This Is the Number 1 Way Women Deal with Period Cramps—and It's Not Chocolate 

This Is the Number 1 Way Women Deal with Period Cramps—and It\'s Not Chocolate

New data from the secret sharing site Whisper reveals that when it comes to dealing with our periods, we’re walking, talking, sleeping, bitching PMS clichés. No shame, ladies!

When the site scoured period-related Whispers and polled more than 50,000 users, they found that most of us revert to old standbys to ease our cramps and moodiness: More than 34 percent of us sleep it off, 33 percent indulge in junk food, and 23 percent of us binge-watch Netflix until we feel less like murdering someone. Nearly 10 percent of us say “eff it” and go to town with wine and chocolate. Experts tell us there are better ways to cope, but we say whatever gets you through the month.

The data also revealed some other wacky stuff, like that we talk about our periods most on the 20

of each month and on Thursdays. (Perhaps proving once and for all that our menstrual cycles really do sync up.) 

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And when it comes to giving our period a cute moniker, “time of the month” is a fave, followed by “Aunt Flo” and “surfing the crimson wave.” (We prefer "shark week," because TBH, we’ll bite the head off the first dude who comments that it must be our lady time.)

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