To think I ever wanted to start my period?!

I was replying to the post that I quoted, obviously. Not some other post?

End of the day, it doesn’t stop, and anything like a sneeze or cough would easily push the blood out if it wasn’t coming out already. No one should be going in a pool without sanitary products. That’s just grim tbh. Chances are some of it IS coming out, you just won’t always notice because it will wash away from your body in the water.

Yes I know that everyone is different.

I wrote about my own experience. I didn't say that every woman in the world has the same exlerience as me. Youd have to be fairly stupid to think that.

Periods are different for everyone. Everyone has a different natural cycle to start with. Then periods are also affected by age, weight, health, diet etc

I didn't suffer as badly as some with my periods, and I pretty much sailed through menopause, but one of my dds has extremely heavy periods and a lot of pain. She has tried going on the pill to see if it helps but she gets awful headaches. Its just shit isn't it?

On a normal day I can’t step out the shower without wedging a flannel to give me time to walk 3 steps to grab my pad or I get blood on the floor
everyone is different

Are you ok with reusable pads? I can recommend some that are amazing for heavy periods

be you period patches help the cramps and also a heated plug in pad (fairly cheap on Amazon)

get some puppy pads to put under you as well, I used to use them in bed or a Kylie sheet (google for prices)

(stage 4 endo and adenomyosis)

I got my period recently and as I was on holiday, I decided to free bleed on a towel for a while. I was astounded at the actual amount of blood that comes out.

Because I remember in school being taught that we only lose 2-3 tablespoons of blood. (Probably written by a man) . I think i could have filled a mug with this period. It was a huge amount of blood

Such little study and research have been done on periods. A lot more research is needed

I don't bother commenting on these threads, but when smug posters calling themselves feminist pretend women only get their bikini area waxed etc.. because of the patriarchy, I laugh. There are many reasons why some of us like to be neat down there, and periods are a big one!

I don't remember who wrote the original post.But what she wrote is right.

I just think you misread what she wrote.

I think she meant that the flow of The blood coming out of her, (that other people can see), stops when she is in the water.

Not for all woman. But that is what happens to her.

No one thinks that their period actually stops altogether, when they are in the water

Ahhh no you’re not alone. When I’m wfh I often end up taking my work phone to the loo so I can at least respond to emails while I’m losing bits of my body!
Ive slept sitting up on the toilet in the past with my head resting against the cupboard door just to save myself from additional inevitable changes. Not a full night, just an hour or two.

But it’s pretty shitty.

And I’m due on in a couple of days right as I embark on a long haul flight 😭

I've had a pretty easy time of it with periods.
I get bad pain for 1/2 a day, and only need to use 2 tampons for my entire period - 1 on day 1, 1 on day 2 - because they are so light (and have always been).
I do remember being at school and seeing the blood in my underwear that first time and thinking I'd "arrived"!
Now I'm in my early 40s, I guess I'm at the opposite end of the spectrum and am anxious about my periods stopping for good and it being the end of a particular phase of my life.

But it's different to say that some women don't bleed (lucky them)- and that no woman can or will bleed in the bath.

Some women could use a mini tampax for an entire day too -periods are different for everybody.

It is idiotic to state that "you can't bleed in the water". Maybe some won't, but you can and many women do, that's the point I was making.

Put it another way, with or without tampon, I don't take bath for the worst 3 or 4 days of my periods and frankly I never will. Hot water helps with period pain, so I wish I could take baths.

She said her flow stops in water. Of course it doesn’t. And that was my point.

But that poster didnt write about periods stopping.

She wrote that it was stupid to think that we don't BLEED in the water.

She wrote, "we one idiotic comment away from "you can't bleed in the water, you don't need tampons in the bath"

I think it's correct to write that many women do not bleed into the water, when they are on their period. Because of water pressure.

I was having a very heavy period last week. I was on holiday. I knew about the water pressure thing. I went into the swimming pool for an hour with no protection and didnt bleed into the water at all.

When i got out, i had time to get to the bathroom and put a pad on. I didny leak everywhere, the second i got out

Not much sign of it here, and my mum was 48 when hers stopped...I'm 53 and still wasting a lot of money on being female.

Sorry for being a downer. 🍕🍫🍻

Different for different people. I had a difficult recovery but it was still such a relief to never have periods again.

Its hard being a woman. I am 41. I have very painful periods and I also have pain the week before my period and the week after my period.

I think i have about one week when im not in pain. Ive been to the doctors several times about this and i have been brushed off every time.

So incompetent. I went to one doctor complaining about womb pain. He sent mw in for a scan

When i went to the hospital for the scan, they thought i had general stomach pain and they looked at my stomach and bowels on the scan. Not my womb! I told them "the pain is in my womb". I got brushed off again

Because your flow doesn’t stop. The water pressure must be enough to stop it coming out of your vaginal opening, but it’s still flowing out of your uterus and backing up in your vagina ready to flood out when gravity allows. If you sneeze in the bath you’ll realise the “period stopping in water” thing is bollocks 🤣

I remember a post on here before where a woman had to explain to her male friend about this. Apparently he basically made out girls/women were disgusting for "letting themselves leak blood." Why couldn't they just hold it? Apparently it's not common knowledge to males that we don't leak for the fun of it🙄 seems like some women also think we're too stupid to mange our periods too🤨

Try using a tampon or putting a pad inside the period pants. I never freely flow into period pants and it also prevents leaking onto sheets and clothes. The only thing that has lightened my flow is the mini pill.

How long does it take to recover from a hysterectomy?

Cannot relate. I was never desperate to start my period or to grow up. I enjoyed my childhood and wasn’t desperate for it to end.

I still don’t look forward to my period.

Lol lol I’m glad I am not the only one then. I used to watch so many YouTube videos on periods before mine had started, I had even bought panty liners, pads and tampons and everything. The worst parts of periods for me is that sudden gushing feeling when you’re terrified that it has soaked through to your jeans.

If it’s any consolation, I had terrible periods too, the absolute bane of my life but a completely trouble free menopause, although it was a surgical one due to a full hysterectomy. (Though Google says surgical can result in worse menopause so I was very lucky to have zero symptoms especially taking into consideration how terrible my periods were).

If I could go back in time I would have had one at 18-21, once I'd saved every penny to pay for it.

I'm 53 now, and I'd be soooo in profit I could buy a car, instead of stocking up on painkillers/pads every shop.

I actually don’t. I have very heavy periods but my flow stops in water. Problem is once I come out the bath I tend to get a flood.