I'm surprising myself that I'm posting about this again. This is normally a subject that I don't talk about openly, it's quite an embarassing subject for me. I guess because of my dysphoria, y'know the more I think about it, the more I realise how many things in my life it's affected. I can't even buy myself sanitary products, I'm far too embarassed about it all.
I'm posting about cramps again. I guess it's as much for myself to have a record of these things. Its been about 6 weeks since last time, this for me isn't unsual. Sometimes it can be 3 weeks sometimes 6. The unpredictability is quite irritating, I don't know when to expect it, just out of the blue they'll start and within hours I'm in alot of pain.
Considering it's something that I've always been too embarased to speak about, I don't really have other people's experiences to compare with. I don't know how normal mine are. Remembering years back to the talk we got in school about these things, the description we were given then isn't what I'm getting now. I get alot of pain, it fucks up my guts, it lasts for about a week, I don't get all emotional or hormonal or anything, but the whole thing angers and depresses me. Is this normal?
Y'know what, I'd like to put that as a question to all the biologically female bodied readers who have experienced cramps. What's your experience? Is mine normal? Please comment, even if it's anonymously. Thanks.
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my suggestion would be to look up both endometriosis and ploycystic ovary disease, wikipedia has articles on both.
ReplyDeleteThank you.
ReplyDeleteI had fucked up periods for a long time.
ReplyDeleteIn the end, the only think that helped was taking Evening Primrose Oil 3 times a day for at least 3 months (before I felt the benefit) and also going on the contraceptive pill.
I guess going on the Pill is a pretty female thing. I'm bio and emotionally a female. So I don't know how you'd feel about that.
But on Yasmin, my period problems cleared up pretty well.
The doc didn't think it would be a good idea, but my mum pushed, and in the end she gave it to me. Such a good idea.
I'm not going on the pill, I may try the primrose oil though, thanks.
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