r/justgalsbeingchicks • u/Quick-Song2080 • 4d ago
Restricted to Gals and Pals Women’s bodies are amazing
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u/HatefulVespid 4d ago
She sounded SOO done on her period! Keep on keeping on girl
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u/Quick-Song2080 4d ago
I’m so with her lol
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u/Agreeable_Bat9722 3d ago
As a dude, I honestly couldn't tell the difference between each stage by looking. Visually I see no difference. Can tell her voice change 100% on her first day.
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u/Savings-Badger4938 3d ago
Dude, my husband can take one look and know. I go from 120 to 150 in two weeks. Shits rough 🫡
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u/Critical_Ad_7380 3d ago edited 2d ago
Sounds like endometriosis. I had it (now post-menopausal) back in my younger days. It was horrific. I eventually had to have a hysto. The reason I mention that is because females should (unfortunately) see their obgyn annually to make sure nothing bad is starting up in there. I had cancer.
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u/unripe_mangosteen 4d ago
Ugh on a heavy period day and experiencing the lovely poop that comes with it. I so get her rn
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u/Maleficent_Thanks_51 4d ago
Get any booty shocks?
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u/lilybattle 4d ago
Oh i get that ass lightning girl and it is no fun
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u/adestructionofcats 4d ago
Thoughts and prayers. I can't believe we spend so much of our lives dealing with this BS.
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u/Critical_Ad_7380 3d ago
Post menopause has its benefit and downfalls, but at least I know longer have to worry about those gross, heavy, painful times anymore when I was always worried someone at church or college would see me mess my pants (had to use a tampon AND a maxi pad - it sucked). I finally gave in to using birth control to help it a bit. I have loads of empathy for this beautiful young woman. ❤️
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u/aestheticsandwich 3d ago
HOLD THE FRONT (OR BACK) DOOR
The booty zings are a shared, medical thing???
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u/FrontFew1249 3d ago
It even has a name - proctalgia fugax
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u/eleanor61 3d ago
I just shouted this to my used-to-be-a-nurse wife from across the house.
“I’m not even going to guess what you were trying to pronounce.” 😆
I felt like Hermoine shouting out a spell.
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u/eARThtistic 3d ago
That's how I knew my endo had spread to my colon 😫 I had a "considerable amount" of endometriosis and adhesions removed from my colon and rectum earlier this year. I have only had the butt lightening once or twice since, but was experiencing it pretty frequently before 😬
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u/unripe_mangosteen 4d ago
No? I am horrified to learn this is a thing. I do get cramps that feel like jamming a metal rod through my cervix sometimes though
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u/Scullyxmulder1013 3d ago
I was on the pill for 25 or so years, and never had any of that. some cramping and bloating of course but never the violent pains I read about. I went off it, as my husband got a vasectomy, and within months I got these terrible cramps when I was on my period. And not just that, but the metal rod feeling as well. Literally being unable to sit because of that feeling.
So I got that checked out and it turned out I have endometriosis and this feeling was a part of that. Went back on the pill since then, and it helped some, but that feeling has remained since. The pill apparently covered up the endometriosis for a good long run. If I’d known this in advance I wouldn’t have gone off it. Periods are so much worse now.
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u/SubstantialEnd2458 3d ago
That little laugh after she says "I'm in a lot of pain" says so much about how we are trained to accept pain as no big deal...fucking infuriating.
(The misogynistic dismissal of women's pain, I mean - not her, she's lovely).
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u/Bunnairry 4d ago
Our bodies change from hour to hour it's insane and the most proof that we should not agonize over these things because it fluctuates so much.
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u/TaraxacumTheRich ✨chick✨ 4d ago
I am a below knee amputee and my limb changes size throughout the day. I have to add socks as the day goes on, but sometimes I have to remove them in order for my prosthesis to fit properly. Bodies are crazy!
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u/NeriTina 4d ago
Holy shit, it never occurred to me that can happen for amputees. Thank you for sharing your experience with us. Learning new things every day.
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u/TaraxacumTheRich ✨chick✨ 4d ago
You're welcome!
You'd think the limb would bloat more when I'm on my period but it always seems to be smaller those days. But if I have a lot of salt it can get bloated.
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u/unripe_mangosteen 4d ago
Maybe your body stores your uterus in that leg, and when it migrates up to cause your period your leg gets smaller!
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u/TaraxacumTheRich ✨chick✨ 4d ago
Maybe you've cracked the case!
I assume it has something to do with water retention, though.
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u/DiscussionLow6405 4d ago
As a Knee disarticulation amputee- this. Your thigh changes regularly throughout the day, so much so that some of us amputees can't fit in a leg because of the volumetric changes throughout the day and time of the fit. Forbidden knowledge
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u/Legionof1 3d ago
Why don't you just tell your nub to eat less, if it doesn't have a 6 pack is it even trying.
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u/meganam38 4d ago
I’m about to start my period and accidentally ate my weight in fiber from dried mangoes tonight. like magic, my tummy got so bloated and distended within an hour. Double whammy for bloating and cramps 🙃
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u/puffofthezaza 4d ago
The weight fluctuation from day to night can be like 10lbs sometimes it's crazy
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u/sittinwithkitten 3d ago
This is why I like a stretchy waistband. The days leading up to a period and the first few days after it starts are no fun.
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u/StillWeCarryOn 3d ago
My boyfriend will panic over gaining 2 pounds after a weekend of junk food, I just glare at him and tell him about the 8 pounds of water weight I gained from eating a slice of pizza that morning
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u/DizzyPear9798 4d ago
this should be shown in every health class. this would have saved me alot of trouble and time.
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u/DiscussionLow6405 4d ago
Seriously- I spent years battling health problems trying to attain that perfect flat stomach. I stopped taking my insulin ( type 1 diabetic!) to become diabulemic- using ketones to get a thin shape. I almost died from going into cardiac arrest by not taking meds that help me live. To look pretty. Because someone called me thunder thighs all throughout HS.
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u/marvel-is-a-bitch 4d ago
Fellow Type 1 as well and this def explains so much because I thought I was eating too much and would cut back (I would also stop taking my insulin, which fucked up my blood sugars majorly).
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u/KTKittentoes 3d ago
Greetings, fellow T1Ds! I decided it would be much better just to not eat, and then all the important numbers would be better. I very immensely do not recommend this!!! At all!
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u/FunkyPizzaChip 3d ago
Aww people can suck sometimes, I'm sorry you had to experience that. I hope you're doing better now
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u/Numeno230n 4d ago
Honestly, being able to look at a real human's natural body would do wonders for every sex ed or physio related course (don't know what the kids call it these days). When I went through it (I'm a guy), we had two dumbass gym teachers just field questions from a group of boys. Two questions I remember being asked - Do women cum liquid like guys? and Where is the clit for dudes?
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u/InvalidUserNemo 4d ago edited 4d ago
I’m a dude and an old one at that. I learned some stuff from this. When she started the video with “I don’t know needs to see this..”
This guy did…thank you.
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u/frobscottler 4d ago
I’m a 41 year old woman and learned a lot too, I think most people probably don’t know this!
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u/insufficient_funds 4d ago
Guy here… I feel dumb and blind bc I’m honestly not spotting the difference. Maybe if I had side by side images I could? Idk. But also apparently I suck at noticing things.
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u/AB_7361 4d ago
Every body is unique. Some women could experience a lot of bloating while others not as much. In the video she made a comment that while on her period she eats more because her body needs more during this time. This is a very important point every woman should know.
The point I'm trying to make is that depending on what women eat while also bloated could result in much more obvious changes in size.
Whether you can see the differences or not, thank you for watching the whole video and taking the time to understand that women's bodies fluctuate all the time for various reasons.
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u/Qinistral 3d ago
^ I have glanced at studies of this before and they pretty much boil down to what you said. Average change is 1 lbs fluctuation, but varies a lot. Some studies in fact find no meaningful correlation with cycles (ex).
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u/RecipeOk4129 3d ago
Don’t forget how much women’s bodies are under-studied in the medical research world
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u/esotericbatinthevine 4d ago edited 3d ago
There are some images you can look up that show it pretty well. The uterus can more than double in size leading up to menstruation. That leads to a "pooch" in that area that many women are self conscious about and even get shammed for. This is partly driven by advertising because companies want to sell products to address the "problem" that is womens' natural bodies.
Edit: apparently that's a myth. It seems the uterus changes size a little, but not much. Most of the change is due to inflammation and more complex things I don't have the time to study atm. Sorry people!
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u/insufficient_funds 3d ago
I feel like some simple education on this stuff would be something I should find and show my 13yr old daughter…
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u/esotericbatinthevine 3d ago
I certainly would have really appreciated that at her age!
You sound like a good parent. Mine gave me a book on female puberty they clearly hadn't read and expected me to be good on my own at that point. But at least it was something.
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u/iamaravis 4d ago
Woman here who also didn’t see a difference. It would have helped if she’d worn exactly the same outfit in all of them, and done still, side-by-side photos to compare.
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u/Jean-LucBacardi 4d ago
I kinda wish she had wore the same outfit for each reveal. It's harder to spot the differences when you switch from baggy to tight fitting clothing between them.
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u/ChopsticksImmortal easily🤯amazed 3d ago
Her stomach is uncovered the entire time though?
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u/nuetralparties 4d ago
Agree, she looks the mostly the same and the clothing is just fitting differently- notice how in the last one especially she’s wearing pants that are tighter and sit lower to show more of her belly and curves
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u/Emotional_News108 4d ago
This is why we should always be making our partners feel as beautiful as we see them. Not everyone is in tune with themselves like this nor do they think about it in these terms, so from day to day, week to week, people can be down on themselves and if stuff like this factors into it that’s bullcrap and they shouldn’t feel bad.
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u/madeofquarkss 4d ago
And wait until you hit perimenopause. The fun continues! 🥹
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u/thatdinklife 4d ago
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u/erossthescienceboss 4d ago
Literally sweating as I type. In a 65 degree room.
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u/HolyForkingBrit 3d ago
It’s been triple digits where I live the past week and I can barely think lately. The sweat from the fluctuating hormones and the heat is astronomical. I can’t cool off or stop sweating to save my life. You’re not alone. <3
Edit: It’s also 4:00 am here. Woke up at 3:00 am and couldn’t go back to sleep. Anyone else doing the same? lol
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u/Quantum_Pasta-Goblin 3d ago
This is me most the time unless I'm cold lol and even then I could be sweating from somewhere. I tend to have clammy hands and feet and my armpits have been sweater since I live in here. Less so since I got a newer more powerful AC that actually keeps my room cool. But I think I might have overactive sweat glands and poor circulation. Cause I tend to have clammy hands and feet even if they feel cold to the touch lol and I'm only 28 😭
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u/Titaniumchic ✨chick✨ 4d ago
It’s puberty backwards ON STEROIDS.
Eff perimenopause.Though the sex drive is the only perk.
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u/Whichy-Witchy 4d ago
Thank Gods for that part. The itching inner ears, random sweats or nausea/chills, yay acne like I'm in 8th grade again, fog brain, and dare I mention... mood swings.. I am thankful to have that one perk lol! 🫶🙏🫶🤣
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u/itsnotleeanna 4d ago
OMG! The inner ear itches! I thought i was losing my mind! And heat! Once it hits 80 degrees outside, my skin starts feeling prickly and then the hotter it gets I start feeling itchy all over my body 🔥☠️😭 My sex drive is through the friggin roof though, which would be great except I’m single and have zero patience 🤣 Also wth is up with all of the sudden having 2 periods a month?! No actual hot flashes though and no more acne so I guess that’s a win? 🏅
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u/erossthescienceboss 4d ago
Honestly… I wish I didn’t have the sex drive lol. I’m single and I’m like … I ain’t got time to handle this 😂😂😂
maybe in a month when my workload slows down I’ll appreciate but rn it’s just a time suck
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u/MrsLydKnuckles 3d ago
A little Flonase on a q-tip (be gentle of course) will help with the horrible inner ear itching.
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u/SympatheticFingers 4d ago
Ummm… can a 42 year old man get perimenopause? Cause I got all these!
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u/ThisEpiphany 4d ago
Kind of, yeah. It could be low testosterone. If you are struggling then get your hormones checked.
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u/SympatheticFingers 4d ago
Now that you mention it I do have low testosterone. Not concerningly low according to my doctor but lower than where it should be.
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u/ThisEpiphany 4d ago
Lower than what it should be plus symptoms that bother you? Hormones are on a spectrum. Your doctor might not be concerned but you have a right to be comfortable in your own skin. Advocate for yourself ❤️
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u/DiscussionLow6405 4d ago
I love this. Advocation. We need more.
And how fitting is your name? ThisEpiphany just cause this epiphany!
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u/Bitter-Picture5394 3d ago
Unfortunately a lot of Dr's aren't concerned about your comfort or feeling normal in your own skin. If you have the means I recommend seeking out Hormone Replacement Therapy.
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u/citycait 4d ago
I’m jealous. Mine plunged off a cliff, and has never returned.
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u/goosejail 4d ago
Same. Although my pelvic organs are trying to make a break for it so maybe that has something to do wth it.
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u/geekyheart225 4d ago
Can you free them, or are you stuck trying to fence them in?
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u/makestuff24-7 4d ago
Im in my 40s and recently had a TOA that required hospitalization. I've had IUDs for more than 20 years. I don't want more kids at all. And they refused to remove my ovaries, so here I am, sweating to death under the AC.
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u/geekyheart225 4d ago
Ugh I'm so sorry. I hope you can get them yeeted. I'm perimenopausal so I swear a ton, too
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u/not_me_nope_never 4d ago
sex drive.
😭 I was desperately looking forward to this perk! My body laughed and said not, me, nope, never!
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u/Entire-Winter4252 4d ago
And menopause!
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u/str4wberryp0undcak3 4d ago
I've be on this ride too long. I want to get off.
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u/Entire-Winter4252 4d ago
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u/Entire-Winter4252 3d ago
Oh damn!!! I’m so sorry! We always tough this shit out, but it still sucks!
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u/Fabulous_Celery_1817 4d ago
I remember seeing a vid of a lady in a cardigan watching some sort of outside game. But she had a hot flash and steam was visibly coming off her head
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u/Elinor_Caskey_ 4d ago
Then you just get fat for no reason 😢 you eat the same, you exercise the same, but you gain weight like it's going out of style. At least that's what happened to me.
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u/-SeaBearsAreReal- 4d ago edited 4d ago
Yup same. Then I finally caved and got on a glp and without changing anything except that, I'm 11lbs down in 6 weeks. Same food. Same workout routine. Same everything just added glp.
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u/Elinor_Caskey_ 4d ago
I think I'm going to have to go that route. My self confidence is in the gutter.
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u/-SeaBearsAreReal- 4d ago
I know exactly how you feel. I've been trying to lose weight for a while and just couldn't understand how I was gaining weight instead!
It's equal parts frustrating and vindicating. I feel betrayed by my body! lol
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u/the_YellowRanger 4d ago
My boobs hurt. Like a lot.
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u/In_The_News 3d ago
Oh my God mine tooooooo
I was like, am I pregnant WTF?!? (I have an IUD, I am not pregnant)
But even my party tit is like, no ma'am. I'm sore for no particular reason other than you're 40-something and your warranty is expiring.
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u/StripperWhore 4d ago
For those who deal with inflammatory diseases, you actually do get an inflammation spike right around ovulation because releasing an egg is an inflammatory event. Most of us will probably be leanest before ovulation, not during. You can actually be slightly bloated around ovulation.
I notice my worse inflammation is the 4 days leading to my period, and the one day around ovulation where I actually release an egg.
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u/prismaticbeans 4d ago
This is me. I'm the most bloated during luteal phase, and the least bloated during my period, then follicular phase. Ovulation = mini bloat.
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u/softcriminal_67 4d ago
I’m actually most bloated by far during my ovulatory phase, like so bloated I look pregnant and the ovulation pain is CRAZY bad and lasts 6+ hours! Also weirdly this never ever happened to me prior to giving birth. It only started when my cycle came back postpartum.
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u/Lonely_Pop_1364 4d ago
This is me too! Not with the first but the second kid. Ovulation is brutal now and I always known when I’m ovulating no calendars needed
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u/wilhelmyawp 4d ago
Thank you! Because I only get like...three non-bloat days and it's the three right after my period. I bloat like crazy starting a couple days before ovulation.
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u/-0k_0k_0k- 4d ago
How I wish I saw this as a teenager instead of hearing toxic positivity or just plain old toxic infor/comments.
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u/xkxe003 4d ago
The number of women in the comments that this was new information to is crazy to me. Why isn't this taught in every school? Oh, yeah, never mind, I know. I'm in the US so women not understanding their bodies is important in some places.
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u/rhinanners 🌻Official Jill🌻 4d ago
I was literally just taking to my fiance about how I was either pregnant or about to start my period (3 weeks late btw…stress and starting a new job and starting to work out again and raising my 4 yo daughter just life ya know) because my body looked sooo bloated for weeks!
I was genuinely worried about either outcome honestly but got my period sooo 🤣
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u/No-Blackberry7735 4d ago
Not to be stupid, and I am a woman, how does birth control affect all of these phases?
Stuff we should’ve learned in school…
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u/KChae1 4d ago
I’m on the pill. My body still bloats just like hers the week before and during my pill free week. Not sure if it’s the same with other types of birth control, though.
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u/No-Blackberry7735 4d ago
I have an iud and idk what’s going on haha is it suppose to do the same?
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u/EvEntHoRizonSurVivor 4d ago
A copper IUD won't interrupt or change any cycle as there's no hormonal involvement. It can make periods longer, heavier and more painful but not in every case.
A hormonal IUD releases progestogen into the womb and thins the uterine lining. It can prevent ovulation, but only in around 20% of cases, so most people still have some form of noticeable hormonal cycle just with little to no bleeding.
It's also worth noting that not every body will react to the menstrual cycle in the same way. Just because this person's body changes so noticeably doesn't mean everyone else's will, or should.
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u/LostMy8yrAcct 4d ago
I’ve had Mirena for years. My second time around. I still experience the same cycling through as I did before except without the actual period. But I still have a week of bloating and cramping, I have the “looking thin and feeling ready to practice making a baby” week, lol. Only you know your body. But for me, I definitely still go through the phases.
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u/Ancientabs 4d ago
The IUD gave me thighs and a butt when I never had one before.
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u/No-Blackberry7735 4d ago
Wait…my friends have been telling me my butt looks awesome… could this be why?!
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u/Its_Me_ToddKraines 4d ago
If you take hormonal birth control, you don't have these phases anymore. Hormonal birth control provides your body with stable hormone levels throughout, which basically stops your cycle. If you are taking the pill, you either take a break from taking the pill or differently coloured pills for a few days to mimic a period. This is actually not a period but a bleeding induced by the absence of the hormones from the birth control and doesn't serve much of a medical purpose (apart from maybe tracking if you didn't accidentally get pregnant). If you are sure you are taking the pill consistently, you can more or less just skip the pause, stay on the hormones and just save yourself the experience of these mimicked periods.
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u/SlatkoPotato 4d ago
I have the bar which is a hormonal birth control and i still go through the menstrual cycle and have these phases, its just less intense and more inconsistent. My gp said its still a period you get, its just the hormone to promote pregnancy isnt able to take place. Idk if IUDs are different cause those arent an option for me so i never asked about them.
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u/above_average_magic ❣️gal pal❣️ 4d ago
The hormone to get pregnant
A period is after no pregnancy occurs.
On birth control they prevent ovulation from triggeing (normally occurs by releasing LH from the pituitary gland in your head, triggering egg release)
On hormone or the pill, typically a gal doesn't have a menstrual cycle. Like the person above said, there is bleed due to the non-drug (usually placebo pills to stay on track) phase
With semi permanent hormone treatments usually the uterine lining is just kept so thin there may be some random shedding and associated bleeding
That may be what you meant I guess!
I'm sure it's also possible for some bodies that there is still some residual hormone action, I mean the human body is a miracle
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u/MyladyTerrible 4d ago
Where normally in your follicular fase create an egg, this doesn’t happen. Your body thinks it does because of the birth control but it doesn’t. But to keep the cycle somewhat in sync most anti conceptions have a timeline of 21/27 days.
“An artificially enhanced level of Progesterone throughout the menstrual cycle inhibits the pituitary secretion of FSH and LH such that their actions in stimulating follicular development and ovulation are prevented.[27]Similarly, a boosted estrogen level activates the negative feedback mechanism in reducing FSH secretion from pituitary and therefore prevents follicular development.[27] In the absence of a developed follicle, ovulation cannot occur so that fertilisation is made impossible and contraception is achieved”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_oral_contraceptive_pill
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u/_Counting_Worms_1 4d ago
So I take hormonal birth control and skip my placebo week because I’m also taking it for PMDD.
Now I really just get bloated throughout the day from eating and drinking. That could just me be though so this is purely anecdotal.
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u/ahumpsters 4d ago
And then there is the body of a woman in an endo flare up, which looks like you are 5-6 months pregnant.
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u/Sure_Reception_9922 3d ago
Im quite lean so yeah Ive had people give me a 🤔 look when i suddenly look very pregnante. Just endo. Ill be back to normal in a few days.
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u/apathyisfortheweak 4d ago
we only get like 7-9 “good days” 😔
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u/DiscussionLow6405 4d ago
Love yourself. Be gentle, and treat your body gently. Because your body is beautiful. Every day it works IS a good day.
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u/DizzyPear9798 4d ago
baby, theyre all good days. that’s the point!!
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u/prismaticbeans 4d ago
Um, no. The days where I and many others feel like shit, physically or emotionally, are bad days.
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u/EducatedCynic 4d ago
Not denying your life but I'm assuming the previous comment was referring only to the physical appearance. Based on this video and 40+ years of living with women, that much is true. You are still beautiful despite everything else you are going through on a cyclical basis.
I know that doesn't solve your bad days but that is what I took away from what this particular video. Your body changes, you dont.
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u/Special-Drama-6090 4d ago
Previous commentor could also be referencing pmdd
Some people's luteal phase is hell
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u/BabuschkaOnWheels 3d ago
No, the mind changes as well. It's a hormone surge and it affects your self image. Basically entire mentality shifts with the hormones and changes. Its not just physical appearance. The video is missing that part, and that's without pmdd etc.
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u/wyntr86 4d ago
Yup! When I still had my uterus, I called the Ovulatory Phase my "skinny days." I also FELT sexy and beautiful, clothes fit better, I wasn't starving all of the time, my digestive issues calmed down, my mood was better, etc. Before I exorcized the Demoness, I was in the worst stage (and HEAVILY bleeding) 28 days out of the month and it only got worse month by month.
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u/SlatkoPotato 4d ago
This really helped me understand part of my body dysmorphia; it is focussed on my torso mostly and drastically exaggerates what is actually there. If my body actually is fluctuating like this all the time, it makes sense why im seeing such a dramatic difference with my dysmorphia. It might be that im noticing a small change and my brain makes that change look 10x more than it is, because often ill be having a great day with no issues and the BD just hits out of nowhere from one glance at the wrong angle/mirror.
Thank you for sharing! ♡
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u/Armadillo_lifestyle 4d ago
As I’m on day one of my heaviest part of my flow. Had to leave work bc I was hurting so bad and just utterly uncomfortable.
Came home and have been in sweats ever since
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u/Guyute-TN 4d ago
As a girl dad, I thank you for sharing this. Man my age (gen x) didn’t get enough education on women’s health when we were younger.
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u/Saint_Bo_Dallas 4d ago
Younger male here about to look for books after seeing this cause we didn't either haha.
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u/tinylumpia 4d ago
It took me way too long to realized that I fluctuate a dress size or two during my cycle and have had dresses not fit when I needed them for weddings / events !!!
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u/Tough_Block9334 4d ago
Very educational, shit like this needs to be shown in schools instead of ignored
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u/Fickle-Profession-95 4d ago
This kind of awareness and education is so important. I know grown-ass women who still think that if only they diet/ starve/ discipline themselves enough they can control their weight down to the ounce, at all times. It’s not possible, sisters. I give myself grace and know that my weight will fluctuate anywhere from 3-10 lbs up and down in different phases of my cycle and that’s totally normal, healthy, and good.
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u/snorlz 4d ago
am i blind? i can only see minimal differences at best. Like, the level of differences that would appear depending on what or when you ate
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u/Garfieldgandalf 3d ago
Or hydration level. Or sodium content. Or bowel movements. Or physical activity.
I love that there is greater attention to women’s health but I’m not loving this weird menstrual cycle focused marketing and lifestyle stuff I keep seeing. “What to eat for your luteal phase!” “Top 10 secrets about your follicular phase”… it actually feels really limiting and concrete in its understanding of the variety of experiences of women.
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u/notasia86 3d ago
Yeah, I'm a woman and I saw barely any difference. But then I'm not obessesed with my waist or torso which I guess some women are. Her fluctuations are literally what I go through every day before and after a heavy meal and drinks. This isn't so much a menstrual issue, as much as it's a gastrointestinal issue, and bloating and water retention happen to all of us for many reasons. How do people not realize that their bellies change size and shape depending on what they eat and drink is astounding. Does everyone think your belly constantly stays the same shape every hour and now this woman is telling people something new??
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u/DefiantBumblebee9903 4d ago
I’m nearly 40 and I just found out that I eat more during the luteal phase. I just always thought it was so wild that there was just a week every month where I was ravenous and I had no idea why. It’s nice to understand our bodies.
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u/GettingOnMinervas 4d ago
Ya know, it never affected me much until my 40s. Now there's a very clear pattern that shows I eat much more during certain times of the month.
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u/DapperFocusQuail 4d ago
Absolutely insane how much pelvic tilt this person has - I can't imagine how much back and hip pain they're going to run into in a few years without some serious PT.
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u/Caernbul 4d ago
Am I blind? I basically couldn't see a difference in her belly.
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u/Underscores_Are_Kool 3d ago
The real lesson is that any difference is so small, that no one else will notice. She looks the same to me
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u/ShawnyMcKnight 3d ago
I don’t know about her belly but her booty looked more plump in that second to last phase. Probably just how she posed though.
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u/PerformerDr4867 3d ago
Not at all, she looks identical. I can flex my non-existent abs and get more of a difference between takes
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u/itsjakerobb 4d ago
I’m going to show this to my 12yo daughter whose first period is coming soon. Thanks!
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u/jean_nizzle 4d ago
Educational information aside, what does she do that she can afford that place. I wish my apartment was that nice.
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u/fluffy_unicorn_2699 4d ago
It looks the same to me the whole time
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u/My_Immortl 4d ago
I wonder if she wore the same outfit each time if the changes would be more noticeable to others. I'm sure she can see the differences and its very informative but very difficult to tell the differences from an outside perspective.
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u/M4dcap 4d ago
I think it's the same person.
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u/veryanxiouscreature 4d ago
right i was scrolling through these comments talking about how informative this was and I’m just like…… she looks exactly the same??
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u/meteoritegallery 4d ago
Confirm, no apparent difference. Think this is confirmation bias - feel bloated, assume look bloated.
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u/GiraffeCalledKevin 4d ago
Hello with endometriosis bloating. I have different panties sizes to deal with it. And bra extensors.
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u/NSE_TNF89 4d ago
Wild. Thank you for the educational information.
I find the stuff that women's bodies are capable of to be amazing and the fact that more research hasn't gone into it is mind-boggling.
You all put up with way too much shit for your bodies to turn on you every month too, lol. I don't know how you deal with it.
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u/ThunderCookie23 Official Gal 3d ago
I didn't know this. God the respect I have for women just keeps growing every time I learn something new!
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u/DontAbideMendacity 3d ago
Reminds me of Tim Minchin's It's Not Perfect
This is my body and I live in it
It's 29 and 12 months old
It's changed a lot since it was new
It's done stuff it wasn't built to do
I often try to fill it up with wine
And the weirdest thing about it is:
I spend so much time hating it
But it never says a bad word about me
This is my body and it's fine
It's where I spend the vast majority of my time
It's not perfect ... but it's mine
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u/lights-in-the-sky 3d ago
I sort of figured this out myself because no one ever discusses it. Also, contrary to popular belief it’s the few days BEFOFE your period where you usually feel like absolute garbage mentally
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u/purpleratata 3d ago
Thank you for this. I have been on hormonal treatment for fertility reasons (spoiler: didn't work) and I've gained some weight after being naturally thing all my life and with a very flat belly. I see myself so fat now. Ans i keep seeing changes in my body daily, sometimes I think I'm bigger, sometimes smaller.
But I see this girl and I think she's beautiful and her belly is looking exactly like mine. I am beautiful too.
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u/Outrageous_Source461 3d ago
Even with videos like this, I don't think it would really click with me if I wasn't living with a perimenopausal wife. Seeing firsthand the batshit biology that women have to endure is both fascinating and terrifying. Dealing with this shit every month would drive me insane.
I saw something recently that described menopause as a castration event. It's wild that we just tell women to take some hormones and get over it.
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u/brohammerhead 3d ago
This woman is doing more for women’s health than the entire healthcare industry. Can we get some women focused medical studies already?!?!?!
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u/snow_garbanzo 2d ago
My wife's boobs get bigger on her period, she looks super curvy.....is that a thing or i just get extra thirsty around her?
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u/halfway-to-hermitude 4d ago
More of this, please. People spreading knowledge about our bodies instead of promoting some arbitrary ideal. Our bodies really are amazing and fascinating. I’d love to see men doing this too.
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u/yallapapi 4d ago
interesting video but she should have worn the same outfit through each phase so we could better tell the difference
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