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Updated November 30, 2011

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Oh no!

I started mine when I was 10! So I was at camp and my and my bestie were in the pool. And then she was all like dude.......LOOK. And I had looked down and there was a pool of blood surronding me. And then a gurl yelled ewwwwwww (!÷″″& has her period then we all got out of the pool and I had to go home cause I was crying and they had no pads.
—Guest 124tvm

no big deal

i was 14 and it was the day before final exams. i went to the bathroom and my underwear was kind of stained, so i freaked out a little bit but also i knew it would come at some point, so i got a pad out of my backpack and left the bathroom. i'm just glad it didn't stain my jeans. that would have been bad.
—Guest Unknown

Not so happy camper

On July 4th my best friend and I went to sleep away camp like we have been doing every summer for 5 years (were 13 now). The first day was so fun and nothing seemed weird at all. I forgot to pack sleeping shorts and my best friend gave me a pair of her new white soccer shorts. We fell asleep and when I woke up in the morning I felt wet and smelled something weird. I or out of my bunk and I was *covered* with blood. I got my period! I looked down and saw that my best friends new shorts were soaking wet with blood and were ruined. I felt so bad but she had her period before and was comforting. Luckily, my mom bought me a pack of pads for camp just in Case if anything happened. Thanks mom! Oh, and did I say that our cabin was inform of a guys and someone opened the door when I got out of bed and a hot guy saw me. Can you say embarrassing?
—Guest Sara

First period

I didn't even realise. My school uniform was black and white, knickers were black and mum was a stickler. It was three months before I knew, and it was mum who noticed!
—Guest Jacie

shower

my first was when i was watching tv in the holidays (luckily) and then i went to have a shower and there was red/brown spot on my undies. i got all excited, but confused because i didnt get any warning.
—Guest red down there

Another friend's story

So one day in 5th grade my friend and I (we wern't really that great of friends) were walking down to the mall nearby after school, and she was like "umm so I got my period." it was 5th grade and I was like so shocked cuz i didn't know anyone with her period yet. She hadn't told anybody. Not even her mom. Not even her best friend. I asked her all thesE questions and she answered as best she could....
—Guest Guest 123

At My Friends House.

I was at my friends house and everything was okay untill i woke up, i felt wet so i got up to go to the loo and blood just gushed out on the bed floor her clothes, she woke up, and i was crying. she stayed calm, took me downstairs too the bathroom and i had a bah. but when i got home i had to tell my mum. i had credit so i texted her it and she came up and had "talk" with me. but she keeps forgetting to get mee pads.
—Guest Honey

Bad School Day.

I woke up one morning and found a stain on my new pj bottoms but though nothing much of it and carried on. before i left for school i had a pee and such. then at break when i went to use the toilet i wiped and looked at my undies to find quite a bit of blood. then i looked at the toilet and screamed... i came out, told my best friends, had a few tears of shock and had to go to the nurse for a pad. then i had to explain why i had to see her infront of a boy throwing up -.- AWWWWKWARD
—Guest AnonRizzle

Vacation!!!?

I was with my family in Cancun , we where on vacation. (it was the same month when hurricane dean happened) Well I was 11 I think. I went to the bathroom because I had to pee , I told my little sister to wait with me in the bathroom (I'm scared to be in a hotel alone , even if it's just a bathroom) so I sit on the toilet and then I wipe I look at it and it's red!! I was scared , I thought my little sister saw . Then I told my little sister to go get my mom. She came and I told her I had blood in my underwear. She was smiling and told me I was becoming a young lady and I'm all like WTF.. She went to the sink and got pads out of her suitcase. She demonstrated on herself and then I put one on mine. I was crying , but then I started giggling because I was somehow happy. So the rest of the vacation sucked!!! It was night so we couldn't go swimming and I was sad because we where going to go to an island the next day. Turns out there was going to be a hurricane! :(
—Guest Tiffanyducky

My First Period(:

Okay so it was like less then a month ago (age 13) I was about to go to my chior concert so I went to the bathroom before I left and saw a bretty big red spot on my undies. Luckely my twin sis had hers before mine so I got a pad and left, I didn't know how to tell my mom so on Sunday, my sis already knew about it, but she went to the store with my mom and told that I got my period on December 7th 2010!!! I'm a woman!!! So she got me some U by Kotex pads and they work really good I encourage people to try em'!
—Guest Breanne Carey

akward

i got my first period when i was 12. I was at math class taking a big test. Then all of a sudden i felt wet "down there".At first i thought it was just my "discharge". My next class was study hall so i asked my study hall teacher to go to the bathroom cause i ha to pee. I went into the stall. i sat down on the tolit and went. then i smelled something. something like blood then i thought i had a nose bleed so i checked and no. then it hit me. i looked down and sure enought my panties were ruined with blood.i stuck tp in my undies as a makeshift pad. then i ran back to my classroom and told my teacher what hapened and she told me to go to the nurse.asi walked i had the feeling that the blood had leaked into my jeans. i checked and there was a brown spot. i ran to the nurse and told what happened. she gave me some pads and had me call my mom.then the cramps started.i started to cry under the stress and embarrassment. the nurse said i could go home so i called my mom again.i got om 9/25/1
—Guest kk

Uh oh

All my friends had their period already and they called me their little baby. So we decided to go snowboarding one day and I had to per so we went to the bathroom while in the stal I said uh oh and they were like what's wrong and I said I'm not a baby any more and they all said awwww and I was so embarassed and on the verge of tears. One of my friends gave me supplies and it was all good but very uncomfortable haha I was 13
—Guest Unknown

Im not sure?

okay so its a normal sunday, just before dinner. i went upstairs to change my trousers(they wasnt comfy) and i looked and in my pants was a reddy browniy stain, it isnt painful:/. i dont know if i have started or not!:/!!
—Guest Guest B.B

Unbeleivable True period story

I was at the mall with a group of friends in my hot new white jeans, I was 11 at the time, and my mom wasn't there. My best friend said she had to go to the bathroom and all but dragged me there. once in the bathroom she told me to change into the new sweats I had just got and "for gosh sake, stick a tampon in yourself!" I was totally baffled. "whaa...?" I said, looking down at myself, seeing a tiny red stain. So I went over to the pad machine, and there were no pads! There were also no tampons! None of my other friends had started yet, so I waited for a lady to come into the bathroom, and told her I needed a pad, and there was none in the maching, and she LAUGHED at me, then walked away. So I sent my other friend with 5 bucks and told her to get me some pads.
—Guest Lizzi

Club :L!!

Near were I live they have this nightclub, for ages 12-18, I was at that with some friends, A few months before I had stomach pains but didn't think it was anything to do with periods. I didn't have any pads on, and I was wearing a dress with skin coloured tights, When I got home my underwear was blood red, same as my skin coloured tights. Worse of all, I was at my friends house. It was embarrassing as I had to ask for one of her pads. I was 12 (i still am!). Worse of all, When I went to school the following Tuesday, I was sat in lesson 1 (maths) and by the end of the first lesson, I had already bled through my pad. HEAVY FLOW :(
—Guest Caaaris x
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