Speaking of periods, if menstruation is a requirement for being a woman (it’s not), I’d gladly not be one.
@farah
Wait till Peri hit's... It just adds to the fun 😬. Cannot wait to enter full Menopause.
I’ve talked about this before. But here’s a refresher, it’s messy, it’s tiring (literally), it’s painful and very uncomfortable. Personally I dissociate from my body. And if you have any of the symptoms or disorders, like PMS/PMDD, you’d literally wanna kill yourself. No one needs that kinda stuff in their lives.
So, no JKR, it’s not magical beautiful thing to bond over! Only bond I shared was our mutual hatred
I don't have PMS/PMDD, but I did have a very large fibroid the equivalent of a 6-month pregnancy. It gave me the heaviest periods. Ten days out of every month I would bleed out.
Tranexamic acid barely helped. Iron supplements helped a little bit. I was so anemic I was heavily symptomatic. My lethargy was so bad that walking across a flat floor felt like going up a steep incline. I had the worst brain fog of my life. And the fibroid pressed against something that caused bad, intractable edema in my legs, leading to permanent damage to my blood vessels. I really ought to be wearing compression stockings every day, but good lord, not in this heat.
And when I wasn't bleeding, I had what I called my "yellow period". Copious amounts of (otherwise normal) liquid discharge. My only relief was just before and just after my period. "Light" days for me were still rather heavy.
I needed to combine a cup with an overnight pad 24/7. I had to sleep with a towel under my butt. I got up several times in the night to rush to the bathroom. And I was lucky to have a full hour between dashes to the bathroom during the day.
Just the urgent bathroom runs alone were enough to exhaust me, never mind everything else. And since I used a cup, I took my hand hygiene seriously, washing my hands before, not just after. So I ended up with really dry skin.
My hysterectomy was such an incredible relief. The only thing that remains are my ovaries. Even my cervix is gone, my vagina now a blind pouch.
Speaking as a cis woman who feels my gender, I don't miss my uterus at all. JKR can go fuck herself.
@raineyday Oh my! That whole ordeal sounds terribly frightening and exhausting. I’m glad you got some relief in the end 💕
Thank you. My only regret was not having the yeeterus sooner.
@farah The moment when I first learned that menstruation is a thing was one of my childhood-ending, I'm-clearly-in-the-wrong-universe moments. It still feels deeply Wrong. ...for whatever that's worth.
@mayintoronto This shit is so tiring..
@farah In the name of equity, 1/4 men should have to have menstrual cramps simulators attached to them.
I'm not serious, no. But fuuuuuuck.
