“You’re gonna want to use the hall bathroom this week honey.”

Thanks for being honest and sharing all of that.

It’s not bad (in my own limited personal experience). Mostly because once the contractions got to about half of the pain I experience monthly they gave me an epidural. It was choice. Good luck to you!

Hey this makes me fear labor less :)

That “dirty” feeling is the worst. I feel like Mina in Bram Stokers Dracula, “Unclean! Unclean!” Stupid hormones.

I empathize, all the hugs for you.

So sick of passing out from the absolute searing pain in my low back and abdomen during my period. Also need iron infusions for all the blood loss. (and can’t take hormonal bc). Every time i’ve tried to talk to a gyno about it all they say is “this is just how it goes.” I refuse to accept this is it.

I got a hormonal IUD two months ago and for the first time I’m not vomiting once a month from pain.

I think part of the problem is that period pain is different for every woman. I have terrible cramps that render me almost useless unless I have access to an ibuprofen or something similar, and then I can deal with it.

I remember the first attack so vividly. I was 13, about 6 months after getting my first period, on a family trip to Vegas (during that period in the early 90s when Vegas was trying to brand itself as a family vacation destination.) I sat screaming in the bathroom at 3am, clutching myself in agony, thinking I was going…

I felt good about it. Then I felt bad. Then I felt amazing. I'm such a dork.

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I am forever thankful that I’ve been spared the extraordinary period pain most of the women in my family suffer from. My Aunt once had pain that was so bad, she passed out cold on the ground in a parking lot next to her car with the car door open. At the time (late ‘80s), she was in sales in the male-dominated…

If all this leads to me getting laudanum filled chocolates in my life, I'm a happy cramper.

Any time this sort of thing comes up I remember the one embarrassing time in 6th grade I had cramps so bad that the nurse called my father to come get me, and he told her to give me advil and send me back to class because it couldn’t be that bad. I promptly went to the payphone and called my mother at her job to see…

For example, he says that in the US, several news channels are reluctant to use the words “vagina” or “menstrual bleeding,” which makes it practically impossible to discuss painful periods.

doctors are failing to actively treat the condition.