Surviving Periods For FTM's

[Elwood]

Haha. I don't like backpacks because they're terrible for the spine. Yeah, I really am into spine health. It's the foundation of your body, after all.

I had the fanny pack for a very short time, and it was black. It was more like a pouch, as it wasn't the "official" fanny pack. It was square shaped and went onto my belt. But in essence, it was the same general idea. I'd keep all kinds of ->-bleeped-<- in it. Then I realized I didn't need this.

-shrug- I don't consider myself "less rugged" because I chose a more convenient carrying method. Not that I want to be rugged. I consider myself the intellectual type.

[Aiden]

Yeh, considering I have back problems probably doesn't help my back either lol.  But it's better than what I used to carry around.  More evenly balanced, and does build a bit of muscle in places I need it.

[Elwood]

I like to carry a briefcase in my left hand because I'm trying to build the strength on my left arm. I'm ambidextrous but my left arm is not very strong, so I make it do most of the work.

[Aiden]

Yeh, am trying to loose some of the blub on the belly... though downpoint of that is that it would make my chest more noticable than already is lol

[Elwood]

I actually need to gain some weight in my gut. I don't have big hips but I do have a really small waist and that gives me quite a curve.

[Aiden]

Ok think we got side tracked from the topic lol

But yeh.  my problem is the hips and the chest, otherwise think be ok

[icontact]

I hate periods. Every time I have one day where I'm completely crippled by cramps for at least an hour before whatever pills I down take any effect. One time I was down for four hours, nearly screaming in pain half the time. But I guess that was my fault because I refused to take pills until the third hour.

Tampons, ugh. They're fine going in, but coming out, god it felt so gross and wrongwrongwrong. Never again will I use a tampon except if it's an emergency.

As for you two and your purse/backpack discussion, anyone ever heard of pockets? Men's jeans have humongous pockets for a reason haha. I put everything in there, but then again all I carry is iPod, cellphone, money, gum.

[Aiden]

Yeh, well I do that too.   But I tend to carry when not needing anything for work or school, wallet, phone, buspass, STP thing sometimes a few folded bus scedules. 

Kinda like cargo shorts lol

Thing I have this bad habit from the scouts of not liking to leave much behind that might need lol

[Lokaeign]

I love clothes with masses of pockets.  I have umpteen pairs of combats for this very reason.  (That, and they hide my gawdawful physique.)

[Aiden]

yeh, and forgot to include.  I have another bad habit of not eating before leave the house.  If that happens I do tend to grab the backpack and stuff some snackage in it lol

[tekla]

Hey, if you are guys, then suck it up and play through the pain, just like other guys do.  Granted that might not be the pain they have, but still, whine, whine, whine.  Take it like a man.

[sarahb]

That's one thing I miss about my male clothes...the deep pockets

I love clothes with masses of pockets.

I'm a really active girl and don't like to carry a purse or a lot of crap, so I'm always trying to stuff my money, necessary credit/bank cards, keys, and phone into the pockets in my pants. Most times it's just too much stuff for the tiny pockets so I end up just carrying my phone in one hand and my keys in the other, lol.

[Lokaeign]

The one skirt I have that I feel okay in is an octopus skirt with about 8 pockets. 

[tekla]

I like a good bag myself, I have to carry my cell phone (with EZ access) a day runner or at least some sort of calendar, a pen, a leatherman, my wallet, sunglasses, and a book.  At the VERY LEAST.  I can't hold all that in my pockets, even guys pockets.

[icontact]

Hey, if you are guys, then suck it up and play through the pain, just like other guys do.  Granted that might not be the pain they have, but still, whine, whine, whine.  Take it like a man.

Just because you're a man doesn't mean you're obligated to be the stereotypical buff, never-complains, gets dirty, fixes cars kinda man. I highly doubt that if you were put through some of the menstrual cramp pain that some people go through, that you could "take it like a man."

Most times it's just too much stuff for the tiny pockets

Gah! I remember having puny pockets in girls' jeans. That was extremely annoying. Or the fact that although I wanted tight jeans, the tightness would basically reveal every little thing that I was carrying.

[Lokaeign]

Hey, if you are guys, then suck it up and play through the pain, just like other guys do.  Granted that might not be the pain they have, but still, whine, whine, whine.  Take it like a man.

I've held off responding to this but I REALLY don't like this comment.  I've just described symptoms upthread that result in being immobilisied and suffering suicidal ideation.  Curling up on the floor because you can't crawl to the bed, kind of pain.  Looking at the packet of pain-pills and contemplating scarfing down the whole thing because you can't go through this another month, kind of pain.  Losing so much blood you overbleed a tampon and a night-time pad inside of an hour, feeling weak and dizzy and getting anemic all the time.  Being unable to benefit even from your cruddy over-the-counter pain relief (which is all you'll get, since doctors also buy into the whiny-woman myth) because you're throwing up all the time.  I realise there's no point my actually writing any of this, because anyone still trotting out the whiny-woman line has already ignored more than one description of acute dysmenorrhea, but hope springs eternal.

Oh, and by the way:  A guy with a uterus is--mirable dictu--still at risk for all the health issues that a woman with a uterus has.  A womb doesn't suddenly become a Chuck Norris-esque bag of masculine fortitude, immune to cysts, cancer, endo, fibroids, infections, etc. simply because it happens to be located in a male body.  Serious period pain can often be a symptom of some dangerous, maybe potentially fatal, medical condition.  It can also be entirely treatable, so ordering someone to "tough it out" month after month, year after year, and implying that he's not a real guy if he doesn't, is quite cruel.    Especially if he may end up haemorraging on the bathroom floor one day from a burst uterine cyst, or dying from a cancer that could have been arrested with early treatment.

[Elwood]

I'm gonna say it again: I hate the period.

I have yet another reason to hate it. I can't do anything upside down during the bleeding part of the period. Doctors say it's really bad. So I can't do certain things in yoga...

[JonasCarminis]

i feel like a bitchy whiny baby sometimes... but i left school early today because of mine.  i had uber cramps over the weekend and i was bleeding hard core and just couldnt take it at school.  no GOOD reason for me to come home... but it just pisses me off so bad.  im effing gushing bloodout of a hole that shouldnt be there!!!!  how traumatized would any "real" guy be if he started shooting blood out of his penis?

[Aiden]

I hear ya' my brother.  Getting ready to start mine and I dread it.  Not to mention I turn into a dang cry baby and b**ch within a week before it going all way through it.

Last night it was the dread and hate of having to go through this after what seemed only a short time of normalcy that had me frecking crying. 

[Godot]

Getting ready to start mine and not looking foward to it...I'm just thanking God that it's happening before Halloween though and not on Halloween