[ SECRET POST #2006 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2006 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[cloud_riven]

I guess I get the curiosity, but you're pretty dim if you think a period will incapacitate most people. Or that everyone menstruates in a regular schedule.

or gets periods in the first place.

or that leakage is the biggest concern when you for assholes all up in your face trying to kill you.

or—I'm taking this too seriously what am I doing.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with you.

Do people really get laid up with their periods for a whole week/days?

Yes, they are incredibly painful sometimes, and it makes working hard, but it doesn't mean you stop. If I said I felt ill due to my period pains at work I'd get laughed at I'm sure. You just take pain killers and deal with it.

As for leakage/staining etc? Use a menstrul cup or tampons, we're lucky enough to have them!

[flowersforone]

I have a friend with stage IV endometriosis, and her periods are a huge pain literally and figuratively. Personally, I feel faint, dizzy and I have to take Naproxen to be able to function, it's different for everyone.

[(Anonymous)]

I can't use tampons or menstrual cups. Medically can't use them, I mean.

I also have really bad periods where yeah, I get laid up. Not for a whole week, but usually 2-3 days. The first day is the worst where I'm basically in bed all day cursing my body. I get light headed and randomly nauseous, plus the omg worst pain ever in the entire world.

Bonus is that I don't get my period every month, and the worse it is on day one and two generally the shorter the overall period will be.

[cakemage.livejournal.com]

Holy shit, are you me? Because, well, yeah.

[(Anonymous)]

TMI: I get - I wouldn't call them cramps, even, that's too mild a world and implies occasional contractions. But it feels like I've got a really bad fever and have just lost half the blood in my body, and it's made me throw up, pass out, and spend literally hours in the bathroom on the edge of delerium because it hurts so badly. Luckily, my period's not usually that bad, and I can tell if it's going to be a bad one so I can head it off with acetaminophen, but if I don't catch it in time there is literally nothing that can stop it other than waiting for the worst to pass and then sleeping it off.

I tried to power through it one time and that led to surprise vomiting and me thinking it was a good idea to thwack my head against the sink to distract me from the pain, and I wound up at home in bed anyway with a bruised forehead on top of everything. I think even if somebody were trying to kill me while my body was doing this shit, I wouldn't be able to concentrate on them for long enough to care. (Of course, there are many other reasons why I wouldn't make a good superheroine but that is one of them.)

[unicornherds]

Yeah...I don't think you and I have the same definition of "incredibly painful". I'm also jealous that pain killers work for you.

[anonymouslyyours]

Totally second hand information here but I knew someone who had debilitating cramps that painkillers were completely useless against. Recently she told me she had discovered a mixture of orgasms and cardio helped greatly reduce the suffering.

[(Anonymous)]

Yup. Before I went on the pill my period would last 6-7 days, I'd constantly have to take stronger painkillers (Tylenol 3/Vicodin in addition to Naproxen or whatever else period-specific that was prescribed), and most of the time I wouldn't be able to work at least 3-4 days of that due to debilitating cramps (at the time I had a job where I had to stand/move around and just couldn't). Now, on the pill, my period is only 4-5 days, but I still get terrible cramps that interfere with work.

I think OP is assuming most people have heavier flows, too - I have to use a tampon AND a pad, and on the heaviest day of my flow, change the tampon like at least every 3 hours (TMI loool - but it does seem like that would be pretty inconvenient if you're say, in the middle of a battle or something). So yes, there are people who are severely affected by their period. Very unlucky. :P

So these people do exist! I am glad that you are lucky enough to not be one of them. It's always going to be something that I wish ended up differently for me. :(

[(Anonymous)]

I have PCOS, and in addition to having to deal with ovarian cysts on some occasions, my period can and does lay me out for at least a day each month. I can't move almost at all, I take painkillers, use a heating pad, and sleep all day. It's the only thing I can do, and let me tell you, people tell me I'm "whinging" all the time.

It's nice that your period isn't more than an inconvenience, but do you really think your experience is everyone's?

[(Anonymous)]

Mine aren't particularly painful (I get some serious pains in my lower back on the afternoon of the second day like clockwork, but other than that it's fine), but I bleed a *lot*. Tampons were completely insufficient, and besides that were also painful to wear. Before I found out about menstrual cups, leakage and staining *was* one of my main concerns. I avoided going anywhere for longer than an hour if I wouldn't have access to a bathroom. I woke up on average 4 times a night to change pads and at the end of the week I'd be a sleep-deprived wreck. And depending on where you are, menstrual cups may not exactly be common knowledge.
All in all, the point is that in a world populated by so many spandex clad ass-kickingly active women there should be a bit of variation rather than 100% 'insignificant enough to never mention or think about'.

[truxillogical]

TMI, not all the time, but often enough, mine will knock me down for a few hours to a day. Like, all I can do is curl in a fetal ball, whimper, down advil and hold a heating pad. I have had to leave work because of it more than once (in at least one case, when I tried to tough it out, my boss took one look at my face and sent me home).

I think it's pretty dim (not to mention rude) to dismiss something that happens to many women just because it doesn't happen to you. If you're lucky, goody, but there are plenty of gals I know who just want the world to die for a day or two.

[(Anonymous)]

My mom had to stay in bed during her periods because of the terrible pain and general debilitation. Thankfully I didn't go through the same.

I've had classmates that had to skip P.E. during their periods because the painkillers simply weren't enough, but they were the minority in our class.

I don't think most women go through those extents, but they're totally out there.

[ecoerrante]

Not the whole week, but personally? I've had cramps bad enough that my housemates were seriously considering taking me to the hospital, and I regularly have cramps bad enough that I literally cannot uncurl from the fetal position for hours. As for painkillers? They don't do jack - they don't even take the edge off of the pain for me. I just have to stay curled up and ride it out.

[(Anonymous)]

Ha! Spoken like someone who has never truly suffered from a period. Try dealing with a period that lasts two weeks or more, is so heavy that you soak through both a tampon and pad in under a couple of hours, and gives you cramps and diarrhea so bad that all you can do is stay on the toilet sweating bullets while wishing you were dead. Then try to find the right kind of birth control that actually alleviates those things rather than exacerbating them. Then get back to me.

[habilelapin]

I think OP means the women who get really fucked by biology. My BFF gets the most awful nausea (like, throwing up at certain scents level) during hers, and stomach cramps that can lay her up in bed for days. Me, on the other hand, I've got like, four days max, light as can be, no cramps or nothing, so I'd be golden.

So, it's not really dim to think that some people will get incapacitated by theirs.

And Emma is always wearing white. Like, even when not hero-ing it out. Fuck, now I'm thinking about it. Huh.

[cloud_riven]

Yeah, I guess it's as innocuous as wondering if any superhero has to deal with incontinence, and how hard it must be to rip off a costume in time to go to the bathroom.

I guess I just assume these adults already know how to deal with their bodies.

[(Anonymous)]

Is your BFF me?

Also, this is why I wonder about periods in female leads in fiction, too. I mean, god, I know how bad it can be -- and I know it can be WORSE. So yeah. I wonder. I wonder a LOT. And then I wish I were one of the lucky ones who doesn't have to walk around breathing through her mouth just so she won't gag for the first twenty-four hours of her very, very regular menstrual cycle.

[(Anonymous)]

It could very well be that the average superheroine wouldn't be among those women simply because anyone who is absolutely incapacitated a few days a month can't really be relied on to save the world at a moment's notice. Or they tell everyone, y'know what, don't call me on X, X, and X day and manage it.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think it's dim to assume something that might feasibly happen to women. Especially if your experience is on the "omfg I DON'T WANT A REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM" end of the spectrum.

Obivously there are lucky women out there.

Obviously, some of us are not those women. So we wonder for those who are like us.

[cloud_riven]

Look, I sympathise. The bend over cramps, body aches that make no sense, shit stain mood swings, popping a pill that hopefully tones it down, switching birth control brands, whatever.

But I deal with it just like most others. If someone can seriously afford to take a break from work/life, that's swell and luxurious for them. I'd still think it's silly to reduce someone to their bodily functions when it comes to judging their ability to work (real and fictional).

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I'm definitely going, "the same shit female soldiers, firefighters, police officers, athletes, performers, dancers, strippers, EMTs, Hooters waitresses, and everyone else who has a high action, high stress job do". I'm pretty sure strippers don't say, "fuck it, I've got my period. No working for me today".

[(Anonymous)]

All those woman dress for their jobs. This is what the character the OP mentions wears: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6gepkNKOO1rygd7co1_500.jpg
This isn't the most practical outfit for defending the world, a job that might require you to go days without running back to a bathroom for a pad because you're in space. There are no bathrooms in space. She doesn't even have pockets or a purse.

This is no different than wondering what other superheroes do about not having pockets or not being drawn with the equipment necessary to do their jobs.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I imagine after you've been punched in the face, guts, kidneys, got shot/electrocuted/tortured, had broken bones, massive bruises, and other horrendous injuries from battling against evil, a period probably isn't going to feel *that* bad in comparison.

(I get migraines. Like bash-my-head-into-pulp-with-a-metal-bat migraines. My periods - including the time an ovarian cyst blew up - really don't measure up. And if I can slap on a pair of sunglasses and just motor through most migraines because I don't have time or inclination to curl up in a dark corner, then I'm sure I can go off and save the world despite the period pain.)

[cloud_riven]

the time an ovarian cyst blew up

oh god I cringed reading this