You know the scene from 'the shining' with the lift and the blood?

Often times when a menstruating woman sneezes, the pressure can cause large amounts of material to rapidly exit her body in such a way that her hygiene products cannot possibly contain causing a mess. For some reason women also seem about 99% more likely to sneeze during this time than any other. Thank you for asking.

May I just point out that you actually asked for an explanation instead of just going on your way. We need more people without uterus like you

So it feels like you just dropped a bomb and you gotta sit in that s**t till you can go to the restroom and you gotta hope it didn’t get on your pants

and it releases a flood down there :(

Oh man. So there's just sneezing and the mess of blood and tissue shoots out and it looks like someone was murdered in your underwear. But worse is when you're wearing a tampon. So tampons have to be inserted a certain way and a certain depth in order to not feel them and to not be uncomfortable. If you sneeze, the pressure pushes it down and sometimes out in a very painful -and often messy- way. If you're sitting there's nowhere for it to go, so just sits at your vagina opening. Sometimes it bends a bit. Imagine something violently turning sideways in your a*s and how painful that would be. And you're stuck on a bus or somewhere you can't go to a bathroom and just pull it out. Plus the clean up can be ridiculous.

Uterus-haver here: Imagine sneezing, right, and then it feels like you just pissed yourself with no warning except it's red and other people can see it.

Yeah

Sneezing = pressure. Since we're already bloated (also equaling pressure) the sneeze does one of two things (or both). Either expels more blood in a "gushing" kind of way orrr if you're older and have had kids, it makes you tinkle a little. Either way it sucks horribly.

Tampon slides down/out from all the pressure at once.

Best analogy I can think of is having a really bad bout of diarrhoea and suddenly coughing/sneezing. It’s gonna be messy.

Like sneezing when you really need a poo and you **** yourself

Atchiu *feels like a legit flood warning might happen*

Oh God, the gush is real.

The blood shoots out of you and you can feel it like the worst thing in the world

*splurt* from the nether regions

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Pick one - menstruating + sneezing = 1. ingrown toenail; 2. insomnia; 3. halitosis; 4. painful hair, or 5. a gush. What does your common sense tell you?

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Don't have one either but it was obvious what they ment.

And sometimes the simple act of standing after sitting for a minute or two. Good times.

I just had a bronchitis and was on my period. Fun days...

or sneezing after giving birth - don't even have to be on my period to hate sneezing. Tip is to sneeze to the side and contract all the muscle before sneezing.