[goodforme]

YOU GUYS ARE KILLING ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We need to rate this xxx, Ruth?

As to the whole fuzzy/bald issue, I would say do whatever makes you comfortable. If you really are repulsed by hairless, ask him if you could keep a "racing stripe" in the middle. Or, if the boils don't bother you that much, don't do it at all.

Wow, first boobs now pubes, what comes next? Positions?

Ya'll have a great Friday, I have 3 kids plus my own. They are eating pizza and popcorn and drinking cokes and watching Pokemon. I am eating Valium and Zanax and swilling rum and cokes, and watching my hair turn grey! It's pretty neat, dd's first sleepover at my house. She's been over there about 890 times, so it's my turn now. Ugh!

[Goomba]

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I too get the boils in my pantie line area .. it's a real pain. I think if I was given the choice I would actually go for the hair removal. I personally use a antibacterial soap which appears to help a great deal .. I dont get them half as often as I use to.

Chickadee ... loved the poem .. ROFL

[LindaBC]

ROTFLMAO!! I sure have missed you guys but MANOHMAN, has this place changed or what!!!
That business with the boils is not a pleasant condition. I've had them many times in the pubic area, often caused by ingrown hairs but for me I've noticed that they usually occur in the panty line area and it's because I'm highly sensitive to elastic. If the fabric has worn away from the elastic, it makes me very itchy and then the boils form. I once had one so huge it abcessed and I had to have the doctor lance it and then I had to have a drainage thing in it and visit the doc every day to have it disinfected. Yoiks! Lately, I've discovered that Gold Bond Lotion really helps to prevent these boils, as does antibacterial soap. The Gold Bond Lotion also helps the itching of prickly heat.
My older daughter used to get these boils so bad under her arms that she wound up having all her sweat glands removed. That surgery left such horrible scars that she now can't wear anything sleeveless. I think this is a hereditary condition.

Anyhow, I've really enjoyed this entertaining and educational thread.
Just to keep you updated on what I've been doing lately, I'm happy to tell you that after 10 months on WW, I've FINALLY broken the 20 lb barrier. Yes, it's been a long haul but I'm feeling good and very positive. The doc has put me on Metformin to help get my glucose levels under control and I'm also taking Meridia at his suggestion. This is really helping me to control my runaway appetite. That's not to say that I don't still get hungry but it helps me to push my plate away when my body knows it's had enough. I realise this medication is controversial and, from what I hear, now banned in the U.S., but so far I've had no bad side effects.

So glad to see your familiar faces. I'd post here more often but I'm kept pretty busy at some other diet support forums and an e-mail support group. I do check in from time to time though just to see what you all are doing.
LindaBC

[peach pit]

the thunderstorms knocked out the phone on friday, and THEY won't come to fix it until tomorrow [monday]!!!!!!

so, i'm visiting peachie and HAD to check on you girls...

and i don't know whether to bang my head on the desk or dry my tears from laughing so hard!!!

but i actually have an answer to a question someone posed: why did MOM NATURE give us pubic hair? and, according to doctor joy brown, it's to provide that all-important friction during.. well, i don't have to spell that one out for ya'll....

[MamaJ]

For that bit of info! And I just bought the Magic Powder !