when you have your period, do you...

[mad4myboys]

get a wierd feeling around your whole pubic area? Not period pain, sort of an achy type feeling? I mean externally, abit like when spd begins?

nope

Yes. Like a heavy, dull sort of feeling.

Yes.

yes.

erm sort of...Definetly external sort of bruised type feeling? Ive noticed i sometimes get this first thing in the morning if ive mean laying on my front... it doesnt hurt to touch. Had it a few months.ds2 is 7 months but didnt have it straight after birth

Yep. Down my thighs too.

No- can't say I do.

Oh god yes.... down my spine, through my hips and down my legs to around my knees.
Makes me feel so tired and weak.

really? Thought you'd all say no and im a freak! Cant work out why i have only recently started getting this!

yes down my legs and bum, my gp told me it was a lack of iron and to eat more red meat at the certain time of the month.
but i hardly ever eat red meat so never took him up on his advice

erm im vegetarian!

yup I get this, always have

yes - my bits sort of throb sometimes and my upper thighs ache.

Yes, I have had this occasionally - not all the time thank God. An intense sort of throbbing pain in the vulva. Awful. I want to hold my hand on it all the time but of course you can't walk around holding yourself like a 3 year old.

Yes, a slightly bruised, swollen, tender feeling

yes I had the pleasure of it today in fact! the pain in the thighs and the throbbing in the vulva.

Yes, and achy thighs

Yes, yes yes, I get this.
I hypothesize that as I know I have a retroverted uterus (it tips backwards) it must be pressing/throbbing on certain nerves during my period and hence the low down pain around vulva/back passage and all down the back of my legs.
But I'm probably wrong

Will try increasing my iron intake though.

ooh I get this. And have been told I have a retroverted uterus (erm by a gynae. Obv!) So maybe there's something in yr theory chalkpink

I ahve this.
I am seriously about the iron thing. i'd like to know the basis for that crap statement from your GP.
My haemaglobin count is very high and I am vagetarian.

i have retroverted uterus too...but my aching and pains only got worse after i got sterilised.

it starts from my belly, aorund my sides and down my legs. first day is fine....2nd day ill wake up with pains and aches and wanting to take paracetamol and sleep.