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Do periods affect female performance ?
benjamini
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Heather Watson tennis player blamed " girl problems " for a lack lustre performance at the Australian tennis Open .
Is this something that has been swept under the carpet for too long as a taboo subject ?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/tennis/30926244
Good and interesting discussion on the subject.
Also is it still a subject that still horrifies males ?
Is this something that has been swept under the carpet for too long as a taboo subject ?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/tennis/30926244
Good and interesting discussion on the subject.
Also is it still a subject that still horrifies males ?
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When I'm riding the cotton pony I can barely get out of bed.
She was not specific but severe stomach cramps are utterly debilitating. Or at least they were for me.
Also bloating is horrible.
Brave and honest to admit female periods horrify you.
Why aren't you out rollerblading or kayaking or playing with 3 golden retrievers whilst wearing white trousers?
Oh..... Very brave, from behind a keyboard
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That's why women pilots should only fly when they're not on the blob.........
1. You need to have a certain threshold level of fat on your body to be able to sustain a pregnancy. That's why having no periods is a common symptom in anorexic women. And an awful lot of female athletes are lean and muscular, so I would have thought a lot of them would drop below the limit of how much fat you have to be in possession of to sustain your menstrual cycle.
2. I'd be permanently on the pill/patch/injection/implant or other period stopping device at all times if I was an athlete, to avoid the bleurgh feelings and mood swings and general fuss and faff of periods. And also to avoid getting pregnant. Which would be not what you want when you are a keen competitor who has a full schedule of competitions and no intention of taking retirement from top flight competition to have a family. .
3. If you are an international competitor who has periods and you spend your time flitting around the world, that wreaks havoc with your cycle anyway. That'd be rubbish.
In the article I posted Paula Radcliffe said that she used the pill to time her periods.
Interesting , surely finding a solution to the problem rather than stopping women pursuing their career is the way forward for those women who do suffer badly ? It has been suggested that it's certain Victorian male attitudes such as this has quelled discussion on the subject and continues to make it taboo.
Even if you couldn't rollerskate before?
Vindicated. Hurrah for me.
If you're classing all men as your people you're sadly deluded. What's horrifying about it?
That's assume of course that hormonal methods work for them. It can be very unpredictable. Some women take the pill/injection etc, don't bleed at all unless they stop taking it and have no side effects. Some however have horrible side effects and bleed almost non stop. It would make sense if you're a female athlete but unfortunately it doesn't suit everyone.
Blimey.
In spite of being on the pill, one actor experienced debilitating stomach cramps. She had been experiencing minor cramps all night and morning, but that moment? It was just Bam! Made her collapse and curl up in a foetal position. The pain was so extreme that it soaked her costume and make-up in sweat within at least fifteen minutes.
She couldn't be pulled out because she was the leading lady, and the producers couldn't afford to stop the filming. It was sorted when a local doctor gave her an injection of powerful painkiller. She was fine some minutes later. This made me realise how some leading actors became addicted to prescription drugs.
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