Rachel

Okay, so last week I went on a week-long trip for my birthday to New Mexico, unfortunately I could feel my period coming on and since I have quite painful and annoying periods (not to mention I wear pads, yuck) I didn't want to have to deal with it. My friend offered me some of her birth control to ease or stop the period, but only for that week. My mother approved, stating that it was fine as long as I only used the birth control for that week alone, then stopped using it. I tried the pill the day I started, but saw no results. The bleeding continued. As we went on our trip I became very nauseous and had unpleasant cramps, but noticed my period was not only lighter but turned and darker red and occasionally lighter pink - colors I wasn't used to seeing. After approximately three days I decided that some of my pain was probably due to the fact that I had started the birth control without visiting a doctor and that taking pills not prescribed to me was a very, very stupid idea. I stopped taking them in hopes that my period would take a more natural turn, and since I had been bleeding all week, would end as normal. Unfortunately I am approaching the seventh day of my period and it shows little to no signs of stopping. It temporarily stopped twice before, but it quickly came back after taking a hot shower each time.

Anyways, I don't need a lecture on how foolish I was to take the birth control. Never doing that again. Although, I am curious as to how long this period and cramping will last considering I was only taking it for a very short time. Will my body regulate faster? I've heard horror stories of periods lasting for a month after getting off it, but those were generally long-term doses. Any ideas? I'd rather like to sleep in whatever position I want, thank you very much.

I am a bit troubled by something, and I just want your opinions on it.

I have a best friend that I have been friends with since the seventh grade (we are in the eleventh now) and we were always extremely close. She used to call me her sister as a term of endearment, and I loved it. I had always felt really close to her. However, about four months ago we got in a huge fight. We stopped being friends and cussed each other out and everything. Her cousin had come to visit and had kept her company, along with another friend that I used to get jealous of, and they became her little 'hate rachel' group.

Three months passed and somehow we made up. I missed her like hell and she apparently felt the same. We went through dozens of heartfelt apologies and all that and became best friends again gradually. A month has passed and things are pretty much back to normal. On her Facebook family status it has her cousin and the other friend as her sisters, which really upset me for awhile. I assumed that she added them when we were fighting. It made me upset because even when she called me her sister, she never added me to the family list.

Her parents don't really like me anymore either. They had apparently adored me in the past, and she says that they still do, but I had always felt that they liked the other friend a lot more. It hurts because I have always been there for her, through everything. I haven't shown one sign of being upset with her since we made up, but sometimes I feel betrayed. She was so pissed off with her cousin when I was there, and they haven't even been close for very long. I know they're family...but I thought I was too for an instant there.

Should I feel sad that she doesn't see me as a sister anymore? She still says 'I love you' and everything, but it feels more forced. She never references me on her Facebook either, but she does her cousin and the other friend. I'm overreacting, aren't I? But don't you think I have a reason to be sad that I'm not included in the sister quota anymore?

My best friend and I use to be really close. We would goof around, always spend the night, and tell each other everything. That was only a few weeks ago too.

Ever since school started things have been different. She hardly ever spends the night anymore. And, I know it is wrong to feel so jealous all the time but, I feel like I am getting replaced. We have another great friend, and I love her like a sister too, but now they are getting extremely close together. So close that they are always talking, and I usually just sit to the side quietly. She likes to go to the other girl's house and ride horses, and I usually have to leave early. :(

Recently she just started sharing some of our jokes with her. She giggles about the inside jokes we used to laugh about. I tried using one of them on her on interenet chat, but she only answered with a simple, one-worded greeting, and then acted frustrated when I asked her what the matter was.

Sometimes she doesn't even acknowledge that I am there, and by then the same cycle repeats itself. I get visibally upset, she gets all close and tries to tickle it out of me, and asks me what's wrong. Two minutes later, I am invisible again.

She's been dealing with ex boyfriends and crushes recently, along with some bad rumors and drama. I just don't know anymore. Sometimes she acts like she still cares, even calling me her best friend when comforting me, or trying to anyways, but it all seems so forced sometimes.

What should I do? I'm not ready to let go yet.

I recently got a sunburn that I thought had healed up all the way. It stopped hurting, sometimes It gets a little sore, and I've already peeled. The thing is the redness won't go away! It annoys the heck out of me! It still looks like it's sun burnt and I want my regular color to come back. Any ideas?

My brother went outside and vanished without telling my parents where he was going. He came back and hid under the bed from my mom's wrath. She pulled him out from under the bed, yelled at him, and spanked him a little before telling him to go to sleep. A few minutes later he started crying about something hurting. I checked on him and found a large red bump on his shoulder that he said hurt really bad. Is it a wasp bite?

I recently went to the lake with my friends and got a pretty bad sunburn. It's healed and peeled over now, even though it's still a little pinkish. Anyways, I've always been a worry wart. You can definitely tell by the questions I've asked on here, but the thing I worry about most is cancer.

You see, I do happen to have some moles on my back that kind of (not extremely) resemble the ones in the pictures that you need to look out for. The problem is, I don't know whether they are normal moles or cancerous, and I can't even get a good view of one of them. I've been stressing about skin cancer for weeks now, and my mom is really annoyed. I want to go get myself checked out but I know if I ask mom she will go, "Oh my God Rachel you do not have skin cancer!" So what do I do?

This use to only happen to me on occasion, but if I lay down or even sit down for long periods of time I will get dizzy, my vision clouds over, and i feel weak and sometimes queasy. This morning I had been lying down for a couple hours, and when I got up again I had to grab onto the wall and my vision left for a few seconds. Granted, since it's summer I have been taking in more sugar and have been sleeping in for pretty much forever, so does it have anything to do with that?

Please answer.

My friend and I are fighting again. :( Sad day.

Anyways, I don't feel like explaining everything, but she pretty much called me a liar, and I'm getting the idea that I was only being used as her carpool. See, she invited me to something, but said that I needed to pick her up. I told her I couldn't because my mom was sick, but she thought I was lying. She called my mom and asked for a ride (my mom said yes this time) and made it sound like she didn't want me to go anymore. Out of anger I told my mom I wasn't going, so my mom told her that she couldn't take her.

Now my friend won't talk to me, and I am furious with her. I'm mad because she's been ignoring me as if the whole thing was my fault, and she won't even try to fix things! We've had another friend sort of talk back and forth between us. He told me that she wasn't mad at me, and that she just wanted me to go up and talk to her, or make the first move. Still furious, I refused.

Did I do the right thing? I am so angry because of the whole carpool/calling me a liar ordeal, hurt because she's acting (once again) like she doesn't really care, and worried and depressed out of my head because I'm afraid everything has been ruined. What do I do? School is out now and she won't even call me!!!!! :((

This other guy she hangs out with told me to give her time. But, she hurt me right? She shouldn't need time when I'm the one who got hurt!!!

This is kind of a back up to my first question. What will the high school tryouts be like if i do tryout? What would I have to do? What would be expected of me? DO I have to weigh a certain weight? What moves do I need to know? Cause right now, I can barely do the splits, let alone a high kick or flip or anything like that. I assume I can learn how to do a high kick with stretching, but I'm still a little weary about the flips.

Hellloooo! I'm in 9th grade(freshmen) and I really want to join cheerleading. I've been working on my splits and stretching with my mom everyday, and I want to join my sophmore year. Just one little problem, the preps. I've always been the quiet girl in the corner who the preps bare;y even talk to. All the preps are overachievers and they all have theyre own gaang, and that same group has been the WHS cheerleaders since seventh grade. I'm nervous because I feel like I'll be stepping into another person's territory, or another group's should I say. I feel like I won't be welcomed there or that they'll just stare at me the whole time, but I'm just as smart as them, just not as outgoing. What do I do?

ok, so im playing the dark brotherhood quest accidents happen for the xbox 360, and i'm fed up with it! i sneak into baelin's house throught the basement at seven p.m., don't get detected when i go up the stairs, go into the passage way, untie the knots at 8, and the head falls, but then it says that baelin's dead, but i didn't complete the mission correctly so i don't get a bonus! HELP!

Okay, well I noticed that my nipples change texture alot. Sometimes they are puffed up and the peaks of them are sunken in with the rest of the nipple, leaving a smooth edge. Then when I rub them they come back up. Other times my nipples are scrunched up and are goosebumped. They also get a little crusted sometimes. I noticed that most of these changes happen in certain temperatures. Am I just growing or is something wrong with me?

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Does anyone else think it's retarded that Zuko doesn't have a scar? I'd say that it's a flashback, but I saw another one where he's at the south pole and he still doesn't have one. For you Aang fangirls like me, he is not nearly as hot as he is in the cartoon, I want to see him with hair! Also, the girl who plays Katara doesn't have blue eyes. WTF?

Ok, so I let my friends who were at my house play with my sim game. When they left and I got back on my game I discovered that pleasantview had been deleted or something because it wasn't there. I looked in my sims foldier on my computer and it said that it was still there. What do I do? Can I get it back? All of my important sims were in that neighborhood.

I accidentally shut my five year old brother's fingers in the back part of the door. He cried for about three minutes and then reported that his hand felt hot. I wet a towel and wrapped it around his hand, he can wiggle his fingers and everything, apparently it's just a little warm. Is something broken? Could it just be a fracture.

(Read my last question to completely understand this.) Ok, I was looking at my friends myspace and saw that she was having a conversation with the other girl that had bad stuff about me. I ended up miserable and cussed the other girl out and questioned my friend. She called me and told me that she didn't know what to do because I was acting weird around her. The next morning the fighting went on for three hours before we made up, but the other girl said she didn't forgive me and that I was lying to her about something I said that my other friend said when they were still fighting. I promised her over and over again that I wasn't lying but she started being a smartass, and cut me out of the group for the whole day and started gossiping about me more with my friend. After all that I started to gossip about her, she gave me a nasty look and said, "Mrs. Pingry, don't you think gossiping is wrong?" At homebase I sat as far away from her as I could, and my friend just continued to stay with her like she was one of her evil minions or something. She didn't talk to me the rest of the hour, or walk with me down the hall like usual. I don't know what to do about her, I've done alot for her, including buy her things, take her everywhere, and I was always nice to her. The other girl always pinches her and pokes her hard so that it hurts if she gets annoyed with her, and as far as I know she's never gotton her anything. I was planning to take my friend on a trip with me, but I don't know if I should now. If she's going to do the same thing after we get back, then what's the point? May be she should just stay with the other girl, get in a fight with her and not have anyone there for her because as my dad says, "She's not smart enough to see that the other girl is the reason you guys are separating. She's just too blind to see what she's doing to your friendship and to her personally." Do you think I should just leave her behind or what? Should I take her on the trip?

Okay, me and my friend have been close for a long time. But now we have another girl in our group who is always trying to steal her for herself. Actually, I shouldn't say that because I do like both of them, but sometimes I feel like they keep me out of stuff. They recently got into a fight and didn't speak to each other for a week. I was sort of hapy because my friend was spending more time with me, and she told me that she was going to slap her because she was being so mean, and that she never wanted to talk to her again. However, the next day they were all friendly with each other just because the other girl started talking to my friend again. It made me mad because she forgave her right then and there, AFTER she said she was so freaking mad at her. They didn't save me a seat at lunch, or talk to me almost the entire day! What should i do? This is tearing me apart inside and out, I don't want another bfff. Lord knows it's hard enough to find one as good as her. I don't have a problem with the other girl at all, I really like her, but I don't want to be ignored and forgotton.

How do you get a picture actually on your profile, not in the photo section, but on the profile page itself.

I have a cold sore on the outside of my mouth. It's red and it hurts to yawn because it stretches on my mouth. I read a website that said it would go away from a few days to a week. I just want to know if it'll hurt me. Is it dangerous?

I'm 13 and have had a really sore throat for about 3 days. It hurts to swallow, but doesn't hurt to talk or anything else. I had recently gotton some cold like symptons such as ear aches, coughing, and a stuffed up nose. It started hurting in my mouth so I couldn't chew, and then moved down to my throat. It doesn't hurt that bad at all today, but I'm still wondering, should I get this checked out?