I just noticed this post, linked from another one, so I'm replying late. :^)
I'm April, I'm 26, and I live in Oregon.
My friends all got theirs way before I did. I was a late bloomer and hit every part of puberty late. When I was in eighth grade, most of my friends had gotten their period, and I was just starting to grow taller.
A few days short of my fifteenth birthday, I came home from school and went to the bathroom and there it was. I was more irritated than anything else, it was just something else I had to deal with.
I had worse cramps when I was younger than I do now, but whenever I'm not on the pill my cycle is between 28 and 31 days long...I get really tired the day before, and a headache the day I start, usually.
My mom didn't want me to start using tampons...so I bought them myself, a few months in. I want a cup, I've been using Insteads since my senior year of high school.
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Date: 2006-05-04 10:36 pm (UTC)I'm April, I'm 26, and I live in Oregon.
My friends all got theirs way before I did. I was a late bloomer and hit every part of puberty late. When I was in eighth grade, most of my friends had gotten their period, and I was just starting to grow taller.
A few days short of my fifteenth birthday, I came home from school and went to the bathroom and there it was. I was more irritated than anything else, it was just something else I had to deal with.
I had worse cramps when I was younger than I do now, but whenever I'm not on the pill my cycle is between 28 and 31 days long...I get really tired the day before, and a headache the day I start, usually.
My mom didn't want me to start using tampons...so I bought them myself, a few months in. I want a cup, I've been using Insteads since my senior year of high school.