During your monthly “visitor”, have you ever heard of (or experienced yourself) being extremely grossed out by the whole deal? I have always dreaded anything dealing with my period, but lately I hate it, it actually makes me feel nauseated. The sight, the smell, the entire process is so yuck to me. I am almost 30 and have never felt this strongly about my dislike of menstruation, so I was curious if any women have any insight into this? I accept that it is just a fact that I have no choice of…but ugh it has been very hard to deal with!
Try living in the south where you have heat and humidity. UGH it really makes your cycle worse.
The only part that I really hate is the “aftersauce”, you know that light-brownish goo that you get for a couple of days at the end. It seems to make you smell 10 times worse than a heavy-flow day.
But I don’t ever get nauseated! I pretty much just go with the flow (pun entirely intended) . . .
Have you talked to your doctor about this? Maybe you just have extremely icky periods for some reason that could be helped medically?
No wonder women go to the restroom together. They’re considerate enough to not talk about this stuff in front of guys!
-Munch, entirely wishing he’d heeded the “FEMALES ONLY” warning
Aftersauce…urk now I know where Worsteshire sauce comes from! :eek:
I have been grossed out (and pissed off) about the leakage and the subsequent clean-up that follows. I spend a lot of days as a teenager grumbling and snarling and hating womanhood and cursing the “Original Sin” while scrubbing my underwear and sheets. Grr.
I’m okay now, though. Although I tend to share much in common with those women who celebrate menstruation as a female spirituality thing, I still don’t think it’s anything great - just a bodily function like any other.
What is REALLY sick is when you can smell another woman!
Actually, Worchestershire Sauce comes from a completely different place . . .
. . . at least, according to my dad, who always called it “Rooster Poot”. 
I have nothing really to add to this conversation except that:
I could have gone forever without knowing the word “Aftersauce,”
and that if you wear deodorant tampons and/or pads, I can smell you a mile away. Please stop it.
auntie em, your Dad makes me giggle. Think he’ll object if I use that phrase from now on?
Now I’m going to have to start using the word “aftersauce” as well. That’s my least favorite part, the rest of it is all just part of the game.
Damn your headline! It also peaked my interest and boy do I regret it now! AFTERSAUCE? EWWWWWWWW!
Way way way TMI
When I was a young (and not sexually active) teenager I once passed this bizarre solid… thing. Not a clot, solider. Never happened before or since but I do regard my period with a certain fear lest it happen again.
And sometimes I do get sick of it but you might want to consult a doctor or even a therapist? Not that I’m implying this is some kind of disorder but maybe someone could help you feel better about it.
Ah, the joys of having had a hysterectomy…
There must be something wrong with me. I’m male, yet all this talk of “aftersauce” and the like really doesn’t gross me out at all. It’s not pleasant - heavens, no - but I just don’t get why some people, especially men, are so utterly freaked out by menstruation. I know, it probably pushes a bunch of primal yuck-buttons or something, but…
ThatDuckIsEvil, my dad made me giggle, too (as does your username). He passed away a few years ago, but I’m sure he’d have no problem with your using “Rooster Poot”. He liked to share. 
Feel free to use “aftersauce” as well. I find that it’s an apt (if gross) descriptor. 
Sylkyn, my mom often tells me that since I don’t want kids I should have a hysterectomy. Why, she wonders, would I want to deal with a period if I’m not even in the market for babies?
I always figure I’ll miss it when it goes, but from your post, maybe not . . .
It’s a pain in the ass (in more ways than one!) I’m sick of the mess–and no matter what I wear I can get a mess if I’m not ultra careful. I’m sick of not being able to go to the beach without fear of finding myself in the water with my very own chum line. I’m sick of my seven days of nasty ass, granny panties that I have to wear during the entire, unpleasant event. Next appointement, I’m talking to my doctor about working it so I only have my period once every six months.
To the OP:
You should ask your gyno about taking the pill straight through. You can safely take it for three months without having a period. My doc recommended it to me because of the pain I have each month, but you might get yours to do it for your reasons.
Also, if anything down there smells so bad it makes you sick, you need to get checked out.
Auntie Em, I always called that stuff the leftovers. But I like your description too
I hate the cramps and back pain that comes with “your monthly visitor”.
And “aftersauce”? ewwwwwwwww
Indygrrl: thanks for your advice, however, its a “normal” period smell, it just really bothers me.
I have confided in my ob/gyn about this and he did not offer me much of any type of advice at all. Everything checks out down there, no issues that would make it abnormally odorous. He did ask me if I was grossed out by blood and if it is not my kids blood, I am. But what is strange to me is that I am so much more sickened by my period than I ever was before.
I have been on the pill several times at several different hormonal levels and it seems to cause me some type of depression or emotional edginess and it was suggested that I not take it anymore.
Sylkyn: What were the drawbacks of having a hysterectomy? I wonder if you can elect to have one without medical cause? That could be a good solution for me…hmmmmm
To the men who read this post and wish they had not:
I told you so.