Jessica Butler, 29, was diagnosed with hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), a chronic disease that causes boil-like lumps to form under the skin, when she was a teenager. Her symptoms were pretty ...

I grew up in the 1970s, and the topic of getting your period was quite taboo. Although I was surrounded by female relatives — mom, aunts, grandmother, great-aunts — it felt off-limits to talk about, ...

I don’t want to say my period runs my life, but... it kind of runs my life. I experience each phase of my cycle — menstruation, follicular, ovulation, and luteal — seemingly to the utmost degree, and ...

"I got my period after 6 months. It was irregular for a couple of months, but then stabilised to a 28-day cycle. The duration has reduced from 5–6 days to 3–4 days, but the second day is much heavier ...

When I was 12, I got my period one morning right before I left for school. I told my mom, she handed me a pad, and then we never really talked about it again. I was confused, scared and had a million ...