Not like women have been telling y’all this since the beginning of time or anything.
I mean, yeah, at one point three years ago I was curled up in a fetal position literally screaming/crying/gasping for breath on my bed in my dorm room, so my response to this headline is basically, “No shit.”
No wonder women are so likely to ignore heart disease/attack symptoms. If something isn’t as bad as my cramps, I figure it can’t be that bad.
THAT LAST COMMENT
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No seriously. There aren’t enough people who understand how important that last comment is. I lost my right kidney four years ago because of “if something isn’t as bad as my cramps, I figure it can’t be that bad.”
My. Fucking. Kidney.
Don’t force people with periods to internalize and silence themselves when they have cramps!
Can confirm “can’t be that bad because period”. I had a kidney stone and it took me like 2-3 days to realize it wasn’t my period because it basically felt like that. Pain is normal for women (and other people with a uterus), it’s part of being a woman, and so we’re much less likely to know when the pain we’re having is bad because we deal with so much of it some much more often than men do. Pain is not always a “something is wrong” indicator for us.
jesus. I never thought of it that way.
Every woman rebloging this
LISTEN
YOUR PERIOD IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE THAT PAINFUL.
IF YOU ARE 18 OR OLDER AND IN THAT MUCH PAIN DURING YOUR PERIOD, SOMETHING IS MEDICALLY WRONG.
Period cramps are uncomfortable, but that’s it. They should not be more than mild pain. If you are in severe pain, you need to see a doctor, because something is wrong. Me, I have endometriosis- which can be diagnosed without a pelvic exam, by the way, just an ultrasound. There’s a ton of other things that it can be, as well. You can get treatment for problems, you can get painkillers, and you can get medications to stop your period.
That’s right, YOU CAN STOP YOUR PERIOD. There are different birth controls you can take to entirely stop your period. If you don’t want to have a baby right now, you can take one of those. No more cramps! I’m on a progesterone-only medication, estrogen didn’t agree with me, and it works perfectly. No side effects, and, if I take it on time every day, I get no periods. Maybe some mild tenderness now and then or a couple days of light bleeding, but that’s it, and usually not even for that. And, if I take the meds late and I do get my period, it’s way milder than usual and I have prescription painkillers to handle the cramps.
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