I was 14 when it started. For a few months I had cramps that made me sick. I had to take time off school because of it. Then I had a month of bleeding and a month of cramps and sickness alternately for a while. I have never used tampons and I find that part of my body disgusting. I have always had PMT without the Pill. But I don't have any embarrassing stories other than being sent home from school one day because of it and throwing up all over the pavement that everyone walked home on. And it coming back after it stopped when I lost weight and walking around a hospital ward not realising I had blood all over my legs and pyjamas and people saw it. Really I was pleased to feel a woman again.

I now don't want them to stop as I will feel less of a woman when they do and I will know that I will never have children. But I don't have a strong need to have them and I don't think relationships are a good idea. I just think it would feel final. It just feels like I have wasted my life and it doesn't seem that long since they started.