Ok thanks guys .
@ChickenLittle holy shit I literally own 9 belts because nothing is comfortable for me!! I thought it was just me and in my head !!
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Hey!
I recently went on Yasmin, a birth control pill by Bayer (https://www.drugs.com/yasmin.html) and noticed that I’m starting to break out and get a bit of PMS (feeling emotional, water retention and bloating) for the first time since getting my period about 5 years ago. Has anyone had the same experience?
More importantly, how has it affected your gym performance? My squat performance went down quite a bit last month right before and during my period and it’s come back. However, I’m not sure if it’s actually the pill since deadlift, bench and conditioning were fine.
Thanks!
Has anyone had a period that only lasted one day ?? I was late by about a week this month and finally started Friday. It was super heavy, but I was totally done by Saturday afternoon. I’ve never had that before.
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Yep, in high stress time.
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Lots of factors can do it including stress. Weird little thing, it dictates how youre doing…
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So far no. But lately they’ve been short. 3-4 days at max, compared to 6-7. For me it’s the opposite. The longer the period, the worse and worse I feel, and it takes me a while to recover my energy levels. When I’m feeling well, and keepingnon top of things, short periods are a sign my body is happy. For the most part lol. The main signal for me is period cramp strength. When those bad boys are unbearable, I’m usually eating too much crap food, or I’m stressed beyond belief.
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Had anyone here had tubal ligation?
How long do you have to go without lifting after ?
I read you can return to your normal activities after a week, but most women dont powerlift lol
I’d be curious to know about that too. It’s a good $5400 plus in the states and can be hard to get a doctore to sign off on it, and real hard if you are under 30. I considered it when I was younger and still would consider it now.
I guess it would depend on the circumstances you get it done by, but I think it might be a out patient procedure. I only know women who had it done right after delivering a baby so they’d have that recovery to consider as well.
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Looking for advise
My ObGyn want to put me on chemical menopause, my other option would be depo provera. I have cyst regularly and a out of wack cycle. (pain, heavy bleeding,nausea, …)
Any of you have any experience with to meds?
I haven’t even heard of chemical menopause.
It is use for endometriois and cyst. I get cyst and get large enough to cause pain. Her idea is to stop the ovaries for a few months and see if the strange unclear symptoms go away.
The hot flashes and night sweats were bad enough naturally, I am just wondering if it would be worse it chemically induced.
Maybe Physio down in the pharma section could offer an opinion.
I’ve heard very bad things about depo provera. Never been on it, but literally only ever heard bad things
I have heard both good and bad about chemical menopause. Depo too, it’s so very indivual.
My twin sister has had issues for a long time with cysts and ended up having an ovarian torsion which is bad TERRIBLE as it sounds. Apparently a longtime history of cysts can lead to this.
I personally would give any chemical option a try at least once. I think getting as much personal feed back from everyone you can is the way to go!
So I started the Orilissa (chemical menopause). 3 days and a side from some bloating and the chemical burping, I feel ok.
I have to wait and see if the pain come back in the next few months. If all goes well chances are that the ovary will get booted out. And it is not possible to merge the leg surgery with that if that has to be done.
I almost hope for hot flash as I am freezing all the time.
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How’s it going for ya? Any side effects? Or symptoms?
It’s been a long saga.
About 1 month in the treatment, I got a lump just under the groin in the pubic arena and it was very painful.
It got yo the point that I was put on med leave because any time in the up right position was too painful. That was end of febuary. Also at that point there was no change to my cycle. The one change was a permanent depressive state with a serial killer edge.
I went for an ultrasound which found something so they sent me for a ct scan which showed a larger masse of un clear origin. So I went for a contrast mir. That resulted in show that the masse was a small hernia that could not be reduced but it had no intestinal componant. That was end of march.
I got sugery on april 12. I also got of the meds because they did nothing. The mri showed a very nice follicul on my left ovary.
Now 2 weeks post op. I feel good almost no pain. I am going crazy because I am still not permited to do much the let the abdominal cavity heal. I had the durgery do via laparoscopy and a mesh put in place.
I am at the point of my cycle where the abdominal pain should flare up and nothing!
As per what was explain to me this is what was going on. The small hernia of tissues (peritoine and fat) was pulling on the lower abs structures (ovary, uterus, intestins…)
The hernia only moved in 1 direction which is why at one point the pain was none stop and no pain killer help. The small masse was also pressing on nerve and small blood vessels. The surgery was a bit longer then planed because the tissues were hard to pull back out and it was twisted and fold over.
Inguinal hernia in women are often like mine and this is not what doctors think of first for women pain. So any strange plevic pain should be check for small hidden hernia. My only showed up has a hernia with a contrast mri. If I did not had the lump it would not have been looked at. And I still had to push the dr to investigate.
I feel so much better and it could have been much faster if the mri was done first.
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Here’s a response to a question concerning female and male training. To be honest there was waaaayyyy too much emotion in her response, and I would’ve like more info concerning periods and hormonal changes concerning training.
Her response was mostly: “Oh…you have issues during your cycle and it effects your training. Well I don’t, so figure it out I guess.”
Not to mention she’s on gear, what about the rest of us who aren’t? Introducing Test or anything else into training concerning females, changes the whole ballgame in my opinion. Your periods aren’t going to operate the same. Point blank.
I think she took the initial question the complete wrong way.
If she would’ve gotten over all the cultural aspect bullshit, maybe her response would’ve held some weight to it. I really don’t see an issue addressing the truth that periods effect women’s training. It doesn’t mean periods make women any inferior compared to men’s training. And I think she thought that was what the question was hinting at.
This is Janis Finkleman, way back in 2012 she logged her lifts on a womens only forum that I did too, and I am not sure but it looks like she is on gear nowadays. I don’t think she was way back then but who knows, I have no idea who uses since women will not say.
Gracie V also logged there too which is where I "met " her online. She however admits to being on gear and talks about how it effected her on her youtube stuff. That was seriously the first women I had ever heard admitting to it publicly anywhere.
Janis is at EliteFTS now , this is a new thing they are doing to expand their YouTube audience with podcasts. This vid a bit click bait-y as it a bit rambling of an answer. It almost sounds like a political rant. She might be hinting at the transgender weightlifting thing more then how women are different when it comes to training.
Women ARE different. Our body IS different. Periods do affect things. Hormones effect things in a major physiological way from start to finish on all of us. I would agree that women on gear will have an altered hormonal response too and if they get their period it’ll be altered from what it might be if they didn’t ever use. I think people tend to only say what they know from their own experience and will just stick with that as their views.
I don’t think this vid addresses the basic stuff like women are faster at recovery, are able to typically do higher reps closer to their max’s, etc. It doesn’t talk about dealing with periods at all except to say take into consideration how you feel when you walk into the gym to see what type of work you can expect to be able to perform.
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I’m on the mini- pill (Yasmin) and I’ve noticed that I seem to have a “cycle”. My period comes at a consistent time every month regardless of where I’m at pill wise ie my period comes even if I’m on day 7. What’s up?