So one tiny little egg wasn’t fertalized. Big Deal. Does that really call for an entire week of bleeding from your genitals? Would a uterus be happier if every egg ovulated were concieved?
I wish there were a switch . . . it starts in the “off” position, and, should my SO and I ever decide to have children, I could just turn it to “on” and start ovulating then. Once I have my child(ren), right back to “off” it goes! Why on earth it’s necessary for my body to try to get pregnant once a month from age 12 to 50+ is beyond me.
Oh my God, tell me about it…and what’s with the clumps?
I’m too worn out to type argh.
Thanks for listening.
See you next month…
PS: God my back hurts
Bleagh. Clumps?!?
Bleeaagh!
Being pregnant has meant many months without chicken egg sized blood clots falling out of my genitals for day on end, and I have enjoyed that, I must say. However, I’ll take my 8 days of bleeding every month over heavy leukorrhea any month. The 8 days do seem to help it keep fresh the rest of the time somehow and are much less annoying than the copious white goo continually oozing down and out.
Wow, lee. I’m a girl and you just grossed me out.
Clumps suck, though. Especially if you don’t use tampons, so you can feel 'em slithering out of you like large, wet, gooey genital boogers.
[sub]I included the above mainly because any male who starts a thread on menstruation deserves to puke with horror.[/sub]
lee, you’re cleaning up the burger I just spewed up. I too, get clumps, but not that bad. Blech.
As for menstruation, it sucks. And it keeps happening every stinkin’ month for up to 40 years! But at least I only go for five days, not eight. But as I’m not planning on having children, it seems like a lot to go through for nothing.
Spooky, do you use a heating pad on your back when you go to bed? I find that helps back pain during that oh-so-happy time.
I once read that exercise was good for getting rid of cramps. Lies, all lies! Bed rest and those muscle-relaxing strips are the key. And Aleve. Lots of Aleve.
Oh, wow … I must be a strange man, because I want to read that sentence over and over and over again. I just want to stare at the hilariously graphic majesty of it. Now I’m going to try to imagine having a uterus, so then I can imagine large, wet, gooey genital boogers.
A cannibal would pick and eat genital boogers, right?
[sub]Sorry.[/sub]
Exercise only works if you’ve been getting lots of vigorous, regular exercise BEFORE your period strikes. Going out for a nice long run when the cramps get bad is, I’ll agree, definitely not helpful.
Gakk, Audrey, gakk! :eek:
Count me as scarred for life. What in the hell was I thinking, opening this frigging thread. I’d say I want my mommy, but all women scare me now.
Where’s my blankie? I want my BLANKIE.
that is the reason there is no switch, the human race would have died out years ago if there was.
::grumble::
Still wish I had a switch…
I know it’s not a matter of fairness, but I find it rather unfair that my SO doesn’t have to go through something like this every month, and in the meantime, I’m bleeding like a stuck pig, and for four days out of the month, it feels like someone is twisting my ovaries into a pretzel and attempting to pull them out through my nose. Add that to the fact that I’m now using Instead cups instead of tampons, and haven’t quite gotten the hang of them on my heavy days - so I’ve caused the bathroom to look like a mass murder by the Mansons just occurred.
Being a girl sucks sometimes. I do plan on getting pregnant eventually, so I know this will be worth it in the end, but man, it sucks.
Ava
You do have a switch.
(Well, it apparently works for many women) –
Take the pill. Constantly, not including the 7 day “dud” pills that were included specifically so you would have a period.
No more periods.
(Consult your gyno. IANAD. Etc.)
I tried those for one month when I was about 17. NEVER AGAIN!!! (I used to have to change my super-plus tampons every 3-4 hours for the first couple of days. Thank Og for Ortho-Evra[sup]TM[/sup]!!!)
Um, ew. And of ALL the days in the month, I had to come across this thread TODAY, when my uterus has decided (as it does roughly every 28 days) to hurt like a bear trap. I didn’t make Adam eat the damn blasted apple - I wasn’t even BORN yet! why take it out on me?
Grr.
And this thread needs the biggest “TMI” EVER.
A couple of days ago I bought a(nother) slogan T-shirt.
“Never trust anything that can bleed for five days and not die.”
Suddenly, I feel a need to wear it.
genital boogers.
heh.
Only thing I’m complaining about is the pain. I feel like I’m dying.
This pain goes away as you get older right?