Blech.

[conuly]

I'm bleeding again. Does this really have to happen every single month?

Comments

[giandujakiss]

there will in fact be a time when you're relieved it's still coming

[conuly]

As far as I'm concerned, menopause can't come soon enough. I don't like bodily fluids very much, so no sex for me - and the sooner we're done with periods, the better!

[marahmarie]

I've been saying that since I was 15. It's been going so bad, though, I wish I'd never said it at all.

*stops to briefly thank public education and any older woman I ever knew for failing to inform me menopause isn't "It simply stops". Menopause is "It might simply stop, or you might just spend 5-15 years learning about all the versions of bodily hell you could never imagine even existed"*

[dhampyresa]

Some forms of hormonal birth control can be used to "unsuscribe" from periods, for example taking monophasic The Pill continuously -- Pill bleeding is only there because of the Pope, anyway.

[librarygeek]

I'm with you on this one. PCOS means my periods have always been painful, and my cardiac condition means no more hormonal medications for me. I'm 49. 36 years of pain, extra ultrasounds, and even just extra supplies costs, and this can *stop* any minute now.

[readerjane]

I knew as soon as my daughter was born, I knew I was done using my ovaries. They kept plugging along for another twenty-six years. That just seems like a really poor design.

[silveradept]

People who react well to hormones may be able to tell the bleeding to get bent.

All the same, it seems like a better system could have been evolved.

[lilysea]

And for those of us with debilitatingly heavy periods + no desire for children or for more children, endometrial ablation stops periods!

They cauterise the lining of your uterus [under anaesthetic], and no more periods!

[marahmarie]

"Burn it with fire" sounds about right *nods*

[chelseagirl]

Eventually it goes away, and that is marvelous.

[purplecat]

My contraception (Interuterine Device) stopped the periods dead. Doesn't do that for everyone and obv. you need to check health recommendations and be prepared to put up with it being inserted and changed every five years but, oh, so glad just to not have to deal most of the time.

Hot flashes, on the other hand, while in no way as bad as periods, suck big time.