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I am a woman who has experienced extreme pain during my periods every month since I first started having periods. Even as an intelligent young woman with many doctors, literature, and female friends and relatives around to reassure me that this was normal and I wasn't dying, I still found menstration frightening and miserable. I can't imagine what it would have been like if a was a brain damaged invalid that couldn't even tell someone I was in extreme pain. A very large percentage of women are just like me. I am not a wimp when it comes to pain. Most of the doctors and dentists I have had in my life have commented about my high threshold of pain. If I were to live the life of this girl, I would want someone to perform those surgeries. I do not think our sexual organs define us as people. If I had to have a double mastectomy and a hysterectomy due to cancer, I would still be me in every way.
