Ah, the menstrual cycle... A burden all us ladies carry. Gents, plug your ears it's about to get hormonal!
Periods are not nice. I don't care what anyone says (that means you, Always ad) I will not be discoing in tiny white shorts to celebrate my monthly 'not pregnant' reminder. Hormones are the chaotic toddlers of the body that love to act up just before 'Aunt flo's' visit.
Now we've established that I am not a fan of "shark week," I'd like to talk about the affect of periods on my Tourette's.
Statistically more men have Tourette's than women, maybe this is why all my medication messes with 'my time of the month'? All I can say is they should count thier stars! My current medication is a very powerful sedative, so powerful in fact that it slows EVERYTHING down, including my metabolism, my reactions and my period! (It's always late!) As well as this one of the main side effects is irregular/heavy period (#funtimes!)
Now, I've never been super pleasant on my period. I'm the kind of girl you throw chocolate and romcoms at and leave in a darkened room until 'the week of rage' has passed. My boyfriend learnt pretty early in our relationship to make himself invisible unless needed during 'the darkest hours'. As bad as I was this medication has made me ten times worse!
The past few days I have been the human equivalent of a deflating party balloon and my poor, long suffering, other half has spent the last couple days on an emotional roller coaster. One minute the poor boy is being screeched at and the next he's being used as a human tissue as I wail about the snail I almost stepped on! I'm sure I never used to be quite this erratic!
I'm currently waiting for my meds to be changed, so hopefully I'll feel less fluxy then!
The other unfortunate side effect of 'the curse of Egypt' is that it makes my tics kind of, well, catty... I'm not sure if this is because I'm less tolerent during my period or if it because I'm overwhelmed with negative emotions, but I'm certainly more likely to shout out rude invasive thoughts at this time!
I don't mean too and, because of my fragile state, I often end up very upset with myself. As I've said before, you can't hide your emotions with Tourette's! I'd never dream of saying to someone 'you look fat in that dress', it's unnecessary, rude and damaging, but my Tourette's might say something like 'go for a run' or 'fat cow'. Honestly it's embarrassing and so frustrating! I just want to hug the unfortunate soul my Tourette's has picked on and tell them that it's not me! I want to shout, 'well done for choosing such a bold pattern! You go girl!' but instead my inner bitch (whom I try very hard to ignore) makes me out to be a heartless cow! Especially during 'sharknado 2, the gore addition'.
So if I say anything super rude to you, I AM SO SORRY! I don't mean it! It's just the most inappropriate tic at the time! And for all you ladies struggling to cope with Aunty Flo's mysterious ways... You are not alone!!
*Side note, I didn't want to keep writing "period" over and over again ( OCD I guess!) So I apologize for the wierd phrases I've used instead - if it was hard to read just replace every phrase like 'sharknado 2, the gore addition' with 'period'!