Hypermenorrhea

[velvetpage]

Hypermenorrhea is sitting through a very important hour-long meeting, all the while calculating the fastest route to the washroom to deal with the inevitable gush when you stand.

Hypermenorrhea is never bothering to buy anything but the overnight-sized pads and super-sized tampons.

Hypermenorrhea is always wearing double protection.

Hypermenorrhea is carrying extra clothing or calling in sick on heaviest days.

Hypermenorrhea is fearing the consequences of a good night's sleep on your mattress and bedding.

Hypermenorrhea is never getting a good night's sleep because every time you shift, you're worried about accidents.

Hypermenorrhea is getting up to a crying child and having to stop at the washroom on the way to comfort her.

Hypermenorrhea is knowing every trick in the book for getting blood out of fabric.

Hypermenorrhea is having a mental catalogue of the side effects of each type of iron pill on your own body.

Hypermenorrhea is not waiting for a doctor to diagnose anemia, but taking iron pills starting the day the bleeding starts to head it off.

Hypermenorrhea is having people tell you that you must be hemorrhaging if you're bleeding that much - and thinking it's actually lighter than last month.

Hypermenorrhea is taking more than the recommended dose of cough syrup, because every cough causes a gush.

Hypermenorrhea is getting pregnant as a way of stopping your periods for a year or two.

Hypermenorrhea is mentioning what's making you sick to your grandmother, and learning that she had the same thing and so did her mother.

Hypermenorrhea is seriously considering the benefits of a DIY hysterectomy.

Hypermenorrhea is wanting to poke out the eyes of, or at least switch uteri with, the next person who bemoans the medicalization of normal bodily functions like menstruation, or suggests that you see your period as a spiritual connection to Mother Earth.

Comments

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Yeah, last April when I was home because of this, there was a post on naturalliving ranting about an ad for a uterine ablation, and how the ad seemed to say that all kinds of normal things were a problem that could be solved, and SHE wasn't having any of it, and HER period was a wonderful special time, and OTHER WOMEN would be better off if they didn't just take their doctors' word for it that they needed a surgery like this, etc, etc. By the end of the thread, there were four hundred comments - about fifty of them from me.

It was the first I'd heard of ablation, and a good jump-start to my research, which led to an ablation in July. A pity it didn't work.

[loxian.livejournal.com]

You should post there thanking them for introducing you to the concept, but explaining that it didn't quite work for you, so you're going for something more radical - you'll keep them posted! (Next time you're off sick with your joyful natural processes.)

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

The thought has occurred to me. :)