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I get dizzy and blackout on standing up from a prolonged lying or reclining position around my periods. Has anyone else experienced this? How to help it?

I get dizzy and blackout on standing up from a prolonged lying or reclining position around my periods.

Has anyone else experienced this? How to help it?

Or a personal driving coach or smth?

I have noticed that for most people including myself, self-worth is heavily dependent on other people's opinions and perception of us. Societal acceptance makes us feel positive about ourselves. Even when we don't have an external judgement, we tend to see ourselves negatively when we don't conform to societal expectations of us.

To an extent, this anxiety about external judgement is biologically driven- a protective instinct developed over millions of years to ensure our survival as social animals.

But, is self-worth really "self-worth" when it's so easily influenced by others perception of us?

How can we learn to love and value ourselves inherently, without needing external validation, and despite external rejection? How to detach ouselves from others perception of us?

I masturbated as usual by manual clitoral stimulation and orgasmed. When I went to the bathroom to clean up, i noticed that the larger lip of my already asymmetrical labia minora felt even larger on touch. As if it's hanging out. It worried me a lot. There isn't any unusual pain or anything. Just mild soreness as usual. But I'm worried if it's permanent. Has anyone else experienced this before? Does it resolve on its own?

I masturbated as usual by manual clitoral stimulation and orgasmed. When I went to the bathroom to clean up, i noticed that the larger lip of my already asymmetrical labia minora felt even larger on touch. As if it's hanging out. It worried me a lot. There isn't any unusual pain or anything. Just mild soreness as usual. But I'm worried if it's permanent. Has anyone else experienced this before? Does it resolve on its own?

I masturbated as usual by manual clitoral stimulation and orgasmed. When I went to the bathroom to clean up, i noticed that the larger lip of my already asymmetrical labia minora felt even larger on touch. As if it's hanging out. It worried me a lot. There isn't any unusual pain or anything. Just mild soreness as usual. But I'm worried if it's permanent. Has anyone else experienced this before? Does it resolve?

I don't have any menstrual irregularities or any pre established gynecological diagnosis.

But I had my FSH, E2 and AMH tested the other day.

My FSH and E2 are within normal limits. But my AMH is 7.91 - way higher for my age (i am 30).

I read its a sign of PCOS. I'm kinda stressed.

Any suggestions or insights?

I have been wondering about the meaning of a very vivid dream i saw almost two weeks ago on a full moon night.

I saw in my dream that my whole family left for another city (my father's hometown) for a celebration but I stayed back. Apparently I was pregnant and gave birth in a hospital alone while my family was away and the baby that was born didn't cry immediately after birth. I became very worried and stressed in my dream as the doctors were trying to resuscitate her, they said "her APGAR score is very low" and at one point they said she is dead. I was devastated and cried but then they found "Well she's actually alive" and admitted her in NICU.

I felt grateful that i stayed back and didn't go to father's hometown with the rest of my family as there wouldn't be such a good hospital there.

When I visited her in nicu she was sitting up and trying to speak, i told her that her name is Mary. But she denied it and said "My name is actually (another name)" that i cant remember except that it started with a D. But then I insisted on her name and she kinda agreed. Then, my father returned back to see me and the baby, i told her to call him "grandpa" but she spoke a whole sentence instead (which i can't remember) But it shocked my father and he said "Maybe the baby got swapped in Nicu for a bigger baby who can speak and its not actually yours."

My mom suggested "check the symbol/mark that they put on thr baby's belly" (idek if there's such a rule but it was in the dream) i checked both her belly and the hospital files but there was no sign or mark there. I flipped the pages of the file and it was all blank where the symbol was supposed to be.

(PS I'm not even pregant; heck i am single and virgin)

Last night, I saw a dream that wasn't really related to anything currently happening in my life.

The dream started with the news of a fire breaking out in my neighbourhood. Then the scene shifts, and I get a news that every house is being searched by certain intelligence officials. The officials then arrive at my house. They were wearing dark/black uniforms similar to how FBI is shown in some movies (I don't even live in the US). On the back of their uniforms was written smth like "trafficking police" or smth. They said they were searching everyone for "sensitive material".

Irl, I own two steel trunks in which i store all my past and present journals and non-academic books etc. They started searching in the trunks. In the dream; i was thinking "the trunks are locked. How will they access the stuff without asking me for the key"

But I saw that they had a "special technique" of opening the trunks without the need of a key by pressing on the side handle in a certain way that opened it. I was awestruck. I was worried they might read my journals. But then I thought there's nothing controversial in them anyway so even if they do it wouldn't be dangerous.

Then they leave; they didn't find any sensitive content.

After waking up and thinking about this dream and possible meaning, i was suddenly struck with a revelation. Maybe my subconscious was warning me that all the personal information i share, including my thoughts, emotions and even pics sometimes on the internet and especially with AI apps, is not safe. It's publicly accessible to authorities despite the illusion of "lock". They don't need my "key". They have "special techniques' to access my personal information.

I downloaded the period tracking app "Flo" 2 months ago. Since then, when i approach my periods i expect it to arrive at the estimated date that the app shows. But it doesn't arrive and it drives me nuts. Each passing day, the app shows "late for × days" and seeing that tag makes me so anxious. It recorded my cycle as 33 days long last month. The period was like 5 days later than it has estimated.

Before downloading Flo, i never paid attention to how long my cycle actually was every momth or whether it was delayed or not. I just expected it to come "around the same time every month" vaguely and it did. So i just assumed my cycles must be like 30-31 days as my periods mostly arrived on the same date every month

But now I have become obsessed with wanting it to come at the expected dates the app estimates. Today is 33rd day of my cycle and period still hasn't arrived. I cant even sleep because of how stressed i am because of it.

I'd appreciate any advice or suggestions.

I downloaded the period tracking app "Flo" 2 months ago. Since then, when i approach my periods i expect it to arrive at the estimated date that the app shows. But it doesn't arrive and it drives me nuts. Each passing day, the app shows "late for × days" and seeing that tag makes me so anxious. It recorded my cycle as 33 days long last month. The period was like 5 days later than it estimated.

Before downloading Flo, i never paid attention to how long my cycle actually was every momth or whether it was delayed or not. I just expected it to come "around the same time every month" vaguely and it did. So i just assumed my cycles must be like 30-31 days as my periods mostly arrived on the same date every month

But now I have become obsessed with wanting it to come at the expected dates the app estimates. Today is 33rd day of my cycle and period still hasn't arrived. I cant even sleep because of how stressed i am because of it.

Any advice or suggestion?

And how to restore it

I have been looking into spirituality lately and wanted to see it through a Quranic perspective.

Several related terms came to my mind like "Tazkiya", "Nafsul Mutmainnah" (89:27-28) and "Qalb-e-Saleem" (26:88-89).

Also, I am not sure what is the practical pathway to achieve these states. Is it meditation? Quran does mention terms like "Zikr" and "Tazakkur" which are translated differently by different people. Most commonly, zikr is translated as "reminder" or "remembrance". At one point it also says Zikr of Allah is even better than Salah.

So what does zikr mean in practice? Is it simply keeping God in your mind at all times, or pondering about God and His creation etc? Traditionally, ppl practice zikr by repetitively chanting certain phrases. But Quran doesn't mention any such practice. So i wonder how do we do it?

I (30F) noticed recently that i get muffled hearing in my right ear after orgasm (via masturbation). It resolves spontaneously within 5-10 minutes. But this has never happened before so it's kinda scaring me. Is this normal? Has anyone else experienced this?

I (30F) noticed recently that i get muffled hearing in my right ear after orgasm (through masturbation).

It resolves spontaneously within 5-10 minutes.

But this has never happened before so its kinda scaring me. Is it normal? Has anyone else experienced this?