And this is an AVERAGE period she’s talking about. Then, there are people like me, who have incurable, unidentifiable, severe BLEEDING/CLOTTING DYSFUCTIONS - basically, where you just keep on bleeding, as if you’ve been stabbed, every single time you bleed! On average…
Pop a pimple, fifteen minutes of bleeding. Bloody nose, half hour. Loose a tooth, an hour. Get a tooth pulled out (by dental professionals!) twelve hours. Non. Stop. Heavy, chunky bleeding.
Now, think about that. An average person doesn’t bleed that long for those things right? Certainly not anyone I know. Now, lets remember the turmoils of menstruation described in the story above. This lasts for about five days right?
Now think about people with bleeding/clotting disorders again. They bleed longer and heavier than average. That said, the worst period I’ve ever had lasted for TWO WHOLE MONTHS, of HEAVY BLEEDING WITH BLOOD CLOTS THE SIZE OF HALF-DOLLARS, THAT EVEN MEDICATIONS WITH 100% SUCCESS RATES WOULD NOT STOP MY BLEEDING. I HAD TO HAVE A SPECIAL SHOT, AN IV, AND TAKE 2 BIRTH CONTROL PILLS A DAY (WHICH REALLY JACK UP YOUR HORMONES) JUST TO GET THE BLEEDING TO *SLOW*.
The point of a period is to shed the lining of the uterus, right? Well when you have what I have, the uterus sometimes replenishes the lining as it sheds it…so the lining takes FOREVER to get rid of. And the only way to cure this is to REMOVE THE UTERUS VIA LIFE-THREATENING SURGERY WHICH, SINCE YOURE GETTING RID OF THE UTERUS, MAKES YOU STERILE AND UNABLE TO HAVE CHILDREN. IT ALSO MAKES YOU GO THROUGH PREMATURE MENOPAUSE. And on top of that, these periods aren’t fully regular.
They can come at any time, any day, any intensity. Do you know how much ANXIETY that causes??
And I’m not even the worst case scenario. My eighth-grade math teacher had the same sort of bleeding/clotting disorder as me, and she bled for a WHOLE ENTIRE YEAR ONCE. That right there is fucking horror movie level shit.
So next time you think, “Oh, periods must not be THAT bad!” you’d better fucking think again. Because you’re not only saying it’s “not that bad” for normal girls - you’re also telling girls like me to suck it up and move on with their lives even though they’re going through shit worse than you’ll ever have to experience in your entire life.
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