Crazy Period Stories Girls DON'T Want To Share

#1 Period On Plane

I got my first period at 13 while on an 18 hour international flight. I didn't know it could be brown so at first I thought I shit myself, but I figured it out by the time I got home.

#2 Bloody Shoulder Back Ride

I got on somebody's shoulders at a concert, and when I got off there was blood all over the shoulders of their white t-shirt. I just walked away.

#3 Murder Scene

I'm VERY irregular. I was staying at my new boyfriends for the first time. We had been having sex and apparently that can bring about a period. Like jump start it I guess. Anyway I didn't know I was going to start so we both fall asleep naked and cuddling. I'm an active sleeper. I move around a lot. The next morning I woke up to a wet feeling between my legs and butt. And sometimes when I'm cold I stick my hands between my thighs and lay on my side for warmth. I opened my eyes and looked at my hands and they were covered in blood. I lifted the white sheets and looked down to a horrible scene. We were both covered in blood. It looked like I'd tried to kill him.

#4 Bloody Tampon

I was around 19 on a family road trip with my parents and siblings. We had stopped for food at a little restaurant, and I excused myself to use the bathroom, to change my tampon. In the stall, I discovered a disgusting toilet that I did not want to sit on. So, I braced myself to remove and replace my tampon while standing (which I know is normal, but wasn't the way I usually did it). As my used tampon was sliding out, I heard a noise. I looked up to see a woman had opened the stall door, which apparently had an untrustworthy lock. We made eye contact while my used tampon dangled from my hand between my legs. Not one of my favorite moments.

#5 Bloody Thighs

I was wearing a maxi dress w/o wearing underwear (rookie mistake) at work and my stomach felt upset, but that happens often so I ignored it. I work through my shift and go shopping at target, all the while pissed because my thighs are hella sweating (I live in a place where this is not uncommon.) I put my groceries away at home and am still sweating on my thighs so i take a paper towel and wipe off the sweat. Pull my hand out from under my dress and it is bright red. It finally gave me the right image in my head when a character is described with their thighs "slick with blood." It was disgusting. Dried and fresh blood all the way down to my shins. I spent almost an hour cleaning myself up.

#6 Disney Period

Mine started at a really young age. I was nine, and my mom and sister took me to go see Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame. We were sitting in the theater, and my stomach started to hurt so badly, but I didn't want to leave because we only went to the theater once a year. The movie ended and the house lights came on and there on the seat and all over my yellow shorts were puddles of blood! I thought I was dying! It was the first I got my period.

#7 Hospital Run

I passed an endometrial cast, and it was a big freaking chunk of tissue that looked absolutely horrifying.

I was having a bad period, bad pain, totally doubled over could barely walk. All of a sudden the pain really started increasing like I was going to pass a big clot, then a huge sudden attack of pain and I was holding on to the kitchen counter to steady myself.

Went to the washroom and it felt unnatural, weirder than passing a clot.

Looked down into the toilet paper after I wiped and I SCREAMED. I took a photo of it and then flushed it, and then went to the hospital because it looked like some horrible alien miscarriage.

When I showed the triage nurse the photo she quietly asked me if I had been pregnant. Luckily not, but I still don't want to ever see something from the inside of my uterus in my hand ever again.