u/yard-sards

I'm asking on behalf of my friend. They recently went to the ER (for a workplace injury completely unrelated to lyme) and the doctor noticed a bullseye-like rash on their arm. My friend hadn't noticed any other symptoms of lyme (though after they told me about all this, I pointed out that they had been drowsy all week, though they'd been attributing that just to stress). They're still waiting on test results to prove that it's lyme, but the doctor decided to prescribe antibiotics in the meantime, just in case. That makes sense, but the prescription itself is strange: *10 weeks* of doxycycline. That's not only more than the 10-14 days recommended by the CDC, but it's double the 4-6 weeks recommended by ILADS. Does anyone here know why that timeframe was chosen?

I just got my first menstrual cup and was practicing inserting and removing it (not on my period currently but wanted to prepare because my next one is set to start on my beach vacation) and something weird happened the second time I tried to remove it.

I was struggling to get my fingers in there to break the seal and pull the thing out of there and i felt this huge gush of fluid come out of me from somewhere between my legs. It was clear and watery, didn't particularly smell like urine, and tasted salty like tears.

I didn't feel like I was peeing. It felt more like when I do that party trick where if you flex your tongue just right your spit glands will spray.

My best guess is that I "squirted" but I absolutely was NOT feeling any kind of sexual arousal or pleasure during this, just "oh that is very uncomfortable" and "please god don't let me end up in the emergency room from fucking up removing a menstrual cup too badly". I've never squirted during sex so I have no data on how that feels, or the smell/look/viscosity/taste of the fluid to compare this against. Can you squirt without sexual pleasure, just from hitting a nerve weirdly? Or is it something else entirely?

Also there was a tiny diluted dot of blood on my cup when I removed it, but I think that's unrelated and a side effect of me not trimming my nails before this endeavor.