To hate periods so much

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Just started my second period in 2 years since DS2 was born a year ago. I was caught out yesterday whilst out.

I’m in pain, feel wobbly, achey, and have leaked over clothes. I feel generally fed up and emotional not to mention disgusting. Feel embarrassed to have been caught unprepared like a teenager.

AIBU to think that if men had periods they wouldn’t have the tolerance to put up with it?! I hate them so much!!

YANBU.
I feel disabled by them. Mine are not regular, I have to think about it any time I go anywhere. I have also had floods; you have never seen mess like it (unless your job is slaughtering animals). It happened once while I was doing a lecture in front of 100 people.
The indignity of it.

YANBU. I am sitting here doubled over with cramps soon to be followed by flooding. It sucks.

My Mirena coil means I don’t have periods and before that I took the pill back to back and didn’t have them. I’d recommend the mirena coil

I hate them. I'm lucky that they aren't heavy (yet) but I feel so ill. I get pounding headaches, feel sick, can hardly concentrate and get such bad back pain I've needed physiotherapy.

Yup me too.

I hate feeling the gush

I hate them too, especially now that I’m too old (and knackered) to have another child and they serve no purpose anymore. I really grudge having them now.

Yanbu. I’ve had a horrible day cos of mine.

Sixteen years of infertility (PCOS) means they are absolutely fucking pointless. I am not adding more hormones to my body because I'm high risk for everything, thanks to being fat, hairy and old and I still sort of hang on hoping for a fucking miracle pregnancy but the bastards turn up like clockwork.

They aren't anything spectacular, they're just fairly normal ones (for which I am grateful) as far as I can tell, but vary from 'yuk, I'm going to bed'/'Yawn. Ewwww. You'd probably better get up. Can you change the sheets whilst I'm at work, please?' to 8 hours of 'Could you just rip my lower spine and pelvis out from behind with a garden trowel whilst my uterus attempts to do similar from the front please, darling?' for the first 18-22 hours.

As I'm 46 now, I presume I'm on the home stretch with the things, but, quite frankly, I'm fucking sick of them.

Why can't infertility = no period?

Yanbu
I feel really shaky and just wiped out when I’ve got mine
I also end up losing brain cells. For instance I’ll forget how to get somewhere or just be completely unable to reverse park, like a brain fog

I hear you. The sensation of passing clots makes me feel nauseous. I chickened out of getting the Mirena because of the fear of the fitting, but I'm at the point now where I feel like I will put up with anything to stop the pain, the mess, and the ruined clothing each "month" (now at the age where they are less predictable).

YANBU. When I was younger and took the pill (Brevinor was the best) there were a few days of light bleeding. I did have horrendous pains and vomiting in my early teens until I started taking the pill.
After having DD I didn't have a period for 10 months which was great.
Now, a few days arriving, one day belly and back ache heavy bleeding arrives, next day very heavy bleeding pain lessens then a couple more days leaving. I know others have it worse but I hate it if I need to be out and about that one day. Oh and some months awful PMT, skin and hair go weird.
Then again, I don't want all the post menopausal stuff either!!

I hear you too, OP. Today I removed underwear and pad ready for the shower, in the space of time it took me to turn around to turn on the shower I had leaked with blood pouring down my legs onto the pure white shower mat! Arghhhh! I sometimes fucking hate being a woman.

Me too. I'm pregnant atm and my mind has 95% compartmentalised the due date for the baby, 5% for the return of my periods

YANBU - I had this yesterday. Day off, gorgeous weather and I spent the day feeling like I was going to be sick. The day before I had such a bad headache I had to pull over while driving home because it hurt so badly

Find a pill that works unless trying to conceive of course.
Don’t have anything at all. No mess, pain, headaches. Heaven.

second in 2 years? atleast youre not having them monthly like me

I hate them too. Finding it hard to deal with then again since giving birth (hadn't really thought about them coming back 😂) the bleeding, dodgy bowels, tiredness and general weepy/ragey days. The joys.... 😕

Yanbu op its awful, I've suffered terribly for years, excruciating pain, fainting, vomiting, migraines, extreme mood swings, heavy leaking were talking going through 2 long thick pads in 2 hours, constipated and looking 6 months pregnant.

I also found out I have cysts on my ovaries they get huge then burst then come back every few months

Ask your doctor about the marina coil no periods, great for me

I hated mine.
Always so, so painful, and as I approached the menopause I seemed to get another problem added each month.
Terrible headaches, the farts, aching legs, huge pimples.
I was so glad to 'only' have the menopause stuff to put up with.

YANBU they are wretched things.
They’ve also got worse after the births of all of my children, and I’m hsving bleeds fifteen days out of each month minimum. I’m hopinh I’m perimenopausal tbh as none of the tablets or meds do a thing.

I do feel incredibly down when on. That and the relentless bleeding, bloating, upper thigh ache and general grubby feeling.. And my periods aren't even bad!