Period symptoms no one talks about

Today I feel like there's a pin stuck in my left labia.
It's just wonderful

IHateYourCarpet I think that may be when there is a lot of fibrin in the clot - the stuff that causes blood to coagulate.

Well mine are that heavy, last 2 weeks.

last year I had to have a iron transfusion. My iron levels were so low, I lost my sense of taste and developed psoriasis all over my body.

And the best thing is I can't take anything to stop or ease them.

Currently waiting to have the ablation, I just can't understand in this day and age there's not much help when it comes to helping us ease our symptoms.

Extra hungry. I’ll devour everything in sight. I get baby brain - full blown like I’ve recently given birth (people always think I’m pregnant during this time.)

Clumsiness fo sho, I'm due on on Monday, just made a sandwich. Put the mayo back in the fridge....just the lid...not the jar of mayo...

PMT is horrendous, javelin fanny being currently experienced. Spots, dry skin, hunger and craving chocolate or salty/ fatty comfort foods. Constipation before the period poo. Very achy and sore legs, thighs and back combined with huge amount of water retention and swelling. 5-7 days of bleeding. Oh and don't forget the horrendously sore, swollen and achy boobs before and for the 1st few day. Also get various symptoms around ovulations. All used to be much less when took hormonal contraceptives but can't have them now as they don't work with my other medication. Being a woman sucks sometimes!!!

I get clumsiness and a stammer too. And, also speech-related, I become overly loquacious (or, less kindly, get verbal diarrhoea) while pre-menstrual.

Last one, I had a stabbing pain in my left lower abdomen. Was quite sure it was a UTI (had one before that was pretty similar) but it lasted one day and then vanished.

I get black moods and vicious feelings towards people I normally like, too

Actually I take that back. They look like brains. Tiny, weird little brains.

I thought of another!

Sometimes, my clots look like, pale. And weird. Like chewed old bits of juicy fruit gum.

Fuck knows what that's about.

Piles,
Thrush like itch,
Migraine,
Sweating,
Back pain,
Sensitive teeth

My periods were always terrible, since I started at 12yo. At 22 I was finally referred to a gynaecologist. At my first laparoscopic surgery, he had a quick look then came out and referred me on. The damage was so extensive he did not feel it was within his skills to operate. My second consultant cleared the scarring but it then transpired I probably had adenomyosis. I'd been married a month and was being told to have kids asap (fertility usually best straight after surgery) or consider hysterectomy.

I had two kids in under 2 years, and have just seen a new gynaecologist to figure out next steps.

I'm in my early 30s, so my ovaries are an issue. I've about 20 years before menopause and both ovaries and HRT will stimulate the endometrial tissue.

We've decided on mirena and cerazette, with the aim of stopping both ovulation and periods all together. If it works, we can postpone surgery.

Sucks though. How different my life would have been if I didn't have it.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/3271303-Could-we-please-have-a-gynae-womens-health-section?msgid=78473873#78473873

Mnhq have said they'll consider it if there's enough interest.

Tammy I get that tailbone pain too it started porbably just before my javelin arse appeared! I even went to the doctors about it twice and they just told me it can sometimes become inflamed and just to take ibuprofen. If I sit, especially on hard seats and move or stand up it kills, it feels like a footballer has booted me up the arse. It's always worse when I'm on my period too. I've totally changed the way I sit at home to avoid the pain. I sit to the side with my legs curled up on the seat. Obviously when I'm out I can't avoid the pain.

borntobequiet that's awful poor girl.My poor BF has the same and it's caused her so much pain and so many problems and she's sadly not been able to have children because of it.It's lovely that she contacted you after all of that time to tell you,she obviously thought alot of you.

Serious cravings for sweets and chocolate yet even as a child I never had a sweet tooth.A bad stomach,just what you need when your already bleeding.

Horrible dragging feeling down my thighs I'd never had it before I lost a baby and ever since then I get it with every period,I dread it because of all of the emotions it brings back.

I also get the really bad blood clots and God help me if I come on late I then end up bleeding so much that it frightens the life out of my poor DH and he threatens to ring an ambulance(I'm seriously ill anyways and I hate going into hospital)if I won't rest.

The pain inside I though I was one of the few that got that,I can be fine and then my pain level hits a 9 out of nowhere.

It's bloody horrible,I wish more was understood about periods and just how badly they can affect some poor women.

The most painful symptom I get,it sets of an old injury(I was knocked over in a hit and run when I was 9 years old and it severed a nerve that runs over my skull and down my spine)it causes unberable pain and it can make me throw up and then I black out.

A feeling of utter hopelesness and abject despair about 5 days before my period, that lasts for just one day.

4 days of the most vile temper.

Lower back pain the day before, and sometimes a migraine.

Whole mid-section feels like it's being clamped and twisted on day one, with javelin arse and constipation. On the plus side, as soon as the blood starts, any migraine I had goes.

Diarrhoea on day 3ish.

Does anyone else have a completely different period every month

Yy I do now, obviously life carries on so I hope that first off my period doesn't arrive when life things are happening. Bbqs, parties, interviews blah blah, then if by some chance I know that I will be getting a period I pray its an easy one, a one day thing with no pain and just normal bleeding. Some times this is what I get, Some times I run the gamut, sometimes I get some off the symptoms, other times iam floored by a migraine. Sigh.
Obviously the worst times are when I am expected to be at my best well it Seems that way to me at the time.

When I was in my 30s I did a sport alongside a team member in her teens who began to miss lots of training sessions. She referenced period problems and when she described them I said "sounds like endometriosis, go back to the GP", which she did. She eventually stopped the sport, but contacted me some 10 years later - to say she had just been given a diagnosis of endometriosis. She had been fobbed off for all that time.

@TitsalinaBumSquash have you had your iron and ferritin levels checked lately? That's how I was when I had very low levels.

Does anyone get achey feet? Two days running now my feet have felt like I'm 402 years old! For no reason.

Pumpingiron I have that too. It’s just all so normal for me that I have come to accept all of this. Sad isn’t it? Feeling like you don’t care that much. I am a bloody grumpy one these days and yes it is hormones. What to do about it though?

I forgot to add in my previous post, I often will get really really dark moods, where I don't feel suicidal asuch, but more that if I died today, nobody would care, I find myself incapable of saying a word to anyone (my poor family). This can be anything from half a day to 5 days. Utterly hideous, and when it is happening I feel like I will feel that way forever, and my rational mind is not able to shout out "Don't panic! This will pass when your period starts, hang on in there!"

I get horrendous PMT and rain fog, making stupid clumsy mistakes then causes me to fucking rage before plummeting into a horrible pit of self loathing.
This was made much bette this taking the women's combined supplement from Tesco.

What hasn't got better in that I have severe shortness of breath the week before my period is due, it's unmanageable if I'm going up, wether that be stairs or a hill or elevator/lift etc. It's really starting I be scary.