Yes, bleeding out my nether regions is part of the non-penis peoples lot in life.
Yes, getting cranky a few days before might be part of that (I know those about me hate that…that is what makes it worth while).
What I can’t fucking accept graciously is the fucking zits! Two days before, never sooner, never later, the bloody zits arrive.
HELLO body!! I am 37 years old!! Today a (normaly inoffensive 28 yr old called me middle aged!). I know I am getting older. I have noticed this… when I have to roll the boobs to put them in the bra. I have become practised in saying “what stretch marks?” It must be a trick of the light. I also have noticed the laugh lines that stay when I finish laughing and those bags that look like you packed for a world trip but left them under your eyes for safe keeping.
All those I can cope with but FOR FUCKS SAKE must I have Mount Vesuvius on my chin WHILE shopping for tampons!!!
It’s like the twilightzone, teenage years and (almost) middle age years colliding…DAMN!!! BODY FUCKING STOP IT!!!
Ha!
Let me assure you that, at least in my case,my period’s only gotten worse as I approach the big 50.
Not only do I now get the honker zit, I have crow’s feet.
And on top of it, (warning TMI to follow): I bleed like Niagara Falls for two days.
No one should lose that much blood and still be upright.
I never used to get cranky either but now cross me the week before and heads will roll.
Oh, and did I mention that I begin consume enough food to feed a third world village during that time frame?
Oh the joys of middle age.
Actually, my Crank-O-Meter[sup]TM[/sup] is dialed up to about 11 today as well.
I almost bitched slapped a woman and her rugrat on the bus today because she would make him stop singing “Banana Fanna Fo Fanna, Me My Mo Manna, Fe, Fie, Fo Fanna” etc. ad nausium. I wonder how much hard time I would do…
watches all the men slowly and carefully back out of the thread
I went off Depo about 3 months ago…been bleeding for the last two MONTHS straight. Yes, you heard me right, I’ve had my period for two months solid.
GOD, I hate coming off Depo…I’m so tired of it, I made an appt. to go back on it, just to stop the bleeding…I don’t care, I’ll just stay on the stuff till I go into menopause just to never have to bleed again.
I think if I woke up tomorrow and found myself NOT bleeding from my crotch, I’d think I was dying. sigh
Be thankful you’re not in my position. Was put on the pill (then Depo) to stop really heavy bleeding and debilitating cramps. Did the bleeding stop? Yeah, for about a month, and then, bham! I’ve bled more or less constantly for the past year and a half. Eurgh. Its a wonder I’m upright.
OHHHHHHHH it’s my fav thing! Girly grizzle hour!!! YAYYYYYYYYYY
Did I mention that I have horribly irregular periods? 3 weeks…oh peroid…6 weeks, yep there it is…4 weeks, hello…4 weeks, AGAIN just to shock me, 6 weeks? fancy that?..Oh 3 weeks again?
Is it not bad enough you have to have a whole new set of knickers (panties) in case you leak?
You mean I’m not the only one who keeps an extra pair of panties (in a baggie) in my bag, just-in-case? I own more underwear than is legally allowed by law. If not on BC pills, I don’t stop bleeding. Blood is nasty and slighly acidic and, over time, slowly eats away at the edges - right at the elastic. Little holes - looks like I have moths. So I buy more underwear and the cycle starts again. (And I can’t throw the “holey” pairs away! I have to use them on “bad” days. But some months ALL days are bad.)
Once, I had bled non-stop for almost a year and finally went in to my gyno (who fussed at me). I told him I was buying the 88-count tampon box at least once a month. Then Dr. Idiot decided that he needed to take a look at things down there and see what he could see. :eek: Well I warned him and he pooh-poohed and patted my hand. OK fine. I crawl up on the table, feet in stirrups, and Dr. Idiot was soon cleaning blood off the floor. “Well, yep, bit of a problem there.” Well what did he expect? Spotting? :dubious:
I love my BC pills - Yasmin. Only time I bleed is when it’s scheduled. Which happens to be tomorrow, dammit. And I look like Frankenstein - two huge zits on either side of my neck. Crap.
Well, assuming you can survive a few years of hot flashes. I gotta say, the first couple of years, with the real sweat-fountain flashes, every ten minutes or so, was a real bitch. Sweater on, sweater off; sweater on, sweater off – I tell ya, I got most of my exercise robing and disrobing.
The next couple of years were better. The flashes weren’t as intense and they dwindled to may be two or three per hour. Sometimes I could go an entire 60 minutes without one!
Fast-forward another couple of years, and it’s no biggie. The swings are very mild, and they’re sometimes even ignorable. And NO BLEEDING – ever again. That stopped, even spotting, about a year or so into the change.
Not that that means I can stop buying panty liners. There’s this dribbling of pee that’s gradually gotten worse. And I never even had kids.
I really, really hope so, because things that never happened to me before are all happening now. Let’s just say that I can truly relate to darn near every horror story posted above.
Worst, though, are the - well, they’re not mood swings, as much as this intense anger that is pretty much continuous for several days. Not that I’m going to kill anyone, but if I had a penny for every time I decide I’m either going to quit my job or divorce my husband AND kids, I could pay for the legal fees.
Woman with third breast checking in. No, wait! It’s a HUGE ZIT in between my breasts that just looks like a third nipple.
And you know what’s doubly frustrating? That I’ve put away with cramps and bleeding by not EVER taking the NuvaRing out (the NuvaRing is my friend - well, each week a new NuvaRing, but still). And it doesn’t matter anyway!!! My body has decided that even if it ain’t gonna bleed it’ll still keep up the mood swings and boils that erupt on my face the week before the alleged event.
My mom is going through menopause right now–she just turned 50–and she says the worst thing about getting old is that things sag.
Not just outer things.
Inner things.
Yeah. Wrap your mind around it. She thought something horrible had happened–like something had gone terribly wrong–and the doc was like, “Um, no, that’s just gravity making things hang a little lower.”
She’s so annoyed by it that she’s thinking of having “cosmetic” surgery to rid herself of the problem…and just so you’ll know, my mother is NOT a vain woman. She doesn’t even wear makeup anymore; she lives in baggy jeans.
But this sagging business is bugging her so much she’s thinking of going under the knife.
I’m 25, which means I’m exactly a quarter-century behind her on all this.
:eek:
There’s just no happy ending for women, is there? Fuck.
After I give up nursing a baby and get my period back, I get several months of 3-day headaches right when my period’s due. I have a splitting headache right now, and my whole body is tense. There is no cure (usually I go for a walk, use a heating pad, or take aspirin) except for large amounts of ibuprofen, which is hard on my tummy.
Not only that, I’ve had hay fever for a couple of weeks, and now I have laryngitis as well. With no other cold symptoms (well, who can tell?). It’s a death of a thousand small ailments, I tells ya…
moans I am just a teen, and by the looks of it, I have a rough time coming ahead. But mine aren’t as bad as you guys have it. Hell, mine are the best ones here! And, I don’t have mountains forming on my face. I am zit free! Yay! Perky Breasts!
OK, maybe not. But enjoy those teenage years- they’re few and fleeting. Then about every few years or so, your body will go through some weird hormone swing and you’ll get ALL of the fun stuff listed above, plus hair in odd places and other girlie goodies. Enjoy!
