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seven-day-weekend

When I mentioned at what age I had the menopause it was a way of saying that I had had periods for over forty years so did know what they were like. Mine used to last for ten days at a time, eight of them very heavy and all of them painful.

I had problems with my pregnancy because of the condition of my womb which caused the heavy periods.

I too have taken co-codamol for them.

I know you were talking about extra heavy and extra painful but really although sometimes you might have to go to bed with painkillers and a hot water bottle, it is hardly a disability imho.

jazabelle

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

When I mentioned at what age I had the menopause it was a way of saying that I had had periods for over forty years so did know what they were like. Mine used to last for ten days at a time, eight of them very heavy and all of them painful.

I had problems with my pregnancy because of the condition of my womb which caused the heavy periods.

I too have taken co-codamol for them.

I know you were talking about extra heavy and extra painful but really although sometimes you might have to go to bed with painkillers and a hot water bottle, it is hardly a disability imho.

I didn't actually say they were a disability, but when it's on top of everything else, it's just the icing on the cake.

Also, it was hardly occasionally taking a painkiller and going to bed - I was in too much pain to get out of bed in the first place, as I have already said.

What does suck is when you're already on the top amounts of painkillers for something else, so when something like that happens you have nothing extra to fall back on.

Anyway, I'm not going to sit here and argue about friggen periods, I was just saying they aren't always something to be dismissed.

tenmah

Until you have experienced the pain and severity that others experience, how can you say it does not disable someone?

welshmoneylover

sh1305 wrote: »

Paracetamol doesn't always help. When I was younger, I used to vomit when I came on.

Me too and I used to really vomit, my mother used to tell me it was all in my head cos she never had any problems !!!!!!

Needless to say I'm a lot more considerate to my DD.

BTW, sh1305, for some reason I always thought you had a pair of b*lls :rotfl:

I shall now change my perception of you forthwith :beer:

Trialia

seven-day-weekend... I think you don't quite get how it is for me. I wouldn't medically define the damn condition if it weren't major. I spend the first two days of my week-long period every month on the bathroom floor vomiting from pain - even after taking prescribed class B painkillers - and almost unable to move. The rest, I am confined to my bed. The cramps flare my spinal damage, which happens to be in the lumbar region, and that is nothing short of pure agony.

Paracetamol hasn't worked on me since I was about thirteen, and my periods come nowhere near "[going] to bed with painkillers and a hot water bottle". I wish they did! They are so heavy that I have to be treated for anaemia two times out of three, and, as I have said, cause me pain even greater than dislocating a shoulder. Not your average heavy and painful periods. As I said: I wish. My last one, I spent the first day writhing and crying, vomiting into a basin and arching so hard against the pain that both my hips dislocated (one full, one partial), which only made things worse as they're the hardest joints to relocate even when I'm not cramping like mad.

As for the short sight, krisskross, it's very short, and even with glasses strong enough for me, I still get problems with eyestrain and migraines because of it. For my list, my point was what Jazabelle said to follow my post: that a shorter list of conditions does not necessarily mean a lesser number of debilitating symptoms. I have the symptoms of these so-far-incurable conditions to "look forward to" for the rest of my life - and I'm not even 25 yet.

I had written a longer, more explanatory post, but the forum went haywire for a moment there and I lost it.

krisskross

Well I can now join the happy band of disabled people because you have all shown me that I am actually disabled, not just suffering inconveniences like I thought. Wonder if I can claim anything because I have:

adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder)

myopia and hyperopia (short and long sight deficits), needing extremely expensive lenses to correct.

multiple allergies to normal household items causing skin rashes, sneezing, streaming eyes

Really nasty migraines which cause vomiting, vertigo etc if I eat too much chocolate or cheese. These do leave me able to do nothing but lie in a dark room vomiting.

Trialia

krisskross - regardless of your sarcasm, it would depend on whether you actually need help with care and mobility or not as to whether you were entitled to anything financially: disability in itself, as you are undoubtedly aware, is not an automatic passport to DLA.

Indie_Kid

krisskross wrote: »

myopia and hyperopia (short and long sight deficits), needing extremely expensive lenses to correct.

Being long or short sighted isn't a disability. I imiagine the majority of the population have it too.

BTW, sh1305, for some reason I always thought you had a pair of b*lls :rotfl:

I shall now change my perception of you forthwith :beer:

Trialia

sh1305 wrote: »

Being long or short sighted isn't a disability. I imiagine the majority of the population have it too.

True, for most of the population it's not really a problem. Pretty sure she is just mocking my listing it on the symptom list that I posted, though, but it's there because it's bad enough in my case that even with glasses I still get migraines from eyestrain. :P

krisskross

summerof0763 wrote: »

never received any charity not entitled to it,along with everything else,aye once wfp is means tested oot goes the cruise

How do you have to be entitled to charity? We give a lot to the Salvation Army, I don't think their assistance is conditional on anything other than someone needing the assistance. We send the odd cheque to the CAB, they are a charity. Have you never used them? Never had a pet that needed the RSPCA? We have, our cat was run over and the RSPCA sorted out her treatment until they could contact us via her chip.