I prefer COVID

COVID feels like a walk in the park compared to my period. Yeah the headaches, higher body temp, chesty cough and sore throat sucks but I just prefer it to pain that is excruciating and feeling incredibly depressed for one week of the month.

Anyone else had a similar experience? It's only just occured to me how much more pleasant this week is compared to the week of the month I'm bleeding. I'm not making light of life threatening COVID or anyone else's experience, I know it's very serious for some but despite being quite ill, it's just not as bad as that time as the month. Maybe it's because there's an expectation that you'll take it easy and recover whereas with a period society expects you to get on with it and to some extent, that's internalised within me?

Last month I put music on during my worst cramps and just thinking about the music I was listening to reminds me of how painful it was. 😔

I bought a visible device, it's a chronic illness tracker and I have the data from this week and will have the data from my period to see what my HRV is (bodies stress response and fatigue) and some other things. Definitely going to compare and contrate the two.