Trigger warning: blood, pain, embarrassment
I was at summer camp the summer before 7th grade. My mom (who was also my doctor) had sworn to me that I would definitely NOT get my period before school started. It was overnight camp for two months, and on the 4th of July there is always a “sports day.” That morning I woke up really early- around 5am which was really strange, because I generally like to sleep in. I decided to write a letter to my best friend at the time, and halfway through the letter, I realized that I really had to pee. I went to the bathroom, and when I stood up, there was blood in the toilet. I stuffed some toilet paper into my panties, flushed, washed my hands, and then went back and finished my letter.
When my friend who also had her period woke up about an hour later, I told her and she let me use some of her pads. It was really light and only lasted a few days, with no cramping. However, I was allowed to skip a bunch of the sports which was great because I’m not very athletic, and I got to call my mom to tell her, because getting your period was one of the three reasons you were allowed to call home (birthdays and major trouble were the other two). On visiting day- parents can visit on one sunday between month one and month two- my mom brought me two HUGE packages of pads. It was pretty humiliating.
Since then things have only gotten worse. I bled through my shorts once at the zoo, and another time I bled through my friends sheets. My periods were about 14 days long and really painful. My mom finally let me go on birth control pills when I was 16. Now I have 5 day periods with relatively little pain.
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