Image ID: a black and orange image of Sisyphus pushing up a boulder. The boulder is labeled "the fucking menstrual cycle".
A few days after my period ends I just blissfully forget about it until one day I wake up and notice my crotch looks like someone was murdered there. Super duper fun.
My period started at the age of 11. Within a year, on the very first day my period would start, the cramps would be so bad that I would start vomiting & fainting. It would last around 2 days. EVERY. SINGLE. FUCKING. MONTH.
Some piece of shit doctor told my parents this it was completely normal, and that I was probably just being dramatic. My parents were also religious, so BC was absolutely NOT an option.
Finally, in my 20s, my period finally came back several months after I had my kid. It wasn't that bad! ...... for a while. A few years later, that pain came back, I was like "haha fukkin nope" and looked into BC.
Found a pill, it up cleared my skin & I now have a period that lasts like 20 minutes once a month. I fucking love it!!
Also, that pain I was experiencing fucked up my body forever, apparently. So, ladies, fucking insist on getting severe pains checked out. It's NOT normal, and you deserve to get it looked at and taken seriously.
Endometriosis is often underdiagnosed because of this and even other problems that may not even have to do with the uterus like UTI which can hurt in a similar way you'll get the "it's just your period". There are so many bad doctors like that even female doctors because the truth is that the female body hasn't been studied as much as the male body so there's still a lot that they're not sure of.aq And it's not just women, because skin ailments have been studied mostly in white people the conditions are described like what they look like in fair skin and they may look completely different in other complexions. Good for you for finding that pill!! I feel bad for 11yo you for having to go through all that pain. Women and girls deserve better treatment
There was decades of shame and hiding both from woman and men, that not help especially with older doctors, hopefully newer generations overcome this issue