Okay, progesterone induced rage has abated. Now I am suffering from PMS blues. Just feel sad for no reason. The holidays are rough ANYWAY, so this is no fun. Hope I start menstruating soon, 'cause I know I'll feel better almost as soon as i do.

Just When I Thought I Couldn't Feel Any Worse
 

I got my "unwelcome visitor" yesterday.

It's the first time I've ever cried because I got my period.

S.

Ellis, thanks for starting my five day count down.

It arrived today just as predicted last week, amazing. Can you post every month so it will help me keep track? LOL


I've been cranky the past few days - but then again, that can happen anytime
:lol:

My DD is 12 and a half - she doesn't appear to be close yet...... what should I be looking for? ( she gets embarrassed when I try to ask!)

den, sabrina - sorry to hear about the rage and the tears...:grouphug: I know how that feels

Love, Terri

Den and Sabrina... ditto on the hugs and cuddles. I'm really sorry you're feeling *hitty. Just think... you'll be done by Christmas! No surprises THIS year!!
Den, it's really too bad we can't drink more (darn those drugs!). Although we'd probably be raging alcoholics, wouldn't we. :D

Terri, you're looking for nothing. It'll hit her at the worst possible moment. Don't you remember your first? There was no warning. Sort of like a tornado. All I did with my daughter was to buy her a packet of pads and make her keep a few in her school knapsack. Fortunately she started at home in bed. I started at the age of 12 and a half... we were at the drive-in with my family watching Star Wars. When we got home, I discovered my favorite jean shorts covered in blood. Hmmm... I wonder who cleaned the back seat of the car....?

Goodness, we all seem to be having or about to get periods! I have about 11 more years (since my mother was 51 when she went through menopause & I am 40) and at roughly 13 periods a year (every 4 weeks now - I used to be every 6! I do not want MORE as I get older!!) - that is 143 periods to go, and 143 too many in my opinion!

The last time my MIL was here was when child #2 had just been born - and though I love her dearly, I was driven to eating bags of Chunks Ahoy in secret and trying not to snarl at everyone. It is a small house and I have a short temper!

As my TOM approaches (on Friday the 13th!!) I am growling at anyone who comes near my dwindling box of Ovation mint sticks!

Lidian

Yes, I figured it would all hit her like that.

For me it happened just days before my 14th birthday - it was traumatic because my mom couldn't discuss it with me.

I had been horse riding earlier that day so I thought it meant that I tore myself from spreading my legs on horseback :(


Sad memory!


Not that way in our house - my DD is lucky to have me:smug:


Terri

PS - Chunks Ahoy! :) Wine is my PMS food/beverage item of choice

I was 12 and my Mom gave me a red plant to celebrate, but it died when we moved a week later. (I was MAD!!!)

HEY!! It started and i'm feeling a bit better already. It is the "anticipation" that i find annoying...that and the overflows!!!

You know ...... all this period talk is making me nostalgic as **** for the days of my cramping and dripping youth. Sigh!

Yeah, I bet. :rolleyes:

Ruth-I don't know if you are a sadist or a masochist!!!!!

I will be so glad to quit having periods! It has been 28 years now. My 9 year old daughter was asking about it and this reminded me of MY first one. I was almost 12 and my mother presented me with a sort of pink plastic garter belt that had two straps that hung down (back and front) to which one was supposed to clip a pad. YUCK! I refused to wear it (she must have bought it about 1962!).

Then there were stick tampons, with a thin dowel in them (that you removed, of course!). Anyone remember those? Thank goodness things aren't so barbaric anymore - it's bad enough just having it!

Lidian

The power of suggestion that you people exhibit is staggering (she said, and then trotted off to the loo with a grimace and a tampon). :dz:

My mom had my younger sister at the age of (almost) 42. She NEVER had another period after that! Just imagine... last egg. I'm hoping to follow in her footsteps. :D (ummm, NOT with the baby part, though!)

oh wow ! I am 42, I am the weird one here. I WANT to keep having them. Yes, call me strange!


Oh Lidian!! Yes, I tried them all. Younger women just don't know what we put up with.

When I started, we didn't use belts, just pins - we pinned them to our panties! How barbaric and I remember how they would get twisted and make me walk funny! About a year later, they came out with thin strips of adhesive on the back - it got caught in pubic hair and pulled it - yikes! (am I too graphic yet! sorry!)

Then was I was about 15, my cousin and me wanted to go swimming and of course we needed tampons for that and she got some from her older sister. Neither one of us knew what we were doing, neither of us was familiar with out anatomy! and we could not ask anybody! imagine that in 1976! so we went into side by side stalls at the beach bathhouse - trying to coax each other into how to insert them - talking to each other through the wall!
:lol:

Finally we both emerged - tampons only partially inserted ( we did not understand the mechanics!) as we walked stiffly toward the water - my little cousins were laughing at us cuz we walked so weird.

To this day I laugh so hard about that.

Terri

Terri, we are from the same era, absolutely! And a fine vintage it is too!

I remember when all the boys in my HS wanted to look like John Travolta at the dances we had, and they kept playing 'Stayin Alive' all night (known at our house as 'Pants Are Too Tight' - have you seen the video where the BeeGees are walking around in, well pants that are too tight? It always cracks me up!)

And rotary dial phones, and LPs, and the Beatles breaking up, and men with wide ties and silly fedora hats (groovy middle-class streetwear!).

And my girls look horrified when I say there were no computers. The first time I saw a computer was in college circa 1980. I said to the guy who owned it, "How can you type and watch TV at the same time?":lol:

Yes, and OB tampons are a wonderful thing (back on the great topic!) I can only imagine what our grandmothers must have gone through, that belts and little sticks were big technological improvements!

Lidian