Like, if you have to study, or if you're writing an exam and have your period of whatever, can you get an exception?
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Hormones
Gonna say it depends on the place running the exam. You’d be better off asking them directly, but be prepared for them to ask for a doctor’s note
There have been very, very few times when I haven’t been able to function normally and do things like take an exam, while on my period. It sucks but you just have to push through.
If you have normal periods, you shouldn’t need to do anything special for school. I mean, your period could be 25% of the time, that would be a ton of stuff to rearrange. Of course for people with some additional medical situation with their periods who are dealing with more severe symptoms, they might need to do that.
It depends on country and rules of school. Mine would catagorize periods under medical pain, thus, was allowed to be used to ask an extension with. But in general, its expected that you just do what you need to do and deal with the pain (their medication, heating pad etc)
varies from person to person but it sucks about as much as you’d think it does, given how much is talked about periods. heavy flows and deep, rolling cramps definitely can hinder your focus, but unfortunately “sorry, i’m on my period” isn’t an acceptable excuse in most places to elude your situation/postpone doing something :/
Mine were crippling and I couldn’t attend school or anything during the first 3 days.
The missed school really effected me. Exams I went once during my period (1st day) and they called an ambulance on me after 15 minutes. They legitimately thought I was dying, the exam supervisor was a family friend and she got so genuinely upset when I kept saying I didn’t want to go to hospital. She was in tears begging me telling me she can’t tell my parents she let me die.
Focusing / studying was impossible.
I was constantly being sent to the guidance counselor, getting written up for not doing homework and my results were so inconsistent.
If yours is affecting you please see a dr, it isn’t normal. If the Dr tells you it is, please see another dr
I imagine there might be some teacher who might…However I have never encountered a teacher who would give me an exception from an assignment or exam for something that was going to happen for 5 days out of every 28 regardless. I mean, we mostly just have to suck it up and deal with it.
Written an exam during periods. I think you can get doctor’s note if the cramp is not manageable even with paracetamol.
For me it’s like asking “if someone kicks you gently in the balls constantly throughout the day, how do you handle the academics?” Every cramp is like a kick. I work through the pain and ofc performance suffers. Now while I was in school I was just lucky that my memory was good so I still always did well, but if I went back to school today, doing an exam while on my period I may drop a grade or more. My burnout brain can not brain and be in pain at the same time.
We also were not excused “back in my day”. If the floodgates opened in an exam you stayed seated until the test was over and everyone but you left and then turned in your papers and cleaned up yourself and the chair. I hope that’s different nowadays, at least in my country of origin.
definitely no accommodations, lol. i disagree with a some of the comments though. maybe my period is just worse than theirs, but the pain can be unbearable. like, screaming and crying and curled up in a ball. there have been plenty of societies that have given women time off for their periods. i think health and happiness should be prioritized over productivity, so i do think women should be able to to take a day or two off, but obviously that’s a much larger issue. it would probably be taken a lot more seriously if men could fully grasp how awful it can be.
They make me feel drowsy and a bit loopy, depending on the month. It isn’t consistent and it isn’t always the whole week, but every few months there would be a day of inability to focus and even extreme pain to the point of being immobile for a day.
You don’t get an exemption, though typically people like teachers and fellow students are very understanding and sometimes accommodating to such issues (like allowing you to reschedule because you’re unable to get to school due to menstrual pain).
I had a friend in university who got a note to take her exam on a different day due to period pain.
I was severely underweight for all but one year of university and missed my period for those years. The first day of my period is miserable, but I was able to push through and survive during school. I suspect my grades were lower if I did anything on day one. In uni, I don’t think that ever happened with an exam.
13 comments
Hormones
Gonna say it depends on the place running the exam. You’d be better off asking them directly, but be prepared for them to ask for a doctor’s note
There have been very, very few times when I haven’t been able to function normally and do things like take an exam, while on my period. It sucks but you just have to push through.
If you have normal periods, you shouldn’t need to do anything special for school. I mean, your period could be 25% of the time, that would be a ton of stuff to rearrange. Of course for people with some additional medical situation with their periods who are dealing with more severe symptoms, they might need to do that.
It depends on country and rules of school. Mine would catagorize periods under medical pain, thus, was allowed to be used to ask an extension with. But in general, its expected that you just do what you need to do and deal with the pain (their medication, heating pad etc)
varies from person to person but it sucks about as much as you’d think it does, given how much is talked about periods. heavy flows and deep, rolling cramps definitely can hinder your focus, but unfortunately “sorry, i’m on my period” isn’t an acceptable excuse in most places to elude your situation/postpone doing something :/
Mine were crippling and I couldn’t attend school or anything during the first 3 days.
The missed school really effected me. Exams I went once during my period (1st day) and they called an ambulance on me after 15 minutes. They legitimately thought I was dying, the exam supervisor was a family friend and she got so genuinely upset when I kept saying I didn’t want to go to hospital. She was in tears begging me telling me she can’t tell my parents she let me die.
Focusing / studying was impossible.
I was constantly being sent to the guidance counselor, getting written up for not doing homework and my results were so inconsistent.
If yours is affecting you please see a dr, it isn’t normal. If the Dr tells you it is, please see another dr
I imagine there might be some teacher who might…However I have never encountered a teacher who would give me an exception from an assignment or exam for something that was going to happen for 5 days out of every 28 regardless. I mean, we mostly just have to suck it up and deal with it.
Written an exam during periods. I think you can get doctor’s note if the cramp is not manageable even with paracetamol.
For me it’s like asking “if someone kicks you gently in the balls constantly throughout the day, how do you handle the academics?” Every cramp is like a kick. I work through the pain and ofc performance suffers. Now while I was in school I was just lucky that my memory was good so I still always did well, but if I went back to school today, doing an exam while on my period I may drop a grade or more. My burnout brain can not brain and be in pain at the same time.
We also were not excused “back in my day”. If the floodgates opened in an exam you stayed seated until the test was over and everyone but you left and then turned in your papers and cleaned up yourself and the chair. I hope that’s different nowadays, at least in my country of origin.
definitely no accommodations, lol. i disagree with a some of the comments though. maybe my period is just worse than theirs, but the pain can be unbearable. like, screaming and crying and curled up in a ball. there have been plenty of societies that have given women time off for their periods. i think health and happiness should be prioritized over productivity, so i do think women should be able to to take a day or two off, but obviously that’s a much larger issue. it would probably be taken a lot more seriously if men could fully grasp how awful it can be.
They make me feel drowsy and a bit loopy, depending on the month. It isn’t consistent and it isn’t always the whole week, but every few months there would be a day of inability to focus and even extreme pain to the point of being immobile for a day.
You don’t get an exemption, though typically people like teachers and fellow students are very understanding and sometimes accommodating to such issues (like allowing you to reschedule because you’re unable to get to school due to menstrual pain).
I had a friend in university who got a note to take her exam on a different day due to period pain.
I was severely underweight for all but one year of university and missed my period for those years. The first day of my period is miserable, but I was able to push through and survive during school. I suspect my grades were lower if I did anything on day one. In uni, I don’t think that ever happened with an exam.