Am I wet? Am I on my period? Did I pee my pants?- next on wtf is going on down there.
I’m so glad this is a universal wondering among vagina-owners, haha.
‘Vagina-owners’
Tune in next time for: Are these menstrual cramps? Am I pregnant? Is it just gas? I wouldn’t have to ask these questions if I didn’t have a damn uterus
Next week: Is it a bladder infection? An ovarian cyst? Do I have endometriosis? Oh God please do not let it be cervical cancer! A 20/20 special
Y'all are forgetting the all-time classic: Is it just my period or is my appendix about to burst? Some nice tea and a heatpack or 911 and emergency surgery?
There is actually a test for that last one!
Place your hand over the pain, press down slightly and release. If the pain doesn’t change by any great margin, you’re fine. If it suddenly becomes some painful you can barely stand, Get thee to an Emergency Room
reblog for the safety of vaginas and their owners
The appendix test works with or without a vagina so reblogging for everyone.
OMG I have been there with all of that. And this isn’t even just YOUNG vagina owners. I’m 44. I still have these questions as a middle-aged vagina owner.
And also guys – it changes. If you’re young still, weird shit can happen when you’re older. I hardly EVER got cramps. And then I did. A couple months ago, I had pain on one side and I was like OMG IS IT APPENDICITIS??? (Spoiler: it went away as soon as I got my period, probably some hormone-induced cyst)
Pregnancy changes things, too…my periods were two completely different animals before and after having kids.
Basically, there’s a lot of weird shit that goes on down there and it changes throughout your life and nobody told us this shit because sex education in the US really sucks.
That and medical research was entirely focused on male subjects, and women were just treated like “men with uteruses” with no regard to how physiology and hormones affect how different we actually are (see: heart attack symptoms, car crash dummies). We weren’t taught this because even scientists don’t fucking know.
Oh, and to add to the first post, don’t forget the summer hiatus series, “blood or ass sweat?” (or its regional spin-off, “menopause or Mississippi?”).
If y’all are interested, I can’t recommend The Vagina Bible by Dr. Jen Gunter enough.
The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina: Separating the Myth from the Medicine [Jennifer Gunter] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualif
It’s really easy and entertaining to read, it was published in 2019 so it’s current, and it’s just so damn informative.
Don’t forget that when you get older it’s not just going on down there, it’s going on everywhere, hence the series - Damn, it’s hot in here. Seriously, are you hot? Because I’m like... did someone turn the heat up? There is actual sweat running down my back right now. Can you not feel that it’s 120 degrees in here? What the hell is happening right now? Water, I need water!
