Cry Me A Bloody River: Article about the Pathetic Plight of Period-Plagued Trans Men

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Lord, shrink me a violin so I can play my sad little heart out about the very very very special pain that our uteri having brothers have in getting and using period products. According to this article, period products are expensive, embarrassing, and inaccessible. Whereas for boring old Cisters, they are apparently free, and we gaily run through our offices waving tampons like torches and flapping our pads like happy handpuppets. Oh and we find them somehow "in stores?" Another interesting factlet: TM find it embarrassing to rip open tampon packages in the men's room. Much as women might feel if, um, males were allowed in the women's room? Just sayin.
www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/transgender-men-pain-menstruation-more-just-physical-n1113961

Anyway, the recent turn of this thread just goes to show that the colour of sanitary product packaging is small potatoes when you consider the many other challenges women face managing their menses and fertitlity.

Why the hell isn’t it [lidocaine cervical anaesthesia] offered as standard?

Because it's women's pain and so doesn't matter.

Could there be a reason why they have periods?
a) they're women
b) you can't change sex
c) they're not men
d) a, b and c

They are complaining about pink packaging???

On the plus size, I guess that means they won't be buying any fox''s jam and cream biscuits as they have a pink packet. Away to tell my dh he can't have any either as the packaging colour obvious means they are only for women and girls.

These ones:

On the other hand, the washing powder I use comes in a blue box - is that telling me who should be doing the laundry?

@Aesopfable

"On the plus size, I guess that means they won't be buying any fox''s jam and cream biscuits as they have a pink packet. Away to tell my dh he can't have any either as the packaging colour obvious means they are only for women and girls."

Damn, I may have to identify as non-binary so I don't miss out on Wagon Wheels with jammie centres.

A lot of us who don't try to deny being female also dislike pink. Being unable to get safety boots from our approved supplier, in my size and width fitting, that don't have pink on impacts how my colleagues see me and makes them take me less seriously.

I'm a lot less bothered about san pro packaging because I didn't have that on my feet for eight hours per day whilst being the only woman in my team in my 90+% dominated industry. Which is another reason why I'm glad my job no longer requires working on building sites.

The boots are more important.

Most women couldn't care less what colour the packaging of sanitary protection is as long as it works properly. It spends most of its time in the cupboard anyway. And most of it is not even pink.

Bd67th
A friend of mine prescribed me a cocktail of paracetamol and ibuprofen before I went in so I didnt really feel a thing. I researched Mirena before getting in it and was petitfours because of the many negative reviews. Nobody seems to ever post a positive one. My (male) gyn was all “had no complaints from other women in my practice so far”.

Why doesn’t mumsnet have an editing option...?

Petitfours is particularly splendid as an autocorrect!

paracetamol and ibuprofen

I took.them before my mirena fitting. They are great for headaches, blunt the edge of a migraine, but don't even touch pain involving my cervix or uterus. When the gyn clamped my cervix and dilated me, my screams could be heard in the waiting room. They've never helped my period pains either.

I got a Morena for menstrual problems back in 2003. I told the consultant up front I'd need 6 big lads to hold me down as I experience a lot of pain just from smears and so they gave me a general anaesthetic. No quibbles, just knocked me out cold.

I asked this before but nobody replied. When I was younger I was on the pill and also (not simultaneously!) had a coil. In both cases, I still had periods. This was all at least 30 years ago. (you took the pill for 21 days, I think, and then you stopped and your period came. With a coil, nothing changed. You continued to have periods.

MNers here are saying that these interventions stop periods. Is this true now? I'm very curious!

I asked this before but nobody replied. When I was younger I was on the pill and also (not simultaneously!) had a coil. In both cases, I still had periods. This was all at least 30 years ago. (you took the pill for 21 days, I think, and then you stopped and your period came. With a coil, nothing changed. You continued to have periods.

MNers here are saying that these interventions stop periods. Is this true now? I'm very curious!

Mirena coils, which GPs are very keen on pushing, release a small amount of hormone which means that most people will have no bleeding or only very light spotting while they have the Mirena in. Normal copper coils are still available for people who don't want or can't tolerate a Mirena, and with those you will still ahve periods as normal because there's no hormone component.

No idea re pills, but it's always been possible to take packets back to back and avoid a breakthrough bleed.

Thanks Junge Traktoristin. Good to know.

Sometimes Cerezette pill stops or reduces periods (or you just get one long constant one like me )

Cerezette

is evil depression-aggravating weight-gaining poison.