I am SO OVER periods

[ShouldIJustKeepChangingTables]

It was only just over 2 weeks ago I had a hot water bottle for period pain; now it’s bloody ovulation pain. Hate hate hate that I have to put up with the constant mood swings and pain and fairly heavy bleeding.

Starting to think I need to look at contraception again, but have been a bit worried by all the tales of mood swings and bleeding getting worse not better. I was on the mini pill years ago - the dr wasn’t that happy for me to be on it as we have a history of migraines in the family and eventually persuaded me off it.

What’s the most reliable period-stopping, non-mood-depressing method people would recommend?

This is really resonating in my house this week. My 12 yo DD started her periods yesterday. She has been OK with it really but has been in a bit of a tizz because she's due to go on holiday (with my parents) on Sunday and is worried about swimming.

I said, it's fine, you can get cool period swimwear now and you'll not even realise, and period knickers, you'll not even notice. We then logged onto the modibodi website and it was £100 for a cossie and five pairs of kecks!

I could see her face. She said ,'it's fifty quid for a swimming costume!', and I thought she was getting worried that I'd be asking for her pocket money towards it. I'm trying to be cool, telling her I wouldn't dream of asking her to pay towards it, blah blah blah. To which she says, 'No, it's just I'm going to have to pay that for the rest of my life and DS won't!'

🤣🤣🤣 Welcome to the world kid. AND we have to pay VAT too!

@weekfour 😄 can you imagine how much money we’ve forked out to deal with this over the last 30 years?! total 💩 we have to pay VAT as well!

Have you ever been referred to a gynaecologist?. If not I’d be asking your GP why that is the case. No women should have to continually put up with painful and or heavy periods. There is a cause and it’s in your interests to determine what that is as well as treating the symptoms. You will need to be persistent in order to get answers.

It's not contraception but for my awful dreadful heavy periods I have a womb ablation (move sure)
You can have children afterwards due to it destroying your womb lining .
My periods are barely there anymore

• nova sure ablation that should have said

I was sick of mine. My whole life was dictated by my time of the month. I knew if I had anything work related that was important the week before my period I wouldn’t be able to do it properly. I was scared to go the gym in case I leaked. Anxiety ruined a lot.

When I went to the doctor he said periods aren’t a medical condition. I said I am in my 40’s, had periods since I was 13 I am done having kids so what’s the point of having them?
He wrote me a prescription for the pill without a break and now I only have a light period every six months of less.
Like others said if this happened to men things would be different, they wouldnt cope with the mess, the pain, the expense. I think men and women would only have periods when they are TTC and no other reason.

Hysterectomy! Best thing ever! I can't even tell you the relief of not having to deal with bleeding half to death every day. My whole life revolved round it. It's so freeing and no negatives whatsoever. Obviously you have to be sure you don't want anymore children though

Feel you. Always struggled on, even working in a job from home was partly so I wouldn’t have to try and deal with horrific periods in an office anymore.

Ended up having some surgery and needing the mirena coil for the healing process. It was a revelation. Wish I’d have been more open to regulation aids sooner. I do not miss my old periods AT ALL and cannot believe I let myself struggle on in such a horrific way for all that time. Unless I we have another child, I am going to keep and renew my coil. It’s given me a better quality of life there is absolutely no doubt about it. I was only hurting myself by struggling on. (My dad is very anti healthcare and I think this was influencing my ‘nature is best’ mindset - it didn’t work out for him by the way, he now is terminally ill because he avoided healthcare for too long).