I never got used to having a period

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When I had a partner I found it hard to even say the word period or talk about contraception. I even got pregnant through neglecting discussing it. I never really got used to it even though it won't be long until the menopause! My mum (or maybe it was me) made it feel like something scary and surreal that I should be ashamed of. Anyone had experiences like that.

All I know,is that I absolutely hated having a period every month. I never got used to it, and always felt dismay when I knew it was coming. I am so glad not to have that anymore, since my hysterectomy. I don't miss it at all.

But to answer the OP's question, I never felt ashamed of having a period, just disgusted and inconvenienced.

I don't fee ashamed when that time of the month comes. I just think that it's the worse possible way for me to be reminded, that I am, in fact female. I'd love it, if the only time that a woman was to have her period, was when her, and her husband are trying to make a baby.

Periods are disgusting. They're the most disgusting and degrading thing short of fecal incontinence.

I could take pumping out normal red blood every month, but no. That s**t that goes with it...endometrium...it makes me sick. It makes me feel like a piece of meat. Just a uterus, not a girl with a mind and dignity. I hate it.

I ooze smelly stuff in between my periods, too. Why do men get to wear thick underpants when we get thin knickers that the smell just goes right through? I started wearing men's underpants once but my bf got upset. I might start again though. Sometimes at work I can smell my vaginal ooze really strongly. And that is in between periods and sometimes even when I've showered that morning. It makes me so ashamed I want to crawl into the ground. When my boss is talking to me about some technical stuff that I'm so desperate to show I am able to do despite my apparently inferior brain size, half my attention is taken up with clamping my legs together and angling my hips away. Ridiculous.

Mind you. as with anything, there is always a way round it. Shower more, wear men's pants and wear panty liners and change the panty liner every couple of hours on a bad day. Which of course will incur the wrath of the environmentalists.

I'm currently wearing thick ones too, and I wash with antiseptic as well as just taking a regular shower.

It isn't the smell that gets me, though. It's that f*****g leathery membrane stuff. I see that s**t and I feel like I have had my humanity completely taken away.

All that stuff mentioned doesn't bother me at all because no one else can see it. I hate that my brain goes all fluff around that time of the month and I get easily confused. and I don't like the pain. i swell up like a baloon and get so tired.

As for vaginal smells, I would say that strong smells are not healthy. It could have a lot to do with diet, or even a possible yeast infection. I found that during my menstruating years, that sugar and flour consumption caused a stronger smell. Taking probiotics and drinking cranberry juice on a regular basis helps, with that.

Try wearing only cotton underwear, and using castile soap to wash down there. Strong soaps cause more secretion, as the vagina attempts to re-balance its PH levels. Cloth panty shields are better than the plastic lined ones, because the plastic prevents the skin breathing, and causes a strong smell. Douching, of course makes it worse, too.

I hate having it! If it was not for the fact that I want to have kids some day I would get something done so that I never got it.

I think the problem here is the way you've been taught to view it. It really is nothing to be ashamed of, all women get it and all men know about it.

You mother should never have encouraged you to think of it that way.

I hate it too...hmmm...I was actually happy for a few years that I had a tumor on my pituitary gland and I didn't get the periods for months and once even a whole year...it was great...sigh...

I have never understood how other girls talk about that stuff though...like, "oh, I feel horrible, I have my period...blah, blah..." makes me sick...I don't tell anyone...sometimes not even my husband can tell cause I am so secretive about it...hmmm

I hate it too...hmmm...I was actually happy for a few years that I had a tumor on my pituitary gland and I didn't get the periods for months and once even a whole year...it was great...sigh...

I have never understood how other girls talk about that stuff though...like, "oh, I feel horrible, I have my period...blah, blah..." makes me sick...I don't tell anyone...sometimes not even my husband can tell cause I am so secretive about it...hmmm

My mother treated it as something normal, not to be ashamed of, but I'm ashamed of it nevertheless.

It's f*****g vile and I don't like that my body is trying to have a baby against my will.

I hate all things related to having a period. I hated it enough that I went in to have an ablation to stop it. Unfortunately, the device wouldn't work because I'd had a partial hysterectomy (unbeknownst to me). My doctor did a rather radical D&C to remove pretty much the entire lining of the inside of what's left of my uterus. I haven't had a regular period since. Now it's shocking to me when there is any flow...which is usually super light.

I hate the discomfort, the smell, the "feminine" products, etc.

I used to hate having it and then I got used to it and didn't mind it when I got put on birth control. My periods were no longer heavy or irregular nor got cramps. Then I stopped taking them for a while and it took about a year for my cramps to start kicking back in when I get my period I'd feel constipated. So I went for birth control again and then stopped the depo shot and the pills when I wanted to get pregnant so I only took Tylenol or something that helps menstrual cramps.

You could always get your female parts taken out then you wont have that issue. Unless of course you want to reprouduce. Im thinking about having this done when im older. As I do not see a point as to having this, unless you want a child, which I dont.