Periods are awkward, messy things, and often, things go wrong. It doesn’t matter if you’ve been having periods for years – all it takes is one heavier-than-usual flow, an unpredictable cycle or an end-of-period distraction for you to experience gut-wrenching humiliation. In these moments, the key thing to know is that however horrendous it might feel at the time, most of us have gone through something similar. So with that in mind, here are just a few horribly relatable period stories.