In Flashes of Lightning You Will Shine

Kirsten. This blog has gone from fitblr to lifeblr to fandom craziness and somehow ended up being an aesthetic blog with personal updates. Hobbies include health, good food, hiking and exploring, gardening and home design.

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Hi guys !  I’ve added new prints to my shop, and you can pick and choose with the Pack of Prints listing ✨ Hope you’re all having a wonderful summer ! 

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The Suicide Squad (2021)

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This might be the funniest reply I’ve ever seen in my life

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I AM WHEEZING

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For only $20 you too can fuck Satan

TAKE A LOOK AT THIS CREAM. TAKE A GOOD LONG LOOK. 

MEMORIZE THE PACKAGING SO YOU MAKE SURE YOU NEVER BUY THIS CREAM FOR YOURSELF OR ANYONE YOU LOVE.

This post is about vaginas. My vagina in particular. I get yeast infections pretty regularly, and until recently I was able to afford to see a doctor who could prescribe me fluconazole.

Fluconazole, a drug also known by the brand name Diflucan, is a small pink pill. You take two pills a few days apart from each other to restore balance and harmony to your bountiful folds. I’ve never ever had a bad side effect from taking this pill.

Cut to November 2016. I’m a recent college grad without reliable health care coverage in the process of finding a job. And I’m dealing with a yeast infection. Before I moved out of state, my previous doctor told me about Miconazole. She said it was as effective as the pill and hallelujah, it’s over the counter! I decided to purchase the cream pictured above. This treatment only lasted 3 days, a convenient time frame for my schedule.

The application process was a little messy, and some of the cream came in contact with my vulva and labia. Within 5 minutes every piece of skin that had come in contact with the cream, excluding my hands, was on fire. I wanted to scream it was so painful. I began frantically searching for what I should do online. 

I found a whole forum of people on drugs.com who had experienced something similar. These comments saved me, and these were just on the first page. There were 33 pages total, the earliest dated July 2009.

I was writhing in pain at 2AM when I found this forum (which I found by searching “my vagina burn itch hurts after miconazole” on Google). As soon as I read these comments I threw the devil cream directly into the trash and jumped in the shower. I didn’t feel any actual relief until I reached in and scraped the cream out of me. I paid $17 plus tax on this bullshit, but I could have just as easily ripped up my money or paid someone to not hurt me. 

The moral of the story is that vaginal health care is is completely fucked up because we don’t have access to an over the counter cure for yeast infections that is safe for our bodies and also YOU SHOULD NEVER BUY THIS CREAM EVER.

Reblog to save a vagina.

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Okay so I used to get yeast infections every month after my period ‘cause my pH levels were fucked up or something (idk that’s what my doctor said) and I actually used to take this stuff and it was fine. Then a couple years down the road I had a yeast infection for the first time in ages and I used this again and it burned so bad I had to sit in the bath and like physically dig it out of my vagina

AND THEN I LEARNED THAT IT’S BECAUSE I DIDN’T HAVE A YEAST INFECTION. I had a bacterial infection, which is honestly pretty much identical to a yeast infection depending on the severity. The only difference is that IF YOU HAVE A BACTERIAL INFECTION AND TRY TO USE YEAST INFECTION MEDICATION IT WILL HURT

But it’s not actually the medication’s fault. The medication DOES do what it’s supposed to do, provided you’re actually suffering from a yeast infection. Chances are though that you and every one who commented on this did, in fact, have bacterial infections instead.

FORTUNATELY they also make over the counter tests so you can know if you need to call your doctor or just grab some yeast medicine off the shelf. Next time if you aren’t sure, pee on a stick and save yourself a world of fucking pain

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AMEN.

[newwavefeminism]

It’s unfortunate that I’m 27 and never knew that last bit of information. The world of vaginal health is so obscure and inaccessible.

[bluegrasskitty]

Reblogging because I too once found out the hard way that I had a bacterial & not yeast infection. 😑

[angrybooklady]

I, too, once set my vagina aflame with miconazole. I didn’t know it was because of a bacterial infection. Reblogging to save a vag.

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Reblogging to save a vag.

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It’s almost like the shame and stigma thar surrounds vaginas is a danger to the health and well being of people who have vaginas.

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Damn y'all #saveavag

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The Seasons by Alphonse Mucha

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“Life is short. People are not easy to know. They’re not easy to know, so if you don’t tell them how you feel, you’re not going to get anywhere, I feel.” ― Nina Simone

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My Chemical Romance Na Na Na | 2010

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By Lila Mori (Moonflesh)

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THE MUMMY (1999) + letterboxd reviews ↳ insp. & insp.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that if I want any kind of proper diagnosis, I not only have to learn all the common and not common symptoms, learn the diagnostic criteria and procedure of diagnosis, learn what kind of specialist I may need to see and where the closest ones are, and then teach this all to my doctor and gently guide them through the process? All while dealing with a very painful and scary condition? Are you fucking kidding me?

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And then! Then I get to perform Sweet Charming Victim that needs Saving to the referred specialist in order to convince them that it is Their Idea to confirm the diagnosis! If I ask Very Nicely using my best Appropriately Insecure voice I may even! Be allowed to receive an official prescription order that I Cannot Afford!

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Last year, the sky above me in California turned red from raging wildfires as ashes choked the air.

  This year, it was the sky in Greece, and the year before was the sky in Australia. As climate change worsens, I wonder which skies will turn red next?

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Henry Christian-Slane

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A Dictionary of Sadness