What did Jeffrey Dahmer say to Lorena Bobbitt?
Are you going to eat that?
You all forgot one very handy trait of the uterus, …its apparently effective as a tracking device. That’s why when family members lose socks, keys, etc they always ask the woman where their stuff is…she then finds herself being pulled in said direction of items by her uterus tracker. Handy stuff that, but not enough to make up for all the bullshit some cause and some uterus es even join clubs to compete with each other and see who can be the most formidable uterus
I think I must be Anaamika’s sister from another country! Same well-behaved uterus. Same no-problems getting Essure done.
I used to think (when I was very young) that all the women who went on and on about their periods were just whingers who needed to suck it up. Now I know better, and feel bad for silently judging. I lucked out big time in that department, and I wish you all had such trouble-free reproductive bits as I do 
Other than saying ‘hi’ to my virtual sister, I also came in here to offer chocolate, naprogesic and hugs. I feel for you
Eh, I can still find things even without a uterus. I don’t even have ovaries any more, so that’s not the tracking device, either.
Yes it was a cruel day when I figured out the having, in my youth, suffered longish yet otherwise uneventful periods, did not mean that it could and would change over time. Most women I know experienced more agonies and cramps, way heavier flow, and longer often irregular periods the closer to peri menopause they got. Suddenly a lifetime of good relations with one’s uterus, (and being a tad judgmental regarding those who take to their beds and whinge about the horrors every month), can all change so suddenly just with the passage of time!
If your’re thinking it can’t happen to you, or you’re not on that path - don’t be so sure! Your uterus is not above completely betraying you, even after you’ve been nothing but sweet to it for decades!
Disloyal Bastards!
Yeah, when I was a teenager I was a judgmental bitch about that, too. I figured girls who complained about cramps were just the fragile-little-flower type who probably squealed if they saw a spider. But when I was about fifteen I was on a school trip, and one girl couldn’t go on some excursion because she had such bad cramps she couldn’t get out of bed - and I stuck my head into her room to say I hoped she felt better soon. She was clearly in fucking agony. She was Middle Eastern and fairly dark-skinned, but that day she was whitish-green and her eyes could hardly focus. She barely managed to say something or other back to me. Her whole body had that twisted-tension look that comes from being in the kind of pain that means you can’t even think. And her best friend told me that she got that way for a full day or two every month. I have never dismissed anyone’s period cramps since.
Here’s what mystifies me: if a fifteen-year-old is bright enough to work out, from a thirty-second look at one sufferer, that truly hideous period pain does in fact exist…how come all these doctors, who have presumably seen dozens of sufferers over years, just can’t wrap their heads around the concept?
Hugs, sister!
My real mom, while a jerk and kind of useless in many ways, did do this one thing for me. She also NEVER had any problems with her period, could run it by clockwork, etc. So if nothing else, I am very grateful to her for those things!
The stock answer: don’t worry your pretty little head about that. Because if you do, you’ll imagine all kinds of aches and pains that just aren’t there!
I do believe you have won the internet with this, ma’am.
I had my uterus yanked for much the same reasons as the OP 10 years ago and haven’t regretted it. I was in my early 30s and since I’d tried more conservative measures first, I didn’t have any problem getting my GYN to agree to the procedure. I think he really saw that my periods were just NOT going to get better any other way.
I kept my ovaries and haven’t had any problems so far in 10 years. I don’t think I’ve hit menopause yet so the ovaries are probably still producing hormones.
My uterus finally decided to settle down to some kind of schedule these past two years and my periods were off the charts all over the fucking place. Intelligent design, my colorless ass.
I’m semi grateful that I can much more reasonably predict when my periods will happen, but I don’t understand why some months have to be so much harder than others. This month was fucked, so I don’t yet know if this means I can expect April to be godawful or if March will suck more.
Doctors were told that most women were literally hysterical, and exaggerated their pain, and that if they just accepted their role in life, that the pain wouldn’t be nearly as bad, or at least they’d worry about other things. There’s a heaping pile of religious thinking in this, too…women are SUPPOSED to suffer, on account of Eve.
I’m joining the rant after a day of bathroom trips every half-hour (because that’s how long it takes to soak through two tampons and two pads, for Og’s sake!) After a little shopping trip with my mother-in-law, I had a horrifying moment of looking at the seat of her brand new car, and praying that nothing untoward would happen to her white and beige upholstery during our 10 minute ride home. I’m looking at a stack of the baby’s outgrown diapers right now, wondering whether they could be fashioned into a better fluid-catcher than the ultra-stupid-overnight-longs I’m using right now!
Oh, and a little message to the manufacturers of feminine hygiene products: Nothing makes me happier than when the flippity-flapping WINGS on your pads neatly channel blood away from my old stained period panties, right onto the crotch of my outerwear! :smack: Have a happy period my ass. Exclamation point.
RIGHT? I have what I think is an impregnable (heh) fortress of Always and it always (heh) ends up in that one little uncovered area.
I’d like a word with the motherfucker who thought that it would be a great idea to make tampon strings out of a material with outstanding wicking properties. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve removed a tampon to find that it was virtually unstained, while its string was completely saturated.
I have that problem too! Some months I’m virtually symptom-free, with cramps so mild that they’re knocked out with Tylenol. Other months, I have a couple of days of horrible cramps that are preceded by gagging/nausea, an upset stomach, and a general ‘swimmy’ feeling in my head. Often, right when my period is about to stop for the month, these symptoms repeat (though the cramps are absent).
I’m not a doctor, but have you considered oral birth control or an injectable like depo provera? It won’t help with your uterus but at least it’ll staunch the flow of blood.
I don’t know what’s more amusing to me…
The fact that the above post was made by someone with the name “Honesty” or the fact that said poster couldn’t possibly have read the thread before posting…that.
Happy period? The dumb fuck who wrote that idiotic tripe had better never come near ME. That makes me want to kick some ass. I’ve NEVER had a “happy period.”
I have had the following:
An eat everything in sight period
An oh fuck my body wants me dead period
A massive headache period
An I don’t like anything in this house, but i don’t want to leave the house period.
An oh shit my whole body hurts period
A let’s give her 6 huge zits period