Kristyn Watkins got her first menstrual cycle when she was 10 years old and then suffered from what she describes as debilitating, heavy periods for nearly the next three decades.
“As a young child, I thought it was normal to have an extremely heavy flow and it continued my entire life,” Watkins, 37, told “Good Morning America,” adding that she often felt embarrassed about her heavy periods. “I never talked about it with anyone my whole life because it’s a private
“I remember my mom saying, ‘Oh, I know honey, Nanny and I are going through the same thing and know it’s hard,’” said Watkins, a school principal in Indiana. “I don’t think they realized that it wasn’t normal either.”
Watkins lived with her heavy periods — which would often force her to stay home or stay near a restroom — without knowing any…