Not like women have been telling y’all this since the beginning of time or anything.
I mean, yeah, at one point three years ago I was curled up in a fetal position literally screaming/crying/gasping for breath on my bed in my dorm room, so my response to this headline is basically, “No shit.”
No wonder women are so likely to ignore heart disease/attack symptoms. If something isn’t as bad as my cramps, I figure it can’t be that bad.
THAT LAST COMMENT
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No seriously. There aren’t enough people who understand how important that last comment is. I lost my right kidney four years ago because of “if something isn’t as bad as my cramps, I figure it can’t be that bad.”
My. Fucking. Kidney.
Don’t force people with periods to internalize and silence themselves when they have cramps!
Can confirm “can’t be that bad because period”. I had a kidney stone and it took me like 2-3 days to realize it wasn’t my period because it basically felt like that. Pain is normal for women (and other people with a uterus), it’s part of being a woman, and so we’re much less likely to know when the pain we’re having is bad because we deal with so much of it some much more often than men do. Pain is not always a “something is wrong” indicator for us.
jesus. I never thought of it that way.
Every woman rebloging this
I measure all pain by the cramp standard. Thus far the only thing worse has been a broken nose.
I waited almost 10 hours to go to the hospital once, because I thought it was a “bad vramp day”. I had *6* simultaneous kidney stones. 4 on the left, 2 on the right. The flabbergasted doctor asked me why I wasn’t screaming in pain. I shrugged. “I’m kinda used to it, I guess?”
“I’m sorry?”
“Yeah, I mean, I’m in pain for 3 weeks every month. And like, I figured this was a bad day, but really, I kinda feel like this for a couple days every month anyway?”
The way he was looking at me clued me in that this was not something he had ever considered or thought about.
Think about that the next time you want to make fun of someone for being “cranky” on their period. (Also remember that not everyone who gets periods is a girl/woman!)
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