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PCOS is wild because I got the variant that turned my hyperovulation into getting my period every 14-21 days and my endometriosis made my period last for 7-10 days so I was basically just bleeding half the time I had a uterus

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WHO tf keeping pads with no wings in production?? Put it in your draws and by the time you walk out the bathroom it’s down the street buying scratch offs at the corner store. Like girl

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Ok breaking containment for this one because I need everyone who will listen to hear this.

Women who suffer bad cramps are told cramps shouldn't affect school/work/etc, but no one ever investigates further because no one can possibly know if what someone experiences is just typical pain or something much worse.

Well after 15 years of stage 4 treatment-resistant endometriosis that came with pain as bad as, if not worse than, actual labor contractions every month, all the while being told I was 'typical' and 'just had bad cramps', I've finally been healed (another post for another time). I have had what everyone describes as the elusive 'normal period pain' for several months now, and I am begging you to look me in the eyes and listen because I need everyone who can hear this to hear this.

I have been on both sides of this. I have the hard-earned knowledge of what a period 'should' feel like.

If you have to put in any effort to hide your cramps, you need to get help.

Even during of the PEAK OF CRAMPING (i.e., as bad as your cramps possibly get), you should still be able to stand, speak, walk, eat, work, and sleep with no problems. These tasks should require very-little-to-no extra effort beyond what you would normally do when you aren't on your period. When you do these things, you should feel grumpy and a little bit icky and maybe a twinge of nerves and NOTHING MORE.

If you have to sit in the corner and hope no one approaches you because you can't speak or stand without showing pain, even slightly, you need to get help. If your pain is showing on your face, you need to get help. And most importantly, IF YOUR PAIN DOES NOT RESPOND TO 1-2 TYLENOL OR IBUPROFEN, YOU NEED TO GET HELP.

Your period cramps should make you grumpy. Your period cramps should make you feel a little icky and tired. Your period cramps should make you feel your insides existing/moving a bit and a twinge of nerves that makes you groan slightly then the "pain" should stop there, NOTHING MORE.

If your cramps put you on the floor but you make believe you're the captain of a ship who has just been stabbed and has to hide it to fight on, and you force yourself to power through the day, please understand: you are not okay, that does not make you okay. Just because you can power through the pain doesn't mean you aren't sick. If you have to force yourself through any basic task beyond the effort it takes you to do when you aren't on your period, and I am holding your face and looking you in the eye as I say this because I need you to hear me: You aren't normal. You don't 'just have bad cramps'. You are sick and you need to get help.

Now most people will tell you if your cramps are beyond a 3 out of 10 on the pain scale, you should see a doctor. While this is usually true, you have to consider chronic pain CAN AND WILL BREAK YOUR PAIN SCALE. Most people will only compare pain they currently feel to pain they may experience one day but probably never will. "Sure these cramps feel bad now, but if I had a leg amputated with no anesthesia, that would hurt WAY worse, so this pain can't be that bad-" No. Your pain is what it is, objectively, full stop. My cramps were at a 10 out of 10 every. Single. Time. And nobody told me claiming they were a 6-8 because I thought to myself 'what if I lose a limb one day?' was completely wrong. 10 pain is 10 pain. And if there's something that hurts worse than that, guess what. The thing you are experiencing right now is still a 10 out of 10 on the pain scale. Just because you experience it every month doesn't mean it's magically not as bad is it is. And if your pain is worse than a 3 out of 10, you need to get help.

Now when I say get help, I mean find the root cause of your pain. You can't just throw drugs and hormones at it without knowing what it causing your pain. Endometriosis, fibroids, pcos, cancer, adenomyosis, polyps, thyroid issues, there is always a cause. And if you leave it untreated, it will grow and get worse to the point where it resists treatment and the drugs and hormones you've been throwing at it for years don't work anymore. You have to find a doctor that will investigate. If your doctor tells you you 'just have bad cramps' get a new doctor. I know you've been told that but please hear me: no one ever just has bad cramps. A healthy human body doesn't spontaneously cause itself pain so bad you can't stand up; there is ALWAYS a cause.

I was sick for more than 15 years. My entire life was put on hold and now I'm in my late 20s trying desperately to play catch up for everything I missed. I want to pick up 12yo me, spin her around, and tell her she doesn't have to die before she finally stops hurting. I don't want anyone to suffer the same fate I did simply because everyone told them they were normal. A little twinge of pain here and there is normal, suffering is not. I promise you your pain is real, it is not normal, and dear heavenly day I am begging you you need to get help now.

TL;DR: There is no such thing as 'just bad cramps.' If you feel anything more than grumpy, icky, and pain greater than a 3 out of 10, you need to find out what's wrong with you before it gets worse.

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I have no idea how I could ever have thought that my period pain wasn’t that bad

on a scale from 1 to 10 with 10 being “I just broke a fucking bone”, my pain is currently at an 8 and the fact that I am not crying (which I have done in the past because of period pain) just shows me that it can go well past 10

because when I broke my damn ankle last month I wasn’t even crying after the initial shock because the pain was like “yeah it hurts like a bitch but it’s okay and manageable as long as I don’t move it” and THE BONE WAS IN TWO PIECES according to the xray

I will never downplay my period pain ever again just to please society’s idea of periods not existing, I am so done with this - next time I have bad period pain I’ll call in sick at work because damn that shit hurts

I mean I took a fucking opioid medication because of the pain today and it only worked for AN HOUR and those meds are supposed to work for 12 hours as post-surgery pain management

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A little period comic

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anyone on their period in the summer should be allowed to do whatever they want

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"that time of the month" "monthly visitor" "feminine hygiene products" GRRAH!!! SHUT UP SHUT UP!!! PERIOD!! MENSTRUATION!!!! TAMPONS!!! PADS!! MENOPAUSE!!!!!!!!!!!

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Anyway, endometreosis sucks and I would like to register a formal complaint with whoever decided that I would still get bleed-thru days on T after DECADES of only ever having like. One "period" a year, like come on man, I got it TWICE in feb sonehow and every month since??? Whose mom did I fuck???

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I'm on the toilet, menstrual cup in my hand, emptied but not properly rinsed yet, when the doorbell rings.

A friend is picking me up to go for a drink, but he's ten minutes early. Shit.

I do the only thing I can do. Put the cup on the sink, pull up my period underwear, and make my way to the front door.

"Hi!" I say. "I'm sorry, can you wait a couple of minutes? I was just about to go to the toilet."

Not the truth, but also not not the truth.

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Shout out to the ten primate species, four bat species, elephant shrews, and the Cairo spiny mouse. Nobody else gets it

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Periods are the worst!

Does anyone else think that the older you get the worse you feel? I don't remember feeling any symptoms when I was a teenager/in my 20s, apart from some cramps maybe, but since my 30s I've definitely felt a lot more. Nowadays I get really intense headaches and feel really drained more than anything, stomach cramps sometimes, and very emotional a few days before!

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Just looked at my pad and saw the biggest blood blob I've ever had in my history of periods like HOW DID THAT NOT HURT??? I knew I felt SOMETHING slip out but not THAT

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why do I have the worst periodss 😭

anyways access to menstrual products is a human right and should be entirely free. why the fuck are people paying to retrieve sanitary supplies for something our bodies goes through every month and is out of our control? we’re the ones bleeding consistently for days to nearly weeks and not dying

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Me looking up "difference between appendicitis and period cramps" every time I get a period in my stomach instead of my lower back

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hey so it’s march now aka the beginning of endometriosis awareness month and i feel obligated to remind you that debilitatingly painful periods are not normal. if you or someone you know is ending up sick or bedridden every month, you are not crazy and deserve medical attention from someone who will take you seriously

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"that time of the month" "monthly visitor" "feminine hygiene products" GRRAH!!! SHUT UP SHUT UP!!! PERIOD!! MENSTRUATION!!!! TAMPONS!!! PADS!! MENOPAUSE!!!!!!!!!!!

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Btw, you can donate to menstrual hygiene kits for Sudanese women, which I would highly recommend if you can

https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/padsforpeace/