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At age 10, I felt a warm rush of fluid fill my underpants while attending a friend’s birthday party. I ran to the bathroom to find my underpants and jeans soaked. I was unsure of how to leave without exposing myself as the first of us to get her period while most of my friends hadn’t even bought their first training bra. At home, my stepmother sighed and handed me a large cotton pad. “I wasn’t ready for this,” she told me. Neither was I.
From their onset, I could count on my monthly periods to be seven to 10 days of torture. When I described the painful cramps, back pain and nausea that accompanied my heavy flow to my stepmother, she shrugged her shoulders and offered me some Advil. “Being female is painful. You just have to grin and bear it,”
I mentioned the symptoms to my doctor who brushed off my concerns. “It’s just bad luck. Some women have difficult periods, or you may just have a low threshold for pain,” she told me. The message I received was that my pain was normal and I was overly sensitive. Throughout my adolescence and 20s, my pelvic pain became increasingly worse during ovulation and bleeding. I averaged about 14 pain-free days per month, which meant I was doubled over at least half of the time. I’ve always been a social person with an active lifestyle, but I often found myself dreaming of lying in bed wrapped in electric heating pads.
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