A Visit from Aunt Flow
Gentlemen readers, the post ahead involves lady time. Be warned. And share it with your wife or girlfriend, if you’re so inclined. As for the ladies in the house, this post is about the visit from Aunt Flow, or as Alicia Silverstone immortally uttered in Clueless, “I was surfing the crimson wave.”
I don’t know about you, but I used to read YM magazine when I was a young miss/young and modern/what have you and it was my ultimate nightmare that I would experience an incident that could make it into their embarrassing moments column that involved the arrival of that time of the month at what can only be described as “not supposed to be that time of the month.”
Then, I did experience one of those allegedly ultimate embarrassing high school moments where my period arrived in the middle of class and when I got up from my desk, I realized it. Fortunately, nobody noticed but me, which just goes to show that the red avenger is NOT always out to get you. (On another note, I did make it into the embarrassing moments column of YM, but that story involved Halloween, a man dressed up as a very realistic scarecrow, and an inappropriate gesture).
Most of my readers are mothers, and many of you probably recognize this time of the month as the reason you don’t do anything one week a month. Why? Because it’s heavy, it’s painful, you cramp a lot, you’re irritable, you’re bloated… etc. etc. The list goes on. In fact, according Healthy Women, 68% of women feel like their periods control them.
NOT COOL.
I don’t know about you, but I say we take back control of our lives. Healthy Women found that 75% of women with uncomfortable periods don’t even mention it to their OB/GYN, but than oftentimes, when they did, they found treatment options more comfortable than spending a portion of time every month wishing that an axe was handy.
If you’re part of that 75%, you might head on over to Healthy Women and see what they’ve got to tell you. You’ll be loading up on Vitamin B in no time.
Some additional links that might be of use:
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By the way, I wrote this review while participating in a blog tour campaign by Mom Central Consulting on behalf of Ferring Pharmaceuticals and received a promotional item to facilitate my review. But you should seriously check them out.
