Do you not think that periods could have been better designed

[Abigail47]

I'm 40.

I have my period.

The older I get, the more periods I've had, and as I look back, it seems like a long, long history of periods.

I remember all the issues they caused me:

Worrying about bleeding through clothes. Actually bleeding through clothes sometimes.

I remember being curled up in pain in a toilet at age 22 in my workplace. Having to get up and go into a serious work meeting with the whole department.

Pain so many times.

Not being able to go to the swimming pool when I feel like it, as I dont trust a tampon in a swimsuit, I can bleed through a tampon.

So much pain and cramps over the years.

I am 40, I was sitting in work today, having cramps, and in pain. I got up to go to the bathroom to change a tampon, and i was walking to the bathroom (a bit of a walk in front of a hundred people in a large department), again I was worried that I had bled through my dress as I walked.

I went back down and sat at my desk, and I felt angry at my male team mates who have never had to go through any of this once.

Its just so badly designed. Why do we get periods so frequently.

Why not just build up the womb lining and keep it there for a couple of months? What's the point of it.

Shedding the womb lining every single month causes so many problems for so many women.

I had this too for so many years - in my doctors defense they did do ultrasounds both internal and external and blood tests and suchlike but couldn't find any reason why I was having such heavy periods. Once I got a mooncup and was emptying it every 90 minutes for the first couple of days then every four hours for another 4 days they still couldn't find any reason but at least I knew it was a heavy period! Irregular ones too. Got a coil fitted 7 years ago and periods now incredibly light but am cursing as they should have bloody stopped by now - I'm 55!!

They’re ace. I had mooncups for 10years before getting a Nixit - struggled to get my mooncup to stay put after having my son. Nixit is completely different , sits differently - no suction but much bigger capacity and you “bear down” when you go to the loo and let it half empty, wipe up, tuck it back and you’re on your way. No need for a messy empty and change whilst you’re at work or out. Def worth the price.

YADNBU.

Everything about my periods is evil, the severe mood swings and subsequent damage to my relationships, the appalling pain, the 6lb of water retention so nothing does up around my waist for one week of the month and that's beforehand we even get to the blood, the clots, the constipation.

The whole thing is evil.