Expert Answers (Q&A)
Got a question? What do the experts have to say? Look here for answers to many of the questions teens ask us.
- Are Condoms 100% Effective?
- Can Birth Control Help With Cramps?
- Can Getting the HPV Vaccine Help If I Already Have Genital Warts?
- Can I Donate Blood After Having Hepatitis B?
- Can I Get Pregnant From Oral Sex?
- Can I Get Pregnant If I Have Anal Sex?
- 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 Fingering?
- Can You Get Pregnant if You Have Sex Standing Up?
- Can You Get a Yeast Infection From Having Sex?
- Can You Get an Infection From Fingering or Oral Sex?
- Can You Still Get Genital Warts If You've Had All the HPV Shots?
- Can You Still Have Your Period If You're Pregnant?
- Can You Use Two Condoms for Extra Protection?
- Can a Condom Wrapper Break While It's in Your Wallet?
- Can a Girl Get Pregnant Right After Her Period Ends?
- Can a Girl Get Pregnant if Her Periods Are Irregular?
- Can a Girl Get Pregnant if She Has Never Had Her Period?
- Can a Girl Get Pregnant if She Has Sex During Her Period?
- Can a Girl Get Pregnant the First Time She Has 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 Douching Prevent Pregnancy?
- Does My Mom Have to Be in the Room During My Gyn Exam?
- Does the HPV Vaccine Cause Paralysis?
- How Can Condoms Break?
- How Can I Find Out If My Boyfriend Has an STD Before We Have Sex?
- How Can I Get My Parents to Give Me Private Time With My Doctor?
- How Can I Get on the Pill 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 Doctors Test for STDs?
- How Do I Find Out If a Guy I Had Sex With Has an STD?
- How Do I Get Checked for STDs Without My Parents Knowing?
- I Have Bumps On My Penis. Is This Normal?
- If Someone With Herpes Has No Sores, Can It Still Be Passed On?
- Is It OK to Have Sex While You Have Your Period?
- Is it Normal to Get Pimples Near the Vagina?
- What Are the Chances of Having an STD?
- What Can I Say to a Friend Who's Having Unprotected Sex?
- What If the Condom Slipped Off During Sex?
- What if the Condom Breaks?
- What's a Dental Dam?
- When's the Best Time to Have Sex and Avoid Pregnancy?
- Why Has My Discharge Changed?
- Can Bras Affect Breast Growth?
- Can I Make My Breasts Larger?
- Does Touching a Girl's Breasts Make Them Grow?
- How Do 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?
- Is it Normal to Get Pimples Near the Vagina?
- 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?
- 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 My Parents to Give Me Private Time With My Doctor?
- How Can I Get the Pill if I Don't Have a Family Doctor?
- How Can I Take Charge of My Own Medical Care?
- How Do I Switch Doctors?
- I'm a Guy. How Can I Talk to My Female Doctor About Certain Things?
- 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 a Breast Self-Exam?
- 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?
- Can I Work Out Without Breast Pain?
- 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 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?
- A Friend Keeps Asking Me to Do Sexual Stuff. How Do I Make Him Stop?
- How Can I Help a Friend Who Was Raped?
- What Can I Say to a Friend Who's Having Unprotected Sex?
- What Should I Do if My Friend Is Having an Asthma Flare-Up?
- 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?
- Can I Donate Blood After Having Hepatitis B?
- Can Video Games Give People Motion Sickness?
- Can You Get a Yeast Infection From Having Sex?
- 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 Girlfriend Has a Peanut Allergy. Do We Have to Worry About Kissing?
- Should I Do a Breast Self-Exam?
- 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 Is Having 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 Has My Discharge Changed?
- Why Wear a Helmet If It Can't Prevent Concussions?
- Will I Pass Sickle Cell Disease on to My Children?
- Will My Monthly Cycle Go Back to Normal With PCOS Treatment?
- 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?
- 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?
- How Can I Get My Parents to Give Me Private Time With My Doctor?
- How Can I Take Charge of My Own Medical Care?
- How Do I Get Checked for STDs Without My Parents Knowing?
- Am I Still a Virgin If I Use a Tampon?
- Can Birth Control Help With Cramps?
- 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?
- Can a Girl Get Pregnant if Her Periods Are Irregular?
- Can a Girl Get Pregnant if She Has Never Had Her Period?
- Did My Period Stop Because of Too Much Exercise?
- How Do You Know If Your 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'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?
- How Can I Find Out If My Boyfriend Has an STD Before We Have Sex?
- How Can I Help My Boyfriend Stop Smoking?
- My Girlfriend Has a Peanut Allergy. Do We Have to Worry About Kissing?
- A Friend Keeps Asking Me to Do Sexual Stuff. How Do I Make Him Stop?
- Can I Stop Myself From Having a Wet Dream?
- Can Masturbation Stunt My Growth?
- Can Wearing Tight Clothes Affect Sperm Count?
- Can You Get HIV From Having Sex With Someone Who Has AIDS?
- Can You Get Pregnant From Pre-Ejaculate?
- Can You Get Pregnant if You Have Sex Standing Up?
- Can You Get a Yeast Infection From Having Sex?
- Can You Get an Infection From Fingering or Oral Sex?
- Can a Condom Wrapper Break While It's in Your Wallet?
- Can a Doctor Tell During Your Pelvic Exam If You've Had Sex?
- Can a Doctor Tell if You've Been Masturbating?
- Can a Girl Get Pregnant if She Has Sex During Her Period?
- Can a Girl Have Sex With a Tampon In?
- 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 a Girl's Breasts Make Them Grow?
- How Can I Help a Friend Who Was Raped?
- How Do I Find Out If a Guy I Had Sex With Has an STD?
- How Do I Get Checked for STDs Without My Parents Knowing?
- I Have Bumps On My Penis. Is This Normal?
- I'm 19. Is it Normal to Still Have Irregular Periods?
- 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 Have Sex While You Have Your Period?
- Should I Shave My Pubic Hair Before Having Sex?
- Should You Tell the Doctor If You're Having Sex?
- What Are Wet Dreams?
- What Can I Say to a Friend Who's Having Unprotected Sex?
- What If the Condom Slipped Off During Sex?
- What if the Condom Breaks?
- What's a Dental Dam?
- When's the Best Time to Have Sex and Avoid Pregnancy?
- Why Do My Testicles Ache?
- Will I Bleed the First Time?
- 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 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?
- Can Lack of Sleep Stunt Your Growth?
- Does the Light From a Phone or Computer Make it Hard to Sleep?
- How Can I Stop My 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?
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