To today HATE being a woman?

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Not seen my boyfriend for 2 weeks and have a big night planned tonight and lo and behold AF makes a big fat appearance. Four days early

Sometimes being a woman just sucks! There is zero point to my thread other than to whinge!

We went away for a week's holiday this year with me starting on the journey down. Doubly pissed off because we were TTC and had lots of days out at the beach planned. On the upside I drank lots of wine and cider every night because I knew I wasn't pregnant!

Unable to control our bleeding? Yes because if we could pick mythical powers, that would be it. Never mind telepathy or invisibility, teleportation or even equality with other mortals, the ability to control one's blood flow with one's mind is the clear winner.

I get such bad my I cry then horrendous cramps that make me sick. I have to change my sanitary protection every 30-60 minutes so yes it does affects life. I can't use tampons (I can always feel them) so have to wear dark clothing that covers the fact I have 3 towels on at a time. Then I end up with thrush from the pads.

I get terrible periods. Once I even had to phone in sick as the pain was worse than childbirth.

Sex is not on my mind and tbh I would not feel like it either.

I know this won't help anyone who is completely incapacitated by horrible painful heavy periods, but there are 2 ways that you can carry on regardless in terms of sexyfuntimes when you get caught short by AF.

1. sponge tampons, they are called bebby and you can get them from boots online. I have a friend who used to work in a 'massage parlour' and the girls were able to carry on as normal using these, no one would have ever known.

2. I have a contraceptive diapragm which I sometimes use when AF visits. I tried it out in the theory that it stops anything getting in, so it must stop anything getting out too. It works.

*beppy not bebby!

I am very lucky in having trouble free periods but it really shouldn't take the brains of Einstein to realise that many women have a horrendous time if it. For a man to not get it is bad enough. For women on this thread to be shared about it is just...well... Deeply disappointing

Shared = amazed

Shared = amazed

Like singing, I came on wedding day eve, I bloat like a mofo too so it was just fabulous.
I am ALWAYS on for some part of every holiday.
Have made note of soupdragon's special drug.

Jackie I have always had very heavy, painful periods, always. That along with the swollen stomach and aching breasts does not make me feel like getting frisky mid AF in the slightest.

I used to get such terrible pains as a teenager it would make me horrendously sick and doubled over in agony. I was so embarrassed I hid it from my mum and just stole her super strength painkillers (bad idea I know but I was desperate). At a family event my mum found me doubled over being sick and I told her why. She made an appointment ASAP for me to go on the pill which I've been on ever since. Makes it virtually pain free although I do still have the odd bad month. I sympathise hugely with those women who are suffering because it's one of those things people expect you to 'get on with' every month but can actually be hugely debilitating. I only had one 'natural' period before getting pregnant with DD and it wasn't terrible but wasn't OK. I knew giving birth would be hard given women describe it as really painful period cramps. I was horrendously sick during labour and the TENS machine and pethidine barely touched the sides hence I went with an epidural. They've actually been better since given birth which I wasn't expecting and am very thankful for as I struggled with the pill while breastfeeding as the combination seemed to change my hormones in a way I didn't like.

I have a friend whose first wedding anniversary trip was ruined by her planning toilet stops every 30 minutes for a total tampon plus sanitary pad change. Women tend not to share such personal information except anonymously on MN so I don't know how many others suffer in RL but I imagine it's not as uncommon as some of you seem to think.

Whenever we do a sex and periods related thread it always turns into some kind of competitive sexathon. Someone once suggested I (and many others) were just prudes and we should just get some plastic bed sheets and towels?? Well that sounds romantic.

Sometimes I cannot manage the simple task of changing a tampon whilst sat on the toilet without it turning into a scene from a horror film. At what point it would be appropriate to introduce an erect cock to that scenario is beyond me.

Quiero i feel you!

When I menstruated, it wasn't the blood that got to me, it was the moods, the crying, the sensitivity, the forgetfulness, the clumsiness, the just general feeling completely awful. The blood itself was neither here nor there, my flow was generally light enough that I could get away with clunching until I went for a wee and then squirting it out at wee breaks, which I took more frequently than other times but not to any great hassle.

Clunching? Clenching, squeezing pelvic floor muscles if I could feel any blood gathering.

Clunching brilliant. Seems appropriate somehow.

And yes to clumsiness. Wtf is that all about?

Second Mirena. I've had about two periods in ten years (while TTC) and I was horrified and offended by how dreadful they were. Which showed how much better life was without them.

Sympathy to all sufferers.

Turns out she was just messing with me very light for about 4 hours and then nothing. Very enjoyabe evening has been had.

Oh and thank you all for sympathising - it is shit sometimes. I'm no prude but I do suffer terrible pains and honestly clean up job after DTD is not really my ideal evening tbh.

Quiero that has just reminded me of an incident aged 16.

I was staying over at my then boyfriends house for the first time. Me upstairs in his room, him downstairs on the sofa. The next morning when his parents were out he came up & instigated sex. I said I was on my period. He said no problem & proceeded to get 2 towels out & spread them over the bed. Most romantic!

Now you know why it used to be called The Curse!

My periods have always been reasonably ok, and improved a lot after I got my mooncup (shorter and lighter and fewer cramps) which was fantastic as I only had to remember to empty the mooncup morning and evening and could forget all about it the rest of the time. However I'm now 49 and the old hormones are taking advantage of their last chance to mess with me it seems. All of a sudden I'm having such heavy periods that the mooncup actually overflows several times a day if I don't check regularly. Am definitely not enjoying it but I do feel grateful that I haven't had to put up with this my entire adult life like some women.

My periods are extraordinarily heavy but, thankfully, not painful. Like Pixel, I have issues with the mooncup overflowing several times a day. But I always feel extremely horny, so I'm happy enough to put up with the consequences.

What does piss me off is that during my period I completely lose the ability to park my car.

I hear you. Boarding a flight in white linen trousers once when it struck. By some miracle of flukiness, I had a moon cup in my hand luggage and got to a loo straightaway or the consequences wouldn't bear thinking about.

What does piss me off is that during my period I completely lose the ability to park my car.

That explains it! Sometimes I can park beautifully first go in a tiny space, other times I just can't do it at all even if the space is big enough for a bus. I can't believe I never connected the two, even though I've realised other signs of an impending period such as being clumsy and dropping things all the time. And my teeth get more sensitive too, but only down one side .

I took Norethisterone to delay my period for my honeymoon, but it made me feel sooo sick.