female appreciation thread

[DirtDawg]

I was actually going to say, I'm impressed that women are able to go about their everyday lives so normally while having a period.  I guess I would have figured out how to do so eventually if I had to but I nevertheless think it's a skill.

I'm also floored by women who are able to reproduce, of course.  C section or squeezing a watermelon-sized thing out of your vagina, either way, it's impressive.

of course the new birth of my boy is what got me to thinking about how i appreciate women. 
thanks for doing that for us-pregancy and giving birth.

About a month after my daughter was born, I said something very similar to my wife and she jokingly said "I didn't have anything better to do." Then she collapsed into a grueling cry for a while.  One of many, but I was totally serious and in awe, still, at her sacrifices.

[Nomaken]

I think they'd be fun.  Think about how it is sometimes fun to indulge in being depressed(pity party) or angry.  If somebody wants to visit me with a baseball bat to disprove my claim, go ahead, I haven't had a good injury in a while.

Then you have no idea what cramps feel like.  Have you ever had diarrhea so bad that it felt like your intestines were turning inside out?

Yes.  I happen to be a lower digestion-problem person.

My father uses the term "Tortures of the damned," which I think is an apt description for it.

[Graelwyn]

I can attest to the fact that cramps are extremely painful...to the point they can make you feel sick and some women do actually vomit from the pain. Many a night I have been woken up by the pain and lain writhing in agony. You also bloat up, get more spotty (in my case) and can get the most appalling mood swings, not to mention extreme tiredness and forgetfulness...and believe me, each month seems to come around again remarkably quick by the time you have had the pmt for 5 days and then the bleeding for another 4-5 days.

[Tom/Mutate]

Can anyone tell me what happens during the period?  like does the bleeding pour out like urine at regular intervals, or is it a small, steady drip throughout the day and night? 

[Graelwyn]

The blood doesn't pour but it does come out with urine...it comes out strongly with me for first few days, then lightens off for the last 2 days. You can also get these major big clots that are not too pleasant.

[Callaway]

Can anyone tell me what happens during the period?  like does the bleeding pour out like urine at regular intervals, or is it a small, steady drip throughout the day and night? 

The flow comes out irregularly.  The first few days are the heaviest and sometimes a large amount of fluid or a large clot gushes out, particularly if you change position, like from lying to sitting or sitting to standing.  The flow tapers off the last few days and then stops.  For me, the cramp days are the heavy flow days.  I have vomited from the pain, I can't sleep through it, and a few times I have even cried because it hurt so much.  I have had intestinal cramps from diarrhea brought on by food poisoning, but menstrual cramps are worse.  Most medication won't touch the pain unless I take it before the cramps become bad, but I found one that does help.  It is called Ponstel, which is a prescription medication specifically for menstrual cramps.  Not only does it keep your body from making more prostaglandins, it also attaches to the prostaglandins that have already been released.

[Nomaken]

This brings up an important question:  What did women do before pads?

[Callaway]

This brings up an important question:  What did women do before pads?

They used cloth pads, which they washed by hand and hung up to dry.

[Peter]

And 100,000 years ago, they just let it run down their legs?

[Callaway]

And 100,000 years ago, they just let it run down their legs?

If they wore clothing but did not have cloth, perhaps they used sheepskin pads between their legs to absorb the menstrual flow.  If they coated the skin side with tallow, it would not leak and the wool side would be absorbent.  I find it difficult to believe that intelligent women could not think of something to use to keep from ruining the few clothes they owned.

[El]

You can get pain from ovulation, too, I think.  I've had it happen several times; it'll be so bad it hurts to sit upright, let alone stand, and nothing that treats GI stuff will help it, while pain killers will.  I usually just wind up going fetal if I'm home, or trying to ride around on the bus for awhile so the vibrations loosen me up if I'm at school (we have free busses running around all the time).

[Nomaken]

And 100,000 years ago, they just let it run down their legs?

That is what I am wondering if ancient human females just smelled of blood constantly.

[McGiver]

And 100,000 years ago, they just let it run down their legs?

That is what I am wondering if ancient human females just smelled of blood constantly.

i imagined that they bathed in the river.

[Nomaken]

Animals do bathe, but not nearly as often or as thoroughly as what we do.  So I think they still would have smelled like blood a lot of the time.

[Litigious]

People usually smelled sweat less than 50 years ago, from what I've heard. Some people even smelled piss and shit and they weren't poor or something. French aristorcrats in the 18th century smelled the worst, since they just sprayed perfume on themselves and never took a bath except when baptized and before their funeral...