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At the suggestion of the thread I installed the Clue app, because I don’t have a ready way of tracking the red tide (not on BC because it fucks with my other meds. And lol I’m asexual so I don’t need it for contraceptives). Guess what started the DAY I installed the app. I’m sorry, nature, I didn’t mean to antagonize you. 
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Me, to my uterus: hey can you hold off for three days so I can get my yearly exam done without you bleeding everywhere? My uterus, to me: start now so you’ll be on day three for your yearly exam so you can bleed everywhere. You got it! Ugh. At least I was able to reschedule. Does anyone else’s pets behave differently when you’re on your period? I don’t know if it’s just my hormone brain talking, but I swear my dog gets more needy/protective. It’d be cute if I also wasn’t a big mess!
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cool kids inc. posted:My cats both get super snuggly. Nothing like a purring heating pad for cramps. Well one sits on me, the other just sits nearby DESPERATE for pets but not wanting to deal with the PEOPLE portion of that exchange. See that’s rather cute! My dog goes into “protecc” mode to bark at every drat thing. He’s a schnauzer so he doesn’t need much more reason to do that. Day 5 of this month’s shark week, ugh just be done already.
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Jan 28, 2021 20:00
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Had my yearly exam and nearly wept for joy when the Dr said they’re moving away from using speculums unless completely necessary, which it isn’t for me. Usually I’m weeping in pain from it! However due to family history I’m slated for my first mammogram this week, and I’m not 40. Any advice, or anecdotes? My concern is that since I’m small chested it may be a bit more painful as there isn’t as much to work as with?
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Feb 7, 2021 18:42
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Finally got my power back here in Austin just in time for the ol period to start. Thank god all the valentines candy is clearance because I am fiending for chocolate right now. All I want to do is hibernate!! And complain, apparently.
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Feb 21, 2021 19:01
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Dazerbeams posted:Does anyone else get like really sore legs right around the time your period starts? It drives me up the wall because it doesn’t make any sense to me. Yes gently caress. My knees act like I climbed a mountain! I don’t need cramps and achy legs, argh. I just finished my cycle and prob need to reach out to the obgyn again. They wanted me to monitor tenderness on my breasts but like...that never seems to go away. It’s not just a cycle thing. Anyone else deal with that?
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Does anyone else experience constant tenderness in the breasts, no matter the time of the cycle? I’ve had two OBs look at me, and a clean mammogram, but fuuuuck are the sides always sore! When I had an exam today the nurse was surprised. She asked if it was from an ill-fitting bra and I laughed and said I stopped wearing a bra in quarantine bc I work from home. So maybe it’s muscle growth? I’m a B cup so it’s not like there’s a lot of mass here. I’m super paranoid bc cancer runs on both sides of my family. I was referred to a surgical specialist, so I wanted to ask if anyone else has dealt with this.
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Mar 13, 2021 01:01
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Thanks for arriving three days early, period. Are you gonna do the same thing as before and spot for days before anything substantial? Or will this be a quick one. Let’s spin the wheel and find out :/
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Apr 18, 2021 04:52
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Poking back into this thread to say fffff my cramps were so bad this time around, but I also had the “why the gently caress is my heart racing” symptoms for the first time, but I remembered the thread and now it’s just another thing that happens. Yay. I will also say they’ve felt shorter, but more intense, since getting vaccinated. Could just be anecdotal but I’ll take a 3 day period over a 7 day!
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Jun 19, 2021 22:47
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Hey. Clue app. When I report my period is early, don’t say “thanks for the prediction.” It isn’t a prediction, it’s happening! Not the time of the month you wanna make people angry due to semantics…
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Jul 15, 2021 03:15
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I haven’t been to the beach in years, and I fly out in a couple of days. Guess what’s due to arrive mid-vacation? Uuuugh. Thanks nature. I guess.
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Aug 4, 2021 01:28
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Clue app: you’ll start tomorrow My uterus: lol how about right now No calendar can contain the might of my cycle. At least that explains some of the horrid fatigue I’ve had?
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Good god today was rough. It’s like every symptom decided to hit at once. Hot/cold flashes, fatigue, mega cramps, loss of concentration, spiked emotions, etc. I’m in my mid 30s I don’t wanna do this for another couple of decades. Plus I am in TX so I’m super not pleased with being a uterus-owner right now. I’m not ever gonna use it, I want it gone :/
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Sep 11, 2021 03:08
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HellOnEarth posted:So the continuous birth control wound up giving me gallstones. So, back to having my period I guess and I just deal with the PMDD. So this will be fun. Username/post combo. But for real that sucks! I’m on the stage where I get 2-3 days of spotting, and an emotional hair trigger to rage or tears. Hooray ><
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Ok I gotta ask a potentially gross question, but google is failing me as to whether this is common or not. Does anyone else deal with oral thrush/candida after their period? It seems to happen after about 50% of my periods, and I always assumed it was due to temporary iron deficiency. The internet also says is just bc your ph goes bonkers so your body says ok we’re doing this now. A good boost in iron (like a burger) seems to clear it up, but I wasn’t sure if others dealt with this, and if they had any tips to stop it from happening. I just hate the taste in my mouth for a couple of days.
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Sep 13, 2021 22:37
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A week out from the red tide, and I just got my covid booster. Christ I have never had such a sore chest before. I guess it’s lymph nodes? At least it only lasted a day, but what a day that was :/
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Oct 27, 2021 23:00
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I apparently talked poo poo about my uterus, as I have been looking into removing it. In retaliation, my period started early and I’m doing a surprise load of laundry. See, this is why I wanna get rid of you!
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Dec 2, 2021 17:28
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I have been crying most of this week thanks to some potential positive life changes (chance of a better, higher paying job) but would also require me to move states plus some more e/n level woes, so it’s destroying me emotionally. And apparently making this post all over the place. This is gonna be a rough period. All the potential life changes plus werewolf blood moon happening in the next day or two and I’m a loving wreck. Thanks hormones! My therapist is gonna love me next week.
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Has anyone experienced numbness on their period? This last one was a monstrous roller coaster of emotions for me (as exhibited by my last rambly post) and this one I had my hands feel really tingly for a couple of hours and I couldn’t focus at all. Online symptom searches say it could be PMDD but I don’t want to self diagnose and as I’m moving in about a month I won’t be able to get in to see my Obgyn (mayyybe my PCP if I push it). Is this a big enough symptom to try and see a doc about?
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Feb 27, 2022 00:57
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Thanks y’all, I’ll monitor it. Panic attack seems the most likely due to the massive stress I’ve been under. If it happens again I’ll talk to my doc! I’ve never had a panic attack before so I don’t know what symptoms to look for (tho I’m sure it’s different for everyone). I’m just glad this period is over!
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Feb 27, 2022 03:32
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Oh good. My period is going to start the day of my 15hr cross-country drive. Packing and moving has already been emotional, I don’t need that on top of it, ugh!
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Mar 10, 2022 17:08
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The period decided to start a day late on the road trip. It also decided to skip the first, easy day, and jump to day 2 of hell cramps and heavy flow. Thanks uterus!
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Why the hell does my body feel like one giant bruise… Ah, my period is super days early so I get extra spotting AND full body aches. Ugh.
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Horrid cramps flared up while watching the eclipse tonight. Yeah, it IS a super blood moon, isn’t it? 
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Love being able to watch my body fall apart in real time with this cycle’s symptoms. Yesterday was fatigue and sore joints, today we’re adding on thrush and wildly varying emotions. I haven’t even started bleeding yet, but I know that typing this has sealed my fate to start at the most inconvenient time.
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CherryCola posted:Really annoyed that my period makes my fuckin knees hurt Holy poo poo I’m not the only one?? My knees ache like a day or two before I start, like I ran a mile or climbed a bunch of stairs. Bodies, drat. I’m just wrapping up the latest period, which decided to stay for a couple of extra days, yay…
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I’m listening to two male coworkers talking about how heavy the flow is this week and my first instinct is to reply “oh, yours too?” Glad I didn’t because no, they mean workflow.
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Aug 8, 2022 15:23
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Pyrtanis posted:I wish there was a "take a uterus, leave a uterus" option in life though, drat. I'd love to donate my eggs n ham to someone who wants it I wish this was possible! I’m asexual (and generally sex-repelled) and wish I could give this organ to someone that would want/use it. I told a trans friend of mine I wish I could give mine to her, and she said that was not the first offer she’s received, so now and again I ask her how many uteruses (uterii?) she’s hypothetically collected (at least three!)
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Cowslips Warren posted:Imagine if dudes felt every sperm produced. This reminds me of the book I read a while ago, Who Fears Death, which is sci-fantasy afrofuturism about a young Sudanese woman and also touches on similar topics. It’s a tough read but a really good one. In uterus related news, I loving caught Covid so I have to reschedule the obgyn appointment that I had to book with a loving four month delay and now god knows how long it’ll take me to get back in. Argh!
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Period started Sunday, I finally have my annual exam this Friday. Told my uterus if it could have things mostly wrapped up by Friday before my appointment I’d appreciate it. Boy howdy did it oblige. I’ve never had worse cramps before, I thought I was going to vomit. The flow has always been strong but this time? I got what I wished for, that’s for sure! Maybe I will be done by Friday!
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Went to a new OB and she actually sat with me for 30+ min to go over the items on my chart and get my thoughts and opinions. Kinda wild, I’m not used to that! She actually listened when I said I want a hysterectomy, and didn’t give me the whole “are you sure” spiel because I was ready with ammunition to shoot that down. So we’re scheduling a prelim ultrasound for next month, I think to get more insurance-based evidence of getting my uterus removed other than “I’m ace, I don’t use it, and I don’t want it” lol. Cautiously optimistic and also terrified because like, what if I AM approved? I never thought it could happen!
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Powerful Katrinka posted:My mom totally ruined my day by reminding me that I'm getting old and need to start thinking about regular mammograms because there's also a history of breast cancer in my dad's family I have it on both sides of my family so even though I’m not 40 I’ve already started mammograms. I’m an A cup so I’ve joked with the techs that I’m sorry they don’t have much to work with  they’ve always been incredible and professional!Does anyone else get into a, for lack of better phrase, “nesting mode” before a period starts? Mine just kicked in and two days before I was all about making food and doing house prep. I guess my body knew before my brain that we were gonna be laid out for a day.
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Killingyouguy! posted:I'd get covid 50 times in a row if it'd sterilize me. Seems to be easier than finding a surgeon to remove my fallopian tubes I actually just had an amazing conversation this week with a surgeon re: sterilization. I think the soonest it can happen is next year but she really helped me solidify this decision to boot menstruation and fertility. If you’re in the MO area I could recommend her to you!
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F you period poops  . Hopefully these days are numbered. So uncomfortable and sweaty and moody whyyyyy
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If all goes according to plan this should be my penultimate period. Now I just need to survive the cramps coinciding with me throwing my lower back out and being in oodles of pain! My heat pad is doing double duty lol…
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Nov 30, 2022 19:55
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Dixville posted:I got an iud earlier this year, I had quite a bit of spotting for the first few months so be prepared. You may not have it at all but it lasted a while for me. At this point I only seem to be spotting when I would normally have my period. This time its literally just a pink tinge on the toilet paper so I'm hoping next time there will officially be nothing! But yeah I wasn't totally prepared for how much it would hurt. I guess I should have figured it being such a sensitive area but, oh well, at least I don't have to deal with it again for 7 years! My obgyn and I talked about an IUD, and how I’d have to be knocked out fully to get it bc of my vaginismus. Combine that with being an ace person and yeah…I can barely stand tampons! We’re going the route of a hysterectomy which was my call and the surgeon fully supports! I’m glad you are done with the heavy bleeding for seven years! So far the hardest part has been getting my insurance to pay for the FMLA/medical leave but that’s  for you
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I’ve had a period every month for 25 years or so and yet every time it comes around I still manage to get blood on my sheets. Like all the way through to the mattress topper. I have a set of sheets now that are just for my cycle. Any recommendations for stain remover, lay it on me!
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Alright, uterus. If all goes according to plan this is our last dance together. I hope you stay chill but you may take this opportunity to be heinous. We shall see. I dream of the day this is done and I can donate all these period products to a shelter!
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xcheopis posted:Yes, I would have some bloating and back pain (loving scoliosis!) but otherwise things were fine. What up scoliosis period back pain friend  This last round was heavy and wow I feel my hormones are still regulating from it. Could also be the seasonal sads.
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Wish me luck goonfolx, today’s the day for my hysterectomy. My adieuterus. I’ll still be getting all the fun emotional waves but no more blood, woo! I joked that I was getting spayed and my sis did not appreciate it, lol! So tired of waiting but I know that’s the process. Thanks for being a place to vent during the red tide!
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