“Are you on your period again because you seem irritated?” The one question females hate to hear regardless if we are on it or not. Unless you’re on birth control or have found the remedy to cease our insides from plunging out, we have all faced this gruesome time. Typically, guys don’t have an understanding for the week of death that females face every month. Here are a few symptoms/side effects that females are forcefully signed up for.
Waiting for it to come and it doesn’t. It’s like being stood up for a date. You’ve spent days preparing for this day to come and experienced the anxiety (well in this cause cramps). Then the day is here when you’re certain it’s going to come and it doesn’t. What a waste!
When it surprises you. That birthday when you told your family you didn’t want anything but they surprise you with the worst gift ever. Did you really have to ruin the best day of my life?
Bloating. When you’re feeling like “somebody throw Shamu back in the ocean” because you look enormous in everything you wear.
Emotions. This cycle makes you overwhelmed with uncontrollable emotions. Guys swear you need a shrink because you’ll cry over something dumb like ice cream and be fine two seconds later.
Sneaking it to the bathroom. That moment when you’re in class and it’s time to change your pad/tampon and you slowly pull it out and try to hide it in your sleeve or hurry up and put in your pocket so no one will see it. Like hello everyone knows about periods; it’s not a secret!
Seeing through clothes. Deciding to wear your favorite pants that make your booty pop but your pad is trying to get its 15 seconds of fame too.
Leaking through. You can no longer put on anything you desire. There becomes a certain clothing criteria when your period starts. No more light colored bottoms just in case it wants to play peek-a-boo.
Cramps. This is self-explanatory. It feels like the world is coming to an end.
Sleeping in the right position. It’s not something that magically stops when we’re sleeping and turns back on in the morning, it’s continuous, even when we’re sleeping. Nights consist of tossing and turning to make sure you’re in the right position or else you’ll wake up to ruined sheets.
Being in sync with your friends. Just as the saying goes, the more you hang around a person the more you will begin to resemble them. However in this case, the more you hang out with someone affects when your period will begin. Kind of like a period oath. When she bleeds, I bleed.