I'd like to draw your attention to the new meme that gives voice to your worst period woes, including dropping your last tampon in the toilet, feeling like your uterus got stabbed, and the "unexpected goodbye leak," as only a man-eating tiger can.
So get creative and make your own Time of the Month memes to send to your friends. What slogan would you put in?
I must say I do sometimes wish I lived back in ye olden days. Cures for menstrual pains included a patented medicine called 'Cardui.' This testimonial from a booklet entitled Cardui medicine for difficult menstruation, leucorrhea, backache, headache, dizziness and general female diseases 1874 says:
"When I was sick at each month I would stay in bed because my back would ache and my head would swim so that I would almost faint when I stood on my feet. I endured this for three years. Then I went to a doctor. He did not help me much. Then he recommended Cardui and I began to take it. I took about a bottle and felt much better [I bet you did love] I have now taken several bottles and feel just all right. I have no backache, headache or dizziness anymore and would recommend Cardui to anyone."
Of course Cardui cured the aches - the stuff was 19% alcohol by volume, 38 proof; that's stronger than wine.
Now where can I get my hands on some Cardui ....?
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So they got to carry around a bottle of booze AND blame the 'dizziness' on the period pains? Awesome, fetch me my time machine immediately!
Just one thing...can I just use a bottle of Pinot Grigiot instead?
Hell yeah!!! I need some of that stuff immediately. Wait, do I have to have my period to qualify?
I obviously need to take my raspberry leaf tea up a notch.
Organic Motherhood...Oh no don't wait until you have 'the curse' as they used to call it. Cardui will brighten your day any time of the month and will make using the washing wrangle for six days straight feel like you're tap dancing with Fred Astaire!
Aha! So that's how the desperate housewives club started!
Masterful.
LCM x
London City Mum...Cardui can also be used to seduce members of the secret service who also happen to have rock hard abs (or so I've been informed by the manufacturers)
I was going to ask the same thing, now where do I get me some Cardui?
Readily a Parent...dare I ask are you so crunchy granola that you use one of those Menstrual Cups??? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menstrual_cup
My meme would say, “What’s all the fuss about? It’s nothing like as bad as a man-cold”.
Have a nice day, Boonie
Lightweight- she could have easily had some opium. That's what the discerning menstruating woman of ye olden times was taking.
Excuse me barman, a bi-Cardui and coke for my wife, please!
Personally I think I need to do what they do in some African tribes - go and sit by myself in a separate hut till it's all over. Hmmm....that would make it about three weeks out of four. Yay. Wonder if they sell Cardui there?
Ooh I like ex-pat mum's idea with the liquor obviously.
Expat Mum...ha ha ha good idea .... I just went to sit in their little Wendy House in the garden with a bottle of Cardui. I told the kids when I wave a white flag out of the chimney I'll be finished with my period!
"last tampon in the toilet"?
That never happened in my house.
With two teenaged daughters and myself, I made sure we were fully stocked at all times. I bought the damn things every week whether they were needed or not.
I would like wine in exchange for whining. And if things get real bad, like a FIT, I would like some pills. Like xanax will do.
What about right now where I get to ask how in the world can I be so late and get two negative tests??
When you fi d it, send me a bottle too please!
Babies Who Brunch...oooh exciting and hair raising stuff. Get thee to a doctor on Monday!
WTF is this all about, innit?
Frankly I won't trust anything that bleeds for a week and doesn't die.
Sounds like a fun time o me throw a vibrator in at the end of it all when everything is over and enjoy a relaxing night to finsh the cramp. Kind of like dighting with a sword haha come brows the selection at hotgvibe.com.
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