Being a woman sometimes irritate me. For men or male readers, I suggest you pay attention to this post if you want to know why your wife/ girlfriend/ fiance get a bit ticked off from usual once a month. The reason why we women are sometimes too emotional, too hyper, too extreme in every sense is because we face a monthly cycle called menstruation. Don’t ever misspell and mistook it for mensuration. You do not want to have an irate woman plowing you down with a bludgeon.

When a girl reaches the puberty stage and turns into a woman, she begins the ever revolving cycle of menses every month. I remembered the first time I had mine… I had to have pre-menses crams a year prior to the big day and it always hurts at night. Ugh.. It was a terrible year..

The meaning of menses taken from TheFreeDictionary.com means:-

The monthly flow of blood and cellular debris from the uterus that begins at puberty in women and the females of other primates. In women, menses ceases at menopause. Also called catamenia.

At this time of the month, the cycle usually takes up to seven days plus/minus. During this time do not be surprised if your loving soft spoken fiance suddenly becomes a screaming banshee and cries at every insensitive words. Ugh.. Any words said to most of us would be insensitive.. hehehe

I have taken a snippet of information from a source and summarized it as best as I can without confusing the already confused men.. *snickers*

The menstrual cycle is under the control of the hormone system and is necessary for reproduction. It is divided into several phases: menstruation, the follicular phase, and the luteal phase.

**Refer to the diagram below to understand what follicular and luteal phase is.

Ovulation defines the change from the follicular phase to the luteal phase. Counted from the first day of menstrual flow, the length of each phase varies from woman to woman and cycle to cycle. The average cycle length is 28 days.

Stimulated by gradually increasing amounts of estrogen in the follicular phase, the lining of the uterus thickens. Follicles in the ovary begin developing under the influence of a complex interplay of hormones, and after several days one or occasionally two become dominant, non-dominant follicles atrophy and die.

The dominant follicle releases an ovum, or egg, in an event called ovulation. After ovulation, the remains of the dominant follicle in the ovary become a corpus luteum; this body has a primary function of producing large amounts of progesterone. Under the influence of progesterone, the endometrium (uterine lining) changes to prepare for potential implantation of an embryo to establish a pregnancy.

If implantation does not occur within approximately two weeks, the corpus luteum will involute, causing sharp drops in levels of both progesterone and estrogen. These hormone drops cause the uterus to shed its lining in a process termed menstruation.

To make the biologist-idiots like me understand better:-

The egg factory, the ovary, begins to produce ovum, egg, for ovulation. Ovulation is another term for being fertile and waiting to be impregnate by sperm thus establishing pregnancy. However the impregnation of the ovum should doesn’t take place within approximately 2 weeks, the egg expire and cause the uterus to shed its lining.

And this will be the time we women scramble for our sanitary pads or tampons…

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