Something happens with the vitamins, too. The vitamins get taken out and artificial ones get put back in.

It's a fascinating talk, and whether or not you or I believe in porn addiction or not, some of the men in the study certainly did. Or the ones who finally agreed to give up porn because they had trouble having sex with real women would say that yes, maybe there is something to it. But the good news was that given…

This TED talk discusses the topic very well. Trying to paste the link here.

There is a really good TED talk about this very thing. I'm trying to paste in the link on my iPad, so we'll see if it works or not.

She's going to be the cutest little train conductor to ever conduct a train. And your husband is going to ooh and aahh over her cuteness when she's wearing those overalls. What kid doesn't look cute in train conductor overalls? I hope she's got a little train conductor hat to wear, too. Choo-choo! (Yes, I'm talking in…

Hi Stinalee,

It sounds painfully obvious, but have you tried telling him that you would like it if he gave you flowers for Valentine's Day?

Same thing happened to me. I had never had a migraine before I took the Pill, but I've been getting them ever since. I was only on the Pill a few days, to "regulate" my periods, but they made me so nauseous and sick and gave me horrible migraines that I quit. I found out many years later that I have…

I'm a loser, too. I had to look up what butterface means. I thought it had to do with someone getting butter on their face from eating popcorn at the movies. And then I read the real meaning of it from Urban Dictionary and got the sads. What a horrible word. Wish I hadn't learned the real meaning of it. People are…

Hitting recommend just doesn't feel right, so I'm sending you a hug instead. *hug* I hope that's ok. My mom just finished her weekly chemo and 7 weeks of radiation and got a feeding tube inserted into her stomach last week. It's been so hard. I just have no words to tell you how your story makes me feel right now. I…

Here's what I didn't like about the movie and what I don't like about most of Allen's movies and characters—they bumble along just letting things happen TO them. They have no agency or responsibility for themselves. They just let things happen to them. Blanchett's character did not start taking any kind of…

I really hope that's not true! I had a rather severe head I jury six years ago and suffer with post traumatic head injury, and my peri-menopause started one month before my 48th birthday, which is relatively early. But one of my cousins started hers at age 42, so it could have been worse. I also have something called…

It would take her forever. She wouldn't be able to do it without stopping and starting haltingly and biting her lip every other word.

I watched a race last night (on tape) in which Bjorndalen came in 4th place. The man is an absolute wonder. I think this is his 4th Olympics. (My husband is Norwegian!)

I don't really know the difference between a hot flash and getting hot from exercise. Maybe there are differences? Since you are exercising, the body knows what is coming and is better able to prepare, whereas with the hot flash, the heat comes on suddenly and the heat source is unregulated, and the body is not able…

If it's not in that video, it must be in another video I heard her say it in.

The increased risk is from having your brain go through the heat from the hot flashes. The hormone replacement therapy (estrogen and progesterone if you have a uterus) minimizes the hot flashes, so the quicker you get on HRT, the faster you stop the hot flashes and the less damage that they do to your brain.

She should be careful about the hot flashes. Research shows that women who have hot flashes are 8 times more likely to have dementia or Alzheimers later in life. Here is a

I didn't read your whole post before I jumped on you...just wanted to point out that yes, vaginal atrophy, with the whole icky connotation is a very real thing, and it happened to me! My clitoris shriveled up and shrank and disappeared and it was the scariest fucking thing that ever happened to me. I ran screaming to…

When I entered peri-menopause, -in the space of less than a month, the outside of my clitoris shrank and disappeared and my vaginal lips shrank. That was on top of the bladder and kidney infections I was suffering from and the hot flashes. There was no telling what was happening on the INSIDE of my vagina.