I felt so vindicated when that study on period blood loss that used ACTUAL blood instead of water came out and confirmed that women bleed a lot more than we were previously told because I had BEEN saying that the amount that was showed in studies was absolutely incorrect for years. My old doctor was like "I'm sure it feels like it's a lot more than that, but it's only about two tablespoons a day!" As if I wasn't filling up three overnight pads a day and still bleeding through and somehow getting it all over my underwear. I lose like 8 ounces on day two alone, fuck all of these people who do jank ass studies you can't trust any of these men in the labs
A public health researcher I know had an informant who was recording the contents of her diva cup every cycle and when she brought the data to her doctor he was like "that's not true". 🙃
Fuck I had literally the same experience (paraphrasing)
“I have a cup inside me that has a volume of 30mL. I am overfilling it three times a day. I am bleeding around 90mL every 24 hours. “
“I know it can feel like a lot of blood but you have to be measuring wrong because we checked. there’s nothing wrong with your ovaries and your symptoms don’t sound quite like endo****. The high end of normal is only 80mL total. You would be a LOT more anemic”
****the twist is that I did not have endo fr this time.
