SatansOnion posted:

my sympathies to those of my fellow uterus-havers/ladies whose wombs are currently undergoing their monthly remodeling (like mine)

I’ve never been very happy with this monthly phenomenon, even as I recognize that its occurrence in my own body is generally benign, for the most part (that is, barring the time or two per year I end up with particularly vicious cramps) Perhaps oddly, I found that switching to the cup made my sometime bad cramps slightly less awful, and my more typical cramps close to nonexistent.

say, does anyone else get slightly tight/achy lower back muscles at this time of the month? At the moment I have a mild twinge there, but only on my left side

wizardofloneliness posted:

Getting older has made my period worse. Up until I was 27 or so I had zero PMS or other physical symptoms like cramps. I’d just bleed for a few days and that was it. But now I tend to be more emotional and stressed out over nothing the week beforehand plus I get all bloated and crampy the first day. And my butt will hurt the night before it starts. Which makes it a lot easier to keep track of actually.

Spinz posted:

Oh you do not want menopause. Only the unlucky that have terrible pain want menopause.

Your periods are keeping you YOUNG. They are preventing heart attacks and wrinkles. One suggestion for you ladies that by the way I love seeing you here!!

We are all different I know so it could just be luck but wear a bra constantly including a soft one to bed (unless sexy times or we, lucky you.) I got in the habit of wearing armor type bras when cocktail waitressing, we had these sleeveless tops that had no shoulder covering either so we had to tie our bra straps closer together with shoelaces to hide them. Keeping those babies cinched up made them look younger than my face now. I wear 2 bras when excercising too.

Man I miss my periods Suddenly you age.

Spinz posted:

This sounds incredibly bad yes.

Anne Whateley posted:

I didn't really get periods for years and years because of my implant

...which was scheduled for replacement in April

The first time I got a real period since like 2007, I lost my poo poo so bad I was straight-up microwaving chocolate bars

Anne Whateley posted:

It didn't just have to be chocolate, it had to be chocolate AND GOOEY

Pump Jockey posted:

I never get the chocolate cravings, instead I become a ravenous monster for anything salty and bloat up like a seal. It’s not uncommon for me to gain as much as 10-15 pounds of bloat and spend the entire last day of my period on the toilet pissing it all out.

One time this caused me to pee and wipe and pee and wipe so much that I ended up with labial abrasions that required prescription ointment to cure.

Why am I like this

Prism Mirror Lens posted:

Actually there is one sorta good thing about periods: doing a period poop so massive and wondrous that you feel all the pain leaving your body as if god himself is giving you a rectal massage

HopperUK posted:

My first period was on school sports day and I'd just turned 12. Thankfully I was unathletic so did not have to do a sports. And my mum was careful to prepare us because she came on at 10 and her mother was completely unhelpful so for a month or two she thought she was dying.

Empty Sandwich posted:

I have a friend who smuggles snacks into the movies by cramming her ample purse full of candy and then sprinkling tampons over the top

the person checking for smuggled food is invariably a teen boy who will freak out at the sight of tampons and not check any further

Literally A Person posted:

Male tampon fear is pretty funny stuff. Maybe I've just been married too long but why would you be afraid of what is for all intents and purposes a vaginal cotton-ball?

Literally A Person posted:

I mean, do you really have to be secure in your masculinity to purchase a 'pon? Does the penis wilt so when in proximity to WOMEN'S sterile cotton? I think it's just dudes being lazy fucks and using any excuse possible to just not help out.

Facebook Aunt posted:

Guys doing the shopping also have the problem of facing a huge wall of products they don't understand. Does the range of tampons from "slim" to "super plus" refer to vagina size? When it comes to pads, thicker is better, right? Those thin ones don't look like they can hold much at all, now the super thick overnight incontinence pads, those look dependable! Should you get the ones that come in jazzy brightly coloured boxes, or subtle medical looking things like what your old mum used to have? What's the deal with wings and walls? And if they get it wrong the lady may be insulted somehow. Or just shake her head and give you the look.

I feel for them. I get decision paralysis in the yogurt aisle.

YeahTubaMike posted:

For three months 10 years ago, I lived with a dude that I was loving, and the best thing he did was doing all my chores & leaving me the hell alone.

YeahTubaMike posted:

I don't remember this but apparently the first time I said I didn't want to have children, I was 7. Why someone was asking a 7-year old whether or not they wanted to have children, I will never know. When I was 13, my mom said (I swear there was context but I don't remember what it was) that she had already picked out her grandmother nickname, and I was creeped out.

Now I'm 33, and as the only child, I'm the end of the line. My position on having children has never wavered, and I channel what little maternal instinct I have into cats & plants. It's a good thing because my exit-only uterus is covered in fibroids and will likely have to be either removed or embolization-ed (embolized?) into infertility.

CherryCola posted:

Not even on my period, but because of this friend decided to have a period conversation with my boyfriend. He has stated he has zero problem buying tampons and has even told off dudes who said he was "gay" for doing so.

Bros, is it gay to...have a girlfriend?

YeahTubaMike posted:

Wiping a thousand times but STILL getting blood all over my hands while inserting a tampon is just the best.

edit: happy period-versary to me

Elentor posted:

Whenever men start making jokes about how women don't fart or that men are gross I'm gonna point them to this thread.

YeahTubaMike posted:

That guy doesn't sound like your friend.

Also, I don't know who Abby is.

YeahTubaMike posted:

Um...okay? Google isn't helpful.

edit: added the quote so it doesn't look like I'm just ignoring people, lol

DemonDarkhorse posted:

there were all these cutesy videos on how to make a covid face mask out of an old bra. gently caress outta here, i can wear mine as a full helmet

Miss Broccoli posted:

atleast y'all get to retire im going to be on hrt till im in the ground

Dazerbeams posted:

Who doesn't love a hole that is constantly spitting out a variety of fluids at any given time?

Gotta say, menopause doesn't sound like a cure so much as a terrifying new existence to suffer. So maybe you're the lucky one.

Spinz posted:

For me menopause is way worse than any periods I ever had. I had hot flashes for years, still get them once in a while. Hot flashes are actually a very uncomfortable sensation - it's hot you're overwhelmed with sweat and flushed and turn red phenomenon.

Plus I have my anxiety now and I never had that before my entire life. All the sudden I'm aging, I look older when I look in the mirror my skin isn't perfect, now wrinkles are starting to form. It's a nightmare I'm telling you!!!

Spinz posted:

Thank you, hmmmmm. I have a regular doc I'm not seeing besides phone appts due to trying to avoid catching Covid.

Enfys posted:

Literally A Person posted:

Me, a man: "Listen, girls. I know you like to think you're some kind of experts on vaginas but why don't you just quiet down and let me, a man, tell you what's what."

ElHuevoGrande posted:

"Is it I who is screwing up? No, it's the vagina who is wrong"