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    Menstruation - Whats you period like?

    A few lucky women are blessed with not having to put up with the pain that comes along with having their period, and some have to deal with the excruciating pain that accompanies it, whether before, during or after period.
    Some deal with the pain temporarily with or without anesthesia, and some have to deal with the pain as few as 2 days or throughout their period.
    Some bleed only once, some bleed for 3-6 days and some might bleed for a week straight....painful...whomever said its easy been a woman, lied.
    Whats your period like?

    When I started having my period, it was the most painful experience but the cramps part would last up to 8-12 hours. my period lasts for 5 days. the first day i would bleed the heaviest and the first half of the day comes with the most excruciating cramps. I take midol to numb the pain, which works really well. If I don't take midol, the cramps are crippling. i'll get nausea, and tremendous cramps and wouldn't be able to move. i'll just lay in bed bearing the pain. I even tried one time to get off the midol to see how much pain there is after a longtime. it hurt so much that i passed out. i've never passed out before. my body had gotten so used to the modol. i passed out for like almost 5 hours, and the next time i woke up, i couldn't even remember what happened. all i remembered was i was in laying down in tremendous fluctuating pain and then i blacked out...thats what i call "sheding yourself"
    i'll get lower back aches which would last for almost the rest of the period. I only bleed heavily on the first 2 days. after that its not as heavy.
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    I take my pills continuously so I only get it 3-4 times a year. Because I have bad fibroids the pain is excrutiating, and every time I get my period it gets worse..the fibroids can grow. So my Dr said the fewer I can get it the better. I'd never get it but my body wont allow that. Even when I'm still taking the pills...it breaks through after 3-4 months.

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    Wow. I thought mine were bad, especially after I stopped being on the pill, but they aren't THAT bad. Two periods ago I was in so much pain I thought I was having a miscarriage or something. More typically I cramp mildly for about 3 days prior, very intensely for about 8 hours on day 1 and sometimes some on day 2, and then the rest of it is smooth sailing. I don't think I've ever bled for less than 5 days.


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    Quote Originally Posted by cameron_keys View Post
    I take my pills continuously so I only get it 3-4 times a year. Because I have bad fibroids the pain is excrutiating, and every time I get my period it gets worse..the fibroids can grow. So my Dr said the fewer I can get it the better. I'd never get it but my body wont allow that. Even when I'm still taking the pills...it breaks through after 3-4 months.
    ooooooouch, fibroids are more than excruciating. i don't have fibroids but i have friends that had it. they had surgery to get it removed, because the pain was so unbearable...do you eventually plan to get it removed?
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    ooooooouch, fibroids are more than excruciating. i don't have fibroids but i have friends that had it. they had surgery to get it removed, because the pain was so unbearable...do you eventually plan to get it removed?
    As long as I can deal with it, no. I dont want any more surgery if I can help it. Good thing I wasnt planning on kids though...I wouldnt be able to carry to term because of them.

    If they get worse tehn I'll ave to have them removed. But a cpl days of pain here and there ...esp considering I have chronic pain anyway from a bunch of other things...isnt a big deal.

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    My periods used to last for 9-10 days, first day was light, the next 7 are extremly heavy. Like a super tampon every hour, and I still leak. Cramps so bad I can't get out of bed or function. The last 2 days are lighter, and it slowly tapers off with spotting until I'm done.
    Luckily, that all changed a few months ago when I started a bc pill, and now they are much lighter, and almost pain free.

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    Damn. I thought mine were bad.

    I used to only get maybe one or two periods a year - I know, crazy - and I'd always get the same pms, insane depression, very very low energy, breakouts and just generally wacked out, (I really think I've made major bad, life changing decisions due to those messed up hormones)- then after that passed it was cramping time...always hit in the middle of the night, it'd wake my ass up and I'd lay in a ball crying from the pain, sometimes I'd throw up from it and then I'd start bleeding. The cramps would last for about 10 hours or so and then I'd bleed for 5-6 days. Not too heavy, just average.

    It was nice because it seriously would happen so rarely, but then I got preggors, had a baby, and when I started menstruating again after breasfeeding, they seem to be more regular now. Funny, my hormones stay even though. It's as if my body's been reset or something.
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    Mine are usually 6 or 7 days long, extremely heavy during the first 4 days. I go through a super plus every half hour. he last 2 or 3 days are better....more like a regular period. It just kind of pops up whenever it wants to.

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    No pain. I get very honest with people while I'm pmsing though. People might get angry and emotional with me as a result. The week before my breasts are extra sensitive.

    Mine lasts 4 or 5 days. Day two is heaviest. My cycle is like clockwork and I can always feel it coming. I get a feeling of fullness kind of and then a light-headedness for a minute.

    I don't take hormones.
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    Im not on birth control - think that has a lot to do with some periods.

    Mine are 4 days - short and light.

    The week before my breasts are really really sensitive to touch and I get bitchy. No cramps tho.

    Oh, and my cycle is 25 days - I wish it was longer....

    Cept this month was weird. I had my normal period and 11 days later had another 'normal' period. Yesterday I was supposed to start but I dont know whats going on. Im all outta wack - I think its due to this sickness Ive had the last 2 weeks...

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    First day, horrible abdominal and back pains/cramps. Not the heaviest flow. Day 2 and 3 are the heaviest for me. Really yucky very gross. Don't want to do anything. Days 4,5,6 very light. There is always a day 7 and it's very very very light but still there. I hate it. I was off BC for a while, but when I was on it made the cramps very light and I only had 4-5 day cycles. So I'm probably going to go back to that.

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    my period is so irregular i've almost given up on keeping track of it--i skipped three months in a row once and freaked out.
    anyway, normally my periods are ok, but this sunday i was at work (day job, department store) when it started and seriously was in tears in pain. (and of course... i had no idea it was coming so i was wearing my awesome wonder woman panties without even a pantiliner )

    i usually cramp badly the first day, mildly the second, and then don't feel much. they last about 5 days on average.

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    Quote Originally Posted by holiday View Post
    then after that passed it was cramping time...always hit in the middle of the night, it'd wake my ass up and I'd lay in a ball crying from the pain, sometimes I'd throw up from it and then I'd start bleeding.
    awww, thats exactly how i used to feel when i started gettin my period at 12 yrs. old, before i came across a good painkiller. i remember trying ibuprofen(i went from taking 4 to 8 pills ) which worked for a little bit and then stopped working. i tried advil, didn't work at all. then pamprin, which worked for awhile and then my body got resistant to it and i had to switch to another one. till i came across midol. i've been using midol for years now and i don't even feel a pain when i'm on it. the best part about it is that it hasn't gotten to the point my body starts getting resistant to it.

    the good thing about my period is that I don't get mood swings, depression or bad acne. a couple of days b4 my period, i might get easily irritable by the slightest thing, but thats about it.
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    Midol. Thanks for the tip! Pain killers never seem to work for me - but I'll give that one a try.
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    I use to have pain like that. I had endometriosis. I also had a retroverted uterus which causes more back cramping because the uterus is tilted backward.

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    After seven surgeries then immediately going on the pill for 5 years I have been doing pretty decent this last year without anything. Knock on wood... My period can be irregular but usually it isn't anything too heavy and last about 5 days total. My mood just gets really shitty up to a week before starting though.

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    I used to be in agony in my teenage years but then I went to a chiropractor who saw that I had a problem with painful periods and with just one adjustment fixed it. Im 37 now and still rarely get any sort of discomfort.
    My period is irregular, always has been, its usually light. I bleed for 2 days then miss a day then bleed for another two days occasionally 3.

    Edited to add - Oh and no pmt at all, no bloating, no cravings, no nothing.

    I have a retroverted uterus too - Im lucky then, I get no back cramps, no crapms at all!

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    Quote Originally Posted by greenidlady1 View Post
    I use to have pain like that. I had endometriosis. I also had a retroverted uterus which causes more back cramping because the uterus is tilted backward.
    hows that? do you know how it came about?
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    Quote Originally Posted by MsQwerty View Post
    I used to be in agony in my teenage years but then I went to a chiropractor who saw that I had a problem with painful periods and with just one adjustment fixed it. Im 37 now and still rarely get any sort of discomfort.
    My period is irregular, always has been, its usually light. I bleed for 2 days then miss a day then bleed for another two days occasionally 3.

    Edited to add - Oh and no pmt at all, no bloating, no cravings, no nothing.

    I have a retroverted uterus too - Im lucky then, I get no back cramps, no crapms at all!
    I get bloatings a couple of days before my period, but my last 2 periods, i haven't gotten the bloating and the sensitive slightly painful breasts before my period..
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    When I was a teenager I would have periods that lasted for months at a time and they put me in so much pain and I actually ended up in the hospital with a blood transfusion because I started bleeding so damn bad.

    My doctor then put me on depo to make my periods go away. Then I gained a shit load of weight so I went off depo.

    Took two years for me to get my period back then it came back with vengeance... I had the worse cramping and upset stomach and bled super heavy for over a week.

    Now my period lasts for 3 days tops...one day with super heavy bleeding then a day or two of light spotting.

    I still get cramps from hell to the point it hurts to breath nevermind moving. Though once I stopped using tampons and used the diva cup the cramps arnt as bad and if I take two midol when I start getting back pain(my cramps start in my back and then end up in my back and stomach) its not too bad.

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    I think my period has finally stopped (THANK YOU DEPO!!), but when I had it, I had bitching cramps, and I was so emotional. I didn't really notice any bloating, or breast tenderness, but I sure did binge eat a lot. The bleeding was always heavy at first. Super heavy, like with freaking blood clots. I always wondered if I was gonna need someone to donate blood, but then it slowed down. But the tail end of my period (that brown stupid little stuff) lasted for 3 days or more. So even when my period was over, it wasn't OVER for awhile..

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    Quote Originally Posted by LadySoft View Post
    hows that? do you know how it came about?
    I was just made that way. I had a uterus suspension in which they positioned my uterus forward. Theoritically the pressure from the endometriosis can also cause the uterus to move. I had a lot of back cramping before the surgery. I hardly have any now.

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    ^before the surgery how did it affect your period?
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    I had really severe lower back cramping the first two days of period. I was pretty much "laid up" during the first portion of my period.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cameron_keys View Post
    I take my pills continuously so I only get it 3-4 times a year. Because I have bad fibroids the pain is excrutiating, and every time I get my period it gets worse..the fibroids can grow. So my Dr said the fewer I can get it the better. I'd never get it but my body wont allow that. Even when I'm still taking the pills...it breaks through after 3-4 months.
    Cameron-I so feel you about the fibroids. I actually had a myomectomy when I was in my twenties. They came back three years ago. I have had the round of depo-lupron shots twice. They chemically induce menopause to shrink the fibroids. The treatment is 3 shots, 1 per month.

    Anyway, they have grown a lot in the last few months and I got a cyst on one of my overies to with it this time.

    So, my flow lasts for 5-6 days with another 4 to 5 days of light spotting. Also, if i work my abs too hard, I start to cramp and spot again. My cramps are horrific for the first two days of my cycle. They then start to taper off. Again, working out during the remainder of those 5 to 6 days can induce cramps again. I am perscriped viccodin for my cramps.

    Sort of off subject but not really: For the SW challange I wanted to lose an inch of my waist which would make it flux from 22 1/2 to 24. Well, that won't happen because the stupid fibroids have increased my width

    It has and could be a lot worse. I have dealing w/ this crap since I was 23.
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