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What to do if you are low on spoons
We all can find ourselves low on energy from time to time, but what can we do to protect our remaining energy reserves from outside influences? Using spoons to describe energy levels has become a popular way to explain how draining certain tasks or activities can be. Originally used by the chronic pain community to describe energy and stamina, it has since become a more widely used metaphor for effectively explaining your limits. The basic idea is that the number happi
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A Lawyer Explains What the SCOTUS Roe v. Wade Opinion Leak Actually Means for Americans Right Now
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive an affiliate commission. A leak of a draft opinion from the Supreme Court’s ruling on an important case for the future of abortion access and reproductive rights dropped on Monday night, causing a stir among Americans due to what the draft opinion would mean for Roe v. Wade and for people’s right to obtain the healthcare they need in the long- and shek
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Star Wars, Superheroes & Other Pop Culture Sex Toys To Keep You Entertained
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive an affiliate commission. The Internet’s most sacred rule — rule 34 — states that “if it exists, there’s porn of it. If it doesn’t exist, it will.” In a similar vein, if it exists, someone might be creative enough to make a sexual accessory inspired by it. So if you ever thought about wanting to grind on Jon Snow’s sword, get off shek
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« No One Took Me Seriously: » A Black Mother Shares Her Pregnancy Story
When Jacqueline Stevens, MSW, a lifestyle and motherhood blogger based in Connecticut, had her first child, she described the pregnancy experience as “easy,” saying she ate a lot and was able to bring home a healthy, beautiful baby girl. However, during her second pregnancy with her son, Jacqueline experienced complications. “I remember the day that my son was actually born,” Jacqueline says. “It was the day before he was due.” Jacqueline and her husband were at the doctor’s office, and shek
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My Symptoms Were Dismissed as Hemorrhoids, but I Had Colon Cancer
As told to Liz Sauchelli The day I got my colon cancer diagnosis, my husband and I bought a bottle of champagne. We were driving home from the hospital crying and I just said, “Babe, we need to stop and get a bottle of champagne because we’re going to toast to kicking cancer’s butt and being on the other side of this thing.” In the picture I have from our toast that day, our eyes are swollen from tears. My Healthy
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Clinically Speaking: Questions and Answers About Avoiding Infection When Having Outpatient Surgery
Having to get any type of surgery, no matter how simple the procedure may seem, can be scary. The Covid-19 pandemic, with its new health risks and protocols to follow, makes it even more stressful for patients. While the pandemic initially decreased the number of outpatient surgeries being performed, they are back to pre-pandemic levels, which had been on the rise even before then: In 1995, 13.4 million surgeries took place at hospital-owned centers and by 2018, there were 19.2 Healthy
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I Contracted a Superbug That’s a Top Public Health Threat — And It’s More Common Than You Think
Eight years ago, I was a healthy 54-year-old woman. I often joked that I was too healthy — I rarely had a cold and never had the flu. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), the term for germs that no longer respond to medication so medications become ineffective, wasn’t really on my radar even though I was a licensed practical nurse. I never thought I could contract an antibiotic-resistant bug myself, but a trip to the ER changed everything. Shortly after I turned Healthy
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How Superbugs Put Cancer Patients at Risk
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You and Your Bladder
From the Desk of Beth Battaglino, RN, CEO, HealthyWomen It’s an undeniable fact. No one knows your body like you do. And when something doesn’t feel quite right, it’s important that you pay attention, speak up and seek answers. Shirley Norris learned this lesson when she first noticed bright red blood in her urine in 2014. She’d had a hysterectomy, so she knew it couldn’t be her period. She saw a urologist for the next couple of years as she Healthy
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Sex After Bladder Cancer
Medically reviewed by Dr. Andrea Apolo After bladder cancer treatment, a woman is often left struggling. She looks in the mirror at her new body, maybe with a urostomy bag attached, and worries that she’s no longer sexy and her sex life will never be the same. But there is hope for her — and all bladder cancer patients. It is possible to have a healthy, satisfying sex life after bladder cancer treatment. Stages and treatment Non-muscle invasive bladder cancer Healthy
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Fast Facts: What You Need to Know About Smoking and Bladder Cancer
Medically reviewed by Dr. Andrea Apolo Cigarette smoking is the greatest risk factor for bladder cancer in both men and women. 50% of all cases of bladder cancer are associated with smoking. Past studies have shown that smoking was responsible for 28% of bladder cancer cases in women, and since 2011, the risk for women has increased to 50%. Current smokers are four times as likely to get bladder cancer when compared to those who have never smoked. Former smokers Healthy
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I Became a Bladder Cancer Survivor at 30
As told to Shannon Shelton Miller During my annual Pap test, my gynecologist became very concerned after feeling a lump on what she thought was my ovary. An ultrasound showed it was on my bladder, so she referred me to a urologist for further testing. The urologist performed a cystoscopy, or bladder scope, and urinalysis. I’ll never forget when he came back and told me, “It’s bladder cancer.” I immediately started crying. I’d never heard of bladder cancer, so I Healthy