Work vs. uterus

[cosmolinguist]

What a fun time to get the worst period I've had in years: in the middle of the night on a camping trip.

It was our last night there, which was good from the perspective of going home that day, which means I'm not far from soap and water and hot water bottles.

But going home that day also means all the work of getting our huge amount of camping gear dismantled and taken to the car which feels miles away, was done with cramps and tiredness and brainfog.

I slept a lot last night. But the tiredness was still present today. And the brainfog, which was really rough on a very demanding work day.

But almost as soon as I finished work, I started getting such horrible cramps that my pain spiked into "this is preventing me from doing things" levels. Ibuprofen and a hot water bottle and a pre-dinner nap helped a little, but I still barely ate any dinner, couldn't walk the dog, and other dispiriting things. I'd have had to call in sick to work if it had been that bad during work hours..

I haven't missed any of my meds that help deal with periods. But even when I have, the resulting periods have not been like this. I'm going to keep an eye on it but this is still well within my experience of periods before I started hormonal birth control so I'm not worried yet. Just tired and sad.

Comments

[otter]

That sounds awful. I hope it eases up soon.

[cosmolinguist]

That was the worst day, it's been improving slowly since. I expect I'll be feeling pretty normal by tomorrow.

[lilysea]

Ugh. :(

That sounds awful for anyone (and as someone whose periods were From Hell before I got an endometrial ablation, I really empathise)

but it sounds particularly unfair for you as a man. :(

It feels really unfair that trans men still get unwanted periods. :(

[cosmolinguist]

It does feel really unfair. Thank you.

[azurelunatic]

Ugh, menstrual side effects are nasty :(

[forests_of_fire]

this is such a mood. I just got over my worst one in a long while, too.

[silveradept]

Oof, terrible timing and terrible symptoms, too. Hopefully it's quick and the symptoms subside.

[cosmolinguist]

It has been, thanks.

[barakta]

Uteruses are categorised in this house as chief Stupid Organ (along with appendix, gallbladder). I mean whose idea was it to bleed and cramp and feel like general fucking shit for ages each month.

Hope it improves soonest and fucks off and stops being so bad. Is extra unfair given you're blatting it with T.

[cosmolinguist]

Yeah at least I encountered plenty of the "omg I thought T stopped periods but it doesn't!!!!" messaging before I was anywhere near it myself. I started hormonal birth control in my 20s to deal with my horrible periods and it's done that by mostly making them go away. I get only a few a year and they're not as bad as they used to be, but now I'm out of practice at coping with them, haha.