All the Cramps, sleepless nights, mood swings and lot more can make some Ladies behave crazy.....
Years back,I know a lady who anytime shes 'perioding' she practically becomes temporarily crazy.One time she wore up from sleep typing just wrapper and slippers and took a Molue Bus to a far destination..Her family found her later in Hospital unconscious......she got better after the period was over....
It happened every month...
Do you have any period tales to share?
Let's hear them...
Let's hear them...
No Boys Zone. π
ReplyDeleteI don't eat on the first day because chewing that period seems like torture. My first and fourth day kinda hellish; the pain is from my abdomen to the anus.
DeleteGuess am one of the lucky ones. Never had it and never had labour pains. But my younger sis very painful, we even land in hospital.
DeleteI have not had period pains before . Even my mum. Lucky us
DeleteLet me borrow space here @perxian Abeg shift for meππ
Delete@ Orire , first and fourth day for me too is hellish. I equally throw up on the first day and eat very light just for strength
Delete@Onome you are super lucky.
DeleteI remember passing out one time from the pains. From stomach pains to back pains, waist pains, diarrhoea, sometimes I throw up, feel dizzy, painful nipples. Something I might overlook on a good day will irritate me and i just want to be left alone. If i go to pee, I must change because i will be very irritated...and this goes on for 5 days.
Thank God for women...it is well with us.
Mine used to be painful, i have rushed some examination process just to get out of the hall and find a place to endure the pain. I missed geography exam in ss3 because of pain, i couldnt take anything cold or sugary, it used to affect my bones and i couldn't stay anywhere cold.
DeleteMy cousin had it so bad, shes come outside the house in her pant not bothering who was looking.
My elder sister has fainted from the pain and practically takes injection and is placed on drip because she cant eat anything...
All these have changed, since we had our kids and we had them through cs, sometimes i cant even believe i ever went through such pain.
Mine is right from my ovulation day till my period comes wallahi ba Lafia fa. I do have headache, abdominal pain, back pain, discharge, high temperature and dizziness. 3 days after ovulation my breast will start paining me and my nipples will start hurting like mad this will continue till the end of my period.. honestly I'm tired, another new thing now is itchy during ovulation i don't even know if it's normal or not.
ReplyDelete13:08 kindly see a Doc.
DeleteYour own is tougher than mine oh. Visit a good doctor to confirm if the itching is normal especially since you ar having discharge.
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DeleteMy own is ‘local acupuncture’ when the period pain comes. There was a day I didn’t expect the ol’lady and I almost fainted in pain. Mehn, I had to take a pin and started pricking myself in different parts of my body. I was able to bear the pain till I got home. It kinda helps centralize the pain so it’s easier to manage.
Shyla, don't you bleed from these various places? Is there a specific location you prick, or do you prick anywhere from head to toe?
DeleteI'm intrigued.
I don’t prick till I draw blood. You know like when you just lightly keep pricking at random places. If I am in the office I just concentrate on my hands, arms and thighs. If you have toothpick, you can use too. Just something sharp that will keep distracting you from the pain in the stomach and spread it evenly.
DeleteAnony13.08,
DeleteI understand u, even d itchy.
At this point i dread period. When i got my birth control i was happy bcoz i tot i ll escape if period dont come but nope. If period dont come, i ll still ovulate, so d shit is real.
Am tired.
I only notice minor cramps and HEAVY flow when I take anything sugary few days to my menstrual cycle.
ReplyDeleteMy roommate in school used to use double pads and between 8.00am and 12.00pm of going to church and coming back, she would be stained.
One close to our room then would place a permanent bucket beside her bed for vomiting throughout her menstrual days.
I felt so much pity for them.
I don't even boarder going to church once i am on my period on day two or day three. I stay at home for fear of messing up my dress from church.
DeleteMine started after my second child's birth,oh my goodness the pain is unexplainable,have mercy on me Lord and heal me,if the pain becomes unbearable I cry,if I take pain relief table it ceases the flow.
DeleteIt's well
Yem.girl don't take paracetamol, try aceloclofenac next time
DeleteI only feel light cramps or no cramps at all guess I’m lucky
DeleteOnce I am on I dislike having people around me, both male and female.i prefer to be left alone till I am done then we can go back the way we all usually relate.
ReplyDeleteThe mood swing is something else, the pains is on another level. I dislike going out once I am on. I start acting like a pregnant woman, I hardly eat, drink, do anything. Just to lay down.
My elder sister she must be taken to hospital and place in drip. When she finally became nurse, she was very strong to do it for herself. Once she start feeling weak she put herself on drip, hammer her bum bum with injection. Her kids now assist her since they are all grown up. She is planning to take off the whole sack since she is done with child bearing.
I have a friend she must faint every month. Once she faint then everyone knows she is on, women are really going through alot. Men if your woman is on her period please treat her right, pet her cos that season in her life is a very difficult one.
I intend to take my uterus out but doctor said am too damn young, i ll be reviewed every 6months for 2yrs, if my answer is same then i ll get approved.
Delete@yemi girl, pls consult your doctor. Sometimes it could be endometriosis. It should have been there before delivery. Is unusual for you to start having menstrual pains after 2 kids. Another thing to check is if you have fibroids.
Deletemine is ovulation pain o, it's like malaria. i will be having fever, waist pain and headache.. The very minute the egg is being expel from the ovary is the worse i will be shaking and sweating like seriously. women we are trying
ReplyDeleteIf you experience painful period or whatever...few days to your period get fresh pumpkin leaves wash and blend, sieve and drink the juice ...you can do this repeatedly and you have a pain free period.
Delete#PeriodHacks
I used to have it but I noticed that if I fast, even a fruit fast with water, it clears.
Delete@ Goodness, also freshly squeezed scent leaves can do the magic. If you notice your period is about to come and you are guilty of sugary stuff, just squeeze like half a cup a day or two days before your period and your pain will reduce.
DeleteI will try that.
DeleteI will definitely try it,am hopeful, thanks
DeleteI usually have very serious cramps two days before my period and the pain would continue to the second day of my period before releasing me. This cramps will start from my abdomen and then to my anus.
ReplyDeleteAnd my heavy flow is a story for another day.
I am happy that about three or four years ago, I finally found the best sanitary pad for me. A slim fit pad made for heavy flow. And its far better than Always pads.
But, I noticed that I didn't feel any pains at all this month. Maybe its because I am relaxed and not stressed out.
Please share the best sanitary pad you discovered with your sister oh. Because till now I am still searching for the best sanitary pad the can help my ministry.
DeleteWhen I first started menstruating, na die for the whole five days... Sometimes, I purge through out that I will become so weak, sometimes it's just abdominal pain right down to my anus, sometimes ehn, my anus go dey seize like say thunder dey strike for there, sometimes due to the pains I will be looking for cold floor to lie untop, I no go fit chop or do anything.. Nobody should dare call my name (I was always angry and pissed at everything) I just want to be left alone. Sooooo much discomfort!
DeleteThen, I started using pain relief drugs to relief it whc worked. Then, like 8 months later my cycle changed to just 3days flow, since then for years now I menstruate for just 3days and I've never had heavy flow, infact I can wear a white attire while menstruating.
Years later, I heard speculations about how bad taking drugs is (then, I worked on enduring the pain and avoid taking pain relief drugs) α»mα», I Wan die.. I no dey fit do anything when it comes!!!
I started exercising a lot, took lots of water.. Brethrens, the pain more like stopped totally every month that I hardly know when this thing Wan show again, then I learnt taking warm water with milk, warm bath, everything warm through out the period days helps.. That's how I've been surviving the pain o
If I stop exercising for months, I will feel pain during the flow so I just take plenty warm stuff to cope, so the pain only last for the first day, the remaining days I'm free of it.
αΊΈ no easy o but it got better for me.
@ excited, there is this pad that few supermarkets sell. It’s Always but because it comes in a carton, they can’t sell it with the carton but it’s always like 20 in a pack each. There is no name on the packs but it’s Always cos I have seen the carton.
DeleteInfact eh, if you have heavy flow, just go and get it. It’s thick, very long to cover up to your front and back that when you sleep, you can scatter your legs anyhow sef. Lol
If you want I can send you a picture of what it looks like so you look out for it. Send your email. I know Ebeano sells it though.
My sister uses pampers or she doubles her pad like 3-4..it flows like a tap
DeleteTade, everything warm works cos it helps to melt the blood for it to flow out easier. The easier it flows=less pains. It's best to avoid cold water from a day to your period to after your period. If possible, drink only warm water. Drink hot tea and eat hot food. Hold warm water in a bottle to the lower part of your stomach. Avoid sugary foods. And try and be as comfortable as you can.
DeleteMine is that i want to try that menstrual cup. I am tired of buying sanitary pads. Please who knows where i can get one here in Nigeria?
ReplyDeleteCheck out luvurbody menstrual cups. I got mine for 2k+1k home delivery. It saves me lots of money and not as scary as I imagined.
DeleteI'm grateful to God. I've never taken drugs or anything to ease menstrual pain...A week to my period I get irritated easily, mood swings and some body changes and mild cramp. Period days, manageable cramps day 1 particularly and the rest days I'm good.
ReplyDeleteWhen my Coz told me her ordeal long ago when we were little, it was strange to me, she came visiting and was asking for drugs to take, I told her I wasn't aware they take drugs for period pains. She looked at me and said lucky you.
Though I don't take drugs but it took me a long time to learn to manage the mood swings that came with my period, if you don't know me well, you'll think I'm a differnt person a week to my flow. My countenance, my attitude, my responses, irritation. It was so bad, I thought something was wrong with me growing up till I figured out its always happening during my monthly flow then I learnt to manage it. My aunt said I should prepare for pregnancy, saying little things will put me off when it's time. I dey wait.
You are lucky.
DeleteI don't have menstrual pain but i noticed i do have cramps on both side of my tummy in the middle of my cycle and back pain, it can last for like a week.. is it normal?
ReplyDeleteI have. Mine is if I'm invited to an occasion, I have to check if it clashes with period and if yes, o boy, I'll decline because my period will just disgrace me there. I have no pain but the flow no be here. I runs like running tap. The period don show me pepper. Even at work, I take a pass to go home because it disgraces me. It runs four complete days with lots of drama. Can't wait to get married, heard it reduces after child birth.
ReplyDeletei noticed people who don't have serious cramp have heavy flow while people who have serious cramp have mild flow
DeleteDon't believe that shit they told you it reduce after child birth. Fat lies nothing like that because my sisters are still in pains til date.
DeleteI don't also attend occasions once I am on my period, going to work I have to carry extra cloth.
@excited courtesy, mine actually disappeared after I had kids!
DeleteUsed to be terrible before then,
Vommitting, stooling, cramps etc
Same here, the flow no be here. I check my calendar before accepting any invites. Lemme respect maself.
DeleteDeHeroine, some people have both.
Mine started after my second child,The pain is horrible.
Delete@Deheroine, i have mild flow that lasts only three days and I have never had menstrual pain in my life. I even tried taking lots of sugary stuff on the first day so I can get cramps and know what other ladies go through, still I didn't feel anything. The only thing I experience is that I purge sometimes during my period.
DeleteI used to have acute menstrual cramps that made me miss lectures back in the university days. There in the foundation class of our campus fellowship, we were taught about breaking of bread, using unleavened bread (bread without yeast) and grapevine wine like Jesus taught. And that people are "weak and sick" for neglecting it; 1 Cor. 11:29-30. Before then, I had never partaken in breaking of bread. I prayed to the Lord to heal me of severe dysmenorrhea (that's what the doctors called it because I often got admitted in hospitals).
ReplyDeleteAfter the service, I forgot it.
Then tragedy happened. Some weeks after that, I got up from the class seat after lectures only to discover that my seat had been stained with blood...how? I was so afraid. I ran to the toilet to check and it was indeed my menses. I still had to go to the hospital to be sure, and the doctor told me the same. She too was confused having admitted me before for severe menstrual cramps.
so you got healed after that day and the cramps have stopped?
Delete@DeHerione
DeleteYES; for a decade plus, I've not had it again. In fact, I learnt to bake unleavened bread myself and buy bottled grapevine wine and do communion at home after that incident. Jesus taught us to do it "as often as we can..." 1 Cor. 11:25, Acts 2:46
There are a lot in God's Word, if we will pay attention to him.
wow your faith made you whole
DeleteI hope she is better now.
ReplyDeleteI used to have severe menstrual cramps but as soon as I started birthing babies,it disappeared .
Thank God for me.
Lucky you, my own na the other way round.
DeleteVe always had a smooth period, but about 5 months ago 'i noticed an unusual pattern...anytime I am on my period I feel and touch a tiny round smooth ball-like shaped object just at the tip of my vagina coming from inside...it's painless tho and I don't know if I should be alarmed by it.
ReplyDeleteYou have incomplete prolapsed uterus. You should start kegel exercises
DeleteSee a doctor Is not normal.
DeleteMost likely a polyp
DeleteSee your Dr. It might be fibroid you are feeling. Happens to me too
DeleteMine has been painfully bearable. Imagine my disappointment after giving birth and still experiencing same thing
ReplyDeleteI think this thing has to do with body not the way people are saying it.
DeleteTrue. I used to have a roommate back then in school.anytime she's on her period, she would throw up, lay on the floor naked and then her eyes will turn red. She used to be in serious pains on the first day.i really felt for her then and also thank God that I never experience such things when I'm on my period.
ReplyDeleteThis is quite serious o. I must be the luckiest girl on earth tho cos I hardly have cramps despite my sweet tooth. Let me learn a few things from those that have as no knowledge is a waste.
ReplyDeleteHa...Stella eleyi gidi gaaaan oh! The one I experienced was a neighbor who goes mad after every child birth. She lost her govt job because as she had to be kept at home for months with the grandmum taking care of the newborn. She had 4 children in total and died one day. This was years back.
ReplyDeleteFine hardworking wealthy woman. Easy going and very loving, once she puts to bed and gets back home,she can wake up and run out of the house to the street with her ppl running after her. After a while she will sit and be looking lost (could have been the effects of the drugs she was on). They called it abi sinwin.
The husband allowed her to birth 4 children, she should have put a pause after the second child and take care of her health. Women at really going through alot
DeleteExactly my sentiment @EC, she should have stopped!
DeletePostpartum depression I think
DeletePostpartum depression probably.. Awareness is key on this issue
DeleteLovelace.
Am sorry but what happened to stopping after the first child was born???
DeleteThis sounds like postpartum psychosis not postpartum depression.
Delete*Omo Iya Doctor*
I hardly have any cramps during my period, I don't even know my menstrual cycle. I only get to know the period has started when I see blood stain on my pant. But I have a friend while in school, the day I witnessed the pain she always experience, I felt pity for her. She was practically rolling on the floor with tears dropping from her eyes, she begged us (I and other roomie) to help get paracetamol, right there in our presence she swallowed 12tablets, and in less than 10minutes she was ok. If I had not seen with my eyes I wouldn't have believed.
ReplyDeleteI know a girl that stops functioning once she's on her period. She will be in bed all through, throwing up and twisting like a snake in bed.
ReplyDeleteMo ja danu.. π
What are you doing here?
DeleteWhen she starts twisting,my brother runoo cos u go chop sakpaoo.lol
DeleteI noticed that if I stop taking sugar some days before the period all will be oky in paradise but if I miss calculate ,Na my ancestors no go dey see.
Ogeamaka you're right about sugary things before period. I plan to be eating vegetables and fruits a week before to see how it'll go
DeleteWen I'm on my period, please don't try me because I'll give you fire for fire anyhow you want it. Thank God I'm beginning to be aware of my crazy behaviour and I'm trying to control myself during periods because I hate how I feel after "displaying" and also having to apologise to whomever I went gaga on. Plus my flow is crazy heavy, I change my pad 3 times a day, if not the pad gets full and starts to drip down my legs (it has happened several times). I learnt ladies with heavy flow give birth to twinsπ doctors in the house is it true?
ReplyDeleteThen menstral pain nko? Chineke God. e no easy
Lucky you,,On the 2nd and 3rd day i always change my pad 6 times a day and 3 Times at midnight...
DeleteI normal have heavy flow 2nd and 3rd day..but the 1st and 4th day is only 2 pads a day..
I used to have cramps but not every month.
Some months are hell for me and some months i will be notify by blood stain on my pant without pain just blood stain.
But last month own was hell,i used 3 pkts of always pad and it must stain my cloth.
I hardly go out if am on.
No going out, no visitors,just me and my pad..
Me I be living witness ooo, during my period, i will vomit for like 2 days, cannot go out. Everyone will know I am seeing my period. Again the pain is like I want to give birth, the reason I get to know like is labour pain is when i was giving birth to my first child, now I am on the second journey now. When i travel out of the country, the pain reduce, sometimes no pain, all of a sudden it came back again, I dont know what to do, I have tried almost every traditional medicine and others.
ReplyDeletePlease dont mind my writing
My friend used to have very high fever and severe acne ,
ReplyDeleteMost times she had to be on infusion.
It used to be very scary.
Days 2 and 3 of my period are hell days for me. Day time, if I dont put a thick napkin under the pad, i must get stained. There was a day the hold up was much while going to the office, as i alighted from the vehicle, blood ran down my legs. I touched my pussy area and my fingers were stained. God have mercy on me!!! At night nko, I dont even know how to lie down again. Turn like this, the blood is tickling down, turn the other way, same thing. Pls guys, is there a special pad one can use? LadyCare is obviously no longer serving me.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you should try diapers. It works very well for heavy flow or you use ladysept, that new mothers use, then you place your lady care underneath it.
DeleteGet Longrich sanitary napkin, it'll even reduce the bleeding
DeleteDon’t lie on your back
DeleteWhy don’t you guys use tampons +pads? That should work for someone with heavy flow, at least it works for me. No need for all this serial disgrace up and down nau.
Delete*Omo Iya Doctor*
Buy ladysept and pad (Ladycare or Always) use it together..
DeleteFollow @ Madam B instructions..
A friend gave me that idea last week,i will try it in my next flow...
I have an aunt who is now a grandma of 3. She has never seen the flow come out of her. She is very fair , almost an albino. Whenever it's her period, the blood flows round her body, her veins just pops out at some places like her wrist, she looks reddish but the blood never flows out. After 4 days her complexion comes back to normal. She has never bought a pad in her life. We were shocked the day she told us her story. She only knows it's time for her period when the cramps start.
ReplyDeleteI know someone like that, she has 6 boys and whenever she is on her period it shows on her palm, it turns red after 5 days it returns back to normal
DeleteI've tried researching on this but found nada
DeleteI would have preferred the method.
DeleteYes it’s called Vicarious menstruation.
DeleteSome will be their eyes that will be red.
God is Powerful
My neighbour is like that
DeleteShe has 3kids.. no period
Whenever it get to that time of the month. Her navel will turn red.
But the disadvantage is that she is on birth control pills. because how will she calculate her safe days not to get pregnant.
I go through hell each time I'm on my period. I feel this stabbing pains under my stomach, couple with the fact that I have fibriod. I use 2 pads every month. I take 2 cards each of cataflam and piroxicam every month. If I do not take them, I see my spirit floating on top my body. Because of so much drugs in my system during that period, I eat so much and add like 3kg every month. It will end one day in Jesus name. People will say stop taking drugs and all that... but they won't understand. Stella, the pains can KILL!!!
ReplyDeleteIf you can be doing sit-ups and jogging, it helps you a bit. Also try and incorporate vitamin ( 1000mg the one you dissolve in water) Vitamin D ( at least btw 2000iu -5000iu) and iron tablets as your daily supplement.
DeleteI know the sharp fibroid pains can be bad, but if you can be doing the exercise and sit-ups. It will relieve you)
Try taking hot fluids. If you can drink warm water as the only water you drink all through your period days. Eat hot foods. And hold a bottle of slightly hot water on your lower stomach. I heard exercises help too. May God heal you.
DeleteThey said menopause is worse. instead make I dey manage period small small
ReplyDeletemy mum sweats and eats like a pig because of menopause
hmmmm i don't wish my enemy my kind of period cramp. It cannot be described the pains is something else. If it happen to begin early in the morning,i must vomit and it is usually the worst one. But if it starts after i have taken breakfast or during the day,i can quickly take some drugs and the pain goes down. If i don't take drugs,the whole day will be useless for me though the cramp is only on the first day
ReplyDeleteThen what you should do is to keep close record of your monthly cycle date, that week you are expecting it just make sure you have breakfast on time so that once it comes out you can take drugs. Pele.
Deletenice idea
DeleteEverything you said applies to me too
DeleteMy mood swing is always on another level. I can't wait to get pregnant ojare....
ReplyDeleteππππ€£
DeleteAnytime am close to seeing it, my mind will start jumping cos mine is always so painful
ReplyDeletePeriod cramps are the worst ππ
ReplyDeleteI remember in school, my period started on the day i had one tough exam to write ,i don’t normally take drugs(all i do is to relax ,use hot water to massage my abdomen and sleep), but no time for all these processes so my friend gave me one tablet she said works for her ...
Taking that tablet was what made everything escalate,i could barely concentrate in the hall,i was sweating profusely,serious cramps, everyone was rotating in front of me ,it was so bad.. i could not remember anything i read.
I tried to explain how i was feeling to the lecturer in charge of the course but either he was in a bad mood at the time,or he did not just have sympathy, he yelled at me and embarrassed me more in the hallπ€¦π½♀️.
I had to submit the blank answer sheet like that ,failed the course, and wrote it again the following year...
I will never forget this experience .
Too bad afrique. Mine was on my wedding day, even after double pads and secure tights my village people still cam to mark register. Most embarrassing day ever
DeleteSome men are heartless.
DeleteI can relate to this. Mine, my legs will just go numb, feeling nausea, running stomach. Not a beautiful experience honestly
ReplyDeleteI've always had painless period.
ReplyDeleteMy eldest sister use to have painful period that lands her in the hospital. She got better after she gave birth.
My immediate elder sister use to have painful period too that the whole neighborhood use to gather when it starts.
All history now.
Same with my cousin
DeleteGrowing up I use to experience very painful menstruation that will land me in the hospital, I tried both English and traditional medicine for where it will never work, my mom will always tell me wen i start having children that d pain will stop. The first day I will see pepper,and then the fourth day same pain comes with very thick flow for about 1hour.
DeleteBut now, I don't even feel any pain I hardly knows wen it start, because i know d date I'm always with pad, although I have not started bearing children.
Father in heaven please pick my call.
On a scale of 1-10,with 10 being the highest pain for me is 5, not so much and can easily be relieved by drinking hot tea or simply laying on my stomach.
ReplyDeleteMenstrual headaches are much more painful for me and I experience them every month, unfailingly. They come 2-3 days into the period and last till 2 days after so I keep pain killers on hand for that reason, not for menstrual pain.
Let me drop this here, maybe, I can get help. I was on levofem contraceptive for just 2months then stopped, for 3months now no show, my period has been very irregular, I am on my period now, making it just 20 days cycle. From my research it means I'm not ovulating. Please can anyone suggest what I can take? I want to be pregnant.
ReplyDeleteMine started today. E dey do me like Coro for 9t
ReplyDeleteBefore I started having babies, it was hell!! I have always had very short period of 48hrs but the first twelve hours would see me confessing known and unknown sins. The diarrhea, the vomiting two days pre-period, through the period and three days post-period. I could never gain weight because I'd lose appetite totally for those days.
ReplyDeleteMy mum took me to the gynecologist and after series of examinations, he recommended a curettage which my mother turned down and the Dr said the next option was to manage until I got married and pregnancy would curb it. I didn't know what a curettage was but I needed a relief. I cried that my mother was wicked and loved to see me suffer. I just went every month to take shots of feldene that almost never helped. Mum was always prepared to do the lower Tommy and waist massage every month.
When I was getting married, my biggest joy was getting pregnant and having babies and putting all the period trauma behind me. I didn't know the underlying cause of the traumatic period had never been touched, thereby creating terrible pregnancy experience. Everything I suffered in 48hrs of period, I suffered for 6months nonstop, going in and out of the ER like a regular staff. After series of numerous tests, I was diagnosed with hormonal imbalance. I ended up with three pre-term babies. The last one almost sent me off.
Right now, the pain is as good as nonexistent. I don't even take pain killers anymore.
Period pain is terrible! I don't wish it on any lady. And I heard labour Pain is worst than itπ₯π₯.
ReplyDeleteMine used to be so bad that I'll be in bed all day. No appetite. Bad mood swings. Thanks be unto God, it's better now.
I feel some pains occasionally but with paracetamol, little exercise, hot green tea and water bath, I feel better.
I made a change in my diet. No sugar at all. No cold drinks/water.
It's not easy to be a woman.
I knew of someone who always landed in the hospital cos of Period.
ReplyDeleteAs soon as she gave birth, it stopped
Same with my cousin, she always landed in the hospital too cos of period but it stopped as soon as she gave birth
DeleteOnce I vomited, I just feel better
ReplyDeleteI think im part of the few woman dat hardly has cramps. I just feel abit of pains when its almost coming. But never enuf cramps i need to take pain reliver.
ReplyDeleteMy friend in school though,dat period she cant go to class at all. She will have to go to hospital most times for injections.
You have no idea how lucky you are! π
DeleteSame here.
DeleteI do have migraine, lack of concentration,mood swing and anxiety .before birth it was just cramps and nothing else , now after birth, no cramps but the aforementioned.
ReplyDeleteTwo weeks before my period that is wen I start having mild pains in my upper nd lower abdomen which means I will have to take pain relief drugs....d day of my period is always worst cos it wakes me up at midnight yes it always start at midnight with small pains before it will escalate...even with drugs I am always in serious pains which means no work for not even wen I was still working in the bank...it takes 2days for the pains to calm down DAT is after taking pain relief drugs nd plenty of hot water...I remembered wen my mum was still alive she will to tell me any month DAT u did not cry from pains it means u are pregnant...I asked what can I do to stop d pains, she said wen u start giving birth it will stop cos my sister's own stopped immediately she start given birth...AS genotype has hindered my settling down till now cos I always fall in love with same genotype guys which means I'm still going thru d cramp in fact I'm expecting my period tmrw which means crying for me from dis night....
ReplyDeletePele
DeleteSorry dear.
DeleteMine has reduced drastically compared to my teen years.
ReplyDeleteOnly have heavy flow on the day 1.
Then the 4th day, have painful cramps due to one annoying clot of blood that wants to flow out.
Soon as that clot comes out, the cramp stops..then period ends shortly after.
Two weeks before my period that is wen I start having mild pains in my upper nd lower abdomen which means I will have to take pain relief drugs....d day of my period is always worst cos it wakes me up at midnight yes it always start at midnight with small pains before it will escalate...even with drugs I am always in serious pains which means no work for not even wen I was still working in the bank...it takes 2days for the pains to calm down DAT is after taking pain relief drugs nd plenty of hot water...I remembered wen my mum was still alive she will tell me any month DAT u did not cry from pains it means u are pregnant...I asked what can I do to stop d pains, she said wen u start giving birth it will stop cos my sister's own stopped immediately she start given birth...AS genotype has hindered my settling down till now cos I always fall in love with same genotype guys which means I'm still going thru d cramp in fact I'm expecting my period tmrw which means crying for me from dis night....
ReplyDeleteI guess am lucky when it comes to menstrual pain. I rarely feel any pain at all and my period is not usually heavy. The first and second day by 3rd day its gone just little spotting.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing is that I get easily irritated then and I usually find it difficult to eat cos my tummy will be full,thats for the first day, after the first day every thing goes back to normal.
It even better after my first and second delivery.
My period does not usually come untill 1 and half years after delivery and it's even milder now than before.at times I don't even know, I just feel that am wet.
I envy those who do not experience cramps during menses. Two weeks before my period starts, I will start having mild tommy pain, back pain and at times legs pain. I vomit, stool and become totally useless during mensuration. Mood swings nko? When people talk, I get irritated! But I heard when u start giving birth, the pain will disappear (I really hope it's true cos I don't wanna continue like this). I have tried ginger, hot wager etc but e be like say the pain too stubborn
ReplyDeleteMood swings, get more irritated easily. Hate the bloating.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I have painless menstruation, sometimes mild pains and then some times super painful one.
ReplyDeleteI found one powdered ibuprofen here that reduces the pain to the barest minimum about 30 mins after taking it. So I no dey fear again
BTW, I heard the pain reduces or disappears after childbirth, how true is this please?
Last paragraph..very true.
DeleteThe pain disappears after child birth for some people not for everyone.
DeleteTrue. Happened to my sister
DeleteIt's true for me.
DeleteBe careful with the amount of ibuprofen and other analgesics you ingest.
DeleteWe have the powder in naija na. Voltafast. Within few minutes you won't feel pains again. But if you have heavy flow, just seat your ass down at home because it will flowwwwwwww!
DeleteNo menstra pain but mood swing and sleeping mood
ReplyDeleteI don’t feel any pain at all, no ovulation or mensuration pain, in fact if I am not careful I will get stained due to the no prior warning(pain), I started tracking the period to avoid embarrassment since I don’t have pains.
ReplyDeleteI normally have cramps and waist pains 2 days before my period and it continues till the the third day of it, sometimes I take paracetamol,Lipton tea to ease it off! The second day is always heavy and so I tend to be very careful
ReplyDeleteI do have mood swings, anxiety,tender boobs,some times I'm bloated, sometimes I have running stomach too
In all,to be a woman is not easy
Mine is vomit n painful cramp π’ It happens once in 3 months to think I started to have sex bcs of this crazy cramps, friends told me it would go after sex, nothing yet and it's over a year.
ReplyDeleteI don't regret d sex tho ππ
Before or during my period I do have headaches.
ReplyDeleteDuring those times I prefer
to be left alone.
Women are indeed the stronger sex, men doff your hats.
ReplyDeleteSome women's menstral pain is like having a baby every month.
From Buscopan, Felvin....name names.
My own starts with waist pain (ranging from mind to severe) the moment I feel it I start to take ibrupofen. Next comes the breast and nipple pain which is severe. Then the headaches and the snapping (I snap at everyone seriously I am trying to control this but it does not work). Then when the eagle lands severe headache and cramps.....when I am in the office or at home, I go just they strong face because of the pain or just keep quiet because if you look for my trouble I don't care who you are I go shout back.....we women suffer ohhhh.
ReplyDeleteMine is sore breast,purging and cramp . It started today and I'm in the toilet now purging and typing.
ReplyDeleteAs for me, once my period starts, I get very edgy. I make sure I warn everybody at home not to misbehave. I can beat my children for the flimsyest excuse. I announce to my MIL that my body is doing me somehow so please don't upset me.
ReplyDeleteI also try to stay at home because I can sack my workers for cracking dry jokes or doing things I will normally have overlooked. It's time for everyone to dey dia dey.
Leemao.. It is well
DeleteHahaha funny you
DeletePretty girlie you are not alone on this table, you and I share same monthly challenge. I pray one day the whole monthly cycle pains will vanish.
ReplyDeleteSpice tat shit does nothing, some even said when you get married everything will stop once you give birth. Lies of the heart because my elder sisters are still experiencing same issue, I even have a sister that has stopped giving birth she is still going through same challenge.
Sex cannot stop anything, same way I was told when I was growing up.
Apart from tbe mood swings and tender breasts My periods are always painless. Atimes I experience slight discomfort on the waist but you see that tender breast ehn, it's the most painful of all. Chai!
ReplyDeleteMine I hate seeing stew and have losses of appetite than I dont like having people around me
ReplyDeleteMood swings,purging,waist pain as if somebody is sitting in my waist,heavy flow, after the period migraine and dizziness at times I see my period twice a month, hmmn,if am writing exams forget it,I will sleep and carry one leg up,become forgetful and start perceiving mouth and body odour, can bath and brush till my skin turns red,it is well.
ReplyDeletePls anyone with experience with prolonged period.like 2weeks till date,gone to the hospital n they told me to wait it out..
ReplyDeletePlease go and remove that fibroid
Delete17:12 it is NOT fibroid. When you people don't know something rather than sound ignorant, ASK abeg
DeleteI normally hve painful menstruation
ReplyDeleteAnd heavy folw to the extent
That I started seeking for solution for my heavy flow,a frnd of mine told
Me to always consume vitamin K
As it helps to reduce the flow.
So last year August on the 1st day of
My period I took the vitamin K
My period lasted for just 2days I was so happy and relieved I never knew
Wat I got myself into.u need to see how happy I was that I hve gotten a
Permanent solution to my problem.
The next month been september was the height of it all.
to the extent i thought I wanted to die,i started confessing my sin's to God and asking for mercy.
It all started around 2am
To think my period just came out
That night unexpectedly.It was late
So I couldn't buy my vitamin k.i just took pracetamol to relief me of the cramps( I normally take 4 piece of pracetamol) at a time. The pains was so much that I couldn't endure
I was shouting and crying/shouting out in pains.
Everyone woke up in my hus both my siblings and neighbors.i started throwing up it got so bad that @ point
I became so weak I couldn't even shout
It was a near death experience.
Infact eh I saw hell everyone
Was crying and begging me to tell them d truth if I did Abortion.
and the blood was just too much it was flowing non-stop.
Finally i was rushed to the hospital for proper treatment.
That very period lasted for 10days
All throughout heavy flow.
Infact u needed to see me then
After the period issue
I looked like a working corpse.
That experience made me appreciated my Creator so much.
Nah wah oh!
DeleteSee how u risked ur own
Life.u guys should stop
All this self medication.
And Better stop takin 4 tablets
Of para at a time that is drug abuse incase u don't knw.Before
It results into something else
In the future.
Pls what was your diagnosis...cos mine has been 15days
DeleteOn the first day of my period, I don't sit. I either kneel or lie down. Thankfully, it comes mostly at weekends.
ReplyDeleteKid sis pain is usually out of this world.
Kai! Menstrual pain really dealt with me back in the day. My secondary school clinic staff knew me very well then. Once they see me, the next thing na to cook me injection sharp sharp. They will be like : Nwa dysmenorrhea abiala, nwete ogwu ura ka agbaa ya”
ReplyDeleteIt is well with all ladies/women... To do period nor easy rara rara. Yet some men go dey act like say dem nor send us. Mine is just mild cramps accompanied with lot of appetite, fatigue, funny taste in my mouth n all..... But by Day 3 am good. But day 2,i nor go fit go anywhere ooooo cz I will be extremely weak n tired... Women we dey try. N some ladies act as if they don't do periods. Hmmmmmmm
ReplyDeleteMy own is beyond me,mother of 4grown ups as in,graduate,in my 40s,come n see my children running around when I'm on my period, buh they won't know,d bed Will be vibrating, come n see cold,blankets, aboniki balm,hot water,I will just be holding my abdomen, cos it will be as if my abdomen wants to burst. Now my first daughter has taken after me. I can't wait for mono pause mbok.
ReplyDeleteJust finished going through my monthly dose of pain now. Not easy at all
ReplyDeleteHave you ever had cramps to the extent you start contemplating suicide?..that’s me and believe me I’m not exaggerating..
ReplyDeleteEach month comes with a different kind of pain,stooling,vomiting, all my joints become numb..I get easily irritated,I won’t want anybody around me,I find it difficult to eat..
Sometimes I’m being rushed to the hospital
Luckily for me this month has been the best month yet..I don’t know what happened but I didn’t experience a single cramp,I just woke up on Monday and noticed it was out although it’s not heavy as usual..I don’t know if I should be worried,unlike me I’ve being using short pads and pant liners instead of the pad for heavy flow
My monthly flow is always a heavy one. Only experience serious cramps on the first day then the remaining 3days am freeee
ReplyDeleteMine was triggered by birth control. As soon as i got on that shit, i see hell for period n ovulation. Am off it but didnt escape d migraine, cramps ,mood swings.
ReplyDeleteMy next life i am coming as a man.
I tell my husband his very lucky.
Reading this has brought tears to my eyes. It's amazing that women go through this every single month and still come out strong, attending to work, friends and family.
ReplyDeleteAs a man, I confess that I have been inconsiderate to what women suffer, and I sincerely apologize.
From today, I'll be more sympathetic.
Thank you Stella for this educative piece.
God bless all you wonderful women.
Did you do family planning? Cos am expressing the same thing
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