I don’t mean period pain. I have that too obviously. But what I’m experiencing this month is unusual. My lower abdomen is painful to touch, I can’t use a menstrual cup because the pain gets much worse, it hurts with moving or bending. I’m having a very heavy period but that isn’t especially unusual. I just haven’t really experienced this before and it’s quite horrible! I’ve had to resort to tearing the sides of a pull up to wear as an enormous night time pad because my period pants and some very old leftover postpartum pads (which I doubled up) are entirely ineffective.