Woman Attempts To Illustrate Period Pain To Her Boyfriend

Lily Q
wrote on June 5 2009 @ 10:21 am: [report]

HA. This is amazingly accurate.

CheeeeEEEEse
wrote on June 5 2009 @ 10:25 am: [report]

Hahaha, laughing at work isn’t good. Bad Frisky!

Pearl
wrote on June 5 2009 @ 10:25 am: [report]

Nice.

Perceptible
wrote on June 5 2009 @ 10:28 am: [report]

Oh lordy that’s gross. And terribly accurate. Thank god for the pill that makes your periods go away!!!

Chebs
wrote on June 5 2009 @ 10:31 am: [report]

Lord, I’m never going to be able to say ‘Roll Tide’ without thinking of this picture now.  Or look at Jupiter the same way, but I do that much less often in my daily life.

writergirl
wrote on June 5 2009 @ 10:38 am: [report]

That’s great!  And exceedingly accurate.

GreenAura
wrote on June 5 2009 @ 10:39 am: [report]

Thank goodness for heating pads, Belgian chocolate, and ratty underwear.

Jessica Wakeman
wrote on June 5 2009 @ 10:40 am: [report]

Lightning! Oh, THAT is what that throbbing is.

jojo32
wrote on June 5 2009 @ 10:42 am: [report]

Ha!  I love this!

alliecat
wrote on June 5 2009 @ 10:51 am: [report]

LOVE the chompy things! Couldn’t have explained things better if I tried!

bbpickles
wrote on June 5 2009 @ 10:53 am: [report]

Awesome!  I love pictures….I drew a detailed picture of a vagina for my guy friends to reference once!  Their girlfriends thank me!!!

retro chic
wrote on June 5 2009 @ 11:01 am: [report]

That drawing is funny and can relate, but I’m not sure it would still make a guy understand anything related to an organ they can never possess, or the pain it creates. A visual analogy would have to relate to their dick for it to be truly real—ie, swap out uterus for dick—they’ll vom then wait on you hand and foot. Anyway, you know you’ll hear the “I heard sex/orgasms relieve cramps, so…”

Yes, thank goodness for the chocolate, ratty undies, but would swap out the heating pad with our small dog who is always the right temperature and instinctively gets into the best position. Plus some meds.

jimnist10
wrote on June 5 2009 @ 11:18 am: [report]

HA! This is so great! I will be forwarding this to my bf and all my girlfriends! “Chompy things”! HA! Brilliant!

MissChaotic
wrote on June 5 2009 @ 12:10 pm: [report]

I’m putting this on my facebook. This is classic!

annasbetter
wrote on June 5 2009 @ 12:56 pm: [report]

Chompy things is very accurate.  I tell my husband it’s like there’s little people in there pulling on my uteris.

cid15
wrote on June 5 2009 @ 03:07 pm: [report]

gwoss.  just plain gwoss

canadiancutie
wrote on June 5 2009 @ 08:50 pm: [report]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Instant classic!

Bean's Girl
wrote on June 5 2009 @ 08:54 pm: [report]

I just think it’s funny how it had to be a cartoon-like picture to help a guy understand lol.

retro chic
wrote on June 5 2009 @ 11:10 pm: [report]

My mother told me when she was young, she had really bad cramps. So bad that she would pass out, making it hard for her to give a full description of her pain to her Dr, even tho she passed out in his office once. He, in the progressive state of women’s medicine of her day, said, “There’s no such thing as menstrual pain, there are no nerves there(!!!) Your pain is psychosomatic.”(!!!)

No wonder guys have a hard time understanding pain when the learn-ed Drs didn’t acknowledge a woman’s competence to experience, let alone describe, pain. We’re just malingering idiots or crazy heat-seeking b*tches like clockwork every month.

I never took the remedial approach—this on is truly funny b/c of the oversimplified ‘toony look, as Bean said. But thru very graphic language I likened it to “ground glass passing thru your dick, shredding you from the inside out, only you’re *hoping* to pass out.” I have adenomyosis—the lining grows and invades the uterine muscle—which *is* loaded with nerves, btw—it becomes sodden and heavy, causing pain that even a Dealer bearing gifts would cringe at, uh, [half-laugh].

So anyone that literally or figuratively paints pictures nec for the understanding and improvement of the quality of life *for everyone in the house and for mankind once a month* is due the Nobel Prize. I’m sure this graphic will be a classic and rec’v hits for a long time.

hereshestands
wrote on June 7 2009 @ 01:59 am: [report]

Classic. I love the chompy things. It does feel like someone’s munching your insides out. Haha. Brilliance.

kimba999
wrote on June 8 2009 @ 09:41 am: [report]

I love it but I would have also added a sadistic steel-toed boot wearing skin head thug kicking the hell out of my cervix.

IAMME
wrote on June 8 2009 @ 09:44 am: [report]

I agree Kim, as well as the big ass mule kicking me square in the small of my back….the chompy things are great…

VocalVal
wrote on June 9 2009 @ 02:34 pm: [report]

Brilliance.  Pure brilliance.

baby spitfire
wrote on June 11 2009 @ 10:58 pm: [report]

genuis much?

nikki85
wrote on June 12 2009 @ 05:45 pm: [report]

LMAO!!!  Accuracy and hilarity in one beautifully rendered image.  Awesome.

mostlyin
wrote on June 15 2009 @ 03:04 pm: [report]

My monthly back pain feels like the next Transformers’ movie sequel is being filmed on location inside L1-L5 of my lower spine.  I see women double over with uterine and cervical cramps.  I double over hoping my coccyx explodes out of my back to relieve the pressure.  Perhaps cartoons are finally the answer—there’s really no way to describe period pain to the other species.

Edriisxe
wrote on June 21 2009 @ 06:15 pm: [report]

Funny. I’m on my period now and while aching so badly, I thought loudly in my head, “WHAT EXACTLY IS SHOOTING ME WITH A GUN!”

And I was introduced to this. AH.

dahveed
wrote on June 21 2009 @ 07:41 pm: [report]

...and he said, “Oh, hey babe can you get me a beer?”

“Since your not feeling well, I’m going out with the guys.  Don’t wait up, babe.”

allisnotlost
wrote on July 30 2009 @ 03:26 pm: [report]

That’s great! Thumbs up!

Frederica Bimble
wrote on July 31 2009 @ 06:17 am: [report]

There are ways (natural) to help alleviate menstrual pains. (1) A switch to a vegetarian diet with lots of green leaves and vegetables and fibre changes to hormones tremendously.  It takes about 3 months for your body to adjust.  (2)  If you don’t want to give up meat, then stay away from red meats and high fats and stick with “white meats” such as chicken and fish (sustainable types) (3) Cut back on refined sugar, white sugar, refined flours and sweets laden with saturated fats.  (4) Evening Primrose oil is great for balancing the hormones and to alleviate symptoms of the menopause.  (5) Drink lots of water to flush out the system.  (6) Also, meditation to create a higher respect for your body as a woman helps to connect mind and body as one.  We are told constantly that we aren’t “good enough,” that we have a “ticking biological clock” we are told the natural functions of the female body are somehow “wrong” and that it should be covered up with sprays, joked about, ignored, worshiped, ogled, beatened, and just about any other thing that serves to reduce a human to the “sum of his/her parts.”  When one connects with their inner strength and no longer accepts the “wrongness” thrust upon them, the body heals itself.  If one starts with the mind, the body will naturally tell you what it needs.  Diet change is the biggest factor in alleviating the pain and attitude change works in the long term.

@ Dahveed: Seriously?  Are you still with this guy?  There are 6 billion people on this planet, just under half of them male.  There is certainly a man “out there” who wouldn’t behave as if you’re his mother. 

@ Retro chic:  I will never forget a male army doctor who told me, when I’d gone to see him for knee pains from long distance running, “women weren’t designed to run.”  That was it!  I asked him:  “Are you stupid?”  Not because I was angry or because I was trying to make a point but because only a stupid person would say such an ignorant statement AND be a medical doctor.  Ignorance is one thing but a doctor should know better. I only visit female doctors now.

theattack
wrote on August 5 2009 @ 01:38 am: [report]

@ Frederica…. WOW I can’t believe a doctor actually said that to you! How awful and ignorant! I really like what you said about creating respect for ourselves. I agree completely, but I don’t see how it will affect the cramps very much. Maybe the meditation does though.
Also, I’ve been a vegetarian for about a year and two months now, and I have not experienced that luck. Actually my cramps are worse now, but I also think I’ve had some hormonal changes during the same time that have made my periods rather crazy. But I do balance my vegetarian diet healthily, and I monitor the nutrients I’m getting, so I wish I were benefiting in that way from it. That’s an amazing thing to know though!

stiffinp
wrote on August 31 2009 @ 08:34 am: [report]

A friend told me when she has sex during her periods, it does relieve the cramping.

bettyboo
wrote on August 31 2009 @ 09:03 am: [report]

I’ve been veggie since i was 7 and have on occassion had cramps so debilitating I’ve had to be sent home from work as I couldn’t sit in my office chair, if veggie is supposed to be better I dread to think what they’d be like if I was a meat eater.. :O/  My pain seems to be more linked to my emotional wellbeing than anything else, if i’m stressed anyway they are infinitely worse, exercise and keeping active throughout the rest of the month seems to help tho :0)  and sex..  tho I think that just takes my mind of it I think.. ;0)  and for some reason I always seem to be really frisky when I’m on, especially after the first and worst day is out the way.. :0) 
On the making men understand front, I always felt there needed to be a couple of months minimum of national service type thing for teenage boys where for a week a month they’re kicked repeatedly in the back and given hormones to make them feel all teary and bloated..  :0P So they can really empathise with what their mothers sisters or girlfriends go through every month..  too harsh..?  ;0P

Aidra
wrote on August 31 2009 @ 10:43 am: [report]

Before I got my IUD, my cramps were pretty mellow. I know now how lucky I was. For the first 5 months the cramps caused by the IUD was so sudden and so intense, I had to stop talking and bend over all the while wanting to puke, waiting for the pain for subside. The way I explain it to my husband is it feels like my uterus is trying to remove itself from my body. Like, if I didn’t have a tampon in it would fall right out. Thankfully that time is over and my cramps are only mildly annoying for a day or 2.