Period symptoms no one talks about

Clumsiness for me (On top of pain, aches and brain fog).I literally walk into doors and prang cars. My spatial awareness goes completely out of the window.

I can't believe I have had so many of these symptoms and not registered why. I'm supposed to be bright .

Javelin Arse
Period Poo - stinky, sloppy, disgusting
Alternating shouty and weepy.
Migraine starting on the 2nd day which can only be held at bay with coc cola and paracetemol/codeine tablets.
A week before - bloating - I look so FAT I look like I'm 9 months pregnant.

Not RTFT but I get lost! I can't navigate to places I know reasonably well in the car. I drive around randomly until I reach my destination. Makes my sat nav lady cross.

Farts.
Horrific, constant stream of massive farts.
I basically just rumble around like I’ve got a Kazoo up my arse for 5 days.
DP thinks it’s fucking hilarious

These might help explain the relationship between endo and why pelvic floor dysfunction can be felt as tailbone pain, as the tailbone is a massive attachment point for pelvic floor muscles (levator ani)

Pelvis floor dysfunction is a really common reaction to endo adhesions - can highly recommend pelvic floor physiotherapy and exercises to help treat pelvic floor dysfunction / hypertonic pelvic floor

www.pelvicpainrehab.com/female-pelvic-pain/674/how-pelvic-floor-pt-helps-endometriosis-4/

endocomprehensive.blogspot.com/2014/01/pelvic-floor-spasm.html?m=1

@TammySwansonTwo can highly recommend the books 'Healing pelvic pain' and 'a headache in the pelvis' - tailbone pain is really not uncommon in women with endometriosis, as internal adhesions can affect the pelvic floor muscles which attach to the coccyx

I have a lot of ligament and nerve damage due to having had spinal surgery to remove my tailbone (so chronic pain and massive doses of opioids also). Although no endo for me, I have been a teaching case for my specialists women's physio on pelvic neurodynamics on a course training other women's physios in pelvic pain, and lots and lots of the discussion was about the role of endo and pelvic floor dysfunction, that can be felt as tailbone pain.

So actually totally normal (though no less shit!) for that to be related to endo

Belatedly catching up and wondering if any other old timers remember the infamous Pouch of Douglas thread .

Boobs getting bigger and painful, like when they fill up with milk when breastfeeding (i miss breastfeeding)

Getting very snappy with people

Sugar craving is a new one I've noticed. I've been without sugar for ages and doing fine but ive been craving it this week

Honeysuckle geez that's no good! It reset my system completely but I had probs with side effects which make me not keen to do it again.

Yes Dionysa - the mooncup evangelists piss me off on that score. I can't use tampons on heavy days they just fall out, I tried cap for contraception but apparently I have an oddly shaped cervix that means it won't stay put so I really wouldn't trust a mooncup. I had a colonoscopy a few years ago and got incontinence pants in for the cleanse. I'm seriously considering getting more for sleeping in when I'm on to save my sheets!

I got javelin arse loads in my late teens but weirdly never since! It used to terrify me.

My PMT symptoms now are feeling wobbly and tearful for a day, bloating like a beach ball, then insomnia.

My only really freaky period-related thing was when I came off the pill age 22, after being on it for 5 years. I was drying myself after a shower and as I dried under one of my boobs, milk shot out of it. I was

Javelin arse... for years I've thought that was just me! 😂

Oh God this makes me feel normal this post. yes Javelin Arse, Period Poo. I get back ache and feel sick and then about half way through I could go mad at everyone, followed by extremely tired and depressed over everything. I know it's all period related and had the coil fitted to stop the Carrie like scenes at work each month - sometimes I ran out of clothes to wear!! Now I get all the symptoms and about half the blood!

DD (13 ) has stared hers and all she wants to do is sleep for the entire time, makes her feel week, sick and shivery.

start stopping off light blood or brownish for few days to a week before..
Shouty and impatient and a good cry brewing in days leading up. Bloated and tender breasts.
Then bam full on weighted uterus. Unbearably painful legs and back.
headache 2 days.. can become migraine. Nausea first day that can only be overcome with chocolate.
The period poo 1st day and feeling generally gross and lethargic some months worse than others. I have very heavy bleeding 3 days.. lessens for 2 or 3. Smelly brownish discharge few days.
And amongst all of that feeling horny and sad that I'm single!

My first javelin arse/vagina pain appeared when I was 16, on a train, and obviously thought there was something hugely wrong. I remember not being able to move. Still a regular visitor 20 years later, and the only way to ride it out is to be completely still and not move a muscle until it passes.

I've actually talked about it with a doctor. It's been put down as a psychosomatic symptom from previous sexual abuse, and I've believed that for years and years, until reading this thread, so thanks folks!

Yes to achey feet and breathlessness although I think it's low iron and Vit D though. You reminded me to start them again as I've been very slack.

Another javelin arse and period poo sufferer. Giving birth was easier than trying to have a number 2 while being on my period. I also really dislike my dh when af is due, like he really properly winds me up whatever he does. Poor man. The rest of the month I think he's great, it's just cycle days 21-24. My cycles are short too which adds to the enjoyment so much.

BTW, mine are also now completely erratic (previously 28 days to the hour). So I can't even predict when I'm going to be flooded by them. The joys.

So glad this has been moved to Classics.

Javelin Arse. Period Poo. Period Flu (every time I have a period, I spend a day wondering whether I'm coming down with hellish flu). Breasts so sore I could cry for 2 weeks every month (and I'm a 30 AA on a good day, to add insult to injury). Labia that feel as if they have been kicked by a donkey. Feeling that my entire womb is falling through my vag. What fun it is being a woman. Can't use tampons due to cervical prolapse after the Birth From Hell. When I try, the sodding things just fall out.

I hate having periods. I have tried the hippy embrace your femaleness but no they are just horrid.
The shits are similar to food poisoning/stomach bug and leave me feeling so poorly and faint.
I can actually feel my cervix pain 🤢.
Stomach cramps like labour that every month leaves me thinking am I one of those people that goes into labour without knowing they are pregnant 😂.
Then the bleeding/tsunami that floods everywhere and the grimness of every time you stand up feeling the tidal flow.
I am currently sat with a blanket and cat as going through the shits phase.
Am dreading getting a job as have been a student for 5 years

I actually developed The Period Spot on my chin while reading this thread.

I am awaiting the start of The Hunger now.

graphista I had that before. It was ok. It reduced pain but increased the bleeding.

Glad that others have also experienced the fanjo falling out/gaping feeling!!

Honeysuckle has nobody suggested prostap for you?

Eugh poo!

The aching thighs! I thought it was just me!