To just really hate periods?

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That's it really. They're shit. Two days of every month in pain to the point of puking. Bloating and / or diarrhoea. Irritable bitch. Distracted at work. Guilt about the environmental impact of pads (couldn't deal with mooncup, too painful). Painkillers either hopeless (paracetamol) or not usable (can't have ibuprofen due to ulcers, mefebamic acid gives me the runs).

Currently TTC so birth control not an option. I know pregnancy is no picnic but praying it comes soon so I get some respite! In the meantime I'm just going to scream FUCK PERIODS!!!!

@Plumsofwrath not really the point of this thread. Go and start your own if that's what you want to talk about. Here I am sympathetic to any and all who want to bitch about their periods.

@Lostin3dspace TOTALLY AGREE. How can this benefit any of us?! Surely it's a huge evolutionary flaw!!

My PMS gets so bad I basically end up suicidal so my period often feels like a relief but it is disgusting and just one thing on a long list of shit things women have to deal with.

Ah, well I can see it being an evolutionary thing, hopefully at some point we will all evolve to not having periods. Presumably periods are the current best evolutionary design. But there must be hope for our long distant descendants surely?
Whereas why would a god design periods in?

Oh, don't get me wrong - I'm TOTALLY with you, and actually this is the first time I've ever commented on gender issues anywhere, ever. Should it be unclear, I'm not at all sympathetic to the issue because your point goes to the absolute core of one of the things that makes a human a woman. Periods fucking suck, and if you've never suffered with them you just don't know. I've had fibroids, endo, surgery for both and cannot WAIT to start the menopause. They're a blight, truly, I'd be quite happy for the male of the species to have them and everything that goes with them, including ability to procreate.

I am 45 and cannot wait for the menopause. Really. I am so fucking fed up of it every month, it's hideous and getting worse and worse. I literally cannot leave the house for the first 2 days, and then only for an hour or so, just to make sure I don't get caught having to change in a public loo, the mess and blood is just beyond belief. So so so pissed off with them.
Really feel your pain OP.

I am totally in sympathy with you, OP.

I had absolutely agonising period pains from the age of about 9 until 30 (when I had my DD!) and I'm amazed I put up with them for so long each month. They were utterly shite, and I don't know anyone who got such horrendous pains. The time off work and feeling pants every month made me feel even worse, and I felt such a whinger when other women said they never got any period pains at all.

But of course I had the upper hand when it came to labour as I wasn't scared at all of any of the pain I might have to endure, and got to 5cm with no pain relief whatsoever... Ironically I ended up with an epidural after being induced, and had an EMCS after anyway, so my stoicism was underutilised! (This time during my labour in June I might not be so lucky...)

I did find some advantages of having shite periods over the years but the migraines and debilitating cramps were something I don't miss one bit now!

Fucking hate them and bursting into tears over nothing, pain like i’ve Never known, javelin arse.....could we lay eggs? Imagine carrying a wee egg around, you could get cute outfits for it and the men could do some egg-sitting! Clean and easy it would seem. Hugs to you all as it’s utter pish.

I started mine at 12 and am still having bleeds at 58. Its shit.

@hrt why? Why? Do we need them so long? Obviously at a certain point we aren’t going to have children so the periods should just stop ffs!

When I was in my 20s I did wonder why other women made a big fuss about it. I was on the pill. I had no idea what it's like until I came off the pill at 29. At 45 my periods have just got worse with every month. Whilst they used to arrive every 34 days they are now every 28. I bleed so heavily that at times I can't make it from the loo to the bathroom door without changing again. Clots, pain, anemia, feinting, going cold, such bad back pain that I want to jump out of a window, but the exhaustion is the worst thing for me. It leaves me so tired and feeling weak that life feels very hard. Oh and as for three, four days, haha, no make that 7 days of non stop bleeding. I now understand. I'm just glad I haven't had to live my entire adult life with this.

I hate periods and I really hate the "oh it's not that bad" crowd.
Throughout my teens I dealt with unpredictable, hideously painful and heavy periods. One of my school friends kept telling me to pull myself together and get used to them as "we all go through this". Well, I didn't see her getting sent home from school every month as she'd fainted from the pain. Or regularly having to tie her school uniform jumper round her waist as she'd badly leaked AGAIN!
Eventually got put on the pill. Yay!
Two pregnancies later, they're not painful but still very heavy. Developed bad PMT after ds2 and went straight back on the pill. Turned out I was also quite anaemic.
Alas my mental health hasn't been able to cope with the artificial hormones any more. Have had to come off and we're back to Carrie levels of gore every month. At least I can wear tampons now without feeling like I'm being stabbed. It's a shame that for the first two days they basically act like a flow regulator as I fill them up so fast.
Biology sucks. Shame I can't identify my way out of it!

PMS has started to become a big problem for me. I turn into this irritable, cranky, nitpicky monster every month and with not great mental health in the first place, it feels like it's ruining my life. My period starting usually coincides with my head clearing from the fog of PMS.

Have started evening primrose oil this month and am desperately hoping that helps.

I have menorrhagia. It’s so bad I have a repeat prescription for iron tablets and Trananxemic Acid, and a blood test every 6 months to check my iron levels (always too low). It is very debilitating as you can’t really go anywhere unless you have immediate access to a toilet practically every hour. If I don’t get up in the middle of the night to empty my mooncup and change my sanitary towel (I have to use both on my heaviest days), I literally wake up in a pool of my own blood. Thankfully I only get bad period pain on the first day. My periods last on average 6-7 days, with only the last couple of days at a “normal” persons flow.
Anyway I am pregnant now so didn’t have a period for the first time last month. It was heaven!

I totally sympathise with people that have bad periods.

My daughter has just started hers and I feel so sorry for her.
Mine have always been painful, heavy and long. I so wish hers are nothing like mine.

so agree with TheKitchenWitch,
I am also coming up to 45 and they are getting worse. Currently logging everything as last period lasted 12 days (heavy bleeding for 6). I also have to plan if i leave the house during this time as the stress that it causes not to mention the labour like constant pains!!! Gap between the last one and this was was only 18 days. My ONLY saving grace is that I work from home

Hate them. Especially today as I’ve just came on and my 6mo DS has decided to play up all day and not nap. Been taking coidene as paracetamol doesn’t seem to do anything. Now I’m bed with a box of chocolates feeling a bit delicate and fat and weepy. Yep, hate them.

YANBU. You would have to be a special kind of weird to like them.

True, but I was told off for complaining about them on an Ask Women thread on Reddit last year, because some people would love to be able to have periods. There is a bit of a "You should put up with it and be grateful" mentality out there sometimes!

I have to say, mine got better (or perhaps worse in another way?) after my miscarriages though, they now last just 3/4 days with much less blood.

only weirdos would like them, true, but if you are one of the lucky ones, you will barely notice them - light bleed, no pain, no cramping, no swollen belly, you can still wear a white bikini on the beach. For some women, it really is not that bad. Shame they make a miscarriage feel like a minor cramp for the rest of us.

You have my sympathy, OP- and everyone else.

Periods are the most inconvenient, gross, painful, stinky mess, aren’t they? Some women- elegant, perfect ones!- seem to waft through life effortlessly and you only find out they’re “on” when they ask for a tampon. People like me know way before due to the pain, the shits and the angry mood!

I can’t wait for the menopause, I really can’t. The amount of hours each month that I’ve wasted in so much pain- headaches, sickness, the shits etc. I don’t want children, but if I had a daughter I would feel so sad for her if she also suffered so much.

I would never wish this pain on anyone else, but I wish that men knew what we go through. I bet they wouldn’t put up with it, and would allow younger women to have early hysterectomies if required. I have asked before, and was told to wait and see if I wanted kids. I’m nearly 40, and do not, so will be asking again soon.

Tranexamic acid

It's just horrendous - you all have my deep and genuine sympathy, it shouldn't have to be like this!

Good God alive,periods at 58! I thought it would be all done by 45. I'm 47 now and at the moment I would give anything for a period. I must be starting the menopause, it's been 43 days since the last one. Test done, negative thank the Lord. The only positive thing about periods for me is that it means I'm not pregnant. I'm going to get sterilized there is no way I can cope with this terror for another 10 years.

I hate them. I'm 48, suffer with really heavy periods. I had one early December and then didn't get another until Feb 28th, but it hasn't really got going and varies between barely anything to heavy and is still going on now. I'm going on holiday in just over a week and wish it would just fuck off!

YADNBU. Luckily I've been on the pill since I was 16, except when we were ttc, so not too bad, but still annoying. But during the time we were ttc, having a proper period instead of a withdrawal bleed was hell. I hated it.

Its the HRT.
I've tried conti tablets and patches and still bleed. Back on tablets and bleed the first week on a new packet. It is shit.