Girls, some questions about your period?

[Anonymous]

1) How do you know that bleeding is about to start?
2) Do you prefer tampon, pads or other? Why?
3) Are tampon comfy? Do you feel them inside you during the day?
4) A part from bleeding, how do you feel like?
5) Is true the breast become a little bit bigger but also painful?
6) Do you think your mood and behaviour change during those days?
7) How much do you think it affects your daily life and activity?

Thank you for sharing your experience!

[Juleve]

1) We can try to keep track of days but sometimes its late or starts later in a day so its basically like the weather. Sometimes we're expecting a sprinkle and get hit with a flash flood

2) Many women prefer tampons because they're better at containing the mess.
Virgins and womens with low or tilted cervixes tend to dislike tampons because they can feel painful for them. The newest thing is the period cup and i say those are best for cleanliness and comfort.

3) To me, they're awful
I'm constantly aware of it and you have to change them frequently to avoid toxic shock syndrome.

4) I feel tired, hungry for junk food, depressed and in pain

5) i dont think they get bigger but they do get more sensitive. Not painful in my experience

6) Yes. I'll find myself alternating between feeling sad and feeling needy

7) Quite a bit.
Cramps are like being punched in the stomach throughout the day.
Menstruation is kind of like your guy's wet dreams, except you're wide awake and trying to walk around doing normal stuff.
Imagine working with a recently punched stomach and leaking genitals.
It's enough to make anyone depressed 😂.

[GeminiAgent007]

1) usually start getting cramps, boobs feel tender and your body feels this familiar fullness in a heavy way (hard to explain) plus I get extra hungry

2/3) maybe pads but both have pros and cons and ain't exactly comfy. Pads feel like a crinkly diaper and you sit in your mess as where tampons feel to me at least to me like an intruder is in your "home" lol some girls say they don't but I feel it

4) achey and tired ( mine is irregular sometimes I get ill with chronic pain because I have endometriosis which cause me to pass out like an overdramatic damsel or unable to move but Im thankful when im only achey and tired)

5) yes tender and bloated to the touch

6) I honestly don't really get PMS I'm irritable with my body but no one else, mostly just get intense food cravings

7) as I said I have a medical condition so being sick like that is scarey intense stuff and sometimes embarrassing in public aside from that it's not that bad just an inconvenience that makes you feel gross

[mooky06]

1) I get moody a week prior to my cycle. My boobs feel soft and tender aswell
2) Pad. I prefer it to come out and not remain inside me.
3) Don’t know. Never tried tampons ever
4) Lethargic
5) Yes
6) Most definitely.
7) It can be annoying. It’s hard to plan a day around having your cycle. One day you may want to go to the beach or the spa resort.. but you can’t.. because you have your damn cycle. For me it just gets in the way. I dislike how i feel when i have it. It drains the life out of me and really slows me down when i’m at work. I feel like i’m
carrying another person on my shoulders. But it also has its benefits and i do feel more “cleansed” inside.

[Anonymous]

1. We have menstruation cycle, my cycle is regular so i kinda know when it will come. And usually we have stomach cramp or pmsing before.
2. I prefer pad, we dont have tampon here.
3. Never have tampon.
4. You will have constant cramp inside your tummy... And believe me it's not very comfortable to be active when in period.
5. Yes. Breast firmness is one sign that the period is coming.
6. Hmm before probably yes... Because of pms and it's normal. But during period, hmm let me think, probably yes especially if you feel pain.
7. For me the pain won't leave me for maybe the first third day so... If too much pain i usually take days off.