How Problematic Periods Effect Women's Lives | Women's Health: Breaking The Taboos
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- Опубліковано 11 кві 2024
- This eye opening series follows Cherry Healey as she uncovers the biggest issues surrounding women's health. In this first episode, she discovers the impact of chronically heavy periods and two common conditions which not only impacts women's day-to-day life, but also their mental health and wellbeing.
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my periods were so heavy I was filling a menstrual cup in less than two hours. No apparent reason why. I was told over and over again that it's normal to be heavy the first few days until I counted how often I filled my cup and told my doctor how much I was losing each month. Hormonal birth control messed with me in so many other ways it felt like choosing between two evils. I never wanted children and had been begging my doctor to sterilize me, eventually found out about uterine ablation and suggested it myself. I finally had my surgery in November, and my periods have gone from a week of heavy bleeding to 3 days of spotting. I can barely describe the relief this brought, I can make plans without having to worry about possibly having my period. My iron levels are the highest they have been since I started menstruating. I hope this becomes something that's easier to talk about, and I hope more doctors will start listening to women instead of dismissing their complaints.
My cousin did this too, you are right to stand up for yourself!
My periods are also like yours were. I am Anemic and have to be on iron supplements. Sadly I live in the USA and I can not afford healthcare. I need a hysterotomy, not only for my awful periods, but I also have uterine fibroids that are any where from almond sized to grapefruit sized. When they get big enough to lose their blood supply it is extremely painful as they die in my body. I can not afford surgery so, I suffer.
+1 for ablations. I had mine a year ago and it was life-changing, hands down the BEST thing I've ever done. I started getting extremely heavy periods after the C19 vax. Doc couldn't find anything wrong, no fribroids, no endo, hormone levels were normal, etc. I asked if I could just have a hysterectomy since I'd already had a tubal and was done having kids, but got the wE dOnT rEmOvE hEaLtHy OrGaNs crap. They suggested I just learn to live with it since at 41 I should be going through menopause soon. Haha, yeah... the average menopausal age for women in my family is 50-55. My mom was even still getting periods until 56. I was looking at 10-15 more years of planning my life around my elevator scene from The Shining periods, not to mention aside from the heaviness they were getting more frequent too. I used to have a normal 28 day cycle but it gradually shortened to about 21.
The final straw, when I decided I was absolutely _done_ with this crap, was when I got my period a week early the day before a 900 mile road trip. I couldn't back out of the trip or reschedule it so I got to spend 2 days in a car cramping, passing egg-sized clots, needing to stop every hour, and trying to sit as still as possible to contain the whole mess. After that I started doing research on permanent ways to stop periods and learned about ablations. I went back to my gyno and basically demanded one, and thankfully he did it or else I was seriously considering going to Mexico and paying some back alley doctor to just rip out my uterus. My quality of life is so much better now. No more 7 day long debilitating periods, I still get some PMS and hormonal symptoms but I only get a day or two of spotting that's so light I only need a tiny pantyliner. I should have done this YEARS ago.
So your periods are so heavy you can’t function, you don’t want kids, birth control doesn’t help and is not OTC or free, yet abortion is almost impossible, yet they won’t sterilize you.. where is the gaslighting in all of that..uuggh I am so sorry you had to go thru that
I had recurring fibroids, a cyst the size of a cricket ball on my left ovary as well as endometriosis. I'm so glad I decided to have a hysterectomy!
US GIRLS ARE AWESOME we go through so much.
Periods and cramps being pregnant for 9 months and child labor etc.
Its amazing what the female body is capable of.
How problematic periods AFFECT women's lives
Ugh came looking for your comment and I’m glad I’m not alone. Someone correct it now! You can do better!
Great topic that needs to be discussed more. We are decades behind as a world on this topic.
I never had any issues with my period but all of a sudden things changed. I began painful painful periods and eventually it changed to heavy heavy bleeding to the point of having to wear adult diapers and even that wasn’t enough, I was leaking out of them. I was gushing blood for almost an entire month. Along with excruciating pain, which led me to go to emergency almost weekly for months.
Doctors let dismissing me and saying it’s hormonal changes and it’s “normal”. But I was in excruciating pain and the bleeding wouldn’t stop.
I didn’t have a gynecologist so I waiting on an appointment with the gyno whilst the healthcare system kept giving me pills for pain and to slow the bleeding. Nothing really helped.
Eventually once the gyno saw me, I was diagnosed immediately with cancer.
I was delayed diagnosis and treatment by 3 months because no one at the hospitals took me seriously.
This is our healthcare system in Canada. DO NOT COME TO CANADA if you value healthcare.
Also here in 🇺🇲, it's horrible how we women ♀️ are treated. I hope you beat & survive your cancer🙏🏼🧬💕
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I used 8 packs of pads during my periods and had flooding. I used to faint.
😥oh no, that's so bad
I got my first period at age 10! I wasn't diagnosed with endometriosis until it had turned to UTERINE STROMAL CANCER STAGE 4 at 19‼️ I am NOW 49... and STILL have cancer but it has METASTASIZED OUTSIDE OF THE UTERUS, BEFORE I COULD HAVE A HYSTERECTOMY... I was ABLE to have 3 children with medical intervention‼️ Our oldest was IVF. Our middle was IUI. Our youngest was an actual miracle, as I was on chemotherapy at the time that I conceived and he was able to survive! They are ALL GROWN NOW and healthy❣️ I have had OVER 40+ surgeries to be able to get to where I am❣️ I will NEVER be cancer free...but I will fight until my LAST breath‼️ Unfortunately, our daughter has endometriosis ALSO! At 15, we started her on medication to help her‼️ She's been stable for the past 9 years‼️
My Mom had a special implant put in her back for her bladder... I don't know what it's called ... But it controls her bladder completely‼️ She lives 2500 hundred miles away from me, so it's not like I can just get a picture of it or something... She's ALSO very computer & smart phone illiterate💔‼️ She has my brother and I later than I did with my kids... I had ALL MY KIDS BEFORE I WAS 30! She didn't have me until she was almost 31... & my brother came 53 weeks later‼️She then had a hysterectomy just 2 years later‼️ She was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis when I was 6. I don't remember her ever being well ❤️🩹. My grandparents raised me the majority of my childhood... At 14, my brother and I moved to Hawai'i with our father ... I then became an emancipated minor at 15‼️(That's a completely different story). The ONLY reason I mentioned it, it's one of the reasons why I got the diagnosis when I DID‼️ I had to be my own advocate.. there wasn't anyone else‼️
Medical field gaslights women all the time whilst men get all the pain meds they need for any little procedure
I was told by a manager in front of a room full of make coworkers, that he heard on the radio about a new study saying PMS is not a thing, and it’s mental. Everyone laughed while I couldn’t even defend myself lol. Ya it’s real.
I was told by a female doctor that I was a hypochondriac. Fall down pain. I had to request a laparoscopic. The eventually after years of recurrence a hysterectomy.
I started Depo Provera birth control shot in the arm or buttocks every 3 months i started this birth control at 17 because, my menstrual would last a week the flow was horrible and the cramps were debilitating.
Depo has been a life saver I don't get a period anymore, and the cramps are way lighter.
Took me 25+ years to get my endometriosis diagnosis. No one believed my pain was that bad 😢
That is horrible! It took me 16 years to get my I'm unlucky diagnosis and only just now, years later, had surgery for it...
@@BillyLeeGoodman hope it gets better for you 🩷 I had a full hysterectomy and was a great decision
Took me 40✊🏼
They always say we’re being dramatic and periods can’t be that bad it’s so invalidating
I’m so sorry this happened to all of you.
I hear you!
My story:
Endometriosis since age 12, actually diagnosed via laparoscopy at age 18 (surgeon didn’t remove any lesions, just put me back on the pill).
Doctor told me at age 16 to get pregnant, but not necessarily have the child (her reasoning, I could have a DNC with an abortion and that could help my symptoms).
After years of fighting with pain and every other symptom, fought with the gynae doc for a laparoscopy. Kept being told it’s normal to be dizzy, faint, end up being taken to hospital every period, have severe pain for 3 weeks every month… you ladies know what I’m talking about!
The registrar told me under no certain times that it’s impossible for me to have endometriosis. She tried to get me to cancel the surgery. Afterwards she apologized, saying I had the worst endo she’d ever seen.
Had a child at age 35.
Periods got worse after the 3rd jab.
Tried every hormonal treatment possible. Got worse. Added migraines to the list of symptoms.
Begged my gynae for a hysterectomy. She said no for 3 years, even though I also had reoccurring ovarian cysts, until I was diagnosed with stage 3 high grade ovarian cancer at age 40!
After tumor removal, including removal of one ovary and tube, I guess peri-menopause has hit. Now my periods last from 12-19 days, I have a 2-7 day break, then it starts again.
Finally I’m booked in for a total hysterectomy with ovary and Fallopian tube and endo removal in 2 weeks time. I’m so happy about this I can’t tell you!
Wish you all the best in your healing journey
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This is shocking & heart breaking!
Good start I guess on an issue that is affecting many women around the world
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How about a period that never stopped! Serious! Took me so long to insist on help. Five years to be exact. Quality of life is the key. Couldn't take it any more. I would put in a tampon walk downstairs and I'd have to go back upstairs to changemy pants because I had gone through my undies and pants. I finally found a doctor that listened. uterine ablation did it for me.
Hallelujah!!!!! ❤❤❤
Great topic and very informative. But I wish it had less editing cuts, especially when it came to the pelvic products. I don’t need to listen to their usage instructions thrice. And the prelude in the middle could be avoided. That should have been combined with the end and results.
With respect to incontinence and other pelvic floor issues…. I cannot recommend pelvic floor physical therapy enough… and that goes for both men and women. It’s an absolute life and game changer.
As a transman, I found cloth pads to be very helpful when it came to pain and suffering. I had 8 day periods and they went down to 4 days with the use of cloth pads. I didn't mind washing my cloth pads because I figure they were doing the job that I needed them to do. Also, they are very discrete when it comes to changing them in public toilets. I had no cramps and pain from the use of cloth pads. Also, one day of heavy bleeding.
I'm 40. I have my cycles 18-22 days apart which is TWICE A MONTH!! I'm SEVERELY ANEMIC I have to get iron infusions 4x's a year. I think I should just do ablation. I pass CLOTS BIGGER than my INDEX FINGER. So that's my life. I've had one child but do have PCOS as well as an ovarian torsion and had my right ovary removed because the cyst caused it to die. Fun fun I guess.
Affect!! not Effect! please educate yourself!
One word: Endometriosis
Fibroids disproportionately effect Black women. For example in the US Black women are 3x more likely to suffer from fibroids. All the women I know who have fibroids are Black. There are some links to lack of vitamin D. Not sure why that was not stated or discussed in this documentary... if we are going to talk about the issue talk about it.
Peri menopause is a serious Pain in the a$$! And takes way too long to finish 🤬mother nature definitely doesn’t like women 🤦🏼♀️
Being a woman sucks 😭😭