Have no shame! Periods are cool, minus a few downsides (looking at you cramps, cravings, and overall hate for the world!), it's amazing how our bodies can do that! Feel free to share something you enjoy or hate, or have experienced secondhand!
#41
The person who started the myth that periods get easier after you give birth should be shot.
2points
#42
I can get really bad cramps to the point I can’t walk and I also tend to get moody for no reason while I’m on my period. I eat chocolate and use a hot water bottle to make myself feel better. It works
1point
#43
Not a lady but they bloody suck (pun intended)
1point
#44
Not my period. Ovulation. I would get a sudden searing pain on one side or the other of my lower abdomen every month, like clockwork. Then, I had to have a c-section. Got a local as i was very interested in watchig my baby being born. So, i was alert during the entire procedure. After the birth, the surgeon sutured my uterus and I was shocked to see him flipping it back and forth rapidly in his hands saying loudly, "Where's the other one?". Turns out, I was born with one falopian tube and my uterus flipped around in my abdomen every month or so.
1point
#45
When I first got my period I had just turned 11 and I was a very shy kid so I kept it a secret for a couple months and then one weekend I woke up and was excited because I was supposed to be going to a friend's house and then realized that I started my period and the blood was heavy (it was usually light) and I thought oh no I can't go with blood on my pants and then mustered up all my courage and walked over to my grandmother and stood there with blood on my pants and said I need to change my pants to my surprise it wasn't as big a deal as I thought and my mom bought everything but I still think about it and cringe because of how long it took me to actually get the courage to tell my grandma
1point
#46
What period? Thanks, Mirena 😁
0points
#47
Sometimes the hormones are bad, sometimes they're ok. Sometimes my tongue swells for the first couple days. I noticed that the sides of my tongue were getting shredded on my molars and I couldn't figure out why until I remembered something about people having their tongues swell in early pregnancy.
Also, the meat cravings are dangerous. I either need a burger or a steak a couple days before I start.
Since vaccinating, my period pain has increased exponentially, too. Apparently, there are studies that say it's supposed to go back to normal, but so far it's snowballing worse and worse ever month. Used to be I'd have one day a month when I'd feel crappy and then I'd get on with my life. Now it's more like a week (a couple days before starting a couple days after) where I'm barely making it through plus one day of being immobile on the couch under a dog and whatever cats are feeling snuggly. Would I take back getting vaccinated? Absolutely not!
0points
#48
My first one. Because not one person in my family, or one educator, ever taught me what to expect. I woke up one day absolutely terrified. And skipped off to my aunts apartment because she was the only family member who had internet at the time. Of course I knew nothing about how the internet worked being that it was late 90s and just being introduced into my school at 12 years old. I was on summer vacation otherwise I would have gone there. I had no idea my aunt would go through the history and rat me out to my mother. Who THEN decided to have the talk with me about what to expect. I was angry and scared at the time and didn't handle it well.
Hey parents? I don't care how uncomfortable the subject is, because I guarantee it doesn't cone close anywhere close to the terror a pre-teen goes through when she gets her first one and has no idea what is going on. It's a fact of life, not talking about it doesn't mean it won't happen. Suck it up, talk to your kids. Because like I said, a surprise like that is traumatic.
Hey parents? I don't care how uncomfortable the subject is, because I guarantee it doesn't cone close anywhere close to the terror a pre-teen goes through when she gets her first one and has no idea what is going on. It's a fact of life, not talking about it doesn't mean it won't happen. Suck it up, talk to your kids. Because like I said, a surprise like that is traumatic.
0points
#49
About the same as everyone else.
There was a babysitter for my sister and I because our parents didn't want to be bothered. I had been super nervous beforehand. I went upstairs to use the bathroom and found blood in my underwear. I called my parents. My mom suggested spotting. My dad thought that I may have wiped with toilet paper too hard. No, dear parents, I have my period.
Yeah, It's hell.
There was a babysitter for my sister and I because our parents didn't want to be bothered. I had been super nervous beforehand. I went upstairs to use the bathroom and found blood in my underwear. I called my parents. My mom suggested spotting. My dad thought that I may have wiped with toilet paper too hard. No, dear parents, I have my period.
Yeah, It's hell.
0points
#50
1 star review, would give 0 if I could. Always hated it and I had it mild. I am non binary, every period was a reminder that physically I'm female. When I heard an IUD turns it off I couldn't get one fast enough. Keep getting it replaced and haven't had a period in a very long time. Also prevents the crazy hormone fluctuations, so I know my mood swings are due to circumstances not hormones.
0points
#51
Horrified that humans have to leak every month. Most other animals don't, they absorb it. Went on Depo Provera and stayed on it for 38 years, missed menopause, been and gone without symptoms by the time I went off it. Best invention since fire. Yet so many woman would say to me oh but it's not natural. Yet whine every month about their natural bad experience. Well whatever floats your boat
0points
#52
why? I'm not embarrassed about my cycle, but that's a private matter.
-3points