I rarely have any warning that my period is on its way aside from the physical feeling that something is exiting my body and ruining my underpants.
This was my primary motivation for going on birth control- I took the pill back to back, and later switched to the Depo shot so that I would not get my period. I lost my health insurance after I graduated from college, and am looking into a new plan, but in the meantime I am going to make an appointment with Planned Parenthood to see if there is an affordable way for me to get the shot.
I am just fed up with waking up with my jammies/underwear ruined.