“We are so thankful for all the strong supporters of our monthly #PeriodTalk tweet chats with You ARE Loved! It is hard to believe we are already celebrating one year of chats! To help us celebrate our great friends over at Maxim Hygiene wrote this special post.” READ MORE… »
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First Annual Online Menstrual Party
In celebration of one year of monthly online educational chats, Be Prepared Period and You ARE Loved are proud to announce the First Annual Online Menstrual Party will be held on Friday, July 13 from 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. ET. This public event can be accessed via Twitter using the hashtag #PeriodTalk.
Marysville, WA June 25, 2012
With the goal of doing more AND better menstrual education, Be Prepared Period and You ARE Loved joined together to launch a monthly menstrual education event in July 2011. These monthly gatherings, known to many as #PeriodTalk, have grown from a few to fifty or more participants discussing the month’s topic. Past topics include Periodic Stories: Ours and Yours, Exploring the Many Feminine Hygiene Options, and Puberty and Periods: Guiding Tween and Teen Girls. READ MORE… »
We are ready to party!!!
To celebrate one year of #PeriodTalk tweet chats we will be hosting our First Annual Menstrual Party (July 13th) with our wonderful co-host, You ARE Loved.
This month’s chat will include conversation, questions, polls and lots of interaction on a variety of menstrual products. And because no party is complete without prizes, there will be plenty of those too! Thanks to our wonderful friends at GladRags we are excited to announce that we will be giving away a Cloth Pad Sampler Kit (retail value $88.99) to one very lucky participant.
I just wanted to share a little bit of my story.
Back in 2010 I remember going through so much pain. I had all sorts of tests done along with seeing two doctors. After a scope and colonoscopy, and even having one doctor tell me I didn’t have endometriosis, I was beginning to think I just had to deal with it.
At the end of February 2011 I ended up in the hospital with some extreme pain on my side. After an ultrasound, it was determined I had a massive “chocolate” cyst that had ruptured.
On March 10th, I followed up with the ER doctor. She did an exam and decided we needed to do exploratory surgery.
A week later I went in for my surgery not knowing what would be found. I remember crying to my doctor, telling her I didn’t fear them finding anything. But instead, I feared them not finding a source to my pain.
Let me start by saying that I have always had VERY painful periods. Like most other Endo Sisters who have been kind enough to share their story, I thought this was normal. I would spend the first couple days of my period in so much pain, it was insane.
I can remember as far back as my freshman year in high school (on a half day of school) and watching the clock, just waiting for the minute that I could go home and crawl into bed. There have been days that I had cramps so terrible, I had to miss school or work.
In August of 2012, I began to have extremely painful sex. I went to the emergency room a couple of nights later, because the pain would not stop. The E.R. doctor gave me a pelvic exam, tested me for STD’s and yeast infections (and accused my husband and I of not being committed). When all of the tests came back normal, she gave me a prescription to clear up a yeast infection she said probably didn’t show up on the test. I was then discharged.
A week later, I was still having the same symptoms, along with added back pain, pelvic pain, bloating and fatigue. So, I went to an urgent care facility, since my primary doctor was booked. I paid my insurance co-pay, was taken back to an empty room, met the doctor and gave my symptoms. I was not treated at all, I was told to go follow up with my primary doctor or go to the E.R. again. You can only imagine my frustration since I had just paid my insurance co-pay and didn’t get help. So, I went to my primary doctor (P.D.) two days later, and told them my symptoms. I was unable to see my actual doctor but got in with a P.A.
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