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I have gone from younggrandma to just yg. Now,
I am using my real name.
I don't think anyone who knows me will have trouble figuring out who that is!


I have been gone a while dealing with things in my own life. I am back now to help once again. Do not expect answers from me that just tell you what you want to hear. Life is to short for nonsense. :)
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ok so its not rlike huge but its still big. how can i tone it down in the fastest way possible? and does anyone know yoga or pilates moves/exercises that give you a yoga but fast? (link)
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I'm feeling really badly lately, and I don't know what's wrong. I will describe my symptoms as best I can, so please read this and help me out?

1. I get terrible random pains through my head and my back
2. I have had trouble breathing through my nose for two weeks no, it's still clogged
3. My neck and my upper back are incredibly tight, I can feel it just sitting here
4. My whole body is breaking out in zits, on my face, my back, the backs of my legs and on my chest
5. I get these spells where I can barely breathe, it's like a panic attack, but I just feel like I'm going to die
6. I can barely focus on anything lately for a long time
7. There's this really weird feeling between my eyes. I can't describe it as anything but weird. I just get this immense feeling of pressure, and it makes me feel so tired

I have a history of bad anxiety, and that's what my parents say cause these feelings. But my symptoms are just getting worse. Help? What could this be? What should I do? (link)
Sounds to me as if you may spend to much time sitting and worrying about symptoms. It is common
for those with anxiety disorders. See a doctor.
Tell him or her all the symptoms you are having.
You can be given medication if you suffer terrible anxiety.

In the meantime get active and keep your mind busy with other things. Stay away from medical web sites.
Symptoms for the worse things can be the same as a common cold. They can be really confusing to someone with little medical knowledge. If you feel bad, see a doctor. :)


I'm kind of in that time period where I am seeing who my real friends are. Look, here's the thing:
In 7th grade, my BEST FRIEND since elementary school backstabbed me by turning everyone against me and trying to steal my boyfriend of a year. Yes, I know we were in middle school. Well, she made me lose plenty of friends I had and my boyfriend who I broke up with, who she ended up dating for a week until he dumped her. In 8th grade, she didnt end up going to my school so it was really easy not to talk to her, and we didnt speak for a year. However, in the summer of 9th grade, I found out she got into the scholars acadamy like me and is going to my high school, and I knew we were going to have classes together. So, I was the bigger person and emailed her basically telling her I didnt want to start of the year with all this hatred that I was over with, and she emailed me back FINALLY apologizing and it seemed sincere. Well, we ended up having 5 out of 8 classes together and are becoming closer. Thing is, I just feel weird sometimes knowing what she did to me. Im best friends with my ex boyfriend who was the reason she did all that stuff to me in the first place, and now that shes at my high school, she became good friends with US. AND, she confessed to me that she still likes him. I honestly dont know what to think. Did she use me to get to him again? Will she do what she did to me all for him? ALSO
When it comes to group projects, she always wants to be my partner! I dont want to feel bound to her. I have other friends that I want to be with, and I'm sure if I told her she'd understand but may get offended. I just feel the only reason she wants to be with me, is to get closer to my ex, who I'm always with. I dont know what to think. :/
Help! Sorry for the length! THANKS (link)
First, if you haven't given your guy friend the heads up, do so. If she gets a little to close, or even if she doesn't he can let her no he isn't interested right from the start. If she is using you to get to him she will fade away fast.

I hope she just likes being with old friends. That is very possible. Could be she lost a lot of friends by treating you badly before and wants things back the way they were.

No need to feel bound to her. If you want to hang out or partner up with another friend, just do it.
Apologize if feelings are hurt. Just be friends. People make a lot of mistakes in their lives. It sounds like she is sorry. It will take a while before you can really trust her again, thats normal. :)


ok so here we go thiers this boy and i like him just i dont know if i really like him or just like flirting with him, my bestfriend also likes him and the problem is, he liked me alot and now likes her and im kind of jealous, but just recently he said he didnt like me anymore so i was like ok cool whatever. i told my bestfriend to go for it,i recently just got really heart broken by a guy who ive we'll basically call it dating for about a year, he told me he wanted to end what we had cause he doesnt want a girlfriend.but im super in love with him and dont know what to do. so i went back to the one boy who i told me bestfriend(who means everything to me btw)to go for,and we were pretty much pulling hi mback and forth. but i dont know what to do becasue we got in a huge fight today about him, and we both say no matter what we will neevr let a boy in the middle of our friendship but somehow i see that happening. any ways she just said she was going to stop going for him though cause one he used to like me and two she doesnt want to hurt our friendship, but i feel really abd and i told her not to do that because she was on my top list of always being my number one and that we will always be be bestfriend no matter what, i trold her i wanted her to be happy and she should go after him, but she wont cause she thinks im going to be jealous. i dont know what to do and i really need help, lately me and her hav'nt been getting along and i dont want to lose her forever, because she really means everything to me! she is my bestfriend and the only one i can count on to be thier for me for everything. please help (link)
If he likes her more then there isn't a lot you can do about it but accept it. It doesn't have to ruin your friendship. If seeing them together bothers you, then you just don't hang out with them when they are together. Make it easier on yourself. As soon as you find another guy to spend your time with, their relationship won't bother you that much.
You do need to find yourself another guy. Don't sit around and dwell on this one. :)


Hey, I'm a fourteen year old girl. I told the boy I liked, that I er.. liked him, and he replied quite nicely saying that he wasn't looking for a girlfriend, and I understand completely that that was just a way of brushing me off, he wasn't interested etc etc.. But now he has a girlfriend, and she makes him really happy, so I'm ecstatic about it, I don't feel jealous or anything.. but I know that I need to move on and find someone else, but I don't know how to! It doesn't help that he was my first kind of intense crush..
Thanks for any help I get xx (link)
Start talking to other guys and find one you like.
The only way to get over a guy is to find another.
Sounds a little odd I know, but right now all your focus is on the one you can't have. You need to switch it to someone you can have. It works. Believe me. :)


Why does every guy I ever like get taken away from me? (link)
Because you haven't found the right one yet. :)
When you do, he won't be going anywhere.


ok i dont know what to do. i like this guy and him and all his friends found out last year. well its been a couple months and i still like him. but it doesnt seem he has any interest. but we have never really hung out...now the problem. his best friend likes me and liked me before they even knew who i liked. i was told by the best friend(the one who likes me) that the guy i like doesnt have any interest in me. for some reason though i cant move on. i dont know who to believe or what to do. o ya and the guy i liked i have liked for over 2 years. what do i do?? (link)
Give his best friend a chance. Easiest way to get over one is to replace them with another. Take the focus off the one who is ignoring you.

Honestly, hard as it is you will have to give up on the one you are crushing on. If he is showing no interest you are just wasting your time. Never know what might happen later, but for now, you have to move on and have some fun. :)


I'm 20, and my friend is 19. We're both girls.

I live in a house with a bunch of other university students. I'm sharing a room with my fiancee, S, whose best friend G also lived in the house, until recently.

G is an officer in the reserves (as is S), and decided to put his studies on hiatus for a year and a half to go and work in Afghanistan. Enter A, my friend.

G just proposed to A this summer, because he knew he'd be gone for a long time. She's living in the same house with us. She actually managed to convince S not to go with G to Afghanistan, for which I am incredibly grateful.

Since G left for his training, A has been incredibly depressed. She won't leave her room, she barely eats, and she's always crying. We were watching the news the other day, and there was a report on a suicide bomber killing a Canadian soldier, and she burst into tears and was inconsolable all day.

I'm starting to get really worried. G has only been gone for a month, and he has 17 months left to go!

Is there anything I can do to help her? I'm already putting a limit on how cuddly and couply my fiancee and I are in front of her, and we try to feed her when we can (we're students on a budget)

I would really appreciate advice from someone who has been in a situation where a loved one is overseas with the military! (link)
I have a friend whose hubby is in Iraq. She gets some great support from other wives and girlfriends who have loved ones in the military and overseas.
I'm not sure the name of the group, but if you contact a local base I'm sure they will tell you who you can contact for more information. Just ask them If there is a local support group for family and friends of soldiers overseas.


So when I went to the movies tonight, I kind of gave him a blowjob.


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Can I get pregnant?!!!


P.S. Don't lecture me about how slutty I am, because I'm not. Just please give me the info I need. (link)
No, you can only get pregnant if sperm enters the vagina. :)


so thiers this boy.....his name is spencer, and well weve ...you might as well say have been dating. for a little bit now, and ive liked him since last year and he likes me. only problem he doesntwant a girlfriend or any kind of buuild up to one, so recently he told me her wanted to end what we had going and wait because he probably wasnt going to want a girlfriend until next year. i dont know wha tto do if i should wait or not. i really like him, a matter a fact im in love with him, and he makes me really happy. he says he doesnt know what it is he feels for me, because hes not sure if this is love because he doenst know what love is. in other words he wants top say he loves me but isnt sure. im just so confussed. and he really hurt me the other day when he ended what we do have my bestfriend keeps on getting mad at me cause i keep wanting to go talk to him and go up to him but she knows i just keep getting hurt. so what do i do? (link)
You don't have much choice but to leave him alone for now. Should you wait? No, I don't think so. No
need for you to sit around while he is deciding. There are things to do and people to see out there!
Besides, if he sees you talking and laughing with another guy, he might get over some of his confusion. :)


Um... I keep being told to go to the gynos by some of my friends. I'm 18 and in college and I don't feel like I can tell my parents because they think I'll just end up having sex with people. Is there a way that I can go to the gynos without my parents finding out? I know that they send bills home and if they find one about me and the gynos they'll know I went. What should I do? ...Next semester when I fly out to see my boyfriend, I think we might have sex. We've been talking about it for quite a while now... But I still wonder about the whole gyno thing. If you would just help me out here. I'd really appreciate it!

Serenity
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You don't have to see a gyno for birth control or the exam for one. You can see any family doctor.
Most are listed as general practitioner in the phone book.

You could also go to your local planned parenthood or health department. Most are low cost or free. No need for parents to know a thing. Check the phone book. :)



My dearest friend Katie is on the birth control "YAZ", she's on her first month on it, and she had sex with her boyfriend a week and a 4. And since that day she's had my period and she hasn't been on the "inactive pills" during the course of this mystery period.
WHAT IS GOING ON?! Is this normal?!

My OTHER SERIOUS NEED ANSWERS FOR ASAP question is, Katie had sex ON the "inactive pills" without a condom and her partner and and herself are worried that the inactive pills will not protect against pregnancy. Is she safe? or should she get some help?

HELP!!!!

Thx!
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Your question is a little confusing but I will try to answer it.

A girl should be on birth control at least 30 days before having unprotected sex. Gives it time to get in your system. After that 30 days, you are safe from pregnancy, no matter what color the pill.

If you have unprotected sex before the first 30 days of taking the pill, and you don't get your period, you need to take a pregnancy test.

The inactive pills are nothing. They are taken simply as a reminder to take a pill everyday.
if one is accidentally missed, it won't hurt anything. If you have been taking the pills properly, there should be no fear of pregnancy while on the inactive pills.


i was wondering where you get a tattoo removed and about how much it cost? and does it hurt more than actually getting the tattoo (link)
Wow. Its expensive. I looked and this is the most informative place I found. Costs vary but fall into
the range mentioned here. Keep in mind that prices don't seem to include the office visits each time.
Those seem to range around 200 per visit.

http://www.infoplasticsurgery.com/bodycontouring/tattooremoval.html


This is going to sound really cheesey for a while, but I really like this guy at school. I'm sixteen and I've never had an actual boyfriend...or even a kind of boyfriend. I have always been way too shy to even approach the person I am interested in. I told someone else that I was had feelings for them ONCE and I was "rejected", I later found out that he was gay. Anyway, this person I like now is really sweet and laughs at my stupid jokes and I could really see us as a couple. The only thing is, I'm friends with a whole group of girls who are preitter, funnier and more talented than me. I'm pretty good in all those catagories, its just that when you talk to the others, I kind of look crappy by comparison. I just want to know:

1. what I can do to stand out in his mind?
2. How can I start a conversation with him without getting all blushy and weird? (topics, etc.)
3. Should I start flirting right away or just become his friend first?

Thank you so much. (link)
I would just become his friend first. Some people can pull off flirting and others don't do so well.
Its much easier to let it come naturally, and that is much easier if you really know each other. You will stand out his mind once he starts enjoying talking to you. Try these web searches.

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for a while now i have been feeling very tired all the time. I am a very talkative person and i act happy around most people. however i have no interest to do a lot of things except watch TV. Everything makes me sad and like i will get really sad about absolutely nothing. i mean im happy sometimes but lately i have been even sadder. I cry at night but i dont really know why. I kind of cut my wrists but i dont actually make them bleed i just kind of irritate them with scissors because i like the feeling after, it makes the sadness kind of go away temporarily. Nothing that could hurt me though.

Am i depressed or not?

14/f btw. (link)
Depression is common in teens as ygsgirl said.
If you are depressed a few days and then perk back up for a while, thats pretty normal and just part of being a teen. You have a lot of changes going on in your life all at once and hormones are going bonkers.

If you get depressed and are depressed for more than a few weeks, if you get down and just can't get back to feeling normal, you need to seek some medical attention. No need to live in a funk. :)


Me and my friend want to dress up as Carla and Elliot from Scrubs.

However, we can't find any cheap scrubs / scrub costumes online. We're really not looking to spend more than 20 bucks a person. Does anyone know where we can find them? Or does anyone know any stores that sell baggy shirts / pants that can look like scrubs? Thank so much in advance. (link)
Walmart is a good idea. If you have any second hand stores in your area or goodwill stores you might want to check them out. They can be found there very cheap. :)


I didn't really know what category to put this in, so i hope it is in the right one. Sorry if it isn't. I really have a problume with self convidence. I am really shy, and never know what to say to people to keep a convo going. It takes me a long time to be able to really open up to people. I get really neurvous when i am in a large group of people. I always feel like everyone is judging me and dosent like me. When I was in 6th grade i always hung out with the popular kids then one day one of the girls called me and was like we voted you out of our group. I know it is really childish and rediculous. But it has really impacted me since then and I have forgiven some of those girls and moved on, but ever since then I have not had much self convidence. I am a junior, and i feel like I only have one close friend and the rest are just people to talk about, I really want to overcome my shyness and low self covidence. So any tips or advice. I know it sounds weired what happend to me in 6th grade but it really impacted me. Sorry so long and I dont think I am spelling covidence right because it looks way wrong so sorry. Thanks in advance! (link)
I found a web search I hope you find useful. Just click search and there are a lot to choose from.
Good luck! :)

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ok well i used to have this boyfriend and we broke up last december.. soo thats a really long time ago.. soo now i really really like him , and i really want to tell him but i dont think hell like me back, we dont talk that much and more but i really miss him alot.. hes in all of my classes so i dont want to embaress myself..

help please?? what should i say? and how can i get him to like me again

any help would be great (link)
Start talking to him. Just everyday stuff, just get his attention. Tell him hi when you see him, smile when he looks your way. Here is search full of good sites for you to check out should you want more tips. :)

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has anyone tried cliniques new Supermoisture foundation?
how does it work for you?
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I've not used it myself, but have heard it is a very good product. Give it a try. :)


This may be long, and if it is I apologize in advance.

Three weeks ago we got a foreign exchange student, his name is Damon, and he's from Italy. (He's in my grade; I'm a junior) Normally foreign exchange students just fall into a certain group...like when we got a student from Spain, he just fell in with the Spanish speakers...but he's already extremly popular, and so many girls like him already. He's very good looking actually, and the sexy accent also adds to that. He's fair skinned, has black wavy hair that falls to his shoulders and dark green eyes.

Anyways, he's extraordinarily smart. He speaks Spanish, Italian, German, (Which I'm also fluent in)English, and French. He's in a lot of my AP classes and we were assigned to do a project together in my AP English class. It's a 10 page essay and we're supposed to work together.

So for the past week we've been meeting up after school and practice (He made Varsity soccer, and I'm a varsity cheerleader so we both have practice after school)at a cafe or some other place and we've been working together on this project we have. A few days ago when we were working he said "I think we've worked enough today, why don't we get to know eachother a little better" and I said okay. So we talked and I actually got to know him a lot better, there were some things he wouldn't talk about...like his family, but I learned we have the same taste in books and in music and he really is a great guy.

What I really like about him though is that he's a great listener and more mature than guys his age. He actually pays atention to me when I talk and looks at my eyes, not my... Anyway, he's so nice to me. He hugs me when he sees me in the halls and calls me beautiful and he's taken to calling me "principessa" which obviously means princess in English. We've also started to hang out when we're not working on the project. Sometimes he speaks to me in Italian, which I understand some, but I'm nowhere near fluent so I always say I don't understand. He just siles and says "Well I guess we're going to have to fix that aren't we?" And he has been teaching me some.

Here's the problem:
I can't tell if he likes me. If he was American then I'd say yah...but people tell me that's just the way Italian guys act? I have a bunch of girls telling me that what he's doing means nothing and that he's just a player, and that's just how Italian boys act around girls; they're just bg flirts... So now I'm all confused, and I don't know what to believe. I don't know if I want to get invlolved with a guy who may not even be in the staes a year from now...

Today my ex-boyfriend Theron came up to me and started harrasing me about Damon and then, poof, Damon shows up out of nowhere and all of a sudden there fighting. (Not phsically, but it probably would have gone there if I hadn't stopped them) Damons defending me because Theron's saying some pretty hurtful stuff...

After the mess of a fight Damon could tell I was upset so he asked me if I wanted to go to the movies, and I said yes. Afterward he drove me home and walked me to my door and he hugged me and then pulled away. I thought he was going to kiss me for a second, but them he just leaned down and kissed me on my forehead and said goodnight. Now I'm even more confused, because if he's playing a game then he's really good at it and now I like him more then ever...I don't know what to do anymore.



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I agree, don't listen to all the Italian guy stereotype nonsense. It does sound as if he likes you. He isn't rushing you, sounds like a great guy.
If Italian men treat their women with respect, I'm all for it!

It sounds like he likes you to me. I would say others, including the ex are a little jealous.
A LOT jealous!

You know, he is probably only here for the school year. After that he goes home. Enjoy what time you have together. Even if it is only a great friendship for now. Don't let others put doubts in your head. :)




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