Sickle Cell and Falling in Love
There are many pitfalls surrounding relationships and falling in love. When you throw in sickle cell things get a bit dicey…
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Love and Sex
Should a Sickle Cell Trait Carrier Marry Someone with Sickle Cell Disease?
Should someone with AS marry someone with SS? This is a hot debate. Where do you stand?
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Sex with Sickle Cell
Here are some tips on how to have successful encounters in the bedroom…and prevent a crises.
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Pregnancy & Contraceptives with Sickle Cell
Besides abstinence, what are the best contraceptive choices for a sickle cell warrior? For men of course that would be the condom, but for the ladies, with all the choices out there it gets a bit more complicated. You don’t want to try anything that is too heavily based on hormones, because they have a
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Hydroxyurea & Infertility
Now my doctors are trying to get my on Hydroxyurea like hardcore. I’m still scared about it. I know some people have used it with lots of great results, but those side effects are no joke—AND NOT BEING ABLE TO HAVE CHILDREN?? That is some crazy shit. Well, the main thing is that if you
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Sex With Sickle Cell
I’m a very sexual person, so this has been one of the harder things to deal with about sickle cell. It sucks that when you are in the throes of a passionate encounter, you have a greater chance of getting and L2 or higher or even get thrown into a full blown out crises. Here’s
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Transmission of Sickle Cell
Okay, this is for all the ignorant peeps out there. No offense, but why the fuck do you think that you can get sickle cell from your boyfriend/girlfriend? It’s not an STD, it’s not contagious—it’s an inherited disease. Inherited! This means that if your parents weren’t on the ball with getting their HbS screening done
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Mr. Wonderful
On my other blogs, he’s known either as Norio or the Fiance, so in case I start inter changing them, it’s actually the same person. Today is his 30th birthday and I’m up because I’m so excited to enact all the BIG PLANS I have for it. We met online (yes to the skeptics, online
Romance & Relationships
I’m sure those of you with medical conditions know this, it’s hard to find a good man while you are grappling with an illness. There aren’t that many guys who are capable of handling a debilitating disease, and even less who are willing to. When I was younger, I read a story of this girl
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The Exes
Okay, now that you’ve gotten a little background, lets get to the nitty gritty. As you remember, there was this whole stigma in Nigeria having sickle cell, needless to say, there wasn’t any romantics to write home about except for this one stalker boy in freshman year but as I said…not that important. In fact,