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Q: I am 15 years old and im afraid that because of the flow of my period i will not be able to have any kids. My flow is really heavy in the first 3 days and I have lots of pain in the first 2 days.
Well women "bleed" at different rates. And they get pain in different rates. Mine is kinda the same as yours. The firs 2 days I bleed like there is no tommarrow and have severe cramps for the first day, like I can't get out a bed and just wanna cry. The average period is 5-8 days. If yours is shorter like mine it's most likely because you are losing your lining at a fater rate then the average. There is no need to worry what you are experienceing is pretty normal. If your concern is about having kids you would have to speak with your family Dr. about it. There is lot's of tests that they will run. But at your age i'm sure the Dr. would tell right now you have nothing to worry about. Unless you have had a vinarial diseases of some kind or had damage done to your uterus. But thats mainly caused by rough sex, rape or cancer. If you have indured any of these than you might want to speak with the Dr. But like I said before I wouldn't be concerned just yet. For the pain i sujest you take advil it works great for me.

Q: Okay so basically this summer i got in a fight with all my friends and now i only have one friend which is my best friend. but i want more friends for school. how do i make friends??
I want friends that i can relate stuff too.
please help ill lovee youu forever like seriously
Well you can't make people like you.
it's a mutuall thing. Friends take time to develop. You should be very gratefull that you know that you have atleast one true friend. That is much better then none. You need to get out there to meet new people they won't just come to you. The beggining of school is the best tme. Just be outgoing talk to lot's people then weed out the ones your not so sure about. It's best t talk to a lot of different people and lose those you don't like then very little people and try and hold on they might not be the best in the future.

Q: there is this guy...his name is max and he lives a few streets away from me and i really like him. I have a feeling he likes me too because he always talks to me, and is so sweet and generous to me. I need some advise on how to make him notice and how to get him to ask me out. HELP!!!
If he is always talking to you than he has noticed youo. You don't want to primp yourself up anymore than who you are now. You don't want to seem easy or desperate he will get the wrong impression and you guys might get together for the wrong reasons or different expectations of a relationship. You should take it sow. Just go and visit him a bit more than you do now and slowly more after time. eventually if you guys want to be together the situation will come at hand. If he likes you he will like your presence. And atlast this way you guys can get to know eachother more before jumping into a relationship that is why a lot of people break up they really didn't know or understand at the time what they were getting inot just hang out at first. That will be a great start

Q: My best friend is an every sunday, church and really religious parents, and i took her to a party and she met a guy. She has only told me her secret, but she has already missed two periods! She might be pregnant and she really needs to tell her parents, but she is so afraid of how they react. If she is pregnant, she wants to keep the baby, she doesn't beleive in abortion or adoption, but she is afraid her parents will make sure she gets rid or the baby.

PLEASE HELP MY FRIEND AND I!!!
She needs to be sure that she is pregnant. She needs to got o a free clinic that offers support for young pregnant women. They can give her inforamtion and help her find a way to talk to her parents. She doesn't have to worry about them telling because it is illegal. It is Dr. Patient confidentiality. If she doesn't want to go there then she just needs to sit and talk with her parents. They can not force her to give up the baby. It is her body, her baby and her decision. If they threat to kick her out then all she has to do is call child protective services and they can have her immancipated so that she do what she needs to do to get on her own. For her and the baby. Either way she needs to tell them. i was afraid to tell my mom when I first got pregnant, i was only 15 so I was scared she was ganna kick my butt. I didn' tell her untill I was about 7 months along. I didn't start showing till then. She was upset yes but what could she do about it. It happened you can't change it. But when she went and thought about it and cooled off she was more mad at me for not telling her sooner. She had missed all the exciting things about being pregnant. No baby shower, ultra sounds all the grandma stuff. They will be upset yes but they get over it.

Q: I am a 35/f whose teenage daughter has been living with her father for most of her life.

When her father and I divorced it was decided she would live there because I wasn’t financially stable enough to give her a comfortable year-round home but she has always spent most of the summer with me.

While things have changed a lot now. I make a good deal more money, pay child support and have a much more comfortable home for her. She’s decided she wants to move in with me for the rest of high school because the high school in my area has a much better art classes and several of her friends attend it.

I’m delighted of course, the thing is, she is afraid to tell her father about this decision. She says she’s mentioned maybe moving in with me before, and it’s upset him or he has taken it as a joke. She has asked me to come over and be with her as she discusses the move with her father.

So my question is: Should I be there while she tells her father she has chosen to live with me next school year? I want to be there for her, but I don’t want her father to feel threatened or ganged up on. Part of me thinks she is old enough to be able to talk to her dad about this herself (I’m sure he’ll be a bit hurt, but he isn’t an ogre or anything, he wont go nuts.) So I’m quite torn, please advise.
I have never found myself in this situation but my sister went thru this with my mom and dad when she was younger. I don't think that you should be there at first. I agree that he will feel threatened by this. I think that to much at once is a bad thing for this type of situation. And that he will feel you are there to insure that she moves in with you and there might be a fight. I think that she needs to sit down with him and express her feelings to move in with you. If i were her I wouldnt tell him that it was a fianl decision at the time but just so that she get get the conversation about the subject started. I would tell him that I had lived with him x amount of years and would like to spend the remaining time with my mother. She should bring up the invite at that time to have you 3 talk together about the situaiton to see how he will react. He will either disagree or agree. If he agrees then you can all 3 talk if he disagrees then if i were you I would have a sit down with him and tell him how you felt about it without her around of course. I think if you seperate it at first and invite together later or just talk in seperate parties there will be a better outcome. I hope this is of some help to you.

Q: hi, i have limewire. and i was just wondering if htere is any way i can transfer that to windows media player or to burn a cd from it??
yes after you clean the cleared items then you go to the media player. My library then browse.
you'll find the songs in
Start
My documents
Music
that will provide you with all of the songs then just click the one you want and it will be in the media player.

Q: my friend is alwayyss flirting with my boyfriends or ex-boyfriends. she even sleeps with them and it makes me soo mad. how can i overcome this feeling or deal with this problem?
She is not a true friend to you by any means. It's naturall to be flirty with any one of the oppisite sex. Even if they are taken. It's a thing of life. But she goes over bounds if she is sleeping with them. I don't think that talking about it with her will make any difference in the matter that is not going to fix the problem that she has already caused. You need a new friend. And the guys that you are getting wiht. You should just be cautious and weary of the men you are attracted to if most of them end up sleeping with her then you are attracting the wrong type of men. Look at others, get with other guys then your usuall type. The first caution would be if they flirt back more than what makes you comfortable then you need to lose them then not later when it develops into something worse.

Q: ok-
I'm f/13 and almost everyone aroungd where I live isn't virgin from age 11/up My friends and I are witch includes 2 boys- I was wondering, since alot of people(except parents) think we are wierd, Do you think it's wrong to be virgin?
I don't think so. Your virginity is a precious thing for you. once that is gone you can never get that back. Not being a virgin is not ganna make you any different of a person then you are now. If you are proud of who you are there is no need to have sex. I have kids although i love them and would not trade then for the world I would have done things differently. You have to think of the consiquences of your actions. Sure you wanna be like every one else. But Can you deal with getting a disease or having a child at your age. Those are possibilities with protection or not they do happen. You should be proud that you still are. There is no benefit to having sex. There can be regrett. Sex is for two mature people who love eachother, I am not going to give you a speach about being married that would make me a hippocrit and i don't neccasarily beleive that you have to. But i do believe it is an experience for those that are in love. I am proud to say that i was in love with the man that i had sex with. We also waited a long time before we did. I believe that you never know if you are love until you spend the four seasons with the man that you are with and understand his beliefs and feelings about the complex things in life. Gratefully I am still with the same man today 9 years later. That doesnt happen very often and it is very lucky for those that do. But don't just go have sex in spite of what others say. It is not about them . It is not thier body and thier mind. It's yours and only you by yourself should make that decision. It should be for your and the man your doing it with. Not any one else to hell with what they say. Are they truly proud if themselves and when will they regrett what they did?

Q: Me and my friends are hanging out tommorow since we havent seen eachother in a while. We want to go to the mall and buy a couple of things (not like 10 outfits because I just bought tons of clothes last week.) I will mostly just buy 1 cheap shirt & a few bracelets and accessories like that. And then we are eating at the mall probably at Subway. Then we are seeing a movie which is $10 and I might want to buy a popcorn or a drink. I don't know how much money to bring with me. If I bring too much money, I end up spending the extra money on junk that I don't need and if I bring too little, then it screws everything up. About how much money should I bring tomorrow?
If you want to go to a movie just bring enough for the movie, popcorn drink ect. then give your self a cheap limit whatever your not willing to go over on clothes. Ex. Shirt. You want it cheap so say no more than 20 then the accessories. another 20 and subway 10. If when your shopping you don't have enough your not shopping frugal like you wanted to. Just plan a budget before you go with what you are willing to spend on each seperate item than that's what you take

Q: 15/f
About a year ago my boyfriend and I went against our better judgement and I ended up pregnant. So now we have a baby. It's put a real strain on our relationship. At first we argued over abortion, then adoption,and finally I ended up giving in and keeping the baby. We've been trying to share the responsibility this summer, but since the baby lives with me he doesn't understand my feelings, even if I try to tell him. The baby sometimes stays with him for a week, but apparently that isn't enough. Whenever he's around me all he seems to care about is the baby. Yesterday we had the oppurtunity to hang out alone and mom would watch the baby... but my boyfriend declined. I'm around the baby all the time so it's really irritating. Does he care about hisson more than me now? What's going on?
It's not a matter of him caring for his son more than he does you. Honelsty you should be proud if he does. You have a child together niether you nor him can change that but both of you can affect that. There are not many men out there who will take on that kind of feeling or responsibility. You are young and may or may not underdstand that yet. It is better to go thru a situation like you are having then many alternantives. A lot of young men even adult men don't even see thier children, they don't want to, there are many men who will deny them. You should be thankfull that your child has a father that loves him and wants more time with him. You said that sometimes your child stays a week with him and that is not enough. Well for him it's probably not. i am married with four children and have a husband in the military who spends most of his time away from the family. It is not easy by any means for me or my kids we all love him and miss him very much. But when he comes home he wants his time with the kids. He's more depressed about the things he misses out on with them while he's gone then being away from me i am proud of that. Yes i love him and i want my time with him but me and him can make up for lost time. You can't replace the special moments of raising a child and the things that you miss when they get older. We are gown so if we are away from eachother for a year we can get away the next. Having a new child especially young is hard i had my first at 15. It's hard on the both of you i can understand where you are coming from. But you said your son lives with you so he is with you day in and day out. There is no way for the father to understand you having to be away when he has him you shouldnt expect him to be ok with being away from his son either. And since you have had a child you can't be selfish about your feelings it's not about you and his relationship any more you are parents. You need a mother and father relationship not a dream realationship that it will any way be like it used to. the best advice that i could give you would be to sit like two adults. and talk about your feelings as a couple and then talk about your expectations of eacother as parents. If he wants more time then you should give him more time. You can;t force him to want to be with you. But you should honor him being a father and wanting to be with his son. it's give and take not just take. You have to fexible..

Q: the other night my bf was riding home on his 4wheeler..he only lives like 2 or 3 miles away..and he got stopped by the cops! they gave him 5 tickets! one for uninsured driver, one for unregistered, one for unlicensed..one for no head light..one for no tail light (he shut them off because he was almost home..like 3 houses away!) the 4 wheeler is a class A vehicle. im guessing in all it will cost about $500 because he got 3 major tickets! does anyone have a better guess? what if we cant get the money together by the date it says to turn the ticket in which is august 16th? is there an arrangement you make? Can you do community service instead? how can we get money together if we dont have jobs?
Well fir a traffic ticket you will have to call and ask to get a court date if you can't pay it. When you go to court they will call you to the stand to plead. Plead as you think that you should the judge will ask you a few questions. Then you can tell the judge that you do not have the funds they will make arrangements with you. If you don't have jobs i suggest you get them or you may have to serve jial time to pay the tickets and have a revoked licence. unisured driver is about 150.00, unregistered is about 150.00. unlicensed driver is over 100.00 and the lights are about 90.00 each your looking close to 800.00 but that can vary from county and state. So ine may or may not be accurate.No you can not do community service for these offences. They won't allow that. These are vehicular. So I suggest you guys get jobs or ask parents for help. You will have to pay cash or serve jial time /

Q: Well i have a Helen of troy Hair straighter and i have to say i swear by it! Once my hair is done it looks awesome and perfectly straight. Way better than any straighter i used before it.(picture http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v214/sugarysweet89/e125c9c5.jpg)

My problem is, is when i step outside and it is really humid (like everyday where i live) or i even get the least bit sweaty it starts to frizz a little and flick out at the ends.

I don't put any product in my hair while/after straightening which could be the reason but is it my straighters fault it gets like that or is it always going to do that because of the humidity.


I was thinking of investing in a better straightener (i was gonna go with chi but after so many bad reviews i am thinking sedu?) But i Don't want to spend $125 if the same thing is just gonna keep happening


so is there something i can put in my hair? or will a better straighter fix everything?
It's not the striaghtener. The humidity effects your hair more than anything. I reccomend Garnier Fructis Sleek And Shine no frizz serum. Put that in right after your shower before you brush, dry and straighten and I believe that it will help you. You can buy it at any super store they even have the shampoo and conditioner for it.That works great to.

Q: uuugh i think i gained weight since summer started, even though i've been more active. i was trying on jeans the other day and they seem smaller from the end of school. its basically only my lower stomach/sides and my upper thighs. everytime i try to eat healthier and not as often and excercise i can never stick to i t and its soo frustrating because i try on clothes and i feel like nothing looks good. i went running one morning but it felt weird because im only 13 and the only people who run/walk in my neighborhood are like, old. i reallly want to look better for when i go back to school, but idk how. what are some tips that you know work, and pleeease be specific! thank youu :)
There is no way that you are ganna get tjat fit and that shape in the next month. These things take time. Not only old people run. They do so more because they are not young and don'tr go hang out with friends like your age so thier bodies are not as active so they need to. Running is a great start. Just because you eat healthy and are only 13 does not mean that you can't ba out of shape. The best thing for your thighs is squats... stand with your feet at 11 and 1 like on a clock then with your back straight only using your legs move down like you are going to sit go about half way hold for 3 sec and slowly come back up. Do this in 4 reps of 20 then adjust your feet to 9 and 3. Do the same thing and when finished go back to 11 and 1. Fr your stomach do crunches. Lay on the floor with your knees bent( your heels to your but) Put your arms to your sides stiff and straight. Slowly lift yourself to your knees only enough to get your shoulders off the floor. If you go higher then that you risk damage to your spine and back. Full sit ups are not good on your back and will cause problems when you are older. do as many as you like but atleast enough that you can feel the muscle burn. For you sides just roll to your side keep knees bent and crunch up sideways. Your body will feel twisted of a sort but they do work. To get an effect over time this will take time. you should do this every day if you can handle it or atleast everother day. As the days go increase the number of times you do each excersize. You have to have the will to do it or it will never get done . There is no miracle for this unless you can afford surgery. And then you still have things that you need to do after.

Q: k i was wondering if any of these things counted as cardio and helped to lose fat,cause these are things i could do like, before bed..

: lemon squeezes(like a crunch but you bring your knees up to your chest so you move your whole body)
: bicycles(lay on the floor and bring your right leg up and touch it to your left elbow,etc.)
: jumping jacks
: continuous backbends and handstands and cartwheels and stuff

i figured if i did that for like, a half hour/45 minutes every night (or morning, or wtv) i could get into better shape my say, next month.

thanks
Cardio work outs are considered a work out that get's your heart and lungs going. Lemon Sqeezes are not . Those are abdomen toners. Bicycles are hanstrign toners. Jumping jacks yes those are great they get your heart pumping faster pushing more blood thru your blood stream forcing to work your heart harder thus strengthening it.backbends and hanstands no those are just stretching muscles and the handstands do you more harm then good. Your blood ias meant to flow down thru your body to your feet and then back up to get re oxiginated. if your upside the flow is slwed ad you can lose conscienceness and have circulatory problems/ Running in place is great do that about 30 min. then your jumping jack, walking, running and jumping are the best cardio work outs

Q: Well, I had a pretty bad cold a couple of days ago, and mum took me to the doctor. He didn't do a very thorough examination, checked my throat and my pulse and then said I had a "thready pulse" (whatever that means) He said it was a virus.
Well, the cold has mostly gone.. but now I have a really nasty cough. Like I'm coughing up phlegm (Gross, I know) and my voice is really hoarse. That's never happened to me before. I'm seriously almost losing it. Also, my throat is sore and I have NO energy. I NEVER EVER take naps, yet I've had 3 in the past few days. And I fell asleep in class.
When I went to the doctors, I didn't have the cough or the sore throat.
I've taken some cough mixture, which hasn't really helped although I've only just taken it today. I have some really important tests for school in a few days and I am so tired I can't even concentrate on work. What could possibly be wrong with me? What can I do about it? I'm thinking of seeing another doctor if it doesn't go away, but since he already told me its just a virus I don't know what to do. Please help. Thanks.
i don't thinkt that you should worry right away. caughing and fatigue ( being sleepy ) is justa reaction the body has during the healing process. You are caughing to release the "bad stuff" that is in your lungs and chest thus the phlem. And you are fatigued more than normal beacuse you body produces cells and horemones built for fighting off foriegn body's in your body, such as a bacteria or virus. You get " sleepy " beacuse your body is busy fighting off the virus for you it has to keep reproducing more cells to fight thus wears you down. The more you sleep these next days the better you will be. When you rest you body can fight better and stronger because you are not using up your energy that they they need. There is nothing a Dr. can do about a virus it just has to run it's course.

Q: ok im scared senseless of using a tampon like im jus scared itll hurt. ive tried puttin one in like 3 times & i cant even do it bc i tense up so bad. ive heard people say that you cant even feel it when its in but ive also heard ppl say you can feel it just enough to tell its inside you soo which is it???
Well, if you properly insert a tampon then you are not supposed to feel it at all. not even to know it's there. For the first time user I suggest using tampax gentle glids. They are the easiest to insert with hardly any feeling of entry and they expand and sit right to be comfortable. Also they will enter even if your a bit tense. But when you are putting it in the first few times take a deep breath thru your mouth and slowly exhale as you insert this should help you relax some but again it should never hurt or they are to large you'll need smaller ones and you should not feel them.

Q: ok...well i was just wondering, when you actually start your period does the blood come out where you pea, or a little behind, like discharge?? please answer
Well first it's not actually blood. It consits of blood but it's not. The fluids are discharge small amounts of blood and the lining of the uterine wall. What happens when you start your period is the egg is released into the tube as it travels tward the uterus the uterus is makeing like a cuchion in the wall to support a fertilized egg. If you do not get pregnant wich actually happens in the tube by the time the egg reaches the uterus there is no implantation because the egg has not been fertilixed so the "cushion" or "wall" of the uterus sheds thru the uterus, cervix and then down into the vaginal canal and out the opening. So you actually "bleed" from your cervix out of the vagina. The ureter " from where you pea" is located at the very top of your vaginal opening between the "lips" it is not actually in your vagina even though it seems that way. The blood comes from inside.

Q: im so upset all my boyfriends friends think they can do what ever they want to me my boyfriend always hits me and i cant tell my parents or the cops my boyfriend said he will hit me till i cant walk anymore please someone give me advice
Sweety, You have a serious problem on your hands. First of all i absolutely do not believe in men hitting women nor do i believe in women hitting men. There is only one exception that i make to the rules. If you want to be man enough to hit a man then be man enough to take it. If you are man enough to hit a women then you need to be man enough to get beat like a man. But back to the point. i am not trying to scare you by any means but this is where it starts. At the end most women in your situation later end up missing or dead wether it's one month or 50 years. You can not let this continue. There are plenty of anonymous resources out there that you can report this to. if he has threatened you then you have bit off more than you can chew in this relationship and for him to allow any other people to do this to you is more beyond just his control over you. Again this needs to stop right away. That doesn't mean run to your parents or the cops I don't want you to get hurt anymore than you have and i am deeply sorry for the pain that have already indured. To start off you need to slowly back away. Stop taking calls. stop seeing him so often. Don't just drop him he'll get suspicious but slowly let him out of your life. If you go to school together don't go around him as much. Tell your friends that you need to stay occupied as much as possible there is no need to tell them about this so you won't be afraid. Keep busy, keep good company near you. If you would like get a tape recorder that you can hide in your pocket or purse somewhere he won't see and keep it on record when you are with eacother. This will help provide you with evidence in the future. Get him to tell you again while recording it that if you tell what he will do to you. Once you get that on tape you have everything that you need. Then tell one of your friends that you can trust will not tell anyone. That friend will help you be your way out. That friend can be the one to report the situation to the police using the recorded conversation that you have. This way you are not reporting someone else is for you. And they will have the threat this will put you in a protective state by the police department. And you won't have to worry about him causing harm to you. Well there is always a worry. But you will find yourself safer with the polices help because you will have proof that he is serious. They will take this very serious and help you. or there is the anonymous resources that you can use. They can be found online and also in your phone book. There is a womens batter, hotline. they can give you all kinds of information and help. You may not hink so but now you are in a state that you are considered a batteed and abused women. He can not do this to you. It is illegal. You have rights and you alone are the only one that can shoose wether or not you make a step if you ever need to talk about this or need help further I will more than glad to help you. You can email me at cangel3102@yahoo.com. If you email me about this i will give you my phone number and I will be there to talk. This is more than just advice i will be here to help you and female in this situation needs help and people need to be there to do it. So please get into contact with me..

Q: I need a good foundation. Which do you all reccomend that wont be cakey and dry out skin? I have combo skin if that helps.

I want one to look like i have NO flaws.

Thanks =]
The best foundations that i have ever found that also contain skin cleaning product to reduce breakouts. It moisturizes you skin without making it to oily, there is no shine and it gives great flawless cover. It's the Clinique line of foundations. They have an awsesome body and makeup line. They are a bit pricy for some but for me I can say not. They are great I don't care about the cost. The product works right away. They also have consultants at thier stand that will match you with all the perfect products that you might need and will do your makeup for you right there on the spot to show you how to apply and find your right shades and looks and whats better is the makeover is free. You can only find Clinique at Dillard's or online. Yoy should try it. It's wonderful

Q: i dunno if i should give up ppl say i suck so should i just quit



Anonimous
i don't think that what anyone says should affect your decision. If that is what you like to then you should go forward with what you like. Even if others say that you suck. Or even if you think that you do. The only way that people get better at anything is when they keep practicing and keep going for it. All those people out there that are good at what they do did not always be good at it they also at one time sucked. And even those people have something that they suck at that you might be good at. I think that you should deffinatley not give up. When they tell you, " you suck" tell them atleast you are still trying ask them if they do what they suck at and they will probably say no. You will eventually get better. Wether you get great or just good if you like it that is all that matters. The experience will be joyful and when you get older you'll be btter or you can say atleat you did it.

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