It's the same with period pains.
There have been times in the past when I have been curled up in a ball crying wiht the pain but tell someone you suffer with bad period pains and they look at you like you're a lazy fuckwit. I now tell people I suffer with dysmenorrhea which basically means the same thing.
( girlinthehole, Tue 13 Sep 2011, 13:20, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

Up the game to menorrhagia, they'll love you for it.
I spent a couple of years involved in developing therapies for those two as well as endometriosis. Always led to awkward silences in pub conversations, I found.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 13 Sep 2011, 13:54, Reply)

...and on the internet too, it seems.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 13 Sep 2011, 13:55, Reply)

I set them up...

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 13 Sep 2011, 14:01, Reply)