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

At a wedding of one my STBXH's friends.

Seated with a table of strangers, already awkward. We had too much wine..I stood up to go the the loo and came back to an even stonier silence. STBXH whispered that I had left a pool of red on my pristine white chair.

Luckily, it wasn't fabric. XH had quickly dipped his napkin into a glass of water and wiped it off..so all fine, except for the lovely FABRIC napkin

My mum recently flooded onto some white jeans while staying with a friend. Luckily she had a top that covered it and went and changed. She then leaked through a super tampon and a sanitary towel. She thinks she's perimenapausal so that might explain it. I'll be telling her about this thread.

In addition to the ad posted further up, another ad should be made, where there are all different people with minor bleeding injuries in public (so man with nose bleed, child with bleeding knee, etc) and each person having someone go over and ask if they’re okay/need help. Then pan to a woman with blood on her skirt, and see deathly silence from onlookers and no offer of help. It might make people realise how it feels!

Based on these stories, do you think you should tell someone if you notice blood on their clothes? I was walking behind a woman one day and noticed a large fresh blood stain on her summer skirt. I really didn't know whether to mention it.
Could have stopped her feeling so mortified that hundreds more saw her or could have really embarrassed her. What do you think?

It happened to my grandma - in a theatre in Glasgow in 1949. She was on a first date and wearing a cream skirt. The young man who was with her nearly had apoplexy and thought she needed to go to hospital. I know this because she was so mortified by the experience that she periodically () retold the story to my mum, my sister and I every time periods were mentioned until she died.

This happened to me at school of all places and I was sat on a table so it was just THERE. One of the worst experiences of my life.

Currently pregnant - not looking forward to the return of periods that's for sure!

bottle I’ve only seen it twice but both times I’ve told the lady. Like buttons undone/ skirt tucked in pants/ trailing toilet paper on a shoe - I’ve always thought I’d much rather know. Once though was a lady in London who turned out to be a foreign tourist with no English at all, so explaining by pantomime was fun.

I would mention it, yes. Like skirt tucked into knickers. Even kinder, if they don't have one themselves and you do, to discreetly offer a coat or cardi etc. to shield them with while you accompany them to a loo or somewhere suitable to get themselves sorted. Human kindness is something we all need at times.

I think if think if could offer a cover up (I often wear massive cheap scarves that can become a sarong for my own problems) i'd mention it. But i have never noticed anyone. I guess we all manage to be more discreet/ less observant than we think.

I attended a Murder Mystery dinner with a friend at her friends house who I had never met before that night. So a room full of strangers aside from friend I attended with. Leaked right through onto cream material dining chair. I was absolutely mortified. Spent a good half hour sweating it out trying to think my way out of it. In the end I had to come clean and apologise to the host. She was so cool about it but I still feel sick when I think of it

Should have just passed it off as part of the act, rack.

liz Excellent idea. 'There's bin a mudda'

Yes it's happened to me twice in public and numerous times st home overnight.

For what it's worth the best way to get blood out of fabric is cold water and good old fashioned bar soap (pears works a treat). It breaks down the enzymes. Never use hot water!

This happened to me aged about 15 during a piano lesson all over teachers stool. She was lovely about it. I was mortified

My best mate flooded in French class aged 14... scarred her.

Ani DiFranco, Blood in the Boardroom....

Happened to me during a fire evacuation in the middle of the night in student halls.
I threw on some light grey tracksuit bottoms (soft fabric ones, not water proof) and stood in front of the group of people from my next door flat. I heard them giggling (it was about 1am) but only realised why when I took my trousers off in my room when we went back in.
Avoided them for the rest of that year

i had a blessed hysterectomy 5 years ago. Before that i developed the art of scarf. carried everywhere/worn at work. at critical time of month I would dump it on the seat in any meeting before sitting down. At my desk i had a cushion from home i had on my chair. And several identical pairs of black trousers stashed in the boot of the car.

Probably the reason it happens to everyone but we don’t often see it is for all the quick, clever, discreet things people are doing to try and cover it up; we think everyone has noticed but most of those around us probably haven’t and we’ve got away with it (and people are usually wrapped up in themselves or other stuff anyway!)

Makes me thankful for my hysterectomy and the mirena before that. Awful flooding. I was always so annoyed at light coloured office upholstery. Spending meeting panicking Id leave a stain everyone can see

Just a heads up everyone.

This is OP's first ever post and we've had strangely similar threads about leaky periods in offices and conference rooms previously.

There are all sorts of odd fetishes about.

Oh and I see everyone's obliging with their own personal stories.

Caution perhaps.

I had a flooding accident at work in my 20s. I had some bleeding issues then and was under investigation as randomly bled in the month (was hormonal). Anyway, my boss was amazing. I went straight to her, she ushered out her male colleague and got someone to get me new knickers, I went to wash (beige) trousers etc., tied cardigan round waist. That was prob my worst one but I’ve certainly been taken by surprise at random flooding episodes (at work now we keep a bag of sanpro in a filing cabinet for anyone who’s taken by surprise by their period).

I didn't think I had a period flood story but it's just come back to me (I must have blanked it out!) when I was 16 I was staying at my then boyfriends house as we lived an hour away from each other, he lived with his parents and we weren't allowed to sleep in the same room so I had to stay in his sisters room with her on bunk beds. One morning I woke up and felt I was soaking wet and I'd come on my period HEAVY it was all over the bed sheets, duvet, soaked through to the mattress I didn't know what to do and it was the day I was leaving so I just panicked and arranged the duvet to hide the blood without telling anyone and left. Nobody ever said anything to me but I wasn't invited to stay over again

It's not her first ever post.