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I never used to get PMS at all until after I had my son and now there's a day or so a week before my period where I just cannot deal with my husband's stupid thoughtlessness about just leaving dishes and poo poo all over the house like I don't have better things to do with my time than put the goddamned mayonnaise back in the fridge that he took out. I usually don't give a poo poo and get them whenever I do one of my multiple daily cleaning sessions to but fuuuuuuck when those hormones hit do I tell him exactly how pissed I get that he just leaves his dirty poo poo everywhere for me to clean up like I'm a bus boy. To tell you the truth I'm kinda leaning into it and enjoying being angry sometimes. For fucks sake I spend like eighty percent of my time picking up after a toddler, Mr Ralph is a grown rear end man who is perfectly capable of putting his half-drank soda in the fridge after lunch. I got an app that tracks my period and I'm supposed to get it here in four days, which tracks cause a few days ago I was telling him that being a stay at home mom is death by a thousand cuts and he's just throwing more razor blades at me. My cramps are worse too after having a kid. I never used to really notice them but boy howdy do I do now. Edit- Wow I think I still got some PMS cause I'm apparently real mad about it still. Ralph Crammed In fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Aug 8, 2020 |
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Pinus Porcus posted:One of the best perks of pregnancy and extended breastfeeding was over 2years of no periods. My period came back after less than a year of breastfeeding. I guess that's uncommon? I feel so special.
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Aug 8, 2020 21:33
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Ever be in the bath during your period and a gooey piece of your uterine lining comes out and floats around and you have a look at it and you're like 'hmmmm interesting' and try to determine if it's the unfertilized egg? I've done that a few times. Apparently the egg is the only cell in the human body you can see with the naked eye.
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Aug 10, 2020 10:03
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I don't like using tampons/cups because I find it physically uncomfortable. Not mentally or anything, I mean poo poo I had a kid I've had all kinds of traffic through my chunnel, I just do not like having them in there cause I can feel it the whole time. I also can't wear heels or nylons or stuff like that cause it is just way too uncomfortable. I've also gotten attitude that my preference for pads makes me some kind of a prudish nun because I'm uncomfortable with it, which feels really judge-y. I use washable pads I bought on the AliExpress. Had em for like a year now and they hold up good. Someone was asking about it earlier and if they are still interesting I can link. Way cheaper than getting it here and after looking at the ads for ones sold here and the ones on the AliExpress I'm 99% sure they come from the same factory.
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Aug 10, 2020 16:52
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The clothe ones don't chaff much and since there is no glue or stickers it doesn't stick to your pubes. They twist around a bit though if you ride a bike or something like that. There's really no good way to deal with catching the blood, is there? Menstruation is the strongest argument against intelligent design cause what are we supposed to do 'naturally' about it?
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Aug 10, 2020 19:07
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I was on the Minerva for years before I took it out to get pregnant. I haven't had it or any other form of birth control for two years and the biggest thing I've noticed is that I feel a lot better mental health-wise. While on the IUD I was getting mild to moderate depressive episodes on the reg but now I only ever feel sad during PMS, and even then I'm more likely to be angry than sad. It could be argued that my depression was being caused by environmental factors, such as stress from college or long-term unemployment/underemployment, but being a stay at home mom is also super stressful and while I feel stress and frustration at times I certainly don't get sad and depressed like I used to. I started my period today too. We are in the middle of a heat wave so I'm more fatigued than usual. The day before my period I have a lot of discharge which, by the end of the day soaks my underwear so I've get some nasty chaffing and welts so it hurts to walk. I feel bad about it but I'm just going to park Ralph Jr in front of the TV today cause I'm too tired and sore to do much with him.
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Aug 11, 2020 07:17
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I thought that humans were the only animals that had regular monthly menstruations because we don't go into heat like other animals as we are constantly ready to fertilize? Like, apes aren't having their periods every month, just after they have an unproductive heat?
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Aug 11, 2020 09:27
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CherryCola posted:I'm sorry I haven't read the whole thread so this may have come up before. But my PMS has been getting like...weirder? for the past couple years. Like I've started to actually get low-grade fevers a day or two before my period starts and I feel like general rear end-garbage. Also, I didn't learn until like a year ago that the heaviness of my flow is actually greater than normal. I'm also glad this thread is here. Hooray for normalizing periods! Have you changed birth control methods in the past few years or are you on any kind of medication? All kinds of poo poo can have an effect, even if it isn't directly related to your reproductive system.
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Aug 11, 2020 19:23
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:I had to ask my dad to buy me pads once. He bought me adult diapers. Daddy drinks btw. I never asked again. Mine got me incontinence pads. They worked, I guess, but yeah, never asked again.
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Aug 12, 2020 15:58
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After you have a kid you just queef out blood for days and I made sure to be extremely specific to my husband about what kind of pads to get. The biggest overnighterest ones they got.
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Aug 12, 2020 19:33
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samizdat posted:It was hosed but I got Depends (or the Target generic version at least) and it was nice. I had a c-section so the whole "high-waisted adult diaper thing" felt comfortable. I had an episiotomy so I had stiches which meant I had to make sure they didn't get infected so I had to rinse them off after I peed and I was supposed to pee after I breastfeed because it would reduce my uterus size (?!?!?!) and I had to breastfeed at least once every two to four hours. So for two or three weeks I had to splash my cooter after peeing with a liter of cold water like ten times a day (cause I didn't want to wait for warm water to heat up as I just wanted to get back to bed cause my healing episiotomy was so sore) and as a result the toilet was just drenched with bloody water all the time. Husband had to clean it constantly cause I was in too much pain/busy with a newborn. And this was a relatively good/easy post-natal period. I didn't have any serious constipation issues and my milk came in fine and I didn't get infected. He-goons beware; if you think periods are icky things get really gnarly after birth.
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Aug 13, 2020 10:36
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teen witch posted:“But teen witch why do you want to adopt and get your tubes tied??? What about your nonexistent husband or other pseudo male authority that you’ll cackle in the face of???” C-sections have an even worse recovery and even more pain. They were trying like at the hospital to avoid me having one but I'd been in labor for 23 hours and exhausted so in last ditch effort they sliced me up and sucked Ralph Jr out with a vacuum pump. Samizdat was through the wringer more than I was. Childbirth is nothing like you see in the movies/tv.
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Aug 13, 2020 10:58
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Kids can be great if you want them but you really got to be in the right headspace to deal with them. Bullshit is going to happen and you just have to accept it. On episiotomy chat right after I had my baby and they were stitching me up I was sort of flinching, as you would when you're getting your genitals sown back together, and the (male) doctor said something like "the more you jump the harder it is on me" and I apologized and I felt bad about making it hard on him and even then I was mad about how much society socializes women to be polite and yielding to requests. I mean, I get his point, but he was a condescending dick about it. Of course he was Dutch and the Dutch sort are condescending dicks by nature, but still if you've decided to specialize in birth procedures you could work on your bedside manner a bit.
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Aug 14, 2020 10:22
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I've been on the pill for a year or so and it made me feel like absolute poo poo mentally and I was on the Minerva IUD twice for years and it was better but I still felt kinda bad mentally. Physically though I was fine. I didn't have any major discomfort getting it in or out each time. We use condoms at the moment because I don't want to jeopardize my mental health while caring for a toddler and we haven't decided either way if we are going to have another or not. I feel real strongly about letting other women know their mental health can be effected by birth control. It's not something that is addressed when you go the doctor, at least it wasn't for me. A friend of mine was asking me about my experience with the IUD and I told her while it's great for birth control, she could also run a risk of having some mental health issues. It's a hormonal and chemical change to your body and God only knows how an individual will react to it. For me it was sort of the straw that broke the camel's back. My family predisposed to it and I have a fair amount of environmental stressors (lol who doesn't though) and when I stopped taking birth control I felt a lot better.
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Aug 14, 2020 20:27
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Turrurrurrurrrrrrr posted:Yeah the pill can mess you up mentally and/or physically. IUD is great but it beats up the penis as well, or maybe that's intentional and good. My husband said he could feel the string but never that it uncomfortable. I once read that ancient Egyptians would use a halved lemon as a cervixal cap and of all the old timey birth control methods I've ever read, like animal dung and lead and date juice, that one sounds the best. Gee honey, your vagina smells terrific!
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Aug 14, 2020 21:00
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Enfys posted:
I'm a natural nerd for learning so I would read books and magazines about sex at the library- not check them out cause my very conservative mother would have had a conniption- and from that I managed to piece together human sexuality. Sex Ed at my public school, which was in a pretty liberal state, was basically useless because the only thing it bothered to tell us about what AIDS and that you'd get AIDS from sex and that you'd then die of it or you'd get herpes and your genitals would be destroyed. They also said that boys would get wet dreams but they didn't say what wet dreams were so I just thought that boys pissed themselves at night all the time. They said nothing about female sexuality though, so when I figured out how to  I had no idea what was happening.But because adults made such a big deal about sex I knew there had to be more to it than just the opportunity to get AIDS, so I did a bunch of covert sex research between the ages of 12 and 14. This researched turned out to be quite useful because I ended up knowing enough about reproduction and birth control that I only got pregnant when I wanted to. Also, for sucks sake, no one ever explained to me what semen even was. I had to do independent research to figure that out. Imagine having sex with your boyfriend and that happens and you don't even know what semen is!?!?!
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Aug 15, 2020 19:32
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loving hell this weekend we got invited to a friends pool and I thought my period was over but that morning it did this coy little return. Stupid bastard blood vagina. I was going to try a tampon but it was Sunday morning when we left and all the drugstores were closed. Had to just stick my legs in the wading pool with my kid. Then it turned out there was no more blood anyway. So gently caress you, blood vagina.
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Aug 18, 2020 19:34
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When I got my IUD in order to try getting pregnant we (my husband and I, it was on the list of stuff to ask the doctor) asked if I should lose weight before getting pregnant. I was like 200ish pounds at the time, 5'6'', and the doctor sized me up and said "nah". I ended up getting Gestational Diabetes in the 5th month of pregnancy though, which to be fair can happen to anyone but being overweight doesn't help your odds. I managed it very well through diet, never needed insulin or anything, but when Ralph Jr was past his due date they induced me, which probably made the labor longer than it would have been if we hadn't induced. He ended up being under the 4 kilo target - that's what they worry about when you got the GD, that your kid will be too big - so it all worked out happily for us. There can be some extremely dangerous and even life-threatening complications from GD, so it isn't something to be taken lightly. Fortunately it can be managed through diet a lot of the time. Each year now I have to go and get screen for diabetes because having GD increases your odds of developing regular diabetes. I've been fine since, although I haven't lost any weight since having the baby. Haven't gained much though, so that's a win, I'm at 210 now. I exercise each day and don't eat much refined flour, which is what my GD specialist said is more statistically relevant for not developing diabetes than just being overweight. Still though, it's something I worry about, and if I get pregnant again I will almost certainly have GD again. Anyway I'm ovulating right now and my Ps a bit more WA than usual during the day. I didn't wear a pad yesterday and my undies got wet and as a result I got a welty blister where my leg meets my labia. Wearing a pad today. Ugh, if it isn't blood it's just regular discharge.
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Aug 22, 2020 09:56
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Who else gets cramps while ovulating? And also really horny?
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Aug 24, 2020 10:53
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Prism Mirror Lens posted:you know that moment when you’re like “oop, my period started!” but you go to check your pants and no, it’s just a huge glob of regular vagina goop your body decided to produce for no reason For years and years, actually pretty much until this thread, I thought it was weird to just glob out stuff because no one ever talks about it. If you're lucky you might read about "discharge" but that's a vague term.
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Aug 25, 2020 11:23
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Sometimes it looks like boogers and sometimes the PH is so high it bleaches dark colored underwear. That's discharge for you!
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Aug 25, 2020 12:28
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kntfkr posted:One time a dominatrix in the city was sounding me and I was blindfolded and didn't know anything was amiss and she went to get something, came back and screamed and apparently she had scraped something and then I bled from my dick for like five hours and I had to replace paper towels down my shorts for the train ride home. It was frightening. I count this as a period. I've only had the one. City girls, amirite?
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Aug 25, 2020 18:07
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Yesterday I got an invite to participate in a nationwide research project on uterine cancer, and in participating I need to get a pap smear which reminded me I hadn't had one in at least ten years. So remember to get a pap smear if your insurance allows it. Just to be clear I don't have cancer, this is something everyoe with a uterus gets between the ages of 30 and 60 in The Netherlands, but it served as a reminder for me.
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Aug 27, 2020 12:09
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Pookah posted:I also get insanely tired in the days just before my period starts I wish society catered to our needs and we had days off to cope with the fatigue and discomfort and pain.
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Aug 30, 2020 17:00
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I'm getting misty eyed at an orchestral rendition of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star so I think the blood elevator is about to hit my floor.
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Sep 5, 2020 18:18
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Since this got stickied on the day I got my period I am informing you all that I got my period. These washable pads may be great for the environment but they really wedge themselves up into one's labia while biking. The environment better appreciate it!
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Sep 7, 2020 19:19
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I also get insomnia before my period but fairly mild compared to how I had it in the past. I used to get insomnia real bad, bouts of it lasting a week at least twice a month before I was pregnant but after it's no longer been a issue. The thing was I that I wasn't getting my period because of the IUD, but who knows what my hormones were actually doing. It's a hormone thing I think, being pregnant did a hard reset on hormones in a lot of ways.
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Sep 7, 2020 20:22
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None of the blood catchers manufactures are condescending and belligerent. There's got to be a better way!
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Sep 8, 2020 17:15
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Guildenstern Mother posted:Listen I don't know which one of you tik tok witches cast a spell on the thread that makes other people get your symptoms but I just felt myself ovulate for the first time I and I'm not happy about it. This thread's got big blood energy that cannot be contained by the webzone alone.
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Sep 9, 2020 19:17
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angry emu posted:My friend who's the same age actually got the same letter a couple weeks after me and is extremely not-keen. What country do you live in? I got one too from the Dutch national health ministry a few weeks ago. Is it pap smear month?
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Sep 11, 2020 18:40
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angry emu posted:I’m in Australia. Might just be the time for it. Should have guessed by your name. Had some period insomnia last night. It should be my last day and I'm only at a trickle. Do hormones fluctuate at the end of the cycle too?
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Sep 12, 2020 13:24
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Tjadeth posted:one time I read an article that said the reason humans get periods when most animals don't is because human embryos are more deeply implanted in the host's body, cause more complications, and are more prone to abnormalities, so the uterus wants to create a hostile environment for newly-fertilized eggs to make drat sure the mediocre ones get flushed When I was looking to get pregnant I read that one of the reasons why it can take up to a year for a woman to get pregnant even when her and her partner are healthy and fertility-issue free is that the woman's immune system may attack sperm like it's a invading pathogen.
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Sep 21, 2020 10:20
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The bloodgates are due tomorrow AND we found out yesterday that on Monday and Tuesday my husband was exposed to someone who has tested positive for the covid. Prepping myself for the possibily the worst period possible.
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Oct 3, 2020 12:58
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How are we all on the same cycle? I don't see this thread for 2 weeks and then as soon as I start feeling crampy it resurfaces.
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Oct 3, 2020 13:27
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Skratte posted:^^^^I hope your test comes back negative! There's always a good chance of that! My neck of the woods (Netherlands) doesn't want us to get tested unless we have symptoms, which we at the moment don't. I think it's due to lack of tests. Despite America stealing the spotlight for being a covid shitshow, the Netherlands isn't doing so hot either. My PMS pains have been light this cycle, but I have had vaginal discomfort to add to our communal power pile. Last night Mr Ralph and I were getting busy, but I had to have him stop cause I had extremely unpleasant tingling. Turns out that despite washing your hands you can still have capsicum on them from cutting up spicy peppers. It will go away soon enough, but it's disconcerting to have burning flavor in your vagina.
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Oct 3, 2020 19:15
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Maigius posted:I had a pap smear earlier this week, and my god it hurt. My vagina also kept hurting. I also just got my period like the rest of the thread. Also planning on having an IUD planted later in the year. Please tell me it won't hurt. The IUD might hurt going in, but if it hurts regularly that is big time not good. If the person putting it in is experienced your odds of it being smooth are better.
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Oct 3, 2020 20:05
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Same. Still being able to smell the odor wafting from my cloth pads is a nice reassure that I still have my sense of smell and have probably escaped the roni.
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Oct 5, 2020 11:24
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poo poo why not shove some stinking oils up there? Found it on the antimlm subreddit. A lot of them oil pyramid schemes advocate shoving oils up into your vagina. One secret big pharma doesn't want you to know! 
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Oct 6, 2020 11:00
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I'm overweight by 50 pounds or so and the IUD worked fine for me for years and years. My doctor never said anything, but then again he's a dude so who knows.
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Halfway through my period and I woke up with a pounding headache and a general sense of shittiness. Here's hoping all the coffee in the house fixes it. Toilet posting as I have massive period dumps from all the coffee.
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