Periods are the probably the most annoying part of being a woman. They always start unexpectedly and they mess up your emotions while somehow managing to ruin the one pair of panties you really love.
At least there's a silver lining: half of the world gets to experience the same struggle each month, so we're all sisters in this matter. Bored Panda collected some of the funniest posts from Tumblr and Twitter where women share their period horror stories or general thoughts on why periods are truly the satan's sacrificial waterfalls. Be sure to upvote the ones you liked best and share your own stories!
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You can just actually take the pill and it will likely reduce or even suspend your period, like it happened to me.
you get that loud pop up, plus the period still comes back afterwards.
Pretty sure that pop up has a virus that causes whole system to shut down a few years later though.
LMFAO! This is actually true! No matter how quiet you try to be whilst opening one up, and how slowly you do it, it never works, and it's like the loudest noise you'll ever hear HAHA! "Who the f**k is eating chips in here"...classic!
I use to call them mattress pads. I'm glad I'm finally over the red plague.
I still get the same pre-symptoms but Ibuprofen helps. No more Red River Valley
Load More Replies...Man: "Who the f**k is eating chips in there." Me: *akward silence*
I feel the same... but they have gotten a lot better over the years.
Should she be afraid...? O_o *noir style mystery music in the background slowly getting louder*
Load More Replies...My second period- my pe uniform, my formal uniform, 3 chairs, all over the toilet stall, my hands, my laptop bag, the office sick room, blankets, sheets, mattress, pillows, and more. This was 6 months after my first one. Surprisingly, I now mostly go about 3 months in between periods.
Logically speaking, it has nothing to do with making something spick and span of blood, unless you're a lazy criminal who can't clean s**t. Hemoglobin stays, which is why blood is always detected when using luminol. So, whether man or woman, you can still get caught. Women prefer to use poisons than knives and guns lol
Actually you'd just see the cord...anything inside the body is invisible too, or it woul look really gross all that food and s**t floating around.
Best thing about bored panda? I enjoy reading comments more than the post itself.
This is my very personal favorite!! HAHA I'm imagining a flying tampon in the center of Amsterdam just floating into a store LOL
The average amount of blood lost during a period is 30-40 millilitres (ml) (NHS). So at 35ml avg. times 480 thats 16.8L (4.4 gallons) of blood in a lifetime.
That is a lot of blood. What would guys be doing if they bleed this much if. They had a period?
I go 3 days every 3 or so months. But it is a lot. With the most time in between being 6 months.
Load More Replies...I'm going to start a band called "7 years worth of blood"
Are you a man? Another woman would never disrupt this scenario...I'm just sayin...
OMG me too, and I'm at work, and its super quiet. #worthIt
Load More Replies...I'm 71 and long past all that but I remember THIS like it was yesterday!
DITTO! Really it just erupted out of me! Funniest thing I've heard in.....forever. Jaws theme,LOL
And instead of understanding that there isn't any visitor coming, it all starts over again after that... :P
And they turn their house inside out trying to get rid of all of them.
Reminds me of "I dream of Jeanie" yeah, I know , you're all too young to remember.
When I was growing up, and I hated my period because it was sooooo damned painful, my mother would chirp, "Better to see it than not!" Didn't understand what she meant until I was in my 20s. . . .
Just keep singing just keep singing singing singing singing what does it do it bleeds bleeds bleeds
It's always a thin liquid too, like, I'm not pissing on it. Show me how this thing handles a big thick blood clot!
It just sticks there...not going anywhere...like having blood was not enough.
Load More Replies...Yes! And why are those girls always happy and smiling? A F*ing pad or tampon is not gonna take the cramps and mood swings away!
Uhhhh.....real is basically wearing granny panties, and blood clots the size of a human liver. Also, thinking you'really bleeding that you rush to the can, only to discorer a bone dry tampon, but an enrmous clot. THAT'S real. Thunderstorms? Play some classical music or some thing.
Reminds me of a post I saw a few weeks ago about the "Tampocalypse". Anyone remember that post?
It's done so men won't feel dizzy and sick cause we all know how they react to even the Idea of that... :( and then we're called the "pussies"
I am like the only person who is not a demon spawn from hell on my period ? :') you go girlzzz !!
If you just DON'T MOVE or speak, or breathe, or sit up, OR GOD FORBID, STAND, then you're all good! YAY
For me, standing is fine. It's when I sit down that the hooha dam decides to burst.
Load More Replies...I coughed at work and filled my pants. Luckily, I had a pair of yoga pants in my desk--I did get some very weird looks though, presenting my lecture in a sweater, yoga pants, and heels.
I love this thanks for cheering up a lady who had a hysterectomy because of this very problem xxx
Yep, I don't care what the AD says, I'll NEVER trust anything that much.
Load More Replies...Only fun fact on my tampon box is a warning about Toxic Shock Syndrome
As an Australian, can 💯 % confirm this is true. Thanks to my period, I have actually helped my team answer the winning question at a trivia night once.
They are the best. Won a bag of candy at school once.
Load More Replies...I don't start crying, but I am incredibly thin-skinned and quickly pissed, and I always wonder "Who ist this b****y woman?" and then I realize "Oh, tomorrow my period will come, everything is okay."
Yup. Once my roomate asked me what am i doing. That question gets me super mad. Crazy darn pms.
Load More Replies...ALL THE TIME! so whenever i start crying for some stupid reason i brace myself and allow it to pour down, i know it's only a matter of time :)
Then your partner TELLS YOU A JOKE like “if you value your life you shall leave me alone
I usually go freaking mad, just at every single thing and then mom says, yeah looks like yours is coming... 😧
I yell at people a ton and then I'm like "why did j de that?" The next day I'm like ohhhhh.
just wait until perimenopause where you are actually on your period for 20 days and you start fainting from blood loss. ahhhh good times....
I've had hypothyroidism and been on my period for 3 weeks at a time about 4 or five times before I started using proper thyroid medication. It was THE WORST!!!!!
I’VE BEEN ON MINE FOR MORE THAN 20 DAYS AND I’M STILL IN SCHOOL. Can anyone tell me what’s happening?
The end of Menopause is to reach Nirvana! Young girls can only dream of the heaven on Earth.
especially on holidays--and especially if they involve a swimsuit
Load More Replies...Poor kid to lose an important part of her innocence so soon. Try to forget....
Someone threatened to rip him a new a*****e and he did not believe them...
That comment made me laugh harder than the actual post!!
Load More Replies...And you keep going into the bathroom to check and see if you've leaked? I remember the days.
somebody poured a bottle of bleach down each leg of it's red trousers. just my guess.
Okay, but this one is serious. It is common knowledge that we women tend to ignore actual symptoms of a real disease because we assume wrong about where our blood comes from.
what? Everyone knows if you are bleeding when you aren't on your period is bad. And if you just walk around not knowing when your period will come or it's totally all over the place you need help anyway.
Load More Replies...Being called a female and the wrong name and getting included with all the stuff that are considered female and getting cramps so everyone thinks your a woman in disguise and getting breast cancer with pink ribbons and everyone doesn't accept who you are and saying your body is pretty. Gender dysphoria and periods. The struggles of trans men.
I don't want to seem rude, but the guy really didn't do anything wrong.
Might I also mention that spotting can mean soooo many things. Such as the obvious your period is starting, or ironically you could be pregnant, or many possible health problems including cancer or a simple scratch that could get infected. Also I've personally never had a regular menstrual cycle, I've been to many doctors and specialists and they've all said it was normal and to only be worried when I have my period for either the whole month or have missed it for 6months. There is no simple answer to a symptom because it could literally mean anything and in my personal experience doctors like to blame any pain I experience to me being a woman and my menstrual cycle
Half (at least) of my guy friends will gag, get faintish, or have to leave the room for blood, some of them can't even hear conversations or watch on tv.... Meanwhile all the girls are watching surgeons preform operations on tv while we eat & fix all the bloody injuries- bc the boys are busy cringing at the sight. So funny
Bones dislocation or breaking the skin is where i start to get uncomfortable
Load More Replies...I don't faint at blood but I'm petrified of the stuff and can't watch medical shows or most horror films. I just tell myself that although it's blood coming out of me, it's natural and not just blood
Some one needs to show the full thing, because then it goes on to cult rituals and werewolfs
Trans woman would seriously. Poor things don't get periods and try to fit in with the ciswomen.
What do you mean how is it here? It's a post about periods on a post about period memes.
Load More Replies...If you think you can't smell it, just go into the girls' restroom in a middle school. The smell is pretty real.
I would say with good hygiene, one woman will not smell. Now get a whole lot of women together and a not so clean public toilet, that's a totally diferent situation...
Load More Replies...Why people who have periods stress over periods. #Genderneutral
That's why I use a menstrual cup. You don't have to change it out for like 12 hours, and you don't smell the blood at all, so it makes my period a lot more managable and comfy :) I feel like every woman should consider investing in them.
Menstrual cups confuse and scare me. What and where do you put it?
Load More Replies...i don't get hungry when i'm on mine. the thought of food usually makes me want to throw up
Lol I'm the opposite but only cuz I dnt experience cramps on my period. But I always get a heavy flow >_>
Load More Replies...Lol baby daily.... More like "if you send off some sperm each month you have a chance to win a free baby (warning: babies may include in app purchases)! While you wait for your prize we will pause your subscription for 9 months, send you a congratulatory post partum bleeding addition of period monthly (after you've recieved your special additions of contractions, broken waters and either ring of fire or c-section). Then we will pick a totally random date in the next two years to start sending you your subscription again, remember that if you subscribe to breastfeeding daily then we will pause your subscription for longer. Note: The baby app is not customizable, can not be canceled and sometimes comes in sets. Enjoy!"
I used to get a magazine called 'Period Living' about doing up old houses - my husband thought it was hysterical
Yea i would like to not pause my menstrual cycle monthly subscription
And nobody told me until it was way too late that after baby is born you get to have all nine months worth of periods that you missed!
Wait til you hit menopause, Sweetie. It's a tornado of PMS, pregnancy and extra hormones thrown all together. yay.
Load More Replies...My dad and brother are like "whats wrong with her". Now they say "she's in a funk"
I actually use this. When I want my period to come I always put on white underwear ;)
I had a friend whose period came overnight like a bloody flood, and when her dad came to wake her up he saw all the blood and thought she was dying.
I will never be able to look at this scene without thinking this post ever again... 😃
I knew someone whose period had arrived like a bloody flood overnight, but she was sleeping with her mouth open, so when her dad came in to wake her up in the morning he panicked, because thought she was dying.
u mean that feeling of OH SWEET MAMA F*****G JESUS LORD SAVE MEEEEEEDH
End the menstruation taboo about not talking about periods and period supplies. To have your period is NOT something bad or something to be ashamed of. If you need a tampoon/pad ask for it with its name.
Totally agree! If I'm on my period, I'll tell you in those words. No need for euphemisms!
Load More Replies...As a Zelda fan, my new phrase is "The Blood Moon rises once again" :p
In France it's "les anglais ont débarqué" which means "the English had landed". And I heard it's "the French landed" on the other side of the Channel ^^ Aaah bloody history !
Or you just think its gone because there's not a single drop of blood for a whole day and you get the courage to have a walk outside without a pad and... bang! Your favorite underwear is destroyed! Hate periods! First wish if I encounter a genie: "Get me rid of this s**t, I don't even want to have damned babies!"
This every time. Mine always starts tuesday afternoon, ends on friday evening. I can usually go the entire Saturday without anything, thinking it's over and then it's sunday and bang! There it is again. -_- I don't want any kids either! Why can't we just turn this stuff off :P
Load More Replies...YES OMG im like "oh it's done YAY" *take off pad* *5 min later* *Blood* "OH COME ON"
OMG! YES! And you just put it on and have to go back to the toilet to either adjust it, or change it again!
Drunk friend of mine installed her pad upside down. Sticky side up. Straight to hair. I laughed, she was UNhappy with me!
Load More Replies...Now I'm wondering the context behind Deadpool doing this.
Load More Replies...First glance I thought this meant used tampons and pads and I sprained my face in disgust.
I've been in menopause for years now but I still carry supplies with me. Just in case. Or to offer to some other woman in need. Find them in ALL my bags...
except science is now trying to lie to us and tell us that chocolate and coffee make it worse
Just put a beanbag in the microwave, heat it up for 30secs-1 miniute
Load More Replies...I grab my cat and let her lay on my stomach it helps with cramps no money wasted
When you get a sex change or you're in a person that gets periods fantasy
Use a hot water bottle.. One off payment and as well as helping cramps (it helps mine) when it's winter and you're not on your period you can use it to keep you warm. Can't believe I used to waste money on buying heat pads
And it's when you know italian than the last sentence makes sense: Are there patrick's too?
I use a cup. So when I pour its content on the toilet, I imagine I'm a pagan priestess doing a ritual to the Gods.
The only triggered snowflake I'm spotting here is you... 😏
Load More Replies...Actually it'd be people with uterus, because not everyone with a vagina has a uterus. Even then, not everyone with a uterus still has menses. So really, it should be people with menses...
I mean some transgenders prefer being called men so yeah people with vaginas.
Bahahahahah!!! That's cute, I laughed way too hard at this. I would hug him. And then kill him. That cute little munchkin
"Niagara Falls of Blood" "Satan's sacrificial waterfall", this boyfriend is spot on
Me when I first started using tampons and had no clue what I was doing
I just let out this weird long squeak followed by a silent wide open laugh and my eyes watering, while my throat started hurting. #relatable
YOU CAN DO IT! You really can. Screenshot...252de5.png
Been through menopause so I know for sure I just peeeeeed myself a little from laughing!
or the worst is when you think it's your period and you go to check and it's that white discharge stuff and you're like oh s**t it's coming
or kittens... or old lady with kittens.... or old lady without ANY kittens!!!!!!!!!!
You know what's even worse? Having gastro, then getting your period at the same time. Can't bloody win! Things coming out of both ends (if you know what I mean). Had that happen once before.
I've had that. Along with a nosebleed from vomiting so hard. So I cried (as you do). I think my ears felt left out as the only orifice not disgorging bodily fluids.
Load More Replies...I always get both with my period for like the first two days. Incredible pain in the a*s
This is why the invention of those compact tampons were the best ever. You can slip it discreetly into a pocket and leave.
except women's pants rarely have functional pockets....
Load More Replies...This cranky old teacher let me go to the bathroom and some guy said “hey she’s taking her bag that ain’t fair” He whipped around and said “YOU WANNA TAKE YOUR TEST ON THE FLOOR?” I was actually using my period as a clever disguise to study before going back to class before the test, but hey, junior year was a wild time.
Why do you think? It’s not like I would take my whole bag if I was going to play on my phone 😑
I think its bc society just hasnt normalised it. All the ads are about how its so discreet and all that. And i know im embarrased even if i graze my elbow or something and start bleeding
Load More Replies...So that's what Trump got his information about his comment of bleeding where ever?
I´m at work. There is a camera that records sound up above my head. The sounds coming out of my mouth aren´t human.
When im on my period im hungry im tired im angry and i dont want any man TO SAT “EW ARE YOU ON YOUR PERIOD?” LIKE IF YOU VALUE YOUR LIFE THEN SHUT THE F**K UP
True Story. I track my own, and last month I wrote "suspiciously easy". Sure enough, I spent the last few days wondering why I was exhausted and achy and crying because my chair broke :p
"Did I get abducted by aliens?!" "Maybe I'm gonna give birth to the second coming if Jesus Christ!" What is wrong with me! I used to get so paranoid as a teenager when my period was late 😂
I went to vacation and was planning on getting my period while I was there. I guess that the period decided that making me extra anxious was bad enough, because it waited until after j got back.
I think it's even worse whrn you are not virgin... I mean, if you are not the mother of Jesus then no chance that you can be pregnant but when you are not virgin and especially had some.... ehem... activities down there? That damn possibility is horrific... 😅
I liked the idea. Until I thought about my kids coming across it...
Load More Replies...…then immediately apologize to the puppy and start crying because it’s too cute
Wiat, instantly horny? Really? The only time I've been less horny than when I'm on my period is when suffering from food poisoning or extremely severe flu.
More like Will Graham than Hannibal: "this is my design."
Load More Replies...We have a city called Red shore, so we say "the guests from Red shore came". (Bulgarian)
Load More Replies...And your feelings... happy, sad, homicidal, demonic, exstatic (sp?)....
i'll take my debilitating period cramps over being compared to beaver any day
Definitely bowl movement cramps. And it almost always happens when you're in public. ;D
Oh BM cramps can get worse. Try BM cramps WHILE having period cramps. I almost crashed my car once because my entire torso spasmed in pain.
Load More Replies...I'm sure getting your arm amputated hurts too but F**K THE F**K OFF. Period cramps hurt BAD!
I get dizzy and sometimes a migraine...so yeah...I usually have an inclining...
Do you get bad migraines after you've finished your period? I get those. The pain is just blinding!
Load More Replies...for a moment I thought you were talking about fire breath from.. down there, and I thought: oh no, accidentally sneezing or laughing really would be a disaster then! * someone makes you laugh, you set your chair on fire..
Ariel: "MY PERIOD IS ENDING. . . I SEE THE LIIIIIIGHT" Everybody else: "What the fu-"
I'd just love to go to mars and see tampons and blood floating around!
I don't understand, why do other women judge? They went/go through it too... O.o
Because young adult females are savage AF! I remember being in 9th grade, 14 yo, and hearing two girls in the restroom teasing another girl because they could "smell" she was on her period. I was terrified that my period was detectable by odor for months.
Load More Replies...Last year, the boys were daring each other to carry a pad around. It was so stupid, like girls carry pads around withought giggling their heads off
I wish I could tell lil 6th grader her that ain't no one judging her at all. We all gotta do it, and hell half the time you bring your friends to chat with to cover up all the crinkling. XD
Li Shang: "You ok?" Me: "Imma just go home now. . ." Me: *walks away with a red trail following* (period blood) Li Shang: "What the fu-"
Li Shang : ping are you ok ping: no *walks away with blood trail* li Shang n:what the f**k-
Day 8: Sees blood on underwear "Oh God I'm dying what the... wait... adult woman... this is normal. ahhhh"
and then there's me....skips a month, panics even tho no sex, then it comes and I'm like "no wait I want a do-over of last month I didn't enjoy it enough..."
Like you have to relies you might be the next coming of Christ
When your favorite bands turn into your most hated bodily function
*sorry this is really off topic but as a Killjoy, I can't just ignore another of my people* LOOK ALIVE SUNSHINE! THE FUTURE IS BULLETPROOF, THE AFTERMATH IS SECONDARY.
Load More Replies...When you're on your period you HAVE a bloody c***, when you're a politician you ARE a bloody c***.
Load More Replies...What of you're a female politician? Like.... their lives must be really fucken bad.
You'll know how to clean it up and even get it out of your clothes! Hydrogen peroxide for the win!
Him: "You ok?" Me: "*nods* Totally" Him: *pours holy water in the bloody pool* "Holy sh-"
It's from American Horror Story - Freakshow
Load More Replies...If my cat doesn't let me kiss him, I cry anyways. I literally have no excuse.
Laughed extremely loudly. Gosh how did I not notice that I missed an entire word lol
Load More Replies...I’m in the living room and it was silent with my parents and siblings on the couches. I burst out laughing and everyone is staring at me like I am insane
WHAT DO YOU MEAN "CHECK THEIR MATH" YOU %#£¥& AND ££%*&@. Whew, sorry, pms.;)
Load More Replies...To people who don't understand - women can lose different amounts of blood (sometimes in the form of clots) - it isn't a guarenteed amount, and few doctors have been bored enough to take a really accurate census, because I gather they're all like "ew". Some women bleed so much during their period, they actually become anemic. That's not the "two tablespoons" they claim. That's FAR MORE. It'd be nice if we had an answer to the question, but until then, recall that science didn't even know what milk ducts looked like until a few years ago, and simply took a scientist from the 18th century's word for it, when his method of getting that data wasn't standing up to test. It took almost 200 years for someone to say "you know, no woman seems to have a "giant milk bladder right behind the nipple". 200 years. It'll probably be another 200 before any of them figure out that 2 tablespoons is a pretty low estimate.
You can donate a pint of blood w/out becoming anemic......
Load More Replies...“come on. almost got it. YES! wait n-no! get in that center you little ba$tard… did i do it? ah f-ck it i’m going back to the bathroom.”
Chihuahua! Also deciding whether to drop everything or risk that pair of underwear.
I volunteered at a hospital for a few months where I had to wear white pants. When that time came I’d double up on underwear and pads just to make extra sure nothing showed up where it shouldn’t. And got rid of the pants as soon as I was done with the volunteer program.
i imagine it as my uterus has 7 days to assassinate me and if it fails it retreats and comes back in a month
I'm reading these while on my period... it hurts so much to read these, because they're so true
I haven't had my my first period yet but I think I am going to any day now because I am running late. Before reading the I was a tiny bit excited but now I just want to die.
On the package of rose petals, it says rose tea can relieve period cramps. The more you know. Photo-on-6...0a-png.jpg
Do NOT use if you have seizures. Rose hip, rose, and primrose tea or oil can all trigger seizures
Load More Replies...This is great but did you mean 100+ posts instead of 10+ in the headline? Because I assumed there was 15 posts --tops-- and now I've spent an hour at work reading these and I can't stop and I still haven't gone through all of them thanks
How to explain periods to a guy: 1. Uterus wants baby 2. Uterus doesn't get baby 3. Uterus wants REVENGE!!!!!!!
now I understand why Eurus was screeching at S and I when we were teenagers :p
just want to suggest the title be changed to "100+ Painfully Hilarious Posts About Periods That Only People who Menstruate Will Understand" The posts are inclusive, the title really should be too :) great list though.
I'm reading these while on my period... it hurts so much to read these, because they're so true
I haven't had my my first period yet but I think I am going to any day now because I am running late. Before reading the I was a tiny bit excited but now I just want to die.
On the package of rose petals, it says rose tea can relieve period cramps. The more you know. Photo-on-6...0a-png.jpg
Do NOT use if you have seizures. Rose hip, rose, and primrose tea or oil can all trigger seizures
Load More Replies...This is great but did you mean 100+ posts instead of 10+ in the headline? Because I assumed there was 15 posts --tops-- and now I've spent an hour at work reading these and I can't stop and I still haven't gone through all of them thanks
How to explain periods to a guy: 1. Uterus wants baby 2. Uterus doesn't get baby 3. Uterus wants REVENGE!!!!!!!
now I understand why Eurus was screeching at S and I when we were teenagers :p
just want to suggest the title be changed to "100+ Painfully Hilarious Posts About Periods That Only People who Menstruate Will Understand" The posts are inclusive, the title really should be too :) great list though.
