men of reddit, what do you imagine period cramps feel like?

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1. I imagine it like getting hit in the stomach.

2. Similar really bad gas pains. Or the feeling of a bad muscle cramp but in my stomach. Since the uterus is a muscular organ.

3. I’m picturing it similar in fashion to stomach pain but centered in a more specific region. Not ongoing 24/7 but coming and going of different intensities.

4. If I had to guess, I would say a more extreme version of when you have the shits really bad, and it feels like your entire lower gut is knotted up and trying to kill you.

5. Like a stomach cramp and a balls cramp had a baby.

6. I would imagine it’s like pressing constipation, like a discomfort that very quickly becomes painful until it passes.

7. Cannot describe but I think of them as almost unbearable.

8. I reckon it’s like back spasms only in the lower abdomen. And back spasms are the worst. So fuck that. Sorry women!

9. period cramps? It’s probably like an underground knitting club in the abdominal cavity, where the intestines are the yarn, and the uterus is the master weaver.

10. I am a trans man so I know how how does it feel. I didn’t feel any difference between period pain and horrible diarrhea pain. For me it was completely same feeling including the “I am gonna shit my pants in a second” feeling. But it is just my personal experience I don’t know if other people with uterus would describe it in the same way.

11. Like a diarrhea cramp coupled with getting punched in the gut all day

12. I’d just assumed they were kind of like stomach cramps, but in a slightly different spot.

13. Like my girlfriend sewed my asshole shut, and kept feeding me indian food.

14. Like warm apple pie… wait what

15. I imagine it’s like when my stomach is full of air.
    For hours on end a sharp pain flows through my body and the best thing I can do Is making my tummy warm.

    Until I found out I can just burp my problems away.
    Unless it’s that instance once every two weeks where I have to drink hot tea and 40 minutes of sharp pain in the bathroom.

    You obviously can’t burp your problems away, and that’s why I feel terrorized when you have cramps

16. i’d guess an extreme stabbing pain

17. I always pictured it feeling kind of like a kidney stone.

18. I imagine it like John Hurt in Alien the way they go on about it.

19. I would imagine it’s like spraining your uterus?

20. Period cramps are continuous and a jolt. Sometimes you wake up and your entire abdomen and pelvis area are just swollen (bloated) and kinda pulsing (those are cramps) until you pop a Tylenol. You still get those jolts and random cramps through the day (and the worst one is when you get it in your asshole lol)

21. I imagine varying degrees of near constant gnawing abdominal pain, with spikes of extra pain sprinkled in. I imagine at least a constant tense feeling when it’s not painful.

22. Bad poop cramps approximately

23. I always assumed it was like an abdominal cramp just obviously a different spot and a lot higher on the pain scale.

    What surprised me was my ex telling me she could feel the process, ie feel everything detach and drain out of her body. Makes total sense, but must be such a strange feeling.

24. TW: poop & diarrea

    I keep making the mistake of eating too much sugar free candies every few months or so. The sweeteners in there are a natural laxatives. Whenever I do, I get this really, really bad ache in my stomach that just doesn’t go away even after “relieving myself”. Almost as if a dagger is being stabbed into it and it keeps being twisted over and over again, never stopping – never giving me a chance to recover.

    Best case scenario I throw up and it’s over after that, worst case I don’t need to throw up and it keeps lingering for a day or two all the while I keep >!pooping what feels like water!<.

25. My sister always describes it as either “Someone stabbing and twisting the knife for a while” and “someone punching her”

26. I think the fact that a woman can’t do anything except stay home in bed for a few days tells my how painful they are.

27. I had some nasty abdominal cramps once. Likely food baby related. It lasted for about an hour, maybe. It was kind of unbearable and it sounds like a mere fraction of what women out up with on an off regular basis. I gained a ton of extra respect for all of them that day.

28. Cramps with a . In it

29. I always describe it as someone shoved a bunch of barbed wire into your guts and is yanking it out of you repeatedly.

30. Like someone grabbing and twisting my bod from the inside

31. Like a raptor clawing it’s way out if ur abdomen?

32. One woman told me it’s like getting kicked in the nuts all day long.

    I know she’s full of crap because women have period cramps all their lives and still put up with it.

    Whereas if someone were to come around to kick me in the nuts all day, once every fucking month, I would probably commit suicide after the fifth month.

33. My wife described it as someone taking a [melon baller](https://www.google.com/search?q=melon+baller&client=firefox-b-1-m&sca_esv=565683386&tbm=isch&sxsrf=AM9HkKm942M-eu2RtaUF2U0atLpyyHHxyQ:1694797330081&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwixl82GjK2BAxUPOUQIHQsWDbEQ_AUIBigB&biw=324&bih=607) and scraping the inside of your uterus with it.

    So that. That is what I imagine it feels like and God damn.

34. I imagine it feels like someone strong gripping your lower body organs.

35. I really have no way of knowing. I go off the descriptions of others, like diarrhea cramps. I know that feels terrible.
    Honestly can’t imagine having to deal with that every month it is so hectic.

    And then some guys honestly say things like “yeah but women don’t have to deal with getting an awkward boner in public” like theyre suffering more.

36. Like someone is trying to pull my stomach out of my body

37. It’s like taking a soldering iron into your Yoo-hoo choochie and then using a friggin hand mixer into your uterus

38. Like one of my testicles was being compressed and twisted around the other one.

39. I was going to say, from seeing people subjected to them: Something like getting stabbed with a salted blade that’s then just left in the wound to twist and burn.

40. I have a stomach disease and sometimes I get really really bad contractions when I need to shit. So maybe about like that

41. I had cancer which caused a total bowel obstruction. That felt slightly worse than my worse period. So very similar to literally dying at their worst and about 1/2 as bad as dying normally.

42. Like abdominal cramps/pain where you can’t move and you get cold sweats.