Finally! A man has reported that period pain is as “almost as bad as having a heart attack.”
The man in question is John Guillebaud, Professor of reproductive health and University College London, who told Quartz that patients have described the pain as being bad as a restriction on blood flowing to your goddamn heart.
Of course, women have had their pain dismissed by the medical profession since time immemorial, so while this is a great step forward for the medical community to acknowledge the serious pain some women deal with on a month-to-month basis, for many, the resounding response was “duh”.
https://twitter.com/kitttenqueen/status/968606945094516736
Women are now sharing their experiences with debilitating menstrual pain. One woman even said that she didn’t realise she was going into labour because hey, it wasn’t nearly as painful as her period pain.
When I was in labor with my first child, I didn’t know I was in labor because the pain wasn’t as bad as my monthly cramps!!
— schadenfraulein 💙🦋 (@kdkneisley) February 28, 2018
Periods can be so painful. Men have NO CLUE.
– Bleeding from the vagina
– Feeling like your pelvis is being repeatedly punched from the inside
– Achey boobs
– Sore legs
– Lower back pain that feels like you’ve been trampled on
– If you’re extra lucky, vomit & diarrhea too
— TONI TONE (@t0nit0ne) February 21, 2018
If men had periods, ‘menstrual leave’ would probably be a thing.
RT this tweet if you’ve ever had to take a day off work because you were suffering from agonising period pain. pic.twitter.com/TVJg3MGSY3
— TONI TONE (@t0nit0ne) February 21, 2018
We’ve beeeeeen saying ☹️😔😣
I was once sedated because the pain was so excruciating, the only way I couldn’t “feel” it was if I was sedated. https://t.co/lPQrfpHDcg— Ottilia Anna MaSibanda (@MaS1banda) February 27, 2018
When it takes a man to confirm that cramps is as painful as a heart attack as if we haven’t been experiencing it for years 😒 #Periods #MenstruationMatters https://t.co/Ok7q6q4LLi
— Linda Afya (@LindaAfyaKe) February 28, 2018
This one has almost 6,000 retweets, btw.
If men had periods, ‘menstrual leave’ would probably be a thing.
RT this tweet if you’ve ever had to take a day off work because you were suffering from agonising period pain. pic.twitter.com/TVJg3MGSY3
— TONI TONE (@t0nit0ne) February 21, 2018
While I personally have been extremely fortunate in not experiencing the absolute worst of period pains, others in the office aren’t so lucky.
Multimedia Writer Courtney Fry told me that on multiple occasions has passed out or nearly passed out. One time in a former role, she forced herself to go to work because as freelancer, she didn’t get sick days.
“I went from feeling kind of shitty to curled up in a ball in a sweat, breathing through waves of searing, crippling pain,” she said. A colleague drove her home and she “almost simultaneously threw up and shit myself from the pain. As soon as I got home I threw up and put myself to bed for the rest of the day.”
It’s ~cool~ to be a woman!!
