PSA:
Your period should not
🩸last > 7 days
🩸interfere with your life
🩸happen consistently > than monthly
🩸require product changes more than every 2 hours
🩸have clots larger than a quarter
🩸cause debilitating pain
🩸require double product coverage
🩸make you anemic
Your period should not
🩸last > 7 days
🩸interfere with your life
🩸happen consistently > than monthly
🩸require product changes more than every 2 hours
🩸have clots larger than a quarter
🩸cause debilitating pain
🩸require double product coverage
🩸make you anemic
Comments
I have had an almost constant pain that gets worse just before my period every month for about 2.5 years and my primary care doctor just thinks it’s a physical manifestation of my anxiety.
I visited a new hematologist; she suggested I take extra oral iron on the especially heavy days of my period to offset the loss.
That’s…not a thing, right? Am I crazy to think that makes no sense?
https://www.dazeddigital.com/beauty/article/60425/1/menstrual-magick-how-to-period-blood-rituals-power-spells?amp=1
Yeah. Like folks with endometriosis, we get little pain relief, just advice to “take otc pain meds”. But at least I was given the diagnosis in my 20s. Even if nothing medically useful followed.
A male bud got NSAID hepatitis from the same infirmary's lassitude.
I have all of those symptoms, am now in 5k debt for attempting to get it treated, and am just so done with doctors.
I tried to get depo today, just to stave it off for another few months. I’m late to get it. Reschedule for two weeks out because of a pregnancy test. I’m monogamous, and my husband and I are both trans men.
I’m 43. And so, so tired.
This will be devastating for so many people.
16 day periods, 1 super pad per hour, tons of ruined clothes, severe anemia, collapse at work, hysteroscopy, medical debt, worsened adenomyosis, chronic pain
2024
bleeding returns, test positive for 4 strains of HPV
I'm done with gynecologists. Request palliative care only
I think you & Ashley Winter could save the world. Or a piece of it.
I spent 10 years telling my GP that I was experiencing all the things you list, plus nausea, vomiting and fainting.
Her response? "Some women just get bad periods."
I had a scan for IBS which showed ovarian "mass", leading to surgery.
Surgeon discovered extensive endometriosis 🤦🏻♀️
He was angry that my GP never considered referring me to a gynaecologist.
He made me feel so validated, and I'm grateful to him.