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tasmanianstripes · 3 years ago

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Menstrual pain should be taken more seriously than it currently is, people suffering from it shouldn't be dismissed or accused of overreacting because "it's just a period"

For most of my life, I've suffered from debilitating menstrual cramps. Some days it was bad enough that I couldn't move, couldn't even speak, just cry and scream for hours until the painkillers finally kicked in, and it'd often leave me feeling weak, exhausted and like I was on the verge of passing out. I have to take the strongest non-prescription medication on the market and it still just makes my pain bearable enough that I can function; hell, even my prescription drugs sometimes weren't enough.

Despite this, I was often ridiculed by my peers and accused of faking it so I can get out of school or work, and I've had medical professionals refuse to help me because "it's just a period" and "it'll pass on its own". I've had to beg people to go get me painkillers and they'd usually start an argument or roll their eyes at me and complain the entire time. It was a constant problem and the only person that's ever taken my pain seriously was my mother.

Seriously, it isn't right that I have to deal with 2-3 days of debilitating pain and nobody around me treats it seriously. Not even my doctors.

And I'm not even the most severe case out there, I'm lucky that my cramps only last a max of 3 days and respond to medications. There are people out there who have to deal with worse.

Seriously, just please start taking menstrual pain seriously. Just because it happens every month doesn't mean it's any more bearable or less serious than any other pain. The pain this severe isn't normal, it's a medical condition and it should be treated seriously. It's even more fucked up that this sort of pain is often a symptom of some underlying condition yet even doctors don't treat it seriously.

#thylacines can talk #my lighest periods are like 6 on the pain scale #my heaviest periods are more painful than thathat time i broke my ankle #and when i mean debilitating i MEAN IT. I. Cannot. Function.#on my usual periods i cannot move from my bed at all. i cant do the usual chores around the house. cant even make myself food or grab a #drink. i need somebody else's assistance to even function. i just have to wait the 2 or 3 hours it usually takes for my painkillers to #finally kick in and when they do im still in pain. it just goes down a lot in severity so i can at least function but i still avoid most #work and going out for the first 2 to 3 days to not aggrevate it. seriously its not fun and im pissed off that so many people act like #total cunts about it when its? clearly not normal??? seriously my dad threw a fuckin temper tantrum when i asked him to go buy me #painkillers because we ran out and i couldnt move. well my mum had to call him and ask him because i was just crying and couldnt even speak #properly. he was just complaining and whining about it and kept asking me why i couldnt go when i was just curled up in my bed and sobbing #and people in school would always give me dirty looks and talk shit behind my back about faking it and being lazy whenever i got a period #during school and had to sit in the corner and try not to make any noises while my mum had to leabe job so she could pick me up #we were studying advertisement and marketing so we were split into two groups. one group would usually have marketing or something like #that while the other had graphic design. so like one group would have marketing on monday and another on friday for example #so i usually would leave and join the group that had a lesson in our main classroom because there was a corner where i could sit next to #the window and rest while not disturbing the class. since our nurse was a nurse in two different schools so she wasnt there all the time.#and then id hear from my two friends that the girls from my group ALWAYS shittalked me when i left. saying that was blowing it out of #proportion and was just lazy and trying to get out of class. that class was so fucking toxic.#anyway this rant is brought to you by me once again having to lay in my bed and try to pass the time by thinking about stupid shit while #dying from pain. it took a long tome to write because my hands were shaking and i got dizzy a few times but i mamaged.#my painkillers FINALLY kicked in so. HALLELUJAH.#being in a bearable amount of pain feels borderline euphoric after three hours of bullshit #it still wasnt the worst just a 7 on the pain scale

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