fuck the pregnancy thing. I was told that my whole friggin life that after being pregnant my cramps would be better. LIES

weed makes me nauseous and it’s the biggest bummer of life.

No, it’s condescending if I intended it to be condescending, which — as I’ve said numerous times — I didn’t. My mom never told me to use a heating pad, and (as crazy as it sounds!) I didn’t know that it was all that commonplace. The other day, my coworker was having bad cramps, so she, remembering a conversation we…

So is this something I can just pick up at the pharmacy?

And TBH, the worst ones were the female ones basically telling me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It is amazing how misogynistic some gynos can be.

It works because blackstrap molasses has HUGE amounts of magnesium: http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/sweets/5…

My midwife put it to me in an interesting way at one point. I asked her about an IUD that could potentially prevent periods and asked if there was a downside to that at all. She was like “No, it’s totally fine. I mean, if you think about it, spending years and years getting a period every month isn’t typically natural…

Ok, this is pretty hippie, but mine has been helped with unsulphured blackstrap molasses. It literally cuts my bleeding and pain in half. The theory behind it is that many women are deficient in iron and minerals and weirdly the body responds to that with extra bleeding. Another option is iron pills, but I never can…

My brother just finished the OBGYN part of med school and told me that, contrary to what my instincts may tell me, using birth control and not having a period at all is perfectly fine and is not going to fuck me up in any way. Maybe I should look into that.

Yeah I got lots of snide comments about “pain thresholds” from doctors.

The “take ibuprofen” thing annoys the shit out of me. I’ve dealt with debilitating cramps since age 13 and the only thing I’ve found that helps with the pain is advil, BUT I’ve taken so much in my life that I’ve developed peptic ulcers from it.

About damn time. From the time of my first cycle at 14 until my hysto at 43, every-single-month I had 2-3 days of agony. And heard for nearly 30 years “get over it” “take a motrin” “it’s just worse for some women” etc. Every year I begged for surgery to just take everything out because I could not deal with the pain…

You don’t have to imagine,

Don’t put your purse on the seat, especially if the windows are open. It only takes a couple seconds for someone to reach in and grab it.

Nailed it! Also, would like to give praise to women who have strong, muscular legs. With all the hype over “thigh gap” and long skinny legs (when this one can’t find a pair of boots to fit around my Popeye calves) it’s nice to see representation of large calves and thick thighs doing stuff that is amazing and…

Men’s (nice) suits are expensive compared to a lot of my (ladies’) work attire, but they probably need like 1/3 (or less) the variety that I do. If I wear my blue shift dress and white blazer two weeks in a row, I’m a freak. If a man wears his nondescript black suit with a blue collared shirt twice in the same week,…

I totally had to Google this one, though. I’m just repeating what the internets tell me, so I really can’t take any credit.

You are one of my favorites. There’s a lot of this type of information I am unaware of as well and you are always succinct and polite in your responses. (Also you are a wizard hat and I have mad respect for that. I imagine you as a Carmen SanDiego/Merlin mix.)

Michigan apparently has a form of indeterminate sentencing where the legislature sets a maximum sentence and a judge sets a minimum sentence. When the convicted person reaches the minimum sentence he’s allowed to go in front of a parole board to ask for release on parole, but must serve at least the minimum.