Whether that’s cancelling your social plans, working from home, giving in to your hard-to-ignore food cravings, spending hours at a time in the bath, practically living with a hot water bottle or heating pad glued to your stomach – you get the gist.
However, from my own experience and watching the shared lived experience of people who have periods online, it appears like a bizarre phenomenon is forming where many of us deliberately don’t take painkillers for period cramps to ‘see how long we can take it’.
“Girl math is not taking pain meds when you have cramps to see how long you can take the pain for and if you take the meds it means you’re weak,” penned one X user.
A second confessed: “Not taking anything for my severe debilitating period cramps as a form of self harm because I am a masochistic freak who thrives on pain.”
“My cramps are killing me but I choose to deal with it and not take anything lol I hate medicine,” a third chimed in.
Another mused: “Bruh some women are strong as hell. They’ll be writhing in pains because of period cramps but they won’t take pain meds. They’ll chest the pain for days!”
“Women be on here like you supposed to fight through the cramps and not take pain meds. Soon as I feel a slight cramp and check I’m taking four to the head,” echoed a final X user.
I myself, as well as my friends, am very much so guilty of doing this and – to my memory – we’ve been doing this for years now.
And why?
If I’ve got a headache, toothache, hangover or just about anything else that can be relieved by popping a couple paracetamols? I’ll do it in a heartbeat. But horrendous period cramps that wake me up from my sleep, make me feel physically sick and make me keel over in pain?
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