Menstruation!!!!!!!!

Why would anyone be grossed out?

 

I AM MENSRATING, EVERYONE !

just so u know

 

hahaha thats the best thing ive heard all day brilliant

 

good to know i guess haha

 

i'm about to. in about a day, this place is going to be one big flame war, i think all of us are cycling together.

 

I just got mine this morning!

*prances around, frolics*

 

It's a little gross in the same way taking a crap is gross.

 

haha, i can just picture the episode of south park where the boys all think they got their periods cause they all start bleeding out their asses, then they start to read cartmans moms womens books and start acting like offbeat female hippies, discussing their periods and all kyle"my period is going uhhh swimmingly" haha

 

Haha seems like it. I finally stopped hemorrhaging today. WOO HOO! I'm free for 28 days. :tongue:

 

Somehow, bringing finger painting into a discussion about menstruation evokes some some interesting imagery.

 

I am sorry but I found this hilarious. I suppose I just like to know that I am not the only lunatic sometimes. My whole personality changes and I need time to myself and any little disruption, no matter what the other person's intent, can drive me batty.

I told Andrew before, when I feel that way, I am going to have a shirt that I wear. Perhaps it will have the radioactive sign on it...or a caution sign...whatever....but it will forwarn him to not even look at me that day.

 

I prefer getting my lady friends sauced when PMS rolls around.

You can say what you will. But it seems to help.

 

Heres a german website to back up my thesis.

http://translate.google.com/transla...ev=/search?q=GABA+and+PMS&hl=en&safe=off&sa=G

Drink up!

 

it doesn't say anythign about drinking, though.

 

my cousin got hers last night haha

we were out drinking and she was not expecting it haha

 

I don't think the medical community would automatically reccomend drinking.

http://adam.about.com/reports/000079_3.htm

alances in these hormones that reduce GABA levels have been associated with depression, anxiety, and agitation. GABA is an amino acid that acts as a neurotransmitter to inhibit transmission of impulses from one nerve cell to another. It plays a very important role in the stress response. An important 2002 study reported lower levels of GABA during menstruation in women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). In fact, GABA may become an important target for drugs aimed at relieving PMDD.

Drinkings effects upon GABA.

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro00/web1/Kim.html

. Since GABA is an inhibitory neurotransmitter, alcohol increases its ability to inhibit. "When alcohol is introduced into this system, its immediate (i.e. acute) effect is to add to (i.e.potentiate) the inhibition caused by the GABAconsequently, neurons receiving messages through GABA are even more inhibited by this transmitter than usual when alcohol is present in the brain." (3). And because GABA neurons are located not in one specific part of the brain, the presence of alcohol inhibits many activities within the brain, influencing behavioral output.

 

ah! neato.

tried and true family recipe for us girls when we were pms-ing or cramping really bad was a hot, mildly alcoholic drink of various sorts. i prefered the warm milk with irish creme liquor or brandy with something or other. i can't remember. to this day, those drinks are kinda sacred.

 

Oh yeah. I was partly serious when I recommended getting women sauced when PMS rolls around.

Not really sauced, but alcohol does seem to have soothing effects during PMS. I almost wish I had PMS for a few days to try out my hypothesis.

Not very often though.

I don't think menstruations a big deal at all. I love women, and it's a perfectly natural thing. Unless you want to date 70 year old women you're whole life...

I mean I do, but I'm trying to beat Mr. Rogers sweater catalogue. Plus I love cookies.

 

I haven't read this entire thread so I'll just answer the original question.

How do I feel when she starts getting/talking about her period?

Fucking lucky that I'm not a woman, that's how.

Really though, guys who get grossed out even at the sight of an unused tampon are fucking hilarious. I once lived in London in a shared house with a lot of people. One day, one of the housemates stormed into the kitchen in a fury to declare that somebody should remove 'that disgusting object' from the bathroom. One of the girls looked a little sheepish and left to clean up the supposed mess. She returned sayig she didn't know what the hell he was talking about. He then explained that there was a tampon(unused but unwrapped) on the edge of the bath which he found absolutely revolting and unacceptable.

Fuck, how we laughed.

 

unused! what a puss! its a natural thing, guys have gross things too.