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

AjasLipstick

... and?

If OP is some weirdo who gets off on period stories then crack on, what’s been shared here will no doubt help other women who’ve never spoken about their incidents of flooding due to shame, and if helps those reading who’ve never experienced it to understand and empathise.

Thank god for being post menopause is all I can say.
So many embarrassing floods- in a restaurant, supermarket, on holiday- nothing would stop it.
I used to sit on a bin bag in the car just in case.

Walking Oh don't worry....I'm all for frank discussion. But I am cautious. I've seen too many threads where people reveal all sorts of personal information only for the poster to have been previously banned. Or just weird.

But crack on! Just a friendly warning.

Oh so what if some random weirdo gets off on women talking about their struggles with periods?! What the heck does it matter?

If there wasn't such a hush hush cat's bum faced attitude to it all there wouldn't be half the adult population walking around in mortal fear of revealing a bit of blood on their clothes.

We all came out of a womb. The womb bleeds.

There'll be some weirdo getting off on almost all the stuff that gets posted about. That's what a fetish is. That fact shouldn't should shut us up.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paraphilias

Tbh i think de-stigmatising this is worth feeding a few fetishes. I spent years feeling anxious and humiliated by my problem. Only once i got to a hysterectomy dupport group i realised theres huge number of women who have experienced this and many have it as zn ongoing problem. Im actuslly not squeamish about blood of any sort but i was convinced others woyld think i was incredibly gross.

I haven't really had any very public floods but when I was in my teens my mum was (she ended up needing a hysterectomy) at the time it was so frequent and I was a very self conscious teen that I started refusing to go places with her because of the embarrassment. I feel so bad about it now . She said she didn't mind and understood where I was coming from poor woman

There have been numerous threads about period flooding with graphic details. Many. So I don't think people aren't talking about it. They seem to talk about it a lot!

Perhaps this is something we talk about online, but not in person?

I hate my periods. The sooner the menopause comes, the better.

It’s happened to me before too, and yes I was mortified.

I try and just brazen it out like a man would if he farted now . Thankfully I seem to be past the age when I would regularly flood.

It happened to me at a huge work conference. I managed to be last up from the table, shoved the chair underneath then found a member of staff to draw attention to the chair I'd "just noticed" 🙈

I've always dreaded this happening. You poor thing

My first period after 2nd ds was one for the books. Wow I mean my entire legs and pjs were just crimson I'd fallen asleep on the couch and woke up in what I described as my murder. I swear if someone looked through the window the police would of turned up.

It used to happen to me a lot in high school. I remember my dad having to collect me once with towels on his front seat because I was totally soaked through. My periods are still very heavy but luckily it hasn't happened to me in a long time.

This happened to my mum when she was sitting on a friend's cream couch (which I notice has happened to another poster too). There's a reason why they call it 'The Curse'. The joys of womanhood!! But it looks like you definitely aren't alone with this OP. Try not to feel embarrassed, it's not your fault and it happens to lots of people.

Re: fetish trolls - unfortunately there are very few ways to distinguish between a sincere poster and posters doing it for kicks. I'm curious how people have definitively identified posters as fetish trolls anyway tbh. Is there another forum somewhere it has been discussed or something?

I'm not comfortable with the complete ostracising of whole subjects because these are people's actual experiences and it's good to have a place to discuss them.

As pp pointed out fetishes exist - I'm sure a foot/shoe troll would have a ball in style and beauty if they were so inclined but it'd be daft to try and curtail conversations about clothes.

@AjasLipstick It isn't my first post. I haven't been previously banned and I'm not a weird thank you very much!

Thank you for all the support. Clearly it isn't something that we talk about enough. I feel much better about it, thank you for sharing your horror stories. I'm just sorry that so many of us have had to go through it, and apparently on a regular basis.

Oh god, I'd forgotten about this... I haven't had a period for 18 months due to pregnancy and BF but my last few before conceiving where awful. I flooded all down my legs walking home from work - I had to get straight in the shower when I got home. Thank god I was wearing black trousers.

After hearing all these accounts of how embarrassed and ashamed we are, it strikes me that we all have a role to play in ensuring that those who work with other women don’t see it as a problem or something out of the ordinary; we all have husbands, brothers and sons who will be the colleagues of now and the future so let’s normalise this and help populate the workplace with more understanding men so it doesn’t feel like anything except a normal bodily function going wrong.