Real women share EMBARRASSING period stain stories and how they covered it up!

From stapling paper over the stains to blotting them with chalk, these ladies have tried everything!

By: Sandhya Raghavan | | Updated: May 30, 2017 3:29 pm

Been double-crossed by your own uterus? Welcome to the club. Is there any woman who can confidently say they never had an embarrassing menstrual staining story? I think not! Your menstrual cycle is a beautiful, God-given gift that celebrates your femininity. What s there to be embarrassed about? Yeah right! When you are sporting a bloody map of Russia on your perfectly laundered white skirt, pride is the last thing you d be feeling. These are accounts of real women who have been in nightmarish situations where they have stained themselves in public. These lovely ladies also shared the innovative ways in which they disguised the stains to draw away suspicion from prying eyes. Also Read - Tampons, Pads or Menstrual Cups: Which is better for your period?

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“If you are a heavy bleeder like me, pant-staining is like a monthly affair. No sanitary pad, I repeat, no sanitary pad has been built to contain the deluge that my uterus sends forth, every month!”

“I m somewhat of an expert when it comes to disguising stains, but there was no preparing me for this occasion. I teach English and during one of my lectures, I felt something wet under my bum. I was on the first day of my periods and I knew at once that I had stained the chair. Usually, I conduct all my lectures walking back and forth through the room and my students knew this too well.”

“But on this occasion, I knew if I got up, the whole class could see the stain on the light-coloured chair. I conducted the whole lecture sitting fast on my seat and waited till everyone left the class. After which I washed the stains quickly and blotted the water with my kerchief.”

Garima

“My first experience with menses itself was very horrible. When I was in grade 8, I had my first periods. It was during History class when I felt that my undies were wet. Luckily, one of my classmates had a pad handy. But what do I do about the stain? That s when I had a bright idea! I tore a piece of paper from my notebook and stapled it to the stain on my skirt. And do you know what the best part is? People in my school didn t think it weird at all? That s because I always used to do weird things! Thank God for my weirdness.”

Reena

“My mom used to prepare us only too well for any such accidents, so no such episodes happened in school or college, but it did happen when was almost 30, and a mother of a 5-year-old. We’d gone to Essel World for the first time and that too in a big group.”

“Guess what happens next? Unscheduled chums! No shops nearby to buy pads and I had to pad up using all the tissues. But then a friend gave me her shawl to tie around the waist – because I wasn’t wearing one. That’s when I realised the value of a dupatta.”

Yashaswi

“Once I woke up with a big, red blood stain on my bed sheet. Before I could clean it, my 4-year-old nephew, who loves me to bits, unfortunately, noticed it. He thought I was going to bleed to death and was hysterical. He started crying thinking that his favourite aunt was going to die. I told him that someone had accidentally spilt paint but he was too smart to buy that. I eventually had to pacify him with a bar of chocolate! Phew…”

Snigdha

“I got my school uniform stained during my 9th-grade drawing exams. So luckily I was equipped to disguise the blood splotch with a big dollop of poster colour. It was messy but it did the job. And everyone thought I worked very hard on my painting.”

Lavina

“I was among the few girls in class to have had matured early. Back in the 90s, our mums used to buy Carefree sanitary pads which didn t have an adhesive bottom like the modern day pads. Instead, it came with a little elastic belt that had to be worn around the waist. The band had two fasteners on the back and the front to fix the pad in place. In the end, it looked like a weird-looking langot.”

“One day I wore the pad upside down, with the absorbent side facing downwards and the plastic side upwards. The pad couldn t obviously soak all the blood so it stained my school uniform. And most girls in class didn t know about periods. So there was no way to confide in anyone without freaking them out. Finally, an older girl helped me to the loo and gave me a thick towel to use as a makeshift pad.”

Upneet

“One day, I saw a girl in my school with some chalk marks on her pinafore. I pointed it out to her. I thought she had leant on a blackboard and got chalk all over her. I was about to help her dust those marks off but she stopped me. She told me that she had stained her pinafore and she had drawn with a chalk on her period stains to hide the stains! It was pretty effective. But it did look a little weird.”

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Published : May 30, 2017 3:21 pm | Updated:May 30, 2017 3:29 pm

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