What’s sexual or reproductive healthcare involve? Things like STI testing and treatment, contraception, abortion, pre- and post-natal care as well as lots of more general healthcare. Here’s help navigating healthcare systems, knowing your rights, and finding care or providing care for yourself and others.
Healthcare
Articles and Advice in this area:
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- Ashrene Rathial
Polycystic ovary syndrome affects millions of people worldwide. Get the lowdown on this condition, what it looks like, and how it’s managed.
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- Roselil Aalund
Get the basics on ectopic pregnancy: what it is, how it’s treated, and the magic of the fallopian tubes.
Advice
- s.e. smith
Hello Rose, You’ve come to the right place for advice. You deserve love and care in your life, and I’m sorry someone broke your trust and abused you as a child. I hope that as an adult, you have lots of strong friends and supporters around you, not just in the context of going to the doctor, but for…
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- Caitlyn Tivy PT, DPT, OCS
Physical therapist Caitlyn Tivy talks pelvic exams in the current era: what they are, why you might need one, and how to make them a comfortable and positive experience, including modifications that can be made with them that you might want or need.
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- Dr. Sarah Borg
A primer on accessing sexual and reproductive healthcare in the United Kingdom.
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- Alexa Karczmar
Do you really need that pelvic exam? Here’s a quick primer of how to figure out if you do and how to talk to your healthcare about it, including if they say you do when you think you don’t or just don’t want one.
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- Al Washburn
That’s a really, really good question! To answer it, I want to stop for a second to talk about why your doctor asked you that question. Usually, for young people (especially if you’ve seen them before and it’s the first time they’ve asked you that question), the doctor wants to assess what kinds of…
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- Carly Dreyfus
My experience with sex-negativity and ignorance in the medical world. Adventures in having an ovarian cyst, coming out in the ER, enduring bad gynecological exams, healing my relationship with my anus and finally finding a good doctor.
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- Heather Corinna
You’re not the only person confused by this term, so let’s see if we can’t clear it up for everyone once and for all. When healthcare professionals ask that question, they are asking from a sexual health perspective. In other words, what they are wanting to know is if a patient or client has…
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- Hollie West
Hi there, I am so sorry you had such a negative experience for your first PAP test. I promise you, it is not always like this, and it certainly doesn’t HAVE to be like this. First off, your doctor TELLING YOU that you have to have a PAP test is wrong. A nurse practitioner (NP) cannot tell you what…
