The human body works in strange ways and it is no big secret. Add to it a pair of ovaries - and the complexity levels just went out of the roof.
To top it all, the period gods have always had a conflicted relationship with the female kind. If afflicting them with streams of red wasn’t sufficient, vaginal and stomach cramps also arrived at the party.
However, if you get away with just cramps, you are still lucky. There are a dozen other things that can go wrong with periods. From hormonal imbalance to unexplained irregularity in periods to stress’ influence on menstruation - how much do you know about your body? Take this FITQuiz to find out.
Developed by: Achintya De and Shahadat Hussain
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