Funny stories about your period

[Mandy Stroyer]

I don't know about suing, but you/your parents should absolutely have banded together with families of other normal children and brought that to a school board meeting or similar. Forcing children to hold their piss and sit in pads sodden with menstrual blood is fucking egregious.

My question would have been "Why should my child have to suffer and have not only her education but also her physical health affected, instead of adequate punishment and prevention being meted out to the students setting fires and assaulting others?"

Tbf my family didn't have health insurance so doctor's visits for UTIs and antibiotics cost a pretty penny, also considering the other low income kids bussed in from a nearby trailer park I'm sure were in far worse predicaments financially. A lot of the teachers were downright awful and I saw several fired or quit during my three years there. The school board was slowly overhauled due to corruption as most funding went to better performing schools that their kids were attending. I watched many peers be pulled out after 6th grade and moved to better public or private schools because their parents could afford it.

The '''diversity''' of the school also played a big part and teachers didn't want to be called racist for allowing the well behaved students to go - ones who were mainly white or asian and in the higher level classes. That also meant most parents didn't give a shit that about the bathroom issue because they weren't involved with their child's education or if they were, their kid was not the one being affected.

All in all, it's a cumulative effort on the part of everyone involved that I sat there in a bloody pad for 40 minutes. The teachers too worn to care or worried about backlash, the parents who are absent or only interested in their child, the school board's bias, and the retards who were fighting and lighting fires in the first place not understanding there'd be a collective punishment.

And I know being a school janitor sucks donkey balls, but it's their job to clean. The bathroom being closed during lunch just screams laziness to me. And if it's illegal for my job to deny me a bathroom, surely it's illegal for the school to do so.

The bathrooms were frequently dirty when I did get to use them which I wanted to pin on the fact that it was a school full of 10-14 year olds but now that you mention it, I do only remember ever seeing one janitor. No bathroom was ever dirty or off limits in high school even with similar issues.

That being said, there is no law against restricting student's bathroom use surprisingly. There is a reasonable expectation for you to be able to use the bathroom but it's not a right and can be withheld under most circumstances. The only legal exception is if it violates the ADA.

 

[_moo_]

Not necessarily funny at all, but does anyone else find that in the weeks leading up to your period, you start feeling nervous/scared/anxious/whatever? It is hard to describe, it is like someone took a chip out of your self confidence so you are anxious but you do not notice and think its a natural reaction (which it really is, but your brain just doesn't notice it which frankly is the most terrifying part).

It is so fucking freaky to realise that you just lost control to your emotional side for awhile and didn't notice until now.

 

[Mandy Stroyer]

Not necessarily funny at all, but does anyone else find that in the weeks leading up to your period, you start feeling nervous/scared/anxious/whatever? It is hard to describe, it is like someone took a chip out of your self confidence so you are anxious but you do not notice and think its a natural reaction (which it really is, but your brain just doesn't notice it which frankly is the most terrifying part).

It is so fucking freaky to realise that you just lost control to your emotional side for awhile and didn't notice until now.

Absolutely. Before the cramps and my back feeling like it was just hit by a car, I usually pick up that my period is soon because my anxiety and paranoia shoot up. I keep track of it but unless I'm currently bleeding, I don't open the app to check until that anxiety hits and then it makes more sense seeing the "period starts in 9 days".

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Not necessarily funny at all, but does anyone else find that in the weeks leading up to your period, you start feeling nervous/scared/anxious/whatever? It is hard to describe, it is like someone took a chip out of your self confidence so you are anxious but you do not notice and think its a natural reaction (which it really is, but your brain just doesn't notice it which frankly is the most terrifying part).

It is so fucking freaky to realise that you just lost control to your emotional side for awhile and didn't notice until now.

I feel like this days after my period ends because I don't have a steady cycle like I want anymore. It apparently just does whatever it feels like. Thanks, Fauci.

 

[Polexia Aphrodisia]

I feel like this days after my period ends because I don't have a steady cycle like I want anymore. It apparently just does whatever it feels like. Thanks, Fauci.

I usually feel it really badly with the first three days of my period, a little less for the next four days.

However I too have started losing regularity. A lot of little random shit through the month. I think it might be stress-related. I skipped the last week of my last BC pack (I was going to be visiting family and didn't feel like bleeding) and that seemed to buy me maybe an extra week? I thought that you weren't supposed to bleed if you were taking active pills.

Honestly I should just suck it up and go get sterilized since I won't be having children anyway, but not only do I not fancy surgery AT ALL, I don't have a couple thou kicking around for copay and I worry about the effects of coming off BC.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

However I too have started losing regularity. A lot of little random shit through the month. I think it might be stress-related.

Stress definitely can affect the cycle, and I've been getting stressed for a while now. If only men were more in tune with that if just for comfort's sake lmao.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

I don't like how my toiletries has "Daring #LikeAGirl" written on the wrapper. It's retarded and icky.

 

[Bloo]

I don't like how my toiletries has "Daring #LikeAGirl" written on the wrapper. It's retarded and icky.

I’m surprised that hasn't had backlash from TRA’s yet. I remember some complaining because some products had the female symbol on it. Mine normally have flowers and shit on the packaging if anything.

I’m debating going back on the depo shot or something to stop mine again.

 

[necross]

I don't like how my toiletries has "Daring #LikeAGirl" written on the wrapper. It's retarded and icky.

Spoiler: Thread tax

Having an older sister meant she got her period before me and every time she talked about how much it SUCKED I distinctly remember feeling like this:

Thankfully I had good parents that let me know about this stuff beforehand and the general culture is pretty chill about it that women and girls openly talk about this stuff in front of guys and lambast the fuck out of them if they got a problem with it that when I got my first period one summer when we were supposed to go swimming I wasn't panicking or anything I was just disappointed as all hell I couldn't go to the pool periods suck.

 

[Premium Gonzo]

Man we don't get the motivational qoutes, i got trivia on the pad line cover for the sticky bit. In highschool we'd read the trivia stuff out to each other in the toilets.

 

[Harold Godwinson]

I’m debating going back on the depo shot or something to stop mine again.

My gynae put me on the progesterone only pill last year because my periods have been painful and irregular and ruined my life since I was a teen, and test after test they never find a cause. She was like if your period is the issue, we could just start you on this and hopefully we can get stop them happening in the first place. Mood swings and bit of gastritis the first month, nothing that isn’t expected on hormonal contraception but MY GOD. Why wasn’t this recommended sooner?? My quality of life has literally shot through the roof, it’s unreal. I actually seethe thinking that men live life like this daily and take it for granted,

I always wondered about getting the shot, I might bring it up at my next appointment seeing as it’s also progesterone-based and it‘s such a pain remembering to take a pill at the same time every day. It’s the reason why I originally went from the combined pill to the implant - getting preggers from taking it late because I dared to have a nap or something? Fuck that.

I love being a woman most of the time but good fucking god, did the female sex have to draw every short straw imaginable?

 

[Sonic]

I used a hormonal IUD for years and got it replaced with a non-hormonal one last year. After 7 years of no period, I forgot how absolutely repulsive it is to have a period wow. Even gravity works against you to make it the worst week of your fucking life.

 

[Bloo]

My gynae put me on the progesterone only pill last year because my periods have been painful and irregular and ruined my life since I was a teen, and test after test they never find a cause. She was like if your period is the issue, we could just start you on this and hopefully we can get stop them happening in the first place. Mood swings and bit of gastritis the first month, nothing that isn’t expected on hormonal contraception but MY GOD. Why wasn’t this recommended sooner?? My quality of life has literally shot through the roof, it’s unreal. I actually seethe thinking that men live life like this daily and take it for granted,

I always wondered about getting the shot, I might bring it up at my next appointment seeing as it’s also progesterone-based and it‘s such a pain remembering to take a pill at the same time every day. It’s the reason why I originally went from the combined pill to the implant - getting preggers from taking it late because I dared to have a nap or something? Fuck that.

I love being a woman most of the time but good fucking god, did the female sex have to draw every short straw imaginable?

I‘m stupid and decided to have a copper IUD inserted. I do appreciate how long it lasts but fuck, the periods are bad on it. They were heavier for the first few months but finally seem to be less so now. Some months are worse than others for me.

Ugh. I was on the depo shot for about four years before and that was lovely. I gained a lot of weight, I assumed it was partly due to that but idk for certain. I’m like 24 pounds down from my heaviest now so I don’t really want to rock the boat.

 

[Aunt Carol]

Man we don't get the motivational qoutes, i got trivia on the pad line cover for the sticky bit. In highschool we'd read the trivia stuff out to each other in the toilets.

That would rule. A long time ago, there was a pad that had printed "fortunes" on the backing paper. Lots of different ones; I remember the fortunes were dot-matrix printed. Don't remember the brand or sub-brand; I think it was liners, with a light purple-on-white color scheme, which rules nothing out.

I would unironically like that back. Fortunes, trivia, or Laffy Taffy-style jokes on my disposable menstrual gear, you cowards. Free box of pads if you write in and we use your joke.

 

[Harold Godwinson]

I‘m stupid and decided to have a copper IUD inserted. I do appreciate how long it lasts but fuck, the periods are bad on it.

A few times I’ve been asked by my GP if I want to try non-hormonal contraceptives like the coil, seeing as up until recently hormonal ones were doing me absolutely no favours. But god, the coil genuinely terrifies me. I’ve heard horror story after horror story- periods getting worse, it being agonising to put in and being sore for ages after, I know multiple people who’ve had it move out of position and have even more problems. I suppose if you can tolerate it at least, it’s a lot better than being moody, fatigued, gaining weight, and all the other lovely side effects of hormonal contraception.

I’m like 24 pounds down from my heaviest now so I don’t really want to rock the boat.

Good for you! Currently in a similar situation, I’m about a stone/14lb down from my heaviest, and with me starting this pill I’m constantly fighting the urge for just one more snack, one more little sweet treat - I feel your pain. Thankfully my boyfriend is a bit of a gym nut so I‘ve been spending a lot more time in his home gym, than in the kitchen where all the tasty morsels are.

 

[Premium Gonzo]

That would rule. A long time ago, there was a pad that had printed "fortunes" on the backing paper. Lots of different ones; I remember the fortunes were dot-matrix printed. Don't remember the brand or sub-brand; I think it was liners, with a light purple-on-white color scheme, which rules nothing out.

I would unironically like that back. Fortunes, trivia, or Laffy Taffy-style jokes on my disposable menstrual gear, you cowards. Free box of pads if you write in and we use your joke.

They were libra's from memory i'll see if they still make them with the trivia, if they do i'll take a picture.

 

[isalaide]

I don't think I mentioned this one before: once as a younger woman I wore a white trouser suit to an evening out. There was an unexpected early arrival (aren't irregular cycles The Fucking Best) which involved a flooding incident. I stood up to go to the bathroom, and yeah. Nigel referred to it for some time afterwards as 'the Reservoir Dogs party'. Ironic since they were all in black

 

[Bloo]

A few times I’ve been asked by my GP if I want to try non-hormonal contraceptives like the coil, seeing as up until recently hormonal ones were doing me absolutely no favours. But god, the coil genuinely terrifies me. I’ve heard horror story after horror story- periods getting worse, it being agonising to put in and being sore for ages after, I know multiple people who’ve had it move out of position and have even more problems. I suppose if you can tolerate it at least, it’s a lot better than being moody, fatigued, gaining weight, and all the other lovely side effects of hormonal contraception.

Good for you! Currently in a similar situation, I’m about a stone/14lb down from my heaviest, and with me starting this pill I’m constantly fighting the urge for just one more snack, one more little sweet treat - I feel your pain. Thankfully my boyfriend is a bit of a gym nut so I‘ve been spending a lot more time in his home gym, than in the kitchen where all the tasty morsels are.

Thanks! Well done for you too. It’s mainly from keto. I should exercise more and tone because I now have the issue that I’m getting flabby. Im going swimming with my friends next week so that might be enjoyable. I really hate exercise lol.

Other than pretty heavy periods and worse cramps the IUD is doing well. I am now anemic due to it but the iron supplements sort that.

I’m saying all this and I don’t even have sex anymore lol I’ve been single for about eight months. It’s just good to have in case I do soon.

 

[Aunt Carol]

They were libra's from memory i'll see if they still make them with the trivia, if they do i'll take a picture.

Found a picture online; Libra calls their trivia "Odd Spots:"


That is exactly what I want in a menstrual pad; thank you Australia/New Zealand marketing departments for understanding my demographic!

However, it's not the kind I remember (from the mid-to-late 1990s). The one I remember could have been an import--I'm pretty sure they came from the clearance/discount grocery store. The messages were printed dot matrix style on a conventionally-printed backing--or possibly wrapper.

 

[Premium Gonzo]

Found a picture online; Libra calls their trivia "Odd Spots:"
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That is exactly what I want in a menstrual pad; thank you Australia/New Zealand marketing departments for understanding my demographic!

However, it's not the kind I remember (from the mid-to-late 1990s). The one I remember could have been an import--I'm pretty sure they came from the clearance/discount grocery store. The messages were printed dot matrix style on a conventionally-printed backing--or possibly wrapper.

That's the one Odd Spots the pads are shit, i prefer using these big ones for women with incontinence they are longer so catch the butt leakage when i'm asleep and don't crinkle like a furry diaper faggot.