I like when it comes - the end of PMS and confirmation that I am not pregnant. I feel much more in control of it since getting my Mooncup. It's nowhere near the hassle it used to be.
hi fantasticmissfi - i come to your post cos i correspond with wordstar and found you on her friend's page - hope that is ok.
now that i am at the stage of my life when i want to reproduce, getting my period each month brings intense sadness, it's evidence that i STILL am not pregnant. I am terrified of starting menopause before i get pregnant as my mum hit menopause at a young age. (late thirties)
Despite tv ads being full of "feminine protection products" i STILL use euphenisms for bleeding once a month. It still seems like a secret that you only tell a few who you suspect will be sympathetic when you are cramping up and feel like hell.
I really would like to be able to buy tampons that were not so perfectly white, so i could be sure i wasn't putting bleach inside of me. That gives me the chills, but tampons are so damn convenient, i don't want to give them up.
Apparently girls who live in hot climates get their periods earlier than those who live in cold climates. I read that in a book, fiction but it had a ring of truth considering that I grew up in Darwin and most girls got their periods around 11 or 12. I think I was 11 and I remember it because (perhaps i would have remembered regardless, I don't know, probably) we were billetting a girl for a swimming carnival and she was sleeping in my room. I woke up and found blood on the sheets and didn't contemplate what was happening to me because I was solely focussed on the strange girl sleeping in my room not finding out.
Huh I didn't know that (about the hot climate). I was a year older than everyone in my class anyway, so that put me about a year ahead of the next girl.
It's amazing that it's such a thing of 'shame' or 'embarrassment' - I also hid it from people but even now I don't know why.
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I like when it comes - the end of PMS and confirmation that I am not pregnant. I feel much more in control of it since getting my Mooncup. It's nowhere near the hassle it used to be.
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now that i am at the stage of my life when i want to reproduce, getting my period each month brings intense sadness, it's evidence that i STILL am not pregnant. I am terrified of starting menopause before i get pregnant as my mum hit menopause at a young age. (late thirties)
Despite tv ads being full of "feminine protection products" i STILL use euphenisms for bleeding once a month. It still seems like a secret that you only tell a few who you suspect will be sympathetic when you are cramping up and feel like hell.
I really would like to be able to buy tampons that were not so perfectly white, so i could be sure i wasn't putting bleach inside of me. That gives me the chills, but tampons are so damn convenient, i don't want to give them up.
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It's amazing that it's such a thing of 'shame' or 'embarrassment' - I also hid it from people but even now I don't know why.
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