Doctors Are Now Saying That Menstrual Cramps Can Be as Painful as Having a Heart Attack

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And in other news, water is wet

Not like women have been telling y’all this since the beginning of time or anything.

I mean, yeah, at one point three years ago I was curled up in a fetal position literally screaming/crying/gasping for breath on my bed in my dorm room, so my response to this headline is basically, “No shit.”

No wonder women are so likely to ignore heart disease/attack symptoms. If something isn’t as bad as my cramps, I figure it can’t be that bad.

THAT LAST COMMENT

!!!!!

No seriously. There aren’t enough people who understand how important that last comment is. I lost my right kidney four years ago because of “if something isn’t as bad as my cramps, I figure it can’t be that bad.”

My. Fucking. Kidney.

Don’t force people with periods to internalize and silence themselves when they have cramps!

Can confirm “can’t be that bad because period”.  I had a kidney stone and it took me like 2-3 days to realize it wasn’t my period because it basically felt like that.  Pain is normal for women (and other people with a uterus), it’s part of being a woman, and so we’re much less likely to know when the pain we’re having is bad because we deal with so much of it some much more often than men do.  Pain is not always a “something is wrong” indicator for us.  

jesus. I never thought of it that way.

Every woman rebloging this

My mom told me that the first time she went into labour she remembered thinking “I’ve had period cramps worse than this”

Period pain ? Try endometriosis pain, literally feels like a sharp knife is stuck inside you. The dull ache I always used to get never responded to even Naproxen.

Go to YouTube there are videos under ‘men experiencing period pain’ it’s a combination of hysterical and beautiful. It’s worth a watch, it led to some video of twenty year olds examining boxes of feminine hygiene ( like tampons and knicker liners) equally funny to watch as a woman.

Doctors Are Now Saying That Menstrual Cramps Can Be as Painful as Having a Heart Attack