I'm a human pin cushion

[Lilmiss]

I've had enough of them today, tanks.

[manker]

Big red inflamed raw cervix.


It was even worse after she prodded it.
Meep.



So, whats for dinner?

I guess that means it's time for rampant rabbit rather than king dong

Normally I'd go a bit purple and look at my shoes if a girlie mentioned a cervix, the interweb rawks

[Emdee]

It all sounds pretty nasty

Get well soon, lilmiss

[hobbes]

Oh ffs, it's a way to make sure it isn't something else, sometimes they have to check if it isn't something else, and one way to do it is to stick their fingers up someone's bum.

I haven't had the "pleasure" myself, for which I'm very thankful, but I know several people who have been subjected to the treatment and who were later diagnosed with appendicitis.

A link, please to note what the exam will entail.

They won't have to do it if they are absolutely certain, but it's a fairly common practice when they are not.


And her symptoms were prolly too vague to keep her there on the off-chance that it was appendicitis, and she was due to go back for more tests, it doesn't mean that it absolutely can't be what affects her, tho' her last description makes me guess it's something else.

Yeah, I know.

I just wanted to reassure her that she wasn't in for a big rectal exam the next day.

Why have her worry over something which I was pretty sure they would not do. Such an exam has little purpose in the female. If she has symptoms of a sexually transmitted disease, they would do the whole pelvic thing. Since they had stayed away from that on the initial visit, I was pretty sure she was ok there.

My post was intended strictly to give her a little peace of mind.

[hobbes]

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Ask The Expert - General Medicine

Does alcohol affect antibiotics?

Is it true that alcohol lowers the affect of antibiotics?

There is a generally held belief that alcohol should not be consumed while on a course of oral antibiotics. This advice is correct if a patient is taking metronidazole, cephamandole (may cause a disulfiram-like reaction), and possibly oral ketoconazole (may cause facial flushing). However there is no contraindication to the consumption of alcohol with other antibiotics.

However, the question one has to ask is, is the consumption of alcohol so important that a short period of abstinence is abhored?

The Health Network
March 04

Some antibiotics used to treat Tuberculosis and metronidazole (Flagyl) commonly used for urinary tract infections (<-----watch out, pretty common drug) cause severe nausea and vomiting when mixed with alcohol.

[Snee]

Yeah, I know.

I just wanted to reassure her that she wasn't in for a big rectal exam the next day.

Why have her worry over something which I was pretty sure they would not do. Such an exam has little purpose in the female. If she has symptoms of a sexually transmitted disease, they would do the whole pelvic thing. Since they had stayed away from that on the initial visit, I was pretty sure she was ok there.

My post was intended strictly to give her a little peace of mind.

That's very nice of you, however, I'm not sure that a prostate exam would be the only point to checking that area, as certain infections may produce similar symptoms while not being gender exclusive. It is my understanding that the doctor may need to look for lumps and similar in the colon, regardless of gender, in some cases of abdominal pain.


Antibiotics sometimes mix badly with dairy products, which is something that might be good to keep in mind.

[j2k4]

You are both fostering in our poor Lilmiss an inordinate fear of long-fingered people; what if she stumbles across a gifted pianist, or something?

[Snee]

Then I'd say "oopsy".

[DanB]

Tis cool, my friend's 19yr old brother is in a coma following a brain hemorage last friday night

[hobbes]

That's very nice of you, however, I'm not sure that a prostate exam would be the only point to checking that area, as certain infections may produce similar symptoms while not being gender exclusive. It is my understanding that the doctor may need to look for lumps and similar in the colon, regardless of gender, in some cases of abdominal pain.

Given her symptoms, I doubt jamming fingers in her ass would help.

A Doctor feeling "lumps" in the colon at her age is almost non-existent and would have zero correlation with her symptoms.

And, of course, I was being nice.

We don't need to let your buddies' worst case scenario frame in LilMissus' mind what she should expect.

I doubted that she had appendicitis and I doubted she would get a rectal rampage.

Just a little reasonable reassurance.