There are 4 weeks in a month out of which is 30 or 31 days. Every month a woman experience a same cycle, a same pain, a same inconvenience but it has been adapted as normal lifestyle for no one has spoken about it, until recently some women has been voicing it out.

This are just my experience, not all experience the same but most of us has a similar symptoms. 

When I was growing up I never had any form of inconvenience, no pain, no cramps it just come and go. But as I was about to finish my college I started experiencing painful cramps. From then on, I started having different kinds of sickness, which I never have experienced. As soon as I graduated I started noticing that just a week before my menstrual cycle started I would experience either diarrhea or constipation, and I would experience a very severe bloating and gastritis eventhough I take my meals properly.  The next year, I started experiencing bodyache just a week before, I have been diagnosed to have inflammatory arthritis, so I thought that when my knees started to severely ache it was because of it but I started noticing that it is just a week before I'll start experiencing a very severe pain and a slight swelling. For a week I'll have diarrhea or constipation with bodyache and knee pain, and during the actual week, I get very weak and fatigue eventhough I have it only for 3 days. 

Post cycle I would experience mood swings, anxiety and depression for a week. Eventhough I know it in my mind that everything is okay it is just my hormones but my heart and body finds it hard to accept it. Experiencing it every month does not mean it is normal, it is really hard to adapt eventhough we experience it every month.

I try not to make people around me uncomfortable during those period. I'd try to calmly evaluate the situation in my mind asking myself “ is it actually the person or my hormones making me angry or sad?” Instead of making a fuss of everything, but not all can calmly evaluate the situation as such.

Out of 4 werks in a month, we get break from such cycle almost only 1 week, yet we are a strong women trying to work our way up in life. I, too am a working lady who tries not to affect my work but sometimes it is hard to endure but I keep pushing myself saying this too shall pass and I keep looking forward for the next day thinking my pain shall be relief the next day.