Oh my gosh, I know, right?! It's so hard to wipe your butt clean when you're wiping up blood with every wipe! I literally limit myself to two poos for the entire span of my period xD

Yes! I know, every time I stand up in class, I feel like it's going to leak. Sometimes my body tricks me into thinking my inner leg is wet, and I literally freak out!

Yep, definitely, but at least it means we can have babies?

Oof, I have yet to experience the misery of going on a trip to a beach and being on my period, but I'm sure it's absolutely horrible, so if this is what you deal with, you poor, poor soul. My heart weeps for you <3

I know exactly what you’re talking about. It feels like you’re being jabbed with a knitting needle. And you’re expected to suck it up and go on with your day…😞

IKR?! I don't know why it happens, but it's like when I'm on my period, my entire body decides to have problems xDD

Oof, that sounds like torture. Well, just know that it makes you a person of both worlds, making you very special (the second part xD) :)

Yes, I completely agree! I've not yet had bad cramps, just little annoying pains, kind of like my bladder is full, but it's still unpleasant, so I can imagine that extreme cramps are horrible.

Omg I haven't even thought of this possibiltyyyy. now I'm going to have nightmares that I'm presenting and a cramp is just going to make me double over in pain and people are going to call the hospital, and the doctors are going to examine me, and then announce to the world, "It's okay, she's just on her period" and I know that I would love to have periods/talk of periods more normalized, but being raised in a place where it largely isn't, I was conditioned to believe that it would be a nightmare for my period to be announced to the world. Idk I'm a little crazy, I know. Got a strange imagination xDDD

Oof, that really does suck. Hopefully you get more chances to see them in the future <3

I guess that's true too.... sorry I asked, then, I just felt that this (periods/talking about them) is something that could be more normalized, although it is already starting to. Growing up in a household where no one talked about it made me wish I'd have someone to talk to about fears/annoyances about periods, like leakages or cramps, so I thought I would ask here, since it's an open and friendly community. :)

Yep, truetreuteru!!!

I'm fairly new to the whole period thing (I only just had my first one last year) so they're fairly irregular, meaning I've had maybe a total of five in a little less than a year. Sometimes they're so light, they're literally just a spot of pink on my underwear (yeah, that's right, I said "underwear" *looking at you, boys of high school who are soooooo mature) and sometimes it's heavy, meaning I have to change my pad once a day. So i'm constantly worried that it's going to start one day, and I'm going to be caught unaware, and it's going to be heavy, y'know? But I feel your pain and annoyance about the medicine thing, it sounds like a pain in the butt. or hoo-ha, it this case xDD

"your basal metabolic rate speeds up just before and during the early part of your period. A slightly higher calorie burn and demand for energy in the days leading up to and the start of code red can also drive hunger." (taken from Google) https://tinyurl.com/hungry-week-before-period I've never experienced a mental breakdown over nothing the day before it starts, but kudos to you for getting through it :)

Oh noo, that sounds like the worst leakage scenario everrr. I don't know what you mean by "leaky water stains" but i'm assuming that you might mean discharge? If so, yeah, that's annoying too. And I, too, am on my period rn, and that's what prompted me to make this post :)

Oh, wow. I've never experienced this, but I totally get why it annoys you! It's definitely annoying to gain weight when you're trying to lose it, though!

When I was at school, my friends and I would always do a leak check for each other when we stood up to leave the class.

Very true, both of those statements! Is there anyway to change a title of a post to make it more inclusive?