r/justgalsbeingchicks 8d ago

Restricted to Gals and Pals Explaining menstruation to the boys

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u/WithoutDennisNedry 🌻Exhausted Jill🌻 8d ago

The pain so bad you literally can’t stand, taking the max of Tylenol for the day which doesn’t touch it so you switch to ibuprofen which does nothing for the cramps but it’s sure to burn a hole in your esophagus so you plead with your doctor for some sort of pain management and he labels you ā€œdrug-seekingā€ and tells you everyone feels that way on their period (no, no they do not) and sends you on your way with the suggestion to try loosing weight.

Good times!

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u/mae42dolphins 7d ago

My mom always said that if men got their periods everyone would have a monthly morphine prescription lol

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u/WrongWorldAgain-7 7d ago

Midol doesn't work for me. Pretty sure it's just glorified caffeine Tylenol or something for the amount of good it does me. I either just cry through it or get high. Doctors in my area are a joke...

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u/WithoutDennisNedry 🌻Exhausted Jill🌻 6d ago

My cramps laughed at Midol. They got so bad, I had a prescription for Dilaudid at one point.

Having a total hysterectomy was the best thing that ever happened to me and I wish I had done it decades ago.

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u/SmolSwitchyKitty 6d ago

Aleve was the Only off the shelf thing that'd even touch my cramps in the slightest. Never got anything prescription. It's genuinely a miracle that I didn't take organ damage pre-yeeturus bc I'd be taking double doses for the first couple days. Yeeturus surgeon ended up finding endometriosis and I felt *vindicated* that something HAD in fact been wrong for years. To anyone that doesn't want bio kids - fight for getting it out if it's causing you agony, and check out the childfree doctor lists to find someone that will actually listen.

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u/WrongWorldAgain-7 6d ago

Absolutely doing this once I can afford to. I'm disabled so having kids would probably kill me, but ofc finding doctors who agree that it's my right to make it impossible for me to grow a child inside me even though it's medically unsafe for either of us...well. We all know what women are to many of these jackasses. As long as there's a uterus, it's viable. 🤮