What's Up Down There?: Questions You'd Only Ask Your Gynecologist If She Was Your Best Friend

I am currently in my second year of medical school and love to read. I just happened to come across a recommendation for this book online and decided to give it a go. I typically try to avoid making my "reading for entertainment" about health/medicine/etc. because I already spend most of my time reading about that, BUT this book was so entertaining, hilarious, and easy to read. It gave me so many laughs and it was difficult for me to put it down once I had started. While I have learned a lot about the topics in this book in school, I still found this book to be informative/educational without being "textbookish." This book was able to teach me some new info and gave me a different perspective on topics I had already learned about. I think everyone (males AND females) NEED to read this book. You don't need to have any background on the human body/health/medicine besides just being a human to be able to read this book, it is such an easy read. It is great for women hoping to learn more about their bodies (or men who want to understand more about the mysterious female body - highly recommend this, it gives great insight!). I also truly think this would be great for teens (however, be warned it does talk about some "taboo" and "mature" topics). It talks about a lot of things that teens may have questions about (& may be too embarrassed to ask) or should be educated on (but often are neglected when educating teens about the body in general and when educating about sex). I have already recommended this book to so many people and will continue to do so.

As I laid in the bed last night, giggling at the very first pages of Lissa's latest book, my husband half awake, half asleep kept asking me what was so funny??!! I wanted to explain to him, yet I was a little selfish in the fact, this is for the ladies of the world! I am not so sure many men would find the laughter in all of it, the touching stories Lissa shares about patients, the way she has already made me feel much more comfortable in my own skin, and I am just getting started reading it. I found it to be one of those books that are really hard to put down, once you have read just the introduction. It is refreshing, witty, intelligent, sensitive, charming, bold, brazen, humorous, loving, vibrant, tasteful, truthful, and the descriptive adjectives could go on and on. :):)Thank you Lissa for sharing these stories with us. Thank you for making myself, and so many wonderful women think more of themselves, giving us courage, faith, appreciation of our own selves and bodies, helping us to feel worthy of more, and giving us some humor when it comes to the way we view ourselves and life in general. There are days we must laugh to keep from totally crying. I was moved by your comments on watching and helping a baby to be born, the humor that comes from some really odd female "exam's"... I was told one by my Mom. She had a friend that was working on "Green Stamp" books (if you remember what those are)... and she almost forgot about her Pap Smear appointment. She hurriedly finished dressing, got to the doctor, put her legs in the stirrups and waited. When the doctor began the exam, he made a remark about getting extra bonuses or something in the realms of a funny remark. He never said a word, but when she finished the exam, and went to the restroom to clean up, there she found a green stamp stuck to her Hoohoo! LOL! LMAO!!! She was totally embarrassed for ever... but told the story to her female friends, one of which was my Mom. The years have went by, green stamps no longer are passed out at the grocery stores, but every once in a while, we bring the story up again, and we laugh once more... :):) Women go through so much, especially when it comes to female things in our lives... yet we seem to find the humor makes all of the "odd" feelings more able to deal with...Again Lissa, I cannot say enough wonderful things about the book. It is definitely a winner!!!!Again thank you for a candid and special look at women:)

First, I am a 64 yr old man. I am on male HRT. I don't remember how I came across this book but bought the ebook for my eReader (Sorry Jeff, not a Kindle) and was fascinated by the book's information. The author was, at the time she wrote the book, an OB/GYN. She has since moved on to Integrative Medicine. But when she wrote this book it covers almost every thing a person might want to know or should want to know about a woman's body as it progresses though life that involves reproductive health. I found it so fascinating that I bought three hard copies of the book to give to women I thought could get something out of it: my wife, my holistic Christian counselor and my sister-in-law a midwife. If I find other women who I think could get something out of it I will order copies for them. I consider this an IMPORTANT BOOK and I am _giving_ this book to women I feel need it this year of 2015. In the past I have said you need to read this book. This year, 2015, if I feel it is an important book, I am buying and then giving the book away. This is a book I am giving away. Lissa Rankin has written two more books related to Integrative Medicine. I am giving away copies of these books to friends of mine as well. This writer is a MUST READ! If you have chronic pain and depression I highly recommend that get and read Gary Kaplan's Total Recovery available here on Amazon as well. He is another Integrative Medicine doctor. Integrative Medicine is the PRESENT-FUTURE if you have more than one medical problem!

Excellent book

All the answers to your questions and more that you didn't know you wanted! Very funny, informative, empathetic and a must for any female that is worried or isn't worried about what's normal.

Lissa Rankin erzählt in diesem Buch nicht nur höchst unterhaltsame Gruselgeschichten aus ihrer Arbeit als Frauenärztin - in erster Linie ist dies ein sehr informatives Buch zu allen möglichen naheliegenden bis entfernteren Fragen zum Thema "Ist mit mir alles normal?" Auch als rundum aufgeklärte Erwachsene kann man noch etwas lernen (Teratome kannte ich vorher noch nicht ... bitte nur mit starkem Magen googeln). Die Informationen werden mit einer recht guten Mischung aus Neutralität und - gekennzeichneter - eigener Meinung präsentiert. Sie sind, soweit ich das beurteilen kann, aktuell.Der Tonfall ist manchmal etwas überdreht und das ständige "honey" hätte nicht sein müssen. Insgesamt liest sich das Buch aber flüssig. Unterhaltsam und lehrreich, was will man mehr.

This book is so informative and fun to read, I had it read in just under an hour, I was having a great time!

I was curious, as a mum of 2, as to what I would learn from this book. My first surprise was that I was laughing out loud (and there are very few books that do that for me). Lissa writes in a very warm, light-hearted way peppering the book with personal anecdotes. I had no idea there were so many names for my "bits"!The chapters cover coochies (vaginas in old-fashioned speak), sex and masturbation, orgasm, discharge & itching, periods, fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, menopause, boobs, pee, butts and a few other ego boosting chapters.Lissa talks through what's "normal" (did you know only 30-35% of women orgasm during sex?), what to expect and what to get checked out. Even for the generation that were raised on "Cosmo", it may still hold a few surprises. I still found that there was plenty to learn and a fair bit that I wouldn't have even thought about asking even my closest friends on a drunken girls night out.The chapters on pregnancy and childbirth are light - but then you'd probably want a book such as "What to expect when your expecting" to accompany you. I also found that some of the advice in Childbirth contradicted what I had been told (5 yrs ago)but then times change....This is a book I shall keep and refer back to.