As for me, I only experience a painful cramp once and I was about 15. I was at school, I went to the restroom due to discomfort and leaned against the wall and boom I had this extremely painful cramp that I cried out & kicked the wall.
Later thru out it was regular & light, but when I reached my 30’s it became so heavy. I will admit I have taken 3 days off on occasion to take time off. No matter how many times I changed I have stained the seats at work. Again I did not take time off every month, it simply depends on the flow & discomfort.
Now I am currently going thru menopause. My periods are far in between, I can’t wait for my period to end completely where I can say my nightmare is finally over. LOL
Uhm...Looking forward to hot flashes are you?
I'd choose crampy periods over hot flashes. You can make plans around periods but not the HF. It'll be -30 outside and you'll want to strip naked. They disturb your sleep. One minute you're sleeping soundly, the next minute you're throwing the covers off the bed and you want to shave your hair off.
Cherish your remaining periods :)
Now I am currently going thru menopause. My periods are far in between, I can’t wait for my period to end completely where I can say my nightmare is finally over. LOL
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As far as I personally am concerned, menopause is a girl’s best friend. :)
For some of us, it’s not actual period days that poses problems. For some of us, it’s the days leading up to that day that’s rough..IE PMS.
I’m glad to see women being offered a break for their difficult day. There are genuine physical issues that can accompany our cycles that are uniquely individual, bit can be dangerous for some such as clumsiness. Depending on the job, a girl can get hurt! If you have a pounding headache bordering on migraine, it can affect job performance and even safety. Pills don’t help some of these issues.
If a man has a bad case of diarrhea, what does he do? I’m sure much depends on his job and his ability to use the men’s room as often as needed. The same thing happens to some women on that special day, accompanied by severe pain and migraine that no amount of pamprin or midol is going too relieve.
Some lucky women have zero issues with their monthly, others are darned near totally incapacitated along with everything in between.
Sometimes medical remedies exist or alleviate issues, but those remedies don’t exist for everybody.
It’s sad that a woman’s respect is denied her due to physiology that she didn’t ask for. That’s an attitude that seriously needs to be changed. Pretending a woman is a man isn’t the right way to go about it. Respecting a woman when she set’s a limit without spelling it out or throwing sarcastic remarks is what needs to happen. Men do this and nobody questions it. I’ve heard men say “ I have more on my plate than I can handle, your request is going to have to wait.”. Or..I’m too busy right now to do that, it’ll have to wait.”. When a woman say such, she’s ostracised.