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Expert Answers (Q&A)
Got a question? What do the experts have to say? Look here for answers to many common questions.
Birth Control, Pregnancy & STDs
Are Condoms 100% Effective?
Can Birth Control Help With Cramps?
Can Fingering or Oral Sex Cause an Infection?
Can Getting the HPV Vaccine Help if I Already Have Genital Warts?
Can Having Sex While Standing Up Help Prevent Pregnancy?
Can I Get Pregnant From Oral Sex?
Can I Get Pregnant Right After My Period Ends?
Can I Get Pregnant Through Anal Sex?
Can I Get Pregnant if My Periods Are Irregular?
Can Vaginal Cleaning Prevent Pregnancy?
Can You Get HIV From Having Sex With Someone Who Has AIDS?
Can You Get Pregnant From Fingering?
Can You Still Have Your Period if You're Pregnant?
Can You Use Two Condoms for Extra Protection?
Could I Get Pregnant if I Have Sex During My Period?
Could I Get Pregnant if I've Never Had My Period?
Could I Get Pregnant the First Time I Have Sex?
Do I Have to Get All My HPV Vaccine Shots?
Do You Have to See a Doctor to Find Out if You Have an STD?
Do You Need a Pelvic Exam to Get Birth Control?
Does the HPV Vaccine Cause Paralysis?
How Can Condoms Break?
How Can I Find Out if My Partner Has an STD?
How Can I Get Birth Control Without Telling My Parents?
How Can I Get the Pill if I Don't Have a Family Doctor?
How Can I Tell If I Have a Yeast Infection?
How Can You Tell if a Condom Has Expired?
How Do I Find Out if a Guy I Had Sex With Has an STD?
I Have Bumps on My Penis. Is This Normal?
If Someone With Herpes Has No Sores, Can They Pass the Virus to Others?
Is It OK to Carry Condoms in a Wallet?
Is It OK to Have Sex While You Have Your Period?
Is it Normal to Get Pimples Near the Vagina?
Should I Worry About Getting an STD?
What Are Dental Dams?
What Can I Say to a Friend Who's Having Unprotected Sex?
What Should I Do if a Condom Breaks?
What if a Condom Slips Off During Sex?
When's the Best Time to Have Sex and Avoid Pregnancy?
Why Has My Discharge Changed?
Body Image
Can Bras Affect Breast Growth?
Can I Make My Breasts Larger?
Does Touching Breasts Make Them Grow?
How Can I Get Rid of Extra Skin After Weight Loss?
I'm a Guy. Why Do I Have a Lump In My Breast?
Is It Normal for One Testicle to Be Bigger?
Is It Possible to Lose Weight Without Exercising?
Should I Go on a Diet?
What Can I Do to Become Taller?
What's the Best Way to Remove Excess Pubic Hair?
Why Are My Breasts Different Sizes?
Why Are My Breasts Sore?
Dieting & Weight
How Can I Get Motivated to Exercise?
How Can I Get Rid of Extra Skin After Weight Loss?
Is It Possible to Lose Weight Without Exercising?
Should I Go on a Diet?
What Can I Do About Overeating?
Doctors, Hospitals & Medicine
Can I Get My Medical Records if a Doctor Moves Away?
Can a Doctor Tell During Your Pelvic Exam if You've Had Sex?
Do I Have to Get All My HPV Vaccine Shots?
Do I Need a Pelvic Exam if I Had the HPV Vaccine?
Does My Mom Have to Be in the Room During My Gyn Exam?
Does the HPV Vaccine Cause Paralysis?
How Can I Get the Pill if I Don't Have a Family Doctor?
How Can I See My Doctor Without My Parents?
How Can I Take Charge of My Own Medical Care?
How Do I Switch Doctors?
Is It Normal to Feel Sick During a Blood Draw?
Is a Gynecologist the Same as a Primary Care Doctor?
My Asthma Inhaler Doesn't Help. What Can I Do?
Should I Do Breast Self-Exams?
What Should I Do About Lumps in My Testicles?
When Is it Time to Start Seeing a Gynecologist?
Why Do Doctors Press on Your Stomach During a Checkup?
Why Do I Get an Erection During My Testicular Exam?
Why Does the Doctor Have to Examine My Testicles?
Fitness, Exercise & Sports
Did My Period Stop Because of Too Much Exercise?
How Can I Get Motivated to Exercise?
Is It Dangerous to Run in the Heat?
Is It Possible to Lose Weight Without Exercising?
My Asthma Inhaler Doesn't Help. What Can I Do?
Should I Exercise if I Feel Sore?
What Can Help Prevent Breast Pain During Workouts?
What Happens if You Keep Playing Sports When You're Injured?
What Happens in ACL Surgery?
What's a Healthy Alternative to Water?
Why Wear a Helmet If It Can't Prevent Concussions?
Food & Nutrition
Are There Healthy Fast-Food Options?
I'm Skinny, So Does It Matter What I Eat?
What Can I Do About Overeating?
What's a Healthy Alternative to Water?
Friends & Relationships
A Friend Keeps Asking Me to Do Sexual Stuff. How Do I Make Him Stop?
How Can I Find Out if My Partner Has an STD?
How Can I Help My Partner Stop Smoking?
My Partner Has a Peanut Allergy. Do We Have to Worry About Kissing?
What Can I Say to a Friend Who's Having Unprotected Sex?
What Should I Do if My Friend Has an Asthma Flare-Up?
Health Problems
Can I Donate Blood After Having Hepatitis B?
Can Video Games Give People Motion Sickness?
Could My Kids Be Born With Sickle Cell Disease Someday?
Does Swallowing Gum Cause Intestinal Problems?
How Can I Tell If I Have a Yeast Infection?
How Will I Know If I Have Impacted Wisdom Teeth?
I Have Sickle Cell Disease. What Should I Know About Going Away to College?
I'm Pregnant. Should I Get a Flu Shot?
I'm a Guy. Why Do I Have a Lump In My Breast?
Is it Common to Get Migraines Before Your Period?
My Partner Has a Peanut Allergy. Do We Have to Worry About Kissing?
Should I Do Breast Self-Exams?
What Are Impacted Wisdom Teeth?
What Causes Muscle Twitches?
What Should I Do About Lumps in My Testicles?
What Should I Do if My Friend Has an Asthma Flare-Up?
What's the Difference Between Infectious and Contagious?
What's the Difference Between a Treatment and a Cure?
When Can I Go Back to School If I Have the Flu?
Why Am I Getting Urinary Tract Infections?
Why Wear a Helmet If It Can't Prevent Concussions?
Will My Monthly Cycle Go Back to Normal With PCOS Treatment?
Hygiene
Can I Wear the Same Pad All Day?
How Do I Get Rid of Hair on My Upper Lip?
How Do I Remove Hair Around My Nipples?
Is It Safe to Shave Pubic Hair?
What Can I Do About Sweating?
What's the Best Way to Remove Excess Pubic Hair?
Why Do My Palms Always Feel Sweaty?
Why Has My Discharge Changed?
Mononucleosis
Can I Drink Alcohol if I Have Mono?
Can You Get Mono From Just a Quick Kiss?
Can a Person Get Mono More Than Once?
How Is Mono Spread?
Parents & Family
Can I Get Checked for STDs Without My Parents Knowing?
How Can I See My Doctor Without My Parents?
How Can I Take Charge of My Own Medical Care?
Periods
Am I Still a Virgin If I Use a Tampon?
Can Birth Control Help With Cramps?
Can I Get Pregnant if My Periods Are Irregular?
Can I Have Sex With a Tampon In?
Can I Practice Using a Tampon Before I Get My Period?
Can I Use a Tampon If I'm a Virgin?
Can I Wear the Same Pad All Day?
Can Masturbation Affect Periods?
Could I Get Pregnant if I've Never Had My Period?
Did My Period Stop Because of Too Much Exercise?
How Do I Know if My Period Is Regular?
I Think I Had My First Period. How Can I Be Sure?
I Throw Up During My Period. Is That Normal?
I'm 14 and I Don't Have My Period Yet. Is This Normal?
I'm 19. Is it Normal to Still Have Irregular Periods?
I've Never Had My Period, So What's This Discharge?
Is It Normal for My Period to Stop at Night?
Is It Normal for Period Blood to Come Out in Clumps?
Is It OK to Have Sex While You Have Your Period?
Is It OK to Wear a Tampon in the Bath or Shower?
Is Period Blood Always Red?
Is it Common to Get Migraines Before Your Period?
Is it OK to Get My Period Twice in One Month?
Is it OK to Have a Discharge After Getting Your Period?
My Breasts Ache During My Period. What Can I Do?
My Periods Are Irregular. What's Going On?
Should I Take Pills to Regulate My Period?
Why Do I Feel Depressed When I Have My Period?
Will My Monthly Cycle Go Back to Normal With PCOS Treatment?
Sex
A Friend Keeps Asking Me to Do Sexual Stuff. How Do I Make Him Stop?
Can Fingering or Oral Sex Cause an Infection?
Can Having Sex While Standing Up Help Prevent Pregnancy?
Can I Get Checked for STDs Without My Parents Knowing?
Can I Have Sex With a Tampon In?
Can I Stop Myself From Having a Wet Dream?
Can Masturbation Stunt My Growth?
Can Wearing Tight Clothes Affect Sperm Count?
Can You Get Genital Herpes From a Cold Sore?
Can You Get HIV From Having Sex With Someone Who Has AIDS?
Can You Get Pregnant From Pre-Ejaculate?
Can You Get a Yeast Infection After Having Sex?
Can You Still Get Genital Warts If You've Had All the HPV Shots?
Can a Doctor Tell During Your Pelvic Exam if You've Had Sex?
Can a Doctor Tell if You've Been Masturbating?
Could I Get Pregnant if I Have Sex During My Period?
Do I Have to Get All My HPV Vaccine Shots?
Do You Have to See a Doctor to Find Out if You Have an STD?
Does My Mom Have to Be in the Room During My Gyn Exam?
Does Touching Breasts Make Them Grow?
Getting Tested for STDs
How Do I Find Out if a Guy I Had Sex With Has an STD?
I Have Bumps on My Penis. Is This Normal?
Is It Normal for One Testicle to Be Bigger?
Is It Normal to Have an Erection When Waking Up?
Is It Normal to Masturbate?
Is It Normal to Think About Sex a Lot?
Is It OK to Carry Condoms in a Wallet?
Is It OK to Have Sex While You Have Your Period?
Is it Normal to Get Pimples Near the Vagina?
Should I Shave My Pubic Hair Before Having Sex?
Should I Worry About Getting an STD?
Should You Tell the Doctor if You're Having Sex?
What Are Dental Dams?
What Are Wet Dreams?
What Can I Say to a Friend Who's Having Unprotected Sex?
What Should I Do if a Condom Breaks?
What if a Condom Slips Off During Sex?
When's the Best Time to Have Sex and Avoid Pregnancy?
Why Do My Testicles Ache?
Why Has My Discharge Changed?
Will I Bleed the First Time?
Skin
How Do I Get Rid of Hair on My Upper Lip?
How Do I Remove Hair Around My Nipples?
I Got Blisters From a Sunburn. What Should I Do?
Is It a Good Idea to Use Skin Care Products?
Is it Normal to Get Pimples Near the Vagina?
Should I Pop My Pimple?
What Can I Do About the Rough Skin on My Arms?
What Can I Do to Prevent Razor Burn?
Sleep
Can Lack of Sleep Stunt Your Growth?
Does the Light From a Screen Make it Hard to Sleep?
How Can I Deal With Nightmares?
Is It Normal to Have an Erection When Waking Up?
Is It OK to Wear a Bra While Sleeping?
Is it OK to Sleep Less on Weekdays and More on Weekends?
What Are Wet Dreams?
What Should I Do If I Can't Sleep?
Why Do I Feel Paralyzed Before I Fall Asleep?
Why Does My Body Jerk Before I Fall Asleep?