To ask what your period feels like?

[BasinHaircut]

I've been in the pill since I was 18. Stopped taking it to TTC DS and got pregnant before I'd even had a period, so I haven't had a 'proper' period for over 15 years.

Have stopped the pill again to TTC and am awaiting first period. I have been feeling like it's coming for almost a week but I can't actually remember what it feels like.

My uterus feels swollen and hard, my lower back is sore, my hips are sore. I had sex yesterday and I felt a bit sore inside (as in when DH's penis was poking my cervix) That means my period is coming right?

Sorry if the 'poking' bit is TMI!!

[Arkwright]

I get clumsy a few days before. I strangely find it harder to reverse park into my normal space. I get achey boobs and bloated stomach. I have a bit of an upset stomach on day 1. A bit of achey back but nothing major.

[BadDoGooder]

Oh thank fuck, you people have made me feel normal! I was starting to worry about mine!
week before period....massively sore boobs, cramps, heavy uterus like someone stuffed some bricks up there, vague sicky feelings.
Two days before, feeling really sick like bad morning sickness, can't eat properly, craving odd things I never buy, like coke and odd crisp flavours.
Period starts....get the shits, feel really really sick all the time, light headedness, generally really shitty feeling!
To top it all off, for the first time ever this month, as a pp said, I have started getting the shakes on my heaviest days! I burnt myself so many times this period, what the actual fuckity fuck is that all about??!

[WhyCantIuseTheNameIWant]

Hungry. Very hungry for a couple of days before hand. Then bloated...

Sore boobs

Grumpy and tearful.

But somehow the actual cramps feel almost reassuring.

[Akire]

I can always tell when my sister is due on because she can't walk in a room without knocking something over or hitting herself on something. I'm not sure of the science but it's same every month!

[BadDoGooder]

Oh and yy to crying over completely bizarre things, I cried at Duxford on Saturday because I was having a "nice time" (as sobbed to a very confused DP, who clearly thought I'd lost it completely!)

[ijustwannadance]

ArkwrightI was going to say the same thing about being clumsy and losing the ability to park the car. Coordination goes to shit.

Day before I can't stop eating, cry at anything while wanting to rip someones head off, migraine and achy legs.

For 2 or 3 days before, I feel like a human radiator.

[grumpysquash3]

Gosh, if we had to make an advert for the Joys of Womenhood, we wouldn't be doing well :( I'm often astonished at how bad some people's periods are.
OP, it's possible that your period might be OK. Please don't worry. But maybe make sure you've got supplies of painkillers just in case.
But if your symptoms don't go away in a few days, I would POAS.

[ijustwannadance]

Soz Arkwright should've been bold not crossed out

[grumpysquash3]

Oh and yy to crying over completely bizarre things, I cried at Duxford on Saturday because I was having a "nice time" (as sobbed to a very confused DP, who clearly thought I'd lost it completely!)

BadDoGooder Duxford as in the Imperial War Museum (near Cambridge) or are you talking about something else?

[ijustwannadance]

When I was younger I would also get a nosebleed just before.

[tibbawyrots]

I can start a fight in an empty room.
Everyone is against me.
Belly feels like its dropping out.
Sense of smell increases so I can smell a mouse fart 3 miles away.
Boobs feel like concrete.
Ovary pain goes into overdrive.

Frequent showers when flow heaviest.

I shop for essentials, chocolate, wine, cheese. More wine.
OH locks the knife drawer (joke)
I get very tearful over nothing at all.

Hormones? I'm coming back as a man next time.

[BadDoGooder]

grumpy yeah it was that Duxford! I am not a plane geek, oh no

[grumpysquash3]

BadDoGooder I live in Duxford village, just 2 mins away from there :) Come round for a cup of tea next time (you can also dispose of sanitary products in my MN approved bathroom bin with lid!)

[grumpysquash3]

Oh, meant to say that the whole site is amazing. Taking FIL for a glider flight for his 85th birthday soon.

[BadDoGooder]

Aww thanks grumpy I'll bring the biscuits!

[StarkyTheDirewolf]

Sore, lumpy, tender boobs a few days before. Then backne, always in the very middle next to my spine so I can't reach them properly myself,to add the the annoyance. Then the weeps I saw an old man in a flat cap buying pick and mix last month and had to go sit in the car for a cry then I hate Dh for about 36 hours, everything about him offends me. Then cramps.

[BadDoGooder]

Yeah I love Duxford any flight based museum
It's pretty much the only place I don't resent the asking price, we got there at 10 on Saturday and didn't leave till 5, it's well worth the money!(especially if it involves a picnic with wine!)
Plus 3yr old DS just loves it, they've opened up loads more planes to walk through.

I am extremely jealous of your FiL, I was making suitably hinting faces at DP at the flights advert, but he doesn't really get not so subtle hints!

[MrsSippy]

I have always sailed through mine until about 2 years ago when WHAM!! Now, at fucking 50 (yes, 50!!!) I have back ache, leg cramps, stomach cramps, I stink, every body else REALLY stinks, insomnia, boob ache, migraine heads, greasy hair, murderous tendencies and a foul mouth!!

Oh, and as soon as one is over, the symptoms for the next one start...

[MrsJayy]

I get the squits and feel fluey its wonderful and yes sex hurts it feels gratey

[MrsJayy]

Sorry tmi about gratey sex and i smell too from shoulder to shoulder smells like onions weird

[MrsJayy]

Oh god the weeps i have told this story on here before I was very pre menstrual
walking behind an old man and his old dog it was pouring with rain he said to his dog nearly home lass nearly home
was going to the bank i hid round the back to compose myself

[grumpysquash3]

**
Yes, somehow planes seem preferable to periods.
We have 'Neighbours of Duxford' free passes (sorry to gloat)
But I voluntarily flip burgers or man the car park at Duxford school on Air Show days (parking £12, all funds raised go to the school, can get a good view from nearby fields [shameless plug, I know])
Right, I will shut up and let the thread continue :)

[BadDoGooder]

Last random post about planes I promise op

grumpy that's a gem of insider knowledge there...,you may have just made the next airshow affordable! Will be seeing you at Duxford school in May then!! bloody jealous of your Neighbours pass though!


Sorry for the extremely random derail OP! The only know cure in my household for periods is plenty of ! Have a glass on me!

[StarkyTheDirewolf]

mrsjayy that would have been the end of me! I cried last month because Dh had put the chicken in the oven and I'd decided it wasn't hot enough. I woke up over Christmas. I'm not a particularly effusive, gushy person so it always takes me by surprise!

[StarkyTheDirewolf]

Deleted half a sentence there... *woke up over Christmas, looked at Dh who was still asleep and bawled because I looked at him and realised I just loved him so much!