text: It always has amazed me that women put so much stock in the way their periods ARE, and very little energy or effort into the way they COULD BE! Month after month I hear about women who miss out on two or three days of the month because of pain and an additional week or two for crazy mood changes and relative emotional instability. This is not a curse upon your body, this is a sign of an unhealthy menstrual cycle and there are treatments to smooth things out.
  WHAT DOES YOUR PERIOD SAY ABOUT YOU? Check out my G-Y-N blog series to find out more about your period.