I'm your age, and boy do I feel the same! I'm in a serious relationship myself, but I still need outside friends, and my "best friend" has pretty much dropped off the face of the planet to me, so it's just the two of us. It sucks. I wish I had answers.

Elephant annoying dog = adorable.

Yikes! I'm glad you're ok! I'll get it checked out this week. I hope it's not that, perforated uterus is one of my big fears with the IUD.

Ooh I like how you think! And that reminded me that I have a bunch of those microwavable/freezable aromatherapy things that I could totally have warmed up and used. Duh! Time to get them handy just in case.

I could have been ovulating, I have a Mirena so I'm not sure if the hormones stop ovulation altogether or just make everything else inhospitable... It might have been a cyst... that's the only thing I could imagine would have stopped after a couple of hours. I've never had one before, and I hope I never have one…

That's interesting, and weird! I thought swelling was a sign of something bad. Well, hopefully it's just random-body-swelling and I'm not dying after all! lol Thanks!

No advice, but been there! I've been in education for 6 years, and I've known since day 1 that it wasn't "my thing", but here I am. Lack of options (I was a language major, so uhh, yeah no marketable skills here) and general complacency (regular paycheck, decent benefits) have kept me in the game. I don't despise…

I was 19, in Paris, slightly drunk for the very first time. I honestly don't even remember his name. Afterward I felt very ashamed (religious education had made me think it was sinful to kiss anyone but your husband!) but now I just think it's a pretty fun story. It was neither good nor bad, just... weird. And…

I have a feeling it's a cyst, which is rare for me but I know is not uncommon in general. I'll have it checked out.

It's tender if I touch at it. It's my lower eyelid, not near the eye itself, so I don't think it's a stye. It's literally like where you'd have dark circles and puffiness, except it's REALLY puffy and a little bit red. But maybe it's one? I've never had it. I'm definitely gonna try a hot compress either way. …

Hmm. Before my IUD I got terrible cramps, and with my first one my cramps were significantly better. This one is about a month and a half old; other than immediately after insertion, it's been fine. I really really hope it's not embedding itself, because I love it. But as I said upthread, I have an appt this week…

I don't have a heating pad; I found myself desperately wishing I had one last night! I've honestly never felt like they did much (I've tried them before), but they're comforting, and maybe they do work and I'm just crazy lol I should invest in one just in case.

Hmm. That's a frightening thought. I have an appointment on Weds for a different IUD-related issue, and I plan to bring the incident up anyway, so maybe she'll check it out. I was thinking it might have been a ruptured cyst, but IUD issues are also possible. *please no please no I love my IUD*

Nope, it's not! I mean, I have an IUD so I don't get periods anymore, and it's really pretty much eliminated most cramps, which is why last night was so awful.

So at about 2:30AM last night, I woke up with the most god-awful cramps ever. They lasted for nearly 2 hours. I barely got Ibuprofen down because I thought I was going to puke it hurt so much. It made me cry. This has never happened to me before, and if it didn't stop when it did I was going to wake up my BF and…

The last 3 or 4 times BF and I went to Red Lobster, we waited forever and had terrible service. Not just "we're busy so the waitress takes a while", but "we ordered 40 minutes ago and still haven't gotten our salad or drinks and the waitress hasn't been in this section since she took our order" bad. The last time we…

For some reason I read the headline but understood it as her giving him a replica of HIS ass, and I was like, what's he going to do with a replica of his own ass? But then it registered that it's her ass, and... I still have no idea what he's going to do with it, but it's a little less confusing.

Sometimes France seems like an oasis dreamland that is unattainable; unfortunately as a non-EU citizen it essentially is :( why can't I live in you, France?! Je t'adore!

I love you for saving her and for giving her an awesome name! :)

Technically I knew that one before him, but I remember how to pronounce it properly so I guess it still counts! :)