# Girl Stuff

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-stuff/10725>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 4, 1999, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-stuff/10725 "1999-11-04T22:20:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 1999, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-stuff/10725/21 "1999-11-07T23:21:00Z")

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PS - ignore the pregnancy thing; sorry about that…

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**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 1999, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-stuff/10725/22 "1999-11-08T00:40:00Z")

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Diane: An excellent book that helps explain the complex female balance of hormones is “Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom” by Dr. Christiane Northrup. She is a longtime practicing OB/GYN, well versed in standard medical treatment as well as complementary methods. The book has useful sections on PMS, also on the hormone changes that come with age. I recommend it as an owner’s manual for the female body. Good luck!

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**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 1999, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-stuff/10725/23 "1999-11-08T03:11:00Z")

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Thanks each and every one of you! I appreciate the help and would probably cry if today was one of my bad days. Seriously 🙂

I am going to call my doctor this week and have him go over all of these options with me (he is great that way). It sounds like there are a lot of different things to consider with each option.

Thanks again!

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\>^,^\<  
KITTEN  
Please tell your pants it’s not polite to point.

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**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 1999, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-stuff/10725/24 "1999-11-08T03:12:00Z")

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Thanks each and every one of you! I appreciate the help and would probably cry if today was one of my bad days. Seriously 🙂

I am going to call my doctor this week and have him go over all of these options with me (he is great that way). It sounds like there are a lot of different things to consider with each option.

Thanks again!

* * *

\>^,^\<  
KITTEN  
Please tell your pants it’s not polite to point.

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**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 1999, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-stuff/10725/25 "1999-11-08T03:16:00Z")

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I almost forgot.

Sue - I did ask a couple of close friends this week if they notice anything different with me during certain times of the month. The said that I get pretty quiet and I don’t smile or laugh like I usually do (I am usually like the Cheshire Cat).

## Here all this time I thought I had everyone snowballed because I held back the tears or the screams. Go figure.

\>^,^\<  
KITTEN  
Please tell your pants it’s not polite to point.

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 1999, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-stuff/10725/26 "1999-11-08T16:42:00Z")

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At the gyno’s when a woman takes off her panties she always folds them nicely & hides them the doc can see them. What irony eh?

Anyway, cutie, try [www.rxlist.com](http://www.rxlist.com) for a descrip of that stuff. This is the url with the info if you want the straight route: [http://www.rxlist.com/scripts/patient/piumore.pl?mononum=816&order=0&type=&item=](http://www.rxlist.com/scripts/patient/piumore.pl?mononum=816&order=0&type=&item=)

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**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 1999, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-stuff/10725/27 "1999-11-08T22:33:00Z")

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Thanks Handy! 🙂

## About the panties. . . We hide them just in case there are skids.

\>^,^\<  
KITTEN  
Please tell your pants it’s not polite to point.

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