OMG Just leaked period onto a white chair at work

[catgirl1976]

Just been in a meeting in the partners office. Me, Director of OPs and Sales Manager

I;ve got a really heavy period

Sat on a white leather chair

Stood up to leave and there was a bit of blood on the chair.

Walked out with the Sales Manager.

Ops Director and Partner still in there

I am dying of embarassement

What do I do? Do I pretend I haven't noticed or balls it out and go back in with a cloth, apologies and clean it up

Maybe they haven't noticed and will just think it's paint or something?

I want to die I am so fucking embarraseed

OMG this is the stuff of nightmares. I am never leaving the house during my period EVER again!!

Wish we could be more confident about it!

Happened to me today. Mainly black dress, but with white pattern....fortunately I had long black cardie, but was still visible. It's horrible.

Good luck tomorrow OP.

Your DH sounds very sensible and very lovely.

There is a missing 'not' Bewitched.

I agree that a miss judged fart can result in shitting oneself, but it can happen all of a sudden.
My comparison was that both periods and shit are natural and I'd love that we could be open about periods but I can't see it happening.

This happened to Caitlin Moran on Benedict Cumberbatch's Mum's white sofa.

It's all fine.

Happened to me at school too - and elderly male member of staff informed me in front of the whole class.....

I'd had a vaginal cyst removed whilst working abroad and was out with my guests, mingling in a lovely posh hotel.
I felt this great "give" inside and looked down and there was this packed up roll of bloodied bandages on the grass that the hospital had neglected to remove from me before I'd been allowed to leave the clinic. That was a horrid moment.
Cat I'm glad your DH is looking after you! !!

Op this reminds me of the Ani difranco song
" ........I go and find the only other woman on the floor
is the secretary sitting at the desk by the door
I ask her if she's got a tampon I could use
she says
oh honey, what a hassle for you
sure I do
you know I do
I say
it ain't no hassle, no, it ain't no mess
right now it's the only power
that I possess
these businessmen got the money
they got the instruments of death
But I can make life
I can make breath
sitting in the boardroom
the I'm-so-bored room
listening to the suits talk about their world
I didn't really have much to say
the whole time I was there
so I just left a big brown bloodstain
on their white chair"
Hope you spoke to the cleaner and didn't stress.

This has happened to me so many times (at least 3-4). The third time was at my mils house. Normally she is very fussy about dirt, germs hand washing etc. I don't usually get on with her as well as I'd like and was mortified but I had to tell her as it was so obvious what it was and who did it. To her credit she was lovely about it and told me not to worry. Luckily the cover was washable and it came out.

The first time I was seeing a new bloke. I woke up in his bed and I just knew my period had come early and there was blood. :( his dad popped his head around the door and gave us two mugs of black coffee (which I can't stand). My bloke none the wiser jumped across me and went for a shower. While he was in there I tidied myself up (I always have spare pants and pads with me as my period comes whenever it feels like it). I was about to strip the bed and own up but before I knew what I was doing I poured one of the coffees over the stain. It completely disguised it. When he came back I told him I'd dropped my drink and he was fine about it. He didn't suspect a thing. Two minutes later he spilled his cup of coffee all over his computer by accident. :o
Ooh op maybe you could've spilled a drink accidentally on purpose?

What happened OP? Did you manage to sneak into office?

Yep OP, how did it go? I bet the mark was gone!

It happened to me in my normal office chair at a former employer. Massive open-plan office with people on staggered hours so no opportunity to clean it up; was able to drape a cardi over the chair to hide it, until weeks later I was finally on my own one day and able to swap the chair with a spare desk. The chair was dark so it wasn't obvious, but I was soooooo cripplingly mortified. Reading these suggestions I was such an idiot; spilling tea all over the chair is so bloody obvious in retrospect.

After it happened, I did google how to get blood stains out of office furniture but was even more terrified when I found forums of cleaners complaining about what scum people were for leaving surprises like that. The thing is - not many kitchens now even have non-paper cloths. Trying to wipe a dark surface with a paper towel would just make it even worse!!

Yourma the exact same thing happened to me (well no dad with coffee!) I had an "accident" with a glass of ribena

Always feel a red velvet chair before sitting down.

Once found friend's girlfriend 'trapped' in loo towards end of group Indian meal, asked I get him to fetch her (white) cardi to cover up & take her home as 'when it comes it just comes'. They left and when the group went I hung back to explain to staff but there was no-one free so in the end I just pressed a serviette down on her seat which indeed picked up some blood in the hope whoever picked that up later would realise what'd happened and clean the seat pad.

I didn't have much sympathy thinking by age of 45ish she should be managing somehow - she'd not even heard of Mooncups. Now might be slightly more sympathetic as had large gush of blood & sliver of retained placenta in my knickers/jeans in a restaurant 7 weeks after an incomplete mc earlier this year despite wearing Mooncup and a thick pad (though I was wearing them - just in case)! Luckily cheap wooden chair & black jeans and blood really just went all down jeans/legs as I got up straightaway, though spent ages in the ladies cleaning me/the cubicle up. Was mortified to be in the loo so long (luckily sat by it though still had to back round DH and into it in case pool of blood on my rear was noticeable). Got him to walk out close behind me too in case anyone could see the stained jeans beneath my shirt, thankfully it was dark. rock your experience sounds horrible though!

In a meeting that's nasty too. But hopefully by the time anyone noticed any mark had dried and could have just been coffee? Ever since my leak experience have kept spare pads, underwear & dark trousers in the office (thankfully not for period for me but in case of another mc, now pg again). Hope no-one noticed. x

Problems with Mooncups could include rubbish pelvic floor after too many babies and/or very heavy flows - I understand Mooncups might leak anyway if output is great, so no matter how much care you take you can get caught out, I'm afraid. And, speaking up for us more mature women, though I had 'heavy' and erratic cycle as a younger woman, that was NOTHING compared to what happened with perimenopause. This thread just goes to show how common these mishaps can be - and no amount of fancy advertising on the TV can stop it.

I didn't have much sympathy thinking by age of 45ish she should be managing somehow

That's a little bit harsh.
If anything, periods get worse as you get older ...it's not only women that have recently had babies that suffer heavy gushes.

^^ yes. Unfortunately, the joys of perimenopause can often bring that gift!

I can trump leakage your on a white chair.

Today I accidently left my vagisil on my bosses desk.

I'm quiting on Monday.

I got my first ever period whilst on a trampoline, at school, wearing yellow shorts. Mortifying.

Hope you have and , OP! And everyone else who has ever gone through similar.

I can't even string a sentence together because I'm so traumatised!

I feel for you OP.

The other month I flooded really badly on the way to the bathroom, was wearing a mooncup and a pad. Blood everywhere. DS 15 asked if I had cut myself, I told him it was my period and he asked if I was ok and if wanted me to get anything for me. I can be honest with friends and close family but I could not have walked back in that room and told people what happened in a work setting.

I can;t help it when I flood. I have pushed a mooncup out. I am 33 and in the last three years my periods have got awful. I regularly fill a mooncup in 30 minutes.

Friend of mine had an embarrasing experience along similar lines. She was on a third date with a guy at a concert. It was hard to see the band so he put her on his shoulders. She was wearing pale blue jeans. She somehow didn't mark his shirt but did have to go home with a cardigan tied around her waist.

I got caught out recently - since having DD, my periods have become more unpredictable, and there was a sudden dripping sensation early one morning. I threw myself out of bed and staunched the flow with wadded up toilet paper. Had to strip the bedcovers off and wash them, and dry them on the radiator -we were staying in a holiday let. Thankfully the marks came out. Spend the morning trying to find a chemist. Oh joy. :(

First time I ever went to stay with my boyfriend's parents, his Mam put me in the guest bedroom for the first night. They were heading away for the second night of my visit, so obviously I moved into his bed. DTD, had lovely sleep in etc, woke up in the morning to discover I had got my period all over her sheets . Washed and tumble dried them, put them back on the bed and never said anything.

Sure, I had to marry him after that.

U2, have you tried a progesterone-only pill? I've been on Cerazette for about 15 years and have not had a period for all that time. I went on it because of flooding and was on the verge of giving up work.

It has changed my life!