"just because you mensttuate doesn't mean you're healthy and/or fertile."

IIRC, He looked more like Dr. Sheldon Cooper. Right down to the two-shirt thing.

my boyfriend cooks me steak and brings me books from the library so i can lay around and do nothing the first day i get my period. my husband brings chocolate and potato chips. (yes, i live with two men.) my sons hand me the remote without any argument.

In my teens and early 20s I would sweat like hell just before my period and then barely sweat for the first four days of my period. I only get the dizzyness if I haven't eaten regularly.

Did anyone else ever get this severe nausea, sweat profusely, become really dizzy, and nearly pass out? Like clockwork, that would happen to me on the first day of my period, though sometimes I actually would faint or would become delirious. Cramps were bad, but not knowing whether I would suddenly start sweating…

I Google Image searched "septate hymen," thinking, "I am woman! I am about to be in The Vagina Monologues! I want to be informed! There is nothing disturbing about looking at vaginas!"

I just laughed so hard I cried. Oh my god, maybe its the fact that I'm in a foreign country where I clearly stand out so I'm constantly feeling embarrassed/stared at/a complete spectacle, but these stories made me laugh so hard.

I would like more positive stories as well. My mom took my two older sisters out for frozen yogurt when they each got their periods, so when I got mine, MY first thought was , "Score! Frozen yogurt and ALL THE TOPPINGS I WANT!"

For the record, I sent the motherly customer service lady I knew in after the girl.

Dearest "If You See Something, Please Don't Say Something,"

i'll start by saying that i'm 46, in perimenopause-hell, and still menstruating like clockwork. joy.

I got mine when I was 10, and despite being the only 4th grader who carried pads around, I am soooooo glad my mom made me watch some sex ed video when I was 8/9 and explained what was going to happen so that when I did get it (in the shower, thank goodness!) I was totally not freaked out. I finished my shower and…

I don't know what we can do to and for little girls to make them feel better about and well-equipped for their period

May I tell a good period story? I went to Safeway this summer, and I saw a youngish man come out and hand a bag with a box of tampons to a young girl. As she started to carry it back into the store (to use the restroom?) he noticed her stained shorts. So he took his shirt off and tied it around her waist, and off she…

That's because they know. I'll always be grateful for the lady in my local corner shop when I was a teenager, who let me take a pack of Always and pay for them the day after when I realised I didn't have enough cash on me. It was that look of knowing empathy that sticks with me, she knew my pain, she knew.

I have a junior high story like that only it was Mr. Schneider in shop class and I was the only girl in the class. And he wasn't an asshole, just clueless. I started unexpectedly about 10 minutes before the end of class and I kept telling him I needed to use the bathroom and he told me three times that it was almost…

In my family we have a sacred tradition of a box of tampons/pads, chocolate cake and a day out of school when you get your first period. My dad pretends we're just having cake for no good reason.

The Orlando Airport story reminds me of my own tale of period woe:

There are tears in my eyes and I'm not sure if they're from laughing or crying. Either way, I love my Mirena more right now than I ever have before.

That phone-Nazi teacher raked up some seriously bad period karma!!