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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/

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Is it normal to need to wear a pad when you're ovulating (I think that's what's going on, anyways)? I usually do, but this is the first month it's been.. really dramatic. I feel like I'm on my period but there's no blood and the discharge is very thin. I actually ended up almost soaking through a pair of sweatpants??? I feel like there's no way this is normal.

Well, for some people, yes it is! Ovulation often increases vaginal discharge and sometimes that can require wearing a pad or pantyliners, things like that. It's generally fine.

But if you're having a sudden dramatic increase in vaginal discharge, that can be a sign of some sort of imbalance or something like that. There's nothing wrong with getting it checked out if you have access to that.

It's not necessarily an immediate sign of danger or something like that but it's a perfectly reasonable thing to ask your doctor about, see if they want to run any tests.

Hope this helps, Anon! Let me know if you have any other questions. <3

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new uterine lining just dropped

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Endometriosis impacts about 10% of people who have a uterus, and that EXTREMELY COMMON metric is merely an estimate, possibly a massive underestimate. This disease is notoriously difficult to diagnose, both due to the elusive nature of how it operates and the rampant misogyny that comes associated with the societal treatment of this particular organ system.

Like why aren’t we talking about all of this? Any given group of 30 people has 3 folks in it living with endometriosis…

so yeah. Sharing this all from Instagram here to raise awareness.

I am only formally diagnosed with ovarian endo but I’ve discussed with my doctor about how my chronic bowel issues are likely endo related/impacted and even my sciatic nerve pain in my back hip area is probably connected.

This affliction is a GD curse 🥲 The same way that autism is a diagnosis that has had all these underlying tendrils that connect a web of symptoms I experience together once I saw it, endo is the same. It’s a whole body chronic illness NO DOUBT.

here’s what I needed to hear because maybe you do too…

•it’s not normal to fill a whole large deva cup with menstrual blood in 2 hours. •it’s not normal to bleed for 8+ days at a time.

•it’s not normal to have cramps so bad you are bed ridden for days.

•it’s not normal to have sudden offsets of abdominal pain so strong you “see stars” •it’s not normal to have to rock to the side on the toilet and/or move your stomach around and like fucking palpate your own guts to be able to finally, fully empty your full bladder (<—this is the one that made me really wonder WTFFFF 🫣)

ALL OF THESE WERE MY RED FLAGS that I had multiple giant endometrial growths all throughout my abdomen.

but people said “cramps are awful” and “ugh I hate my heavy flow” and not like actual comparisons I could ascertain so I ignored a lot of bad shit.

I didn’t know how much other people menstruated or how they peed or what level of body pain occurred as they aged and got fatter and their bodies changed in countless other ways across a span of years.

I only got a proper endo diagnosis bc when I broke my arm in that terrible car accident back in 2019, my MRI at the ER in the trauma dept opened an eventual Pandora’s box of my medical issues.

anyway if one person suffers less bc they read this and get proper medical care that would make my heart soar with joy, so like SHARE THIS KIND OF KNOWLEDGE AND

🩸🩸🩸🩸DESTIGMATIZE OPEN SHAME FREE PERIOD TALK BY HUMANS OF ALL GENDERS AND AGES🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸

It’s just a fucking bodily function. We deserve information about it like we do the signs of heart disease or colon cancer.

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"Rent needs to get paid and food needs to be put on the table whether we're on our periods or not, so what's a sex worker to do?"

An article about how sex workers keep working during our periods and why we often need to. Sex workers are frequently left out of conversations about period poverty and unsafe menstrual products, yet we're one of the groups most incentivized to take risks with our menstrual health so we can keep working!

P.S. This article uses gender neutral language intentionally, including trans men and non-binary people who sell sex and also have periods. As a trans hooker and the guy who wrote this, I'd appreciate people not defaulting to assuming sex workers dealing with these issues are all women!

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Baymax in the new Baymax! show buying pads for a girl who got her first period and getting help from people, including a trans man.

Some people are really mad about this, when he is literally a health care robot interested in people's physical and emotional needs.

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Things people label as abuse when it's done to a partner that parents somehow get away with

Hitting/spanking. Abusive/toxic when it's a partner but fair discipline when it's a child.

No privacy (no privacy = going through their phone, tracking their location, attending therapy appointments, etc.). Abusive/toxic when it's a partner but good parenting when it's a teenager.

Emotional neglect. Abusive/toxic when it's a partner but "not the parents' fault" when it's a child.

Overworking them. Abusive/toxic when it's a partner but earning their keep when it's a child.

Doing things to purposely make them cry. Abusive/toxic when it's a partner but hilarious when it's a kid.

Breaking their stuff/deleting video game progress. Abusive/toxic when it's a partner but fair discipline when it's a child.

Forcing affection when they don't want to. Abusive/toxic when it's a partner but teaching them good manners when it's a child.

Locking them in a room that they can't escape. Abusive/toxic when it's a partner but "they've got to learn one way or another" if it's a child.

Expecting them to suppress their emotions. Abusive/toxic if it's a partner but teaching them to be mature if it's a child.

Getting angry when they ask a question/challenge your logic/need clarification. Abusive/toxic if it's a partner but teaching them to not talk back if it's a child.

Not letting them eat anything unless it's what you put in front of them (that includes not letting them get anything for themselves). Abusive/toxic when it's a partner but teaching them to be grateful if it's a child.

If you've ever labeled any of these things as abuse when an adult opens up about their experiences but will defend parents who do the same thing, you need to reevaluate yourself.

DNI: Narcissistic/Borderline/Anti-social/Histrionic abuse believers.

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@bogwitch-extraordinaire HAVE YOU SEEN THIS SHIT?!?!

Born #onthisday in 1809, Edgar Allan Poe. Many illustrators have tackled Poe’s dark and macabre tales but perhaps none so hauntingly and brilliantly as Irish artist Harry Clarke. See his exquisite imagery for Poe’s Tales of Mystery & Imagination: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/harry-clarke-s-illustrations-for-poe-s-tales-of-mystery-and-imagination-1919 #otd