Soy Sauce, Sports Bras & B12: Real Women Share Their Secrets To Managing Harsh Period Symptoms

Let’s take a moment to address the agony, I mean blessing, that is your period. For all the breadth to the canon of available synonyms — Aunt Flo, menses, moon day, etcetera — our menstrual cycles are rarely as charming and tidy as their euphemisms would suggest. No matter our symptoms, our regularity, our favored balms, our periods tend to take up sufficient space across the real estate of our daily lives. Sure, some of us get off easier than…