Obligatory link to the Happy Period complaint letter/rant by Wendi Aarons.
Yes! Who had that idiotic idea? That’s a nasty feeling, grabbing the string and finding it soaked.
I’ve learned something reading this thread. The last couple months along with the normal PMS crap I’ve been ravenously hungry. Like turn me loose in the all-you-can-eat buffet and I’ll close the place down hungry. And not just chocolate, I want to eat everything. For some reason I never put it together that it was my hormones doing that to me until I read that some other ladies get that way too. Must be another delightful side effect of getting older.
And THEN, to be really fucking TMI, I have to then pull up my pants, zip them up, probably button and them and close a goddamn catch, all with one hand, because the sink is still outside the stall! AAAAAAAARGH! At home I’ll just not bother to button up until I have washed, but I have never figured out the best way at work. I really don’t need my coworkers to come in and see me with my pants still open, trying to wash my hands.
The problems of women, I guess.
There are flushable baby wipes that can be very useful for cleaning up in the stall. If you can’t find them in small portable packets, then you can put some in a ziplock bag.
Uterine biopsy on Valentines Day? I now hate you with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns, you traitorous wretch!
I get Tucks, or the generic equivalent. The 40-pad case is a convenient size for my purse, and since it’s a screw-on lid, the pads don’t dry out.
My uterus was fairly compliant (one day of moderate cramps, cant complain) until about five years ago when it decided to become BFFs with my bladder. Lazy ass couldnt be arsed to carry it’s own weight and my poor bladder cant handle the extra load and is starting to complain loudly. The slightest motion - cough, laugh, sneeze, clear my throat, stand completely still - and, surprise!, the floodgates open. Fucking uterus is forcing me to consider Depends at age 49. My mother is 88 and just started needing them! What the hell.
Goddamn if this didn’t just happen to me today. Fortunately it’s just an old pair of jeans.
And fuck you period, anyway, for being at your heaviest on fucking Valentine’s Day. Oh, right, it’s a non-fucking Valentine’s Day now, isn’t it? Hardy har har.
At least you match the V-Day color scheme.
Yeah, but nowadays a lot of those doctors are women!
The last time I got my pap, the doctor mumbled “I really don’t know why you (patients) always make such a fuss about this…”
“Well, I imagine you’ve had it done. Would you voluntarily have it done on your tongue?”
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What? No!”
“Exactly. You wouldn’t, because you’re not a masochist and it’s not medically necessary. Well, only because it’s medically necessary to have it done in my vagina doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt! It means I’ll have it done, but not that I’ll enjoy having it done.”
“:smack: Right… damn, sorry.”
Maybe she can reeee-lax when someone is about to sample her vagina. Me, I can’t.
And you’re his client and he will tell you to find another doctor. Welcome to our collective indignation. Doctors will not perform any kind of sterilization procedure on women under 35,40.
I mercifully went into early menopause, but then I’ll be damned if I didn’t start having postmenopausal bleeding. Oh, holy hell, just drop an anvil on me, please. Once I accept the gray hair, shouldn’t I be done with cramps?
One other to consider about hysterectomy is that the conventional recovery time is six weeks. Some laser surgeries have a much smaller recovery time, but in general, no working for a month.
When I went to get my Mirena, I fully expected to have a fight with the gyno. That didn’t happen; she was actually very happy to let me have what I wanted after a brief run-through of all the available BC options. I think that was because a) I went to Planned Parenthood and b) I have ITP(in remission) which makes me bleed a lot anyway and makes it very dangerous for me to catch the baby virus. Sometimes those pre-existing conditions will work in your favor. I wouldn’t recommend mine, though. Too many IVs.
I knew I found the right gyno when he said “let’s see what we can do to make you stop bleeding.”
" I mercifully went into early menopause, but then I’ll be damned if I didn’t start having postmenopausal bleeding. Oh, holy hell,…"
This is exactly where I am at right now. Would you mind sharing what the outcome was? What did they do about it, if anything? Everyone seems quite grim while testing, and I keep getting sent to yet another Dr, not a bad thing I’m assuming. They all seem confused by these symptoms, which is even more baffling to me, as you can imagine. I’m wondering now where it will all end up? Hysterectomy? I could live with that, but how that helps a badly scarred cervix, I’m not sure.
Don’t get me wrong I’m very compliant, more tests more Dr’s- no worries. I’m wondering where this is all heading though. When I inquire I get a lot of, “We’ll, let’s wait and see, not get ahead of ourselves!”, and I understand but am growing more curious what the possible outcomes are here.
Again, only if you don’t mind sharing. Or PM if that’s better, maybe? Thank you anyway, knowing it’s not just me, is reassuring. My friends are all, “Wow! I’ve never heard of such a thing!”
I have a friend who was refused a vasectomy he wanted to get because his wife would likely die if she got pregnant, because he might want to have children with someone else at some point. They have to use multiple other forms of birth control or get her tubes tied, which is a more dangerous and expensive operation.
Time to get a new Dr.
They couldn’t find one who would do it.
To the OP,
Lovely rant! I had my uterus and ovaries removed twenty years ago (huge fibroid and endometriosis) and have been happy to be free of the monthly suicidal ideation and ridiculously heavy flows ever since. The hot flashes I got in exchange suck, but not nearly as much. If you get to keep an ovary maybe you can avoid those for a while. I hope you don’t have any trouble getting your doctor to go along with your plan.
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