To feel gross about period flood

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I never even knew that actually happened. Leaked all over a meeting room chair during a conference. Managed to leave during meeting (thank goodness for black trousers) and engineered it so I was the last one in the room so I could clean up the mess. I'm mortified. Think a colleague may have noticed too 🙄.
Please tell me I am not the only one this has happened to, I feel awful

Thanks for the solidarity. It's good to know I am not alone at least!

On the rowing machine at the gym 🙈 I wasn’t even on, just came out of the blue. Actual puddle

This has happened to me SO many times. Try diary doll pants. They are quite literally life savers!

Im thinking they may be discontinued. You can get similar on amazon though. Really lovely not sticky material. Just like cotton and never leak.

I was in a meeting with one of dd1s teachers coughed and I felt it flood (black jeans but white chair) , teacher left the room to get papers I stood up and was so mortified. Dd was amazing and before I could say anything switched chairs with me and when we stood up to leave fained suprise and embaressment at the blood, male teacher was incredibly flustered and apologised to us! I asked dd why she took the blame for me, apparently it was nothing to do with me, she just didn't like the teacher and wanted to see him squirm!

It happened to me at my nephews wedding. i was wearing a beige linen suit. My dh had to lend me his jacket to tie around my waste in the church and then immediately after ceremony drive me back to hotel to shower and change and I did not have another formal outfit and had to make do with black trousers and a tee shirt.

Happened to me in my first week at a new job - huge open plan office too. Had to ask my new boss if I could go to lunch - at 10am. I couldn't tell her why, had to rush to the shop for a new skirt but sat on a blood stained seat for the next year as I hadn't been able to clean it. If anyone ever wanted to sit at my desk I made excuses for them to use the hot desk. Awful but you're far from alone

oh godddd

been there so many times, it is like an unstoppable force, through mooncups+pads and everything

then I got a mirena - life changing

This happened to me taking dd to school, just felt a big gush and when I put my hand down it was everywhere, I also had black trousers on so hopefully nobody noticed. My periods are normally very light so it was a bit weird

Happened to me in my mid 20s. No-one ever discussed it back then. I was probably peri-menopausal at the time. Long ago now but I do so remember the embarrassment.

All over the sheets and bathroom in lovely famil6 hotel in France. It looked like we’d slaughtered a pig. Husband went out to buy incontinent pads and loads of ibuprofen. Had to tell chambermaid. Then it happened again next dat in town and I had to sit on cardboard in taxi and throw away dress.

Went to go and straight on hrt.

I think it’s happened to every woman st least once. Deffo to me and my dds. And dils.

My menopause floods were incredible and vile. Thank you mirena

Yep, happened to me once only, 2 years ago in office, period was very unusually a week late suddenly felt very wet, stood up and chair was scarlet. Went to loo and it was like a gore movie scene. But that day thankfully everything worked in my favour - dark trousers although they were soaked through, long cardi, it was nearly home time, chair could be pushed under my desk, everyone was leaving, I wasnt car sharing that week, I had dog towels in the car to protect my seat, office chair wasn't fabric so cleaned easily when I went in early next morning.

It hasn't happened since, but my period is currently 16 days late which has never happened before (definitely 100% not pg and I'm 50) and Ive no idea when it will come on so I'm dreading another flooding.

It's weird, I have lived in the world for 50 years and never seen a woman with a blood stain on her clothes or seat, considering it happens to all of us every month, why doesn't it happen more. I had a monumental leakage on a day trip to France whilst wearing a white skirt as a teen. Had to wear my jacket round my waist for the whole day. I hate periods.

and yet TRA's say that the actual bleeding is a minor part of periods and that the periods they have are just as bad...

lilac

I like your dd. She sounds like one of my pair.

I've been there OP, it's embarrassing but you just have to be bold and brazen it out!

This happened to me as a teenager at a funeral. I didnt even notice it was dm who pointed out the bloody puddle all over a cream chair. I brazened it out as luckily enough my mind was preoccupied.

The first time my aunt met her future in laws she leaked on to their sofa. Cream sofa. This was in the 70's with my very prom and proper grandparents. I cringe for her know imagining their faces.

All over the school minibus seat while I was driving! All the kids left before I parked it, so managed to sort it, thankfully.

I started a new job just over a month ago. It happened to me on my 4th day. My periods are horrendous since I had my daughter I styled it out though - stood up and realised what had happened, had no chance of cleaning it up without my two male colleagues noticing (v open plan office with just squishy armchairs, no desk). Was eating strawberries at the same time so cleverly (I think anyway!) 'dropped' a strawberry and sat on it so it smushed into the chair. No one was any the wiser and felt bad for me that I had 'strawberry' all over my trousers and had to go give them a quick spot wash, as well as the chair.

I remember being 10 in school and having 'the period talk' and the teacher showed us how a pad can easily soak up a teaspoon of blood (aka red food dyed water) which is 'the average amount of blood a woman on her period loses a day'

Ha.

Am currently on blood thinners and my periods are like a scan from Carrie, there have been too many flooding incidents to recall them all now!

You are very much not alone.

It happened to me in a very posh restaurant in PARIS with beautiful white seat cushions on their chairs. I say there al evening, oblivious and at the M.D. of the night, stood up, picked up my bag and glanced down at a huge red pool on the white cushion.