How long will it last?

What kind of things do you all imagine when you hear the title "How long will it last?"

Rising prices, extreme weather, I'm sure there are many things...

What I thought about today is something I think about once every month: "I wonder how long I'll keep having my period."

My period started the morning after the new moon the other day.

Lately, I've become able to tell, "Oh, my period is here."

I try to greet it cheerfully, saying, "Oh, my period is here, yay, nice to see you again this month!"

In my case, because I have a collagen disease, I need to be careful about my period after ovulation, when estrogen levels drop.

How long is sex education necessary?

Is it only children who need to learn about menstruation?

The answer is NO.

I want to spend my menstrual period in a way that doesn't worsen the symptoms of my collagen disease.

How far should we define the scope of a chronic illness?

PMS is a medical condition. Endometriosis is also a medical condition.

But can you take time off by saying, "I have PMS"? Can you take time off by saying, "I have endometriosis"?

There are still too many people who don't know about it, and too many women who cannot take time off.

This is the reality.

That is why I want adults to take this time to give themselves "sex education once again."

The first people who need to learn about this are not just men, but us, the ones directly affected.

I will write about the path I followed while remaining uneducated on the subject.

In my teens, I only had my period about once every three months, so I had "irregular periods."
My parents were worried, so they took me to the hospital to get checked many times.
At that time, I was also diagnosed with a blood disorder (thrombocytopenia) and received treatment.

Entering my 20s, around the age of 24, my period started coming every month.
According to the doctor, it was likely because my uterus had reached maturity.

I think there is a mysterious aspect to menstruation, but the doctor meant that it had stabilized along with the maturation of my body.

My monthly periods were neither painful nor itchy.
And they always started before I knew it and ended within five days.

Eventually, I started counting the days and realized that my body had a cycle of about 30 days.

I had my first pregnancy at 27 and gave birth at 28. My period returned smoothly afterward, and I didn't think anything of it. As long as the sanitary products didn't irritate my skin, they were fine, and I preferred the high-polymer ones that could be worn for long periods.

Work, housework, and raising children.
I never took care of my body just because I was on my period, and I never had the experience of keeping it warm.

Illnesses appeared in my kidneys and elsewhere, and my autoimmune system began to decline, leading to the onset of rheumatism, but I was overconfident, thinking, "I'm still young, I'll be fine," and kept pushing forward.

When I became pregnant with my second child in my 30s, I developed severe anemia and finally gave birth after a long hospitalization for threatened premature labor.

From the period that followed, PMS symptoms began to appear.
At first, I was bewildered by the physical changes I had never experienced before, but once I visited a doctor and learned that these things happen before a period, I actually ended up downplaying them.
I thought, "It'll get better once my period starts, so I should just endure it."

Enduring PMS, going to work, doing housework, and raising children.

Before long, I felt that the amount of bleeding during my period was abnormal, and when I visited the doctor again, I was diagnosed with "endometriosis."

I was told the endometriosis was too widespread for surgery, so I was prescribed the pill to first suppress the area of inflammation.

After that, my collagen disease continued to worsen, and although there were periods of remission along the way, I have reached the present day.

It was in 2023 that I realized I had lived my life without learning anything about menstruation.

I didn't even tell my partner that I was on my period.
I have recently come to feel that menstruation is not a "problem to be handled alone."
I was the one who needed to learn.

I have written about what I have learned and what I am practicing on note so far.

After working on this for two years, I feel that everything has been for the best.

I have become someone who can welcome her period.

It is no longer something that just comes and goes before I know it; I have come to welcome it and see it off.

For the last three periods, I have been able to tell, 'Oh, it's coming now,' and I have also become able to control the bleeding.

When I first heard someone say, 'I am releasing the blood in the toilet,' I thought, 'That's impossible,' but after two years, I understand.

Yesterday, I had a slight headache, but nothing else happened, and I am spending my time slowly and leisurely.

The specific methods I am using are written in 'Sex Education Before Your Period Ends ②'.

Every month, I wonder how long this period will last.
Now that I am 52 and likely reaching the final stages of my life's menstrual period, I want to see it off peacefully until the very end.

I would also like to talk about how the phases of the moon and the female body are closely related sometime.
#What are you talking about
#Sex education I wonder if I can get this followed up