To think they could have developed a period sensor by now...

[CarpeJugulum]

So I'm awaiting the onslaught of my period. Usual cramps and pre-starting symptoms. As yet no period (which is also not surprising as I suspect I'm peri menopausal, which I have another thread about if anyone cares to help!).

However, I'm going out today which means packing extra "stuff" as a just in case.

AIBU in thinking that if men had had to deal with this, then we'd have had alerts by now - set with a countdown clock, discrete alarm and all sorts of high tech options?!

Disclaimer - I'm irrational!

I used to the fertility awareness method for contraception, and one of the things that I lived about it was that it did tell me to the day when my period would start, because my temperature would drop that morning. I had a really irregular cycle at that point, so it was such a relief not to have to have a handbag stuffed with "just in case" protection.

Mooncups are good with heavy periods. I had to replace mine recently, and had to do around three times as much laundry as usual during the interim period.

Loved, not lived.

I have a menstrual cup. There's no way I would want to wear it outside my period though, I can feel it all the time.

I can identify with much of this checking non stop because you never know when your period will decide to arrive, and plan outfits accordingly.
But what I'd love to know is how do blind women know when their period arrives, because I often think its come but go to the loo and its a false alarm. So particularly in the early years, how do they know/cope?

OP See, I knew I should have put light-hearted in the title!

In that case, can we please make it legal - nay, obligatory - that if a man says "it's only period pain" or similar, to a sufferer of endometriosis, that he be repeatedly kicked in the balls until her pain ends.

Also the upside of my endo is I have a precise ovulation sensor - I can even tell which side! Great for TTC I guess! (I'm not atm).

Mine is about 8 days late.

I am pissed off now because I'm all bloated and having to wear towels just incase I come on at work.

I POAS and it was negative- dh has the snip so I expected a negative.

I never thought I would say that I want my period to arrive!

To the PP who said they had an unexpected period on a plane: it's the altitude. My old Scout District used to take lots of young people up a mountain in Scotland every 4 years and every time at least one girl would have their first period at the top. Bodies are strange.