"What your first period can actually look like! I was 12 when mine started (thankfully, I was at home), and I kept seeing brown stuff in my underwear. I was highly embarrassed because I thought I was shitting myself all day (I thought I had food poisoning even though I felt fine otherwise), so I didn't say anything to my mom at first. Finally told her, she had a look, rolled her eyes and said it was my period. I thought period blood was only red until that point."
"My uterus not going back to its usual spot after I gave birth. Just before I was going to my 6-week post-pregnancy gyno appointment, I decided to 'check' how everything was doing there with my fingers. About 1cm in, I felt my cervix! After a lot of freaking out, thinking my organs were falling out, and wondering if I would ever be able to get pregnant again, I saw a midwife, my gyno, and a urologist."
"It will never go back to before unless I get surgery, which I will have to wait until I'm done having kids (which I want more of). It isn't painful; it doesn't really affect my day-to-day life (urinating, sexual relations, etc.), except that I can no longer wear a menstrual cup. I am in my 20s, healthy, and so not the usual type of person who gets prolapses, but it can happen, and I wish more people talked about it so I wouldn't have felt like such an alien."
Many women described surprising and unfamiliar physical experiences that they only recognized when they occurred. One person mistook brown menstrual discharge for feces and only learned that period blood can appear brown. Another experienced uterine and bladder prolapse after childbirth, discovered by touch, which required medical evaluation and limits certain products like menstrual cups; surgery may be needed after finishing childbearing. Others reported sudden debilitating lower back and groin pain that prompted gynecological evaluation. Several accounts show gaps in common knowledge about menstrual variation, postpartum anatomical changes, and atypical gynecological symptoms.
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