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Apr 18, 2011 at 07:42 PM
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I started when I was 13. Too bad my mom didn't explain the different types of pads and so I was using light day pads at school the next day and so had to keep running to the bathroom to put toilet paper in my pants. I was horrified.
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Apr 19, 2011 at 10:13 PM
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My cousin started when she was 7! 'Course she told me this when I was like 5 so I didn't understand that it was a bizarre age. It must have been so traumatic for her! As for me I started when I was 11.
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Apr 20, 2011 at 07:50 AM
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Googley - that's how I hid it from my parents was the old toilet paper trick. One day at school thought I started and, because I had hid it from my parents and, therefore, had no pads or tampons, I bled right through my jeans. (of course we were on a field trip and I couldn't run to the restroom).
eve - 7! That's crazy! Glad that wasn't me or I would have kept it a secret for a decade! |
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Apr 20, 2011 at 03:14 PM
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God I feel so stupid... I can't remember! I think I was 14.
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Apr 22, 2011 at 12:00 AM
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I too was an unusually early starter. Just added to the issues I already had
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Apr 22, 2011 at 10:46 AM
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I started the day of my 13th birthday, my sister who is 8 years younger than me started when she was 12. I have a lot of problems with regularity though (even on birth control and taking the birth control properly)
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Apr 22, 2011 at 04:39 PM
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I was 12. Yup. I've had enough.
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Apr 22, 2011 at 10:46 PM
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^ better than that and erections.....yeesh
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Apr 23, 2011 at 06:48 AM
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I started when I was 10
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Apr 26, 2011 at 01:41 PM
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there has to be more people who started late like me .WOW i didn't know how early people started that's crazy
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Apr 30, 2011 at 11:09 AM
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May 11, 2011 at 09:23 PM
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At 12 years old. Oh the horror!
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May 11, 2011 at 09:30 PM
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I was 13 and my mum was sick with cancer.
After she passed away my "father" didn't buy me tampons or pads etc so I just used toilet paper until I didn't die of embarrassment when I could go into shops and buy my own which was about 18. |
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May 12, 2011 at 10:24 AM
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 EveningSo sorry you and so many of us had such awful starts into womanhood..... You are all in my heart   why are some people so cruel to young ones?  about those of you that used toilet paper.... I forget that my situation is not of the average(VERY heavy periods), I'd be changing the TP every 30 minutes or my pants would be soaked the first 3 days of my period. I forget that most women/girls don't have that issue. ..... and the pain... oh GOD the pain.... my body would be covered in goose bumps from sweating from the pain and then being chilled from the sweating... but I never told a soul-- I didn't want to anger anyone or to get picked on.(had bullies in my family too) I finally saw a doc in my thirties and went on the pill-- No more pain and the periods-- Doc said-- "this is what it's like for most women"-- I couldn't believe it -- I didn't have to double layer the pads, or change every hour-- I found a new freedom!! such things females have to deal with and some of us-- without any compassion ..... ugh......
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May 12, 2011 at 12:50 PM
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May 13, 2011 at 11:29 AM
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I was 12 when I started. I was living with my Dad but I was such a curious child and took up the responsibility of finding out about puberty by myself and knew what was going to happen to me since I was around 8. I used what was given to us by our health teacher, and then resorted to toilet paper for a couple months cause I was too embarrassed to tell my Dad what I needed (he knew I had gotten my period cause I told him but it just didn't "click" at the time that it meant there was a new item to add to the shopping list). Then he finally realized why toilet paper was disappearing so quickly every month and started buying pads for me. He still does when I'm too sick to go out.
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May 20, 2011 at 03:29 AM
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after reading these other posts, I feel so fortunate
I was in grade 8. I think all the girls in my class started that same year. Our mothers were not really present. We talked amongst ourselves. Supported each other. And as we were all babysitting, we all had money to buy feminine products and we discussed which were better, how to put the tampon in etc.. The gym locker room was a hoot.... all of us girls trying to figure it out together... kind of like the blind leading the blind. It is actually a good memory. roses |
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May 23, 2011 at 09:15 PM
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A couple weeks after my 10th birthday
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May 24, 2011 at 03:32 PM
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Day of my 9th birthday. Had no idea what it was. Scary. Ever since then they are so irregular, even with meds. I can go 4-5 months without then start and go for a month.
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May 28, 2011 at 02:29 AM
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I was almost 9yr when i started. I was in daycare when they noticed i was in the bathroom for a really long time.. lol I thought i was dieing or something.. so they gave me a few pads and told me what it was all about -sorta.
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