…and when it happens, I’d really rather be a girl without the extreme pain attending Mass…If the pain is so intense that they cannot do anything (school, work - whatever) then I suppose that counts as being too sick? I wonder if taking a pain reliever would help?
Maybe this is just me, but I seriously dope up on Advil for that time of month and I still get really intense cramping…with lots of pain killer. So I’d say that the girls should try to take some pain reliever to see if it’ll help so they can go to Mass, but there may very well be some of them that are doing that, and it doesn’t make enough of a dent in the pain (they’re still nauseous, dizzy, cramping badly, etc.).
I have missed Mass on a few occasions due to that time of the month. For some reason, just before getting pregnant my periods got really bad. I would have awful cramps, headaches, and a few other problems that would keep me from leaving the house. I think, as the other posters have said, if they’d miss other obligations and wouldn’t hang out with friends or go to the mall, missing Mass would be OK.
That sounds just awful. I have a friend who suffered really badly also… she had so many female problems her entire life that at 40, her doctor reccomended a hysterectomy.
Serriously?
“Maybe there is something medically wrong…”
Could you sit through mass if someone kicked you between your legs in the parking lot on the way in? Seriously, I imagine that feeling you would get - doubled over in intense pain is similar to what some women go through every month. If you were kicked really HARD there - could you function on a “normal level?” No? Gosh, what’s wrong with you? Don’t you know there are people in wheelchairs at mass?
You and I agree on some issues here. 1. how society uses the pill to answer everything, even something that is normal. This doesn’t mean that if you are in so much pain that you can’t function and this is a recurring issue that some sort of medical intervention may be required, pain during menstruation can also be a precurser to much more serious problems. There also can be perscribe pain killers and other drugs.
I 100% agree with you on this. This is exactly what happened to me when I was a young girl, I had cramps so terribly that I would leave work or school. I would get cramps so intensly for hours. I would get cold sweats and weakness and I would try to take pain killers and I would just violently throw them up! The only thing that the doctors could do was put me on the pill…like you said…“shame on them” I am so mad that they did that…I fear I will have problems having children due to being on the pill for so long and starting it so young. After I converted to Catholicism and realized what the pill was doing, I quit taking it and ran to confession. However, my cramps came back with a vengence and I have been suffering with them every month since. I have nothing “medically” wrong with me, I have had everything checked out, and when I talked to my doctor all she could do was tell me to get back on the pill. I miss work if they hit during the weekdays, but luckily they usually come at night or on the weekends. Diet can help some with the pain, but over the counter meds do absolutely NOTHING, for me anyway, if I can even keep them down. I offer up the pain every month…being a woman and having the pains and joys of bearing children is a wonderful, beautiful God given gift and it is not an easy thing to deal with all the time…!
Your profile says you’re a daddy, so obviously you aren’t a woman and have no idea what menstrual pain even feels like. Whatever your wife or public figures experiences is not indicative of other women and their pain level.
You’re missing the point that this happens to some women some of the time. Most women who experience this amount of pain don’t have it happen every month, IF there isn’t a medical problem.
The answer to you question is YES!!! and If someone kicked me there every month I would think there was something wrong with the situation. Surely you are not suggesting that it is normal to have that level of pain as a hard kick to the groin? I have taken unflattering shots to the groin on several occasions and have functioned on a normal level. Most athelets or martial artists do. All I am saying is if EVERY MONTH this is a chronic problem then something is not right. I have gon to mass in pain, far more pain then menstrual cramps no matter how bad they may be. And I found that Gods grace helped me.Could you sit through mass if someone kicked you between your legs in the parking lot on the way in? Seriously, I imagine that feeling you would get - doubled over in intense pain is similar to what some women go through every month. If you were kicked really HARD there - could you function on a “normal level?” No? Gosh, what’s wrong with you? Don’t you know there are people in wheelchairs at mass?
What an arrogant statement. You, as a man, can’t possibly know what menstrual cramps feel like. Even I, as a woman, cannot know what another woman’s cramps feel like.
Using this logic then eveyone who has normal periods also should not have opinions on this subject. Or a woman doctor should not address issues of pain in a man"s organ. Your view only hurts your equality stance.