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I collapsed at a train station once. I thought I’d been shot in the stomach.” Harrie Dobby, a 36-year-old actor, says this matter-of-factly – perhaps because pain has become such an everyday part of ...

Medically reviewed by Renita White, MD Key Takeaways If you are sexually active and have a light period, take a pregnancy test to rule out pregnancy.Stress can change your period to be lighter or even ...

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— Recommendations are independently chosen by Reviewed’s editors. Purchases you make through our links may earn us a commission. When my daughter got her first period, my first thought was, “How am I ...

Earlier this spring, my 10-mile race and my period were scheduled to arrive on the same day. Every 28 (or so) days since my teenage years, I’ve found myself curled up in pain on the bathroom floor on ...

Everyone's period is slightly different, and odds are, you have a good sense of what's normal for you. But when things start to deviate outside the norm — like a period that starts and stops — it's ...

It isn’t an overstatement to say the new coronavirus pandemic has changed our lives in countless ways. But one of the more random experiences involves all of the period stories that chronicle how ...