Let's talk about PERIOD PAINS! (You have been sufficiently warned, male people.)

Yes, Aunt Flo She only visits once a month, for about five days or so.

 

Arggh...I'm going through that now actually...Period + average every day drama = suckish times.

 

I hate to say it guys, but I've never had a cramp in my life, and I don't really get PMS either. And on top of that, I have pretty short and light periods

 

-_-


You do realise that nearly every female on EC is wishing cramps upon you right now.

 

Yes.

Your very lucky.

 

i had a gf who suffered bad period pains a long time ago now....

i feel really bad for anyone who suffers them its horrid just having to watch it to actually go through it

 

Also keep in mind that the irregularity of your periods is also another indication for hormone supplementation.

 

I'm another who really doesn't get cramps. About once every 4th period I get some kind of light stomach ache feeling or general achiness, but mostly, nada. The blood comes, it goes, full stop.


*but I feel deep sympathy for the rest of you, before you start pelting me with eggs! (*hug*)*

 

Age 9. On school camp. Represent. It sucked royally.

I'm supposed to keep off hormonal contraception, because although doctors are inconclusive on this, there's a lot of anecdotal evidence that they can accelerate tumour growth. I was really carefully monitored through puberty because of the hormone activity then, and one of the reasons I've chosen not to have children is that the hormone surges during pregnancy could be harmful - my mother has the same kinds of tumours that I do and had significant growth when she was pregnant with my sister and me. I stick with painkillers, but like I mentioned before, I seem to be outgrowing the pain - I'll keep my fingers crossed that it happens for all of you too.

 

Things that help me:

-eating yogurt, dark leafy greens(spinach and stuff), and a bit of whole grains(go easy on meat around your period it makes it worse)
The magnesium and iron in yogurt nad spinach supposedly helps.
Also try exercising regularly because it can dampen period pains if you continue to exercise.

Tried and true helper for me: rest and a heating pad if it's killing me with a bit of walking afterwards.

Feel better hun.

 

Ontop of this though... the GOOD thing about getting your period (and being a lesbian/more bi friendly to the ladies) is that you don't have to worry about being late.

 

Ouch! If ever saw blood coming out of my "little elvis", I think I'd probably faint.

 

I know a guy who had that... damaged a tendon in his dick, or so he says; there was definitely blood and hospital anyway.

Apparently he "pulled it too hard".

 

...The bodily functions of a woman scare the living shit out of me. I am SO glad I'm not straight right now.

 

well you have body functions that are just as foreign to us.

 

Meh, they're not scary. It's just some blood, yeah? It's no worse than semen.

Oh my God, if gloopy sticky white liquid containing millions of little sperm cells blurted out of my privates every time I came, now that would be horrifying. I might die from fright and disgust.

...?

 

Well, I'm not sure the liquids would bother me (apart from cleanup, yergh), because bodies are just good at being gross, but at least we don't have to worry about, uh, 'tenting'. =P At least if I find someone really, really attractive, I don't have to worry about broadcasting that to everyone in the room!

But I'm not gonna lie, I've never wished I had been born a man, but there are a few days a month where I wish I could rent a robot body instead or something. =P