Hi there My partner and I had sex yesterday but we realised that the volume of ejaculate was a lot lesser than his usual amount. We know that the more times we have sex in a day, the amount/volume of ejaculate will decrease. We had sex only once yesterday after 3 weeks of no sex but we found that th...

Hi, I had sex with my partner on Monday. It is now Thursday as I am writing this. We used the pull out method, and when he pulled out I could already see the semen near the tip but not dripping out. He confirmed that he didn’t ejaculate inside of me. We usually use condoms but just didn’t this time ...

Is it possible that my withdrawal bleed is late even though I am on the pill? I have taken it in the evenings everyday, none missed. I do have some PMs symptoms which are normal for me but until today still no bleed. I can see a tiny amount of dark brown blood stain when I wipe but no actual bleed. ...

Just to add, I usually get my bleed on the fourth day (usually by the evening) after the last active pill, but I still haven’t got any bleed and it’s already almost midnight my time. So it does seem like changing the timing of my pills has affected when the bleed starts? I wonder if this is normal?

I thought I just had to take it within the same time period e.g in the evening? Is that wrong? I don’t believe I have to take it at the exact same timing each day, though that would be the most ideal. Also, I thought I had 8 or 13 hours before a pill is considered late and not 1 hour like you mentio...

Hi, I have always been taking my Yasmin pills (21 pills) at 10am in the morning. But when I started my new pack this time round, I honestly forgot and only remembered I was supposed to start a new pack today and took the first pill at 5pm, and I also took my subsequent pills at about 3-7pm depending...

Hi, I was taking my Yasmin pill (i am on the 21 pill pack) this morning and only then realised that i had missed a pill, but have no idea when i missed it. I have 4 pills left when i should only have 3, so it means i missed one. I feel like it may have been missed last week, but i cannot confirm. so...

Hi there, I was reading through the pregnancy materials on the page and it says in order for pregnancy to be a possibility, there needs to be direct contact. Here it means direct contact like penis and vagina intercourse and direct ejaculate from penis onto the vagina right? I’d assume that if there...

Does it matter that I took the pill late on 27 March and the last instance of sex was on 26 March?

Hi Sam, I found the product information leaflet online here - https://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/files/pil.1607.pdf Since mine falls under day 13, it states that protection against pregnancy is not reduced and no extra precaution needed. But it doesn’t tell me if I need to take precautions if I have h...

Sorry for the multiple posts. I wanted to clarify that when I say day 13 of the cycle, I mean it’s day 13 of taking my active pills.

I should also add that my Yasmin comes in 21 pill pack, with no sugar pills. So I have the 7 days break where my withdrawal bleed will happen. I should also state that I took the pill late, and it was on day 13 of the cycle, not week 3. I still have 8 more pills to complete and will take them on tim...

Hi, I took my Yasmin pill late yesterday, I only remembered at 11pm and took it when my actually time of taking the pill should be around 10 to 11am. Taking it at 11pm would mean I crossed the 12 hour threshold. This is the only pill taken late, otherwise I have been taking it on time. I am on week ...

Thanks Sam, I have shared my feedback with my therapist that it isn’t working but she just said I have to control my mind and try harder. Which is really easier said than done honestly, and I am struggling here. You mentioned that HIV cannot get through unbroken skin, but I do have a couple of mosqu...

Also I wanted to ask where the mucous membranes of the anus is at? Is it inside the butt hole or the outside area leading into the hole? (sorry I don’t have a better word for this)

Well the same thing happened to me again when I was using a public restroom at a mall yesterday. I only saw there was a tiny speck of red dot on the toilet seat after I was done, but this time it was at the back where my buttocks would be. And I used a tissue to see if it was a stain, it wiped off s...

Hello, just wanted to drop by and say that I have spoken to a doctor and gotten my health screening done today. However when I was doing my pee test, I noticed that there were some very tiny white flakes floating around in the pee. They are not stringy, just like white tiny specs and I have no idea ...

Yes that is accurate. That is exactly what my mind is trying to do… and recalling that thoughts just makes it more and more fuzzy. And the self doubt continues. I also realise that my mind plays tricks on me, for example if I had a conversion with my doctor and she says there is no risk, I feel ok f...

I kept trying to recall what exactly happened like step by step but I can’t remember everything.

Which leads to the anxiety and a lot of intrusive thoughts like “what if I did this instead” or “maybe I didn’t do what I thought I did”

Well I did have a session with my counsellor yesterday and I told her my frustrations. She told me that every time I start thinking about “what if” “I think” “maybe” - it is the anxiety speaking and it’s lying to my brain. Why am I finding it so hard to let go and move on though? Even though everyon...

No it doesn’t work as well. And I am not sure why I am finding it so hard to let go.

I did tell her that I found it hard to practise the techniques she asked me to try out because it’s literally telling my self to stop thinking and the more I do that, I feel my brain tells me the exact opposite. But she says I need to keep Practising and train the brain. Which isn’t totally helpful....

So is the external portion, the vulva, mucous membrane or is that considered skin?

I told her i found it hard to do but she says I just need practice because my hiv anxiety hasn’t been back for 7 years and it suddenly came back unexpectedly.

Hi there, yes that makes sense. Just to clarify, when you say the urethra and vagina, are you referring to deep inside or are the surfaces of the labia also mucous Membranes? Apologies I don’t know the anatomy that well. I feel like I am really just having problem letting go. My brain is constantly ...

Hi there, I don’t think I can explain exactly why I have these anxieties. I have had a trauma in the past involving a needle prick incident and that’s how the HIV anxiety started. So when you say it isn’t urgent, what does it mean? Because to me, everything is amplified, and I don’t know how to take...