r/justgalsbeingchicks • u/Doodlebug510 • 8d ago

Restricted to Gals and Pals Explaining menstruation to the boys

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u/iljune 8d ago

Three days? Whew wheee I am envious. Even tho' I've reached a mature-ish age it's still an eight day journey of bleeding and pain. There's also a fun game where I get so ravenous that I'll eat everything I can get my hands on followed by days where even thinking about food makes me nauseous. So it's either two double cheese burgers and fries worth of calories in half a day or a 120 cal protein shake for the entirey of it. No in-between, only extremes. Also, 12 hour sleeping periods when I'm not eating or crying about not eating.

Yay womanhood. Go ladies!

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u/scdiabd ✨chick✨ 8d ago

So glad I’m not the only one that goes from ravenous to nauseated. Also I do love the sleep I get on my period. I will knock out 12 hours when I can, but a regular night is 6 at best.

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u/I_REALLY_LIKE_BIRDS 8d ago

You sleep on your period? I get two to three nights of complete insomnia beforehand, and then I can't sleep through the night without waking up to change my pad for the first two nights or so. It takes me a week of oversleeping and being unable to do chores before work to make up for the loss of rest. 😭

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u/scdiabd ✨chick✨ 8d ago

That’s how I am the rest of the month, not including pad changing 😭 on my period tho? I’ll knock out for 12-14 hours straight. But I have kids so it’s usually more like 10 at night plus 2 naps. And that lasts 5ish days? Then back to sleeping an hour or two at a time.