I am going to try to capture the feeling (how it is for me) in a way guys could understand, although it is probably much worse than how I'm going to describe it lol.
You wake up very early in the morning because you feel incredibly hot and sweating. You have a dull pain a few inches below your belly button that feels like someone is pushing on you. You start to get up to take a shower, when you feel a warm jello slide out...and then you know you are on your period.
At this point, you are afraid to get up because you aren't sure if you will be covered in blood or not. What if you get up and blood drips all over your floor?! So you lay there for a little longer until you realize that the longer you lay there, the worse it will get.
You get into the hot shower, and feel a little better. You are/feel extremely bloated...as if you just drank 5 gallons of soda, and a filling dinner. Suddenly you start to get dizzy, so you get out of the shower. You have to throw up and crap at the same same time, but there is only one toilet...you know that if you don't make a decision quickly you might get blood all over the floor. You end up throwing up and passing out anyway. The mixture of the heat from the shower and the painful pressure on your lower abdomen cause you to faint.
When you get up you can't finish your shower because you are in so much pain. Wth shampoo in your hair and all, you get dressed and walk to your room to lay back down. By now you feel like there is a car sitting right on top of your lower abdomen. So there is a car sitting on top of you, but you can still move. No matter how you turn your body, you still feel the pressure. It always comes back crushing your body. The only way to make it go away is to sleep...if you can.
So you take some pain killers, and try to sleep. By the time you wake up, the medicine should've kicked in. You get a little irritated when people try to talk to you because you are trying to meditate your pain away, and as soon as its almost successful, someone interrupts it and you are back to being in pain again.
Don't worry, I'm worse than most girls lol...i get every single symptom =[ (and there's a lot of them!)
And that just the 1st/second day. The other days are nothing.
Yourre not alone!!!!!!! I'm the same and have fainted in the shower many times
Omg isn't it the worst?! I am so glad I'm not the only one! haha
This sounds exactly like mine. I hate it!
Actually, you can't feel anything coming out of you. OK, I take that back -- every now and then (seriously, like once during the week) -- you can feel something, but you don't know what it is exactly. It doesn't feel any different than discharge which is something that always happens. Not more than a drop or two comes out at once, so it's not like a streaming flow which will automatically soak through your pants. You have the let it sit and saturate for an hour or so before you can see any evidence on the outside. This is how girls underwear get stained sometimes -- they simply don't know they're on their period. In addition, sometimes the girl can feel herself getting wetter between her legs, but girls get wet all the time! Unless you know your period is due to arrive that day, you don't really second guess it.
You want me to explain it in terms of something a man can relate to? This will be kind of hard considering I'm not a man, but try this. It's kind of like pre-cum. You know, how it kind of seeps out a little at a time? Just imagine drops of it coming out for 5 or 6 days. I compare it to this because I've seen my boyfriend's and he doesn't know when it's coming out and he doesn't shoot it out like his actual cum.
And to polish this off -- a period is not gross -- let alone x10. It is a natural part of life and should be understood as such.
I know, I wasn't really saying it was gross. It was my way of apologizing for asking a very awkward and personal question.
More than half the population have/will have/or do get periods, I don't understand how it can be remotely awkward...
Well for the most part you can't feel when your body releases the blood and when you go to the bathroom it can be very messy and the blood isn't like when you cut your self it's thicker and has a horrible smell to it I get cramps but not all and the ones that do can have them very light or very very strong and it's not like a leg cramp it can feel like someone is pinching your lower ab dominal area or like it's burning and when I'm laying down or trying to sleep it's not possible cause it's not comfterble.
And you don't feel clean what's so ever when and after the period although one cleans their self you can never feel clean down their and it's messier when using pads than tampons. Also with pads one can see the lining on what ever pants girls wear and it's not easy playing sports when wearing aboad. Tampons are easier to carry and you can not even tell sports are esker and their no lining. And periods cause our hormones to go crazzy so we can be happy one minute and the next be mad at you and having do deal with the pain makes things worse that's why pain killers are our best friends during that time.
Hope this helped
When I was younger I used to get REALLY bad cramps. No amounts of painkillers or anything would help and I actually had to stay home from school the first day/two days of my period because I would not be able to keep anything down without throwing up.
It's not as bad now but I still feel very nauseous the first couple days of my period and I really have to work hard to force myself to eat something. Because I don't eat as much, sleep poorly (that "I need to change" feeling that the other ladies have been taking about always comes at around 5 am for me), and maybe even blood loss...though it's not that much *shrug*, I think I get slightly anemic around my period and I'm always tired and any "bitchiness" that happens comes more from feeling nauseous and tired than anything else. My skin is always super sensitive but it gets even worse during my period and I'm really careful about what clothes I wear or else I get really irritated.
Mostly though, I just feel tired and nauseous. Think of it as a five day hang over.
I need to read this every month!
I really almost shed tears reading some of these responses.
I try to be so mindful of this time with my girl.
If you all haven't you should read my question about to do during these times of the month.
I would really love more insight.
Sincerely,
A Loving Black Man
So lovely that you care!
I do care Sophieleexo... Check out my questions, and lend some suggestions please... Of what to do for you during that time of the month. I feel so helpless about seeing her go through this situation. Sincerely, A Loving Black Man
Wow it really nice and different in a good way that you care/I wish mine did, he just tells me to stop being so bitchy and to get over it lol.
Being male I wouldn't know but I can only imagine considering the lining of the wall of their uterus is being torn out.. I'd bet it hurts. Thank you god for making me male :DD
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What's Your Opinion? Sign Up Now!It's different for every girl, but for me it's usually very bad. It's starts with about three days of me being incredibly bitchy, mood swings off the charts, and a lot of sleeping. I'll usually cry or get really angry over one stupid thing. I'm sore all over, I don't want to be touched, and I'm in a generally pissy mood. Thankfully, my guy has learned to deal with it, and he knows how to respond so that neither of us end up killing the other.
Then, finally, the main act. It usually lasts about five days, with the first three being a complete terror. I cramp very badly, to a point that it feels like I've somehow pulled all the muscles in my abdomen. Sometimes, it will literally take my breath away and prevent me from walking. Then, you have the pads, the tampons, the lovely clean up. You have to take a nasty, used tampon or pad and get rid of it, clean up very quickly, and get another in before you start bleeding. As for that sensation, well, maybe like peeing without control over it? I'm not sure how to describe that in any way a man could understand. Sometimes it not much, and sometimes I have to rush to the bathroom, as most girls can tell you the sensation of needing to change your product isn't fun at all. But then it will taper off, be light, and the pain goes away. And then it's done, at least until the next one.
Obviously, the pain (and probably the amount of bleeding) I've described here is a little more than most women will experience. It's a genetic thing, unfortunately, and a real problem in my family. No woman has escaped unscathed, usually suffering endometriosis or cysts quite frequently. And such issues make our periods worse, usually.
I have a very similar experience. I sympathize with you, lol.
Wow I give all girls a high five for going through this every month omg I don't know how I could do it
Cheese grater applied to your stomach and then thinking that you are going to bleed to death.
Ok as far as the cramps go for me at least it feels like my ovaries are eating my uterus. So for a guys mind I guess it feels like a girl kicking you repeatedly in your side until you finally cry. As for the actual blood leaking out of your I don't really notice or feel it. Its just like beings highly away that you have an excess amount of fluid moving around between your legs. And you were sorta right the first time at least for me I feel gross when I'm on my period. I feel like Gollum from lord of the rings lmao.
Not at all like diarrhea. The week before, I get a little emotional and I feel uncomfortable and heavier than usual. Then my period shows up and I get cramps on the first day, but not for the rest of the time. It lasts for about 4-5 days. Sometimes it really grosses me out because in the beginning it's heavier. You don't really feel anything coming out and it's just a matter of going to the bathroom and changing your tampon every couple of hours. It kind of makes me feel unclean too, but that's because I'm squeamish and I find the idea of blood coming out of me just not very appealing, even though it is a natural process. I don't know how I've lived with it all these years. Lol.
I'm not sure how to explain it in terms of something men can relate to. I don't know that there's anything men go through that is at all similar.
you don't have a vagina, but imagine you have a hole and there's thick liquid dripping out VERY slowly. that's what it feels like. you can feel it, but not very much.
unless you use a tampon, then you can't feel it at all.
i hate it, it sucks ass big time. imagine having one week a month where your moody as hell, have stomach pains, constantly have to make sure your not leaking through and embarrassing yourself, you have blood dripping out of you, and you have to either sit in it while wearing a pad, or stick a f-ing tampon up you to stop it, and then on top of it all you have guys that try to explain your bad mood away every other week of the month because of it
All I can really say is that it great to me a man. I mean damn giving birth and periods I think I would go insane.
thats not that gross. it kind of feelings like you pee every now and then during the day, but you can't control it, and it's accompanied by some cramping. however, (and THIS is gross), when I first got my period, it came out in solid clumps, so it was this weird tingly feeling of this solid Jell-O sort of thing rolling out of me. I was 11 and sooooo freaked out. So there we have it--but it's not always like that.
The only way I can discribe it is well obviously there is a wet feelign, a leaking feeling. But imagine a leg cramp in your left and right groin areas.. well across the bottom of your belly. Sometimes your back too... and sometimes bad enough that you curl up in a ball in agony. Sometimes you just feel gross with it too.
It's hard to explain... that week out of the month gets really uncomfortable, you get bloated and it feels like everything inside you is swollen.
I get really cranky and emotional, mostly because I'm very uncomfortable and in pain. I get sharp pains in my groin, randomly, it hurts so much sometimes I feel like throwing up.
Imagine how you feel when you hit your small toe and then someone ask you if it hurts, that's the kind of rage we feel when someone ask uswhy we're being bitchy during our period.
When it's done it's great, it feel like you flushed the bitch out and you're back in control of your body.
Because the girls underneeth explained well how does it exactly feel, I won't explain that. But something else..
I can predict that my period is coming, when my breasts are soar and I'm more emotional than normally. When the leeking begins, it's small at first. And then on the second day there is more of it and I have to watch out almost every position when sitting or lying around. And have to go to bathroom to check that everything is alright. The on the 2-3 day I suffer from urethritis alittle bit. (But that's personal..)
You can't really sleep calmly during period, I often wake up in the middle off the night when I feel that I need to change. It's like natural reaction to your body.
I'm always paranoid that I have a red spot on my ass, and I will check very often.
I GOT IT! Imagine you're balls are being squeezed real hard. You know that horrible queezy stomach pain you get when your nuts are squashed? That's what cramps feel like.
Well, the week before I get mine I feel like I'm going INSANE. Everything my boyfriend says to me hurts my feelings and I cry for no reason at all. I feel like he hates me/thinks I'm ugly/I don't deserve him, he's too good for me/etc. Then all of the sudden I get SUPER HORNY and at the sight of the bulge of his crotch I get wet and HAVE TO RAVAGE HIM. Then I get HUNGRY I GOTTA EAT SWEETS and stuff anything with chocolate or sugar down my throat. Then I cry because I feel fat, and have to have sex again. And then eat. Then have more sex. Then eat and cry. Then have more sex.
When the period finally arrives. That day I feel oddly sleepy, as if I'd taken a sleeping pill or something. My stomach cramps (sort of feels like you have to crap REALLY bad), and I start bleeding. All I want to do is sleep.
My poor boyfriend, after a week of drying my tears, listening to my rants finally gets a break. I absolutely DON'T want any sex; my privates feel tender and gross .Because I was so horny the week prior, he unfortunately gets used to extra sex and is a bit let down when I suddenly go cold. Poor guy. My joints ache miserably.
After about 2 days the fatigue and cramps stop. I'm my old self again, but still prefer not to have sex. After day 5 it's all over. I GET REALLY HORNY AGAIN, and just as my guy has resolved himself to no sex finds himself attacked by a hormonally-rebound girlfriend.
Finally, I'm back to normal by day 6.
These symptoms were like this when I was on birth control, but lucky for me (and him) are not so bad. The only downside is now he's got to wear a condom, which he hates...again I say, poor guy.
Now who suffered more? Me or my poor boyfriend? LOL
it feels kinda oozy lol.
The period is just awkward in as much as making sure you do not leak onto your clothes etc. The bleeding doesn't hurt. But with it some people get the "ache" which is like a dull ache most get in the tummy I used to get in my thighs, feels like they weigh 20tonnes and just dull constant ache. You also might have loser bowel movements.
You also are a bit more senstive to things, anythings, something that you'd normally just brush off would seem more major.
You do worry about the blood smelling or making you smell, also your body temp does go up during your period so you might get hot flushes or just sweat more.
Okay, so a lot of people have it really bad, some not so much.
Personally, it always happens super early in the morning, and wakes me up, so I run to the bathroom to get a tampon.
About an hour after it starts, if you don't take advil right away, I get cramps that feel like I'm being stabbed in my tummy with a knife, and it's just being held there. You curl into a ball, with a heating pad, bawling. The pain just continues forever it seems. The second day isn't so bad, with just off and on cramping, like you have diarrhea sorta. And when you use just a pad, the blood sometimes is too much, and it just sits there on the top of the pad, and you can feel it. And when you use a pad, you can also feel it coming out. And it's warm, like cum. And it's clumpy sometimes?
It also makes me horny.
The last couple days aren't too bad. But you can never tell when it's over :/
wet and annoying. To sum it up into 2 words -.-
Great. Don't listen to them, they just don't want to make you jealous.
For me, it's not bad. If you have a bad diet and are inactive, most likely dysmenorrhea will greatly disturb you. But pain killers can do the job. It's noticeably warmer and damper down there. When having heavy flows, you can feel lumps of blood flowing out. You get very conscious. It's not like diarrhea. You can't control it. It just flows out until after a few days it would be scanty until you no longer need tampons or sanitary pads.
Cramps feel like cramps, just BAD stomach ones!
The blood just feels really wet and uncomfortable down there
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