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    Life Update: The Bitch is Back

    / December 10, 2024

    …the bitch being my cyst. Or me, I guess, if you count whiny little bitches. If you’ve been following the saga of my Bartholin cyst, whelp—it came back a few months ago. I…

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    How I Deal with Estrogen Dominance (without birth control)

    / August 19, 2024

    Ever since I started getting my period as a teen, my cycle has been erratic and my periods have been heavy and long. Almost immediately, they started coming every two weeks, usually lasting…

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    Bartholin Cyst Recovery Diary #3

    / July 30, 2024

    Well, folks, it finally happened. Almost exactly five months after my traumatic, painful, entirely shitty experience getting an infected Bartholin gland cyst lanced and drained in the emergency room… I finally had sex…

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  • Yellow wall with flowers growing up alongside it.
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    Bartholin Cyst Recovery Diary #2

    / June 28, 2024

    I wanted to give a quick update, even though not a ton has technically changed. It’s been about four months (dang!) since my cyst became infected and I had to have it drained,…

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  • Yellow wall with flowers growing up alongside it.
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    Bartholin Cyst Recovery Diary #1

    / May 1, 2024

    If you read my last post, you know that about ten weeks ago my Bartholin cyst got infected and I had to have it lanced and drained at an urgent care center. It…

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    The Origin of Pain

    / April 15, 2024

    Or, The Worst Thing That’s Ever Happened To Me – Yet! Or, How the U.S. Health System Fucks You Up, Then Leaves You High and Dry Or, The Insidious Ways Doctors Weaponize Women’s…

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    Why Are There So Few Safe Options for Menstrual Care?

    / April 2, 2023

    We all know that medical research for women lags embarrassingly far behind other medical research. Take this example: The myth that the clitoris has 8,000 nerve endings comes from a study on cows…

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Hello! I'm Claire, a writer and poet living in Los Angeles, and this is L.A. Jayne - a girly repository for all of my thoughts. I write about sex and queerness in life, art, and culture, and also about navigating women's health (with chronic pain) in the hellscape that is the U.S. health care system. Come for the rants, stay for the heartfelt essays and practical advice. I also have killer taste in movies.

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