You can get decent, compact, TENS units on Amazon much cheaper than they’re asking here. Sure it might not be cute, but it’s cheap and honestly the cute factor is just an excuse to slap the pink tax on.
It is so important to me that you guys know this is just a TENS unit. Don’t go paying twice or three times the amount just because its little blue and has purple flowers. Like you can slap some flowers on your electrode pads if you need to.
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Yes, this is practically a TENS unit; and despite these TENS unit being around for many years now, many still don’t know about them and their uses/benefits!
They are not only great for menstrual cramps, they are also great for dealing with chronic pain, stress, muscle soreness/aches, etc! You should be able to find a TENS unit at your local pharmacy for around a price mark of $30, or even online for 20 or so dollars on amazon :~)
Lovelies, per their own page, it’s going to retail at $149 USD when it comes out in October 2016.
A thirty second Google search found a generic TENS Unit at CVS pharmacy for… Dun da dun! $30 USD. Available *gasp* now.
Please, for the love of little green monkeys, do not pay 5x market value for the pink tax when you’re not even going to be looking at the thing when it’s in use!
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I never knew this, this will help so much omg
Does this work for ovary cyst pain?
Speaking as someone with PCOS who uses my TENS unit for exactly that kind of pain, yes indeedy-doo!
Also they’re available at Walmart too. Pharmacy section, either with the Tylenol and Advil or by the braces and supports.
I always buy my TENS stuff from tenspros.com and they have good sales pretty often
man, something i’ve noticed is that people really, really love to talk about bi people as if the only bisexuals that exist are bi women. and it’s really offputting, because bi men are already ostracized enough as it is.
hell, the lack of resources for multisexual men is so large that there’s a large percentage of men that…never even realize they’re bi/pan. they live their entire lives feeling isolated and confused about their identity and who they are due to a lack of education, a lack of information, a lack of resources.
i never, ever see posts and resources and kind words for my bi brothers, and that needs to change. the bisexual community is the largest out of the lgbt community. we need to stand up for each other, for every single one of us. bi men exist, bi enbies exist. please actively work harder to be more inclusive, for your bi siblings’ sake.
Did you know that modern C sections were invented by African women— centuries before they were standard elsewhere?
Midwives and surgeons living around Lake Tanganyika and Lake Victoria perfected the procedure hundreds of years ago. When a baby couldn’t be delivered vaginally, these healers sedated the laboring mother using large amounts of banana wine. They tied the mother to the bed for safety, sterilized a knife using heat, and made the incision, acting quickly as a team to prevent excessive blood loss or the accidental cutting of other organs. The combination of sterile, sharp equipment and sedation made the procedure surprisingly calm and comfortable for the mother.
After the baby was delivered, antiseptic tinctures and salves were used to clean the area and stitches were applied. Women rarely developed infections, shock, or excessive blood loss after a cesarean section and the most common problem reported was that it took longer for the mother’s milk to come in (an issue that was solved with friends and relatives who would nurse the baby instead).
In Uganda, C sections were normally performed by a team of male healers, but in Tanzania and DRC, they were typically done by female midwives.
The majority of women and babies survived this, and when questioned about it by European colonists in the mid-1800s, many people in Uganda and Tanzania indicated that the procedure had been performed routinely since time immemorial.
This was at a time when Europeans had only barely started to figure out that they should wash their hands before performing surgery, when nearly half of European and US women died in childbirth, and when nearly 100% of European women died if a C section was performed.
Detailed explanations of Ugandan C-sections were published globally in scholarly journals by the 1880s and helped the rest of the world learn how to save mothers and babies with minimal complications.
So if you’re one of the people who wouldn’t be alive today without a C-section, you have Ugandan surgeons and Tanzanian and Congolese midwives to thank for their contributions to medical science.
Wow. I wish they would teach things like this is school.
America in particular (Europe’s slightly better, but not much) only seems to remember Africa exists when it’s being visited by one of the four horsemen. Which is really sad. It’s an entire continent with a rich history, people.
