TMI

You know, we never really know all the mysteries behind "Aunt Flo" and I always love how when I ask my doctor something he responds like "Oh yeah, everyone knows that."

Well, TMI for you dear readers, but if you venture here, you know better.

I get diarrhea when I'm on the rag. So, from about 12 till oh, this coming weekend, I've had the insult of the poops to accompany the injury of the bloating, cramping, bleeding and general bitchiness and weepiness that arrives about every 29 days for me. Yippee. I mentioned to my doc on my last exam about the poops and asked if that was normal. I get the "of course it is normal" look and the speech that everyone is different and for many women, that is very normal.

Anyway. Ventured on to the Menstrual Mysteries story and decided I might reather be out of work than to have the job of the lab tech who had to help determine what is light or heavy bleeding:
"To prove it was reliable, the researchers randomly recruited 31 women between the ages of 35 and 55 (all of whom were still menstruating and none of whom were using hormones) who agreed to meticulously save and preserve all their used menstrual products from three complete cycles. At the end of each cycle, a technician was sent out to collect the samples for processing in the lab. Over the course of the three cycles, the researchers collected 1,489 bags of used products. As part of the project, the women were also asked to use the six-point scale to estimate how much blood they had lost for each cycle. When the data was processed at the end, the researchers found that most of the women's ratings closely correlated with their actual blood loss. This was particularly true of the women who were the heaviest bleeders. "

Lab tech: ewww factor 10+