my lab results will show anything to be frightened about.

This was scary.

The possibility of cancer is always terrifying, especially when your family has a history of it, but I'm glad we can possibly rule it out. It makes it easier for my doctor to look at other causes for what I'm going through, and it'll make my other appointments easier if we can rule it out now.

The point of this is: listen to your body.

I put off talking to doctors about this for two years because like a lot of people with a uterus, I've had doctors who told me what I was experiencing was normal and that I just needed to suck it up and take some pain killers, but no one knows your body better than you.

All in all, I'm doing good. I'm tired and exhausted from overthinking and worrying. I'm a little sore and crampy after everything but also relieved.

Just look after yourselves and your body and listen when it tells you something is wrong and go for your recommended checkups 💖

[oksurethisismyname]

Content warning: discussion of smut and a small sex talk

Today I was scrolling and came across a very graphic smut about Luffy x fem reader and here’s the deal. Write smut, live your life, I love a good smutty story but for the love of all things good:

1. Tag it as smut. Make it clear it’s smut. We’re on the internet, sure, but people are looking at the one piece tag all over, all age ranges. You gotta label that shit

2. And this is the sex talk part. YOU CANNOT GO PAST THE CERVIX. “He pushed past her cervix” he did what???????? Sir????????? 911 hello I have a MURDER TO REPORT. The cervix is what separates the vagina from the uterus. Sex happens in the vagina. It cannot and does not happen in the uterus. The cervix is typically like one of those powdered donuts you get at a gas station. There’s a hole there but you can’t see it, it’s so small. When someone has a baby, the cervix opens up to 10cm, thinning out as it opens. That’s called dialation. Penises or toys or fingers or rubber fictional apendeges aside, nothing is pleasurably going through the cervix.

Anyway thanks for attending my sex talk and please remember that female anatomy isn’t some mysterious mythical thing. there’s diagrams you could and should look at if you plan to be sexually active with someone with those bits or write about those bits.

[moths-in-a-coat]

re:trump deciding to declare that every single person’s sex is determined at conception

i just want to know whom he had to suck off to pass high school

wait, sorry, madam president, it’s actually whom she had to suck off. since everyone is now legally female because everyone starts off as phenotypically female at conception you dumb fuck

[asleepingtiger]

The past several days I have had THE worst endometriosis flare up so far!

Wednesday morning I was hospitalised due to severe pain which was a 12/10. I could hardly walk properly and I was in absolute agony.

I stayed in over night and had a scan the next day to see if my right ovary had twisted or torsion, it wasn’t but my cyst had gone, however my endometriosis has developed and the 3 endometriomas have grown and have become more defined. Hence my severe pain I’ve been in.

Unfortunately, they can’t operate because I need an endometriosis specialist team to do the operation so it’ll be successful.

I have never felt so poorly in all my life the past few days. It has been so overwhelming and scary.

I hate having periods and I hate having a uterus (I don’t even want kids, I couldn’t think anything worse that could happen to my life than have them!😅) I literally dread it every month because of the severe pain I go through. Cocodemol only does so much but it’s something.

I hope I don’t have to wait long for my operation which my consultant has expedited a letter to bump me up the waiting list. I can’t afford to wait forever as the disease could spread to other organs such as my bowel or bladder or even my diaphragm to name a few.

It’s baffles me that they know just as much about the female reproductive system as what victorians did about the brain! Like how?! Why?!

If there’s anyone out there that suffers with this too, I’m so very sorry. Just keep fighting and make drs listen! Be a pain, it’s better than being in pain! 

[spiritualweapons]

people without vaginas will never know how good it is to end your period. changing your sheets and showering so everything is fresh and clean after a week of bleeding out? an unmatched feeling. tampons and pads back in the cupboard for another month where they belong.

[marc--chilton]

what i'm writing: omegaverse drama

where my head's at now: god DAMMIT there'd be a latin word for omega males, and that would mean a different branch of medicine from gynaecology. i'm gonna have to make up fake latin to name a fake field of medicine for a fantasy version of humans where men can also get pregnant

[feminin-mystik]

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[economicsresearch]

page 199 - do these plants look like my genitals? do my genitals look like these plants? are these funguses? at this point, are my genitals? or are they just covered in thousands of tiny mushrooms?

It's all well and good to have a fun guy at your party but I'll take a bunch of fun Guses any day of the week. Those people can party.

[andromeda3116]

look i know this is tmi but like

i know -- i know! i know! -- to pee after sex. i know this! i just... waited too long and now have developed a uti which would suck enough on its own but also

also

it's the first day of my cycle and the cramps are rough this time and this is a very cruel fucking joke from the universe what did i do to deserve this