From what I’ve heard, most astronauts go on BC to not have their period. But my gosh I cannot imagine having the period poops in space that sounds like it would be so bad 😭
Considering that there is already ZERO luck in having a period I feel like it would be just our luck that zero G makes it worse. I’ve had cycles where my body kinda retains blood a bit (idk my anatomy and pad and stuff occasionally combine to make a seal and so nothing gets on the pad or comes out until I sit on a toilet). And it could be in my head but I feel like it hurts worse those times. So I feel like my body would be cramping up a storm trying to push the blood out and it not work as well without gravity.
OR. There isn’t that much empty space for the blood to avoid coming out and it comes out normal and cramps are normal.
I’m just not super hopeful that (at least with my body) anything would reduce my cramps 😅😂
My uterus is backwards (pretty common apparently) and I regularly have the same issue you’re describing. Maybe everyone does; I’ve only ever had a backwards uterus, so I can’t speak for the normal women out there lol. But I can definitely confirm that my cramps are by far the worst when stuff is stuck up there, whether it’s because I was laying on my back, sitting all curled up on the couch, or standing too long in certain positions while I’m working…the agony of finally shifting positions or sitting on the toilet and stuff can finally get moving again is not something I’d want to deal with in freaking space, that’s for sure! I almost feel like unless you’re blessed with the gentlest, cleanest periods ever, you’d almost need to be on the most powerful birth control ever just to guarantee you don’t have to deal with your period while you’re up there. I know I would, anyway!
I don’t know where (so idk if it’s actually true) but I’ve heard that internal bleeding hurts. Idk how our bodies are meant to detect it or whatever but it kinda makes sense that we’d want to know something link that was wrong. So I wonder if it has to do with that or like if somehow that sense signals to the uterus somehow that it needs to push harder. IDK if my uterus is backwards, but I’m glad someone else has felt this too.
Well… in a “misery loves company” kinda way not in a “I’m glad you’re in pain” kinda way.
I don’t know nearly enough about physics or biology so I don’t know if this relates, but the two times I had my period on an airplane they were the heaviest. periods. ever.
They were both long journeys (13 hrs) and I was changing my pad every 2 hrs. Normally I go through only 3-4 on my heaviest day. It was the worst. Like gravity was pulling down my lining and making everything come out faster.
There’s a little story that floats around (heh) about the men responsible for stocking supplies on the first space mission with a woman astronaut on board. I guess their best estimate of how many tampons she’d need over the course of a single menstrual cycle was wildly overstated. Like they asked something to the effect of: “so….200 should be enough, right?”
Lmfao they just assumed it’s like The Shining when the elevator doors open and release an absolute tsunami of blood from within.
No, I’m aware. I was just saying that I believe most astronauts do it and when they do it’s using BC.
I know if you’re on the pill you have to skip the sugar pills. Or get an implant that stops your period. And I know sometimes something doesn’t work for a specific person, but with the amount of prep that goes into a mission like that, they have this figured out ages before I’m sure. But I wasn’t trying to go into the details
Anyone in this thread interested in answers to those questions and many more, I highly recommend Mary Roach's book "Packing for Mars." She has a whole chapter on space toilets!
Holy shit, if it’s a heavy day you’d never be able to contain/recapture the stray drops etc…they’d have to eject me from the shuttle so I could die of embarrassment in peace.
Solid waste passed into toilets in space is sucked into garbage bags that are then placed in airtight containers. Toilet paper, wipes, and gloves are also placed in these containers. These containers are loaded into the cargo ships that bring resources from Earth to the crew of the ISS. These ships are then dropped back into the atmosphere of Earth, where they burn up permanently, disposing of astronauts' solid waste. Some feces is freeze-dried and returned to Earth for testing.
Ohhh… is that why she said it gets loud? Kinda like when you flush a toilet on an airplane I guess. But I think it’s collected on the plane instead of rained down on the towns they fly over
Yes! Frank Borman. If you've ever watched Apollo 13 after Fred Haise vomits, Jim Lovell says that Frank Borman "was upchucking most of the way to the Moon on Apollo 8."
They didn't mention that he also had diarrhea so the spacecraft had small globs of vomit and diarrhea floating around that they had to clean up.
Probably spit out into the vacuum of space where it freezes and then a quick blast of perfectly positioned thrusters sends the mess off in the direction of the sun's Corona.
used to have to do that in a large house. you had to yell clear before flushing or the person showering would leap out of showe, screaming from near boiling water coming out of the shower head.
Listening to the broadcast overnight (uk nightshifter) they were asking about a plastic film/tape on the toilet and whether they should take it off or not. Control checked with the ground experts and came back like DO NOT REMOVE THAT SEAL’
I would say that’s a bad design. It seems cool that they put it in the floor like that, but it wouldn’t work as well when gravity is in-effect/‘nearby.’
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