Our hosts try a period cramp simulator LIVE on air

[Music] all right everybody uh this is about to make some bt history i'll tell you that right now the one million canadians suffer from endometriosis and 37.9 percent of women have reported the need to miss school or work due to period pain it is often not taken seriously here to tell us more is ceo and co-founder of some days max perry good morning lux how are you good morning i'm very excited to be here okay so i have never seen devo they're laughing waiting to see what's about to happen we are wearing period simulators right now we're going to test them out a little bit but before we do all joking aside because everyone said oh she must be on her period it must be that time of the month how many times have we heard that tell us about the problem in that narrative the problem with that narrative is that period pain is not normal and the like repeated dismissal and invalidation of our pain causes has a lot of negative repercussions for those of us that suffer with it like long time to a diagnosis for endometriosis it took me 15 years um teachers not understanding why we have to miss school our boss is not understanding why we have to call in sick to work so what does the simulator do what is the intention so the simulator essentially makes your abdomen contract the same thing that happens when you have menstrual cramps and the intention is to bring people into the conversation that otherwise might maybe not participate literally walking in our shoes so we're gonna do it right now you say for most people it starts to kick in at what like two three because it goes up to ten yes so we're sam sam's over here come on over so before we get going d i just because i have a feeling this is gonna go off the rails pretty quickly yes in terms of us i want to get the information out there where where can people get a hold of this and how many like how many in circulation like how is this done so they're not so this is our proprietary one that we don't share with other people but it's very similar to a tens machine this one is just a slight iteration that simulates the actual like contraction feeling so most tens machines are a little bit more rapid so it might be a little bit different so i just felt it i'm gonna say that was that was a mild cramp and let's remember like how often times do we women sam come to work to me that's very mild and we are dealing with you're at level two right now yeah honestly that's very light for me because i too was diagnosed with endometriosis but not officially through biopsy just in terms of all my issues but uh for me that's nothing this is you're fine we generally say how about a five is like the average period nothing for me okay keep going take it off you're at level three keep going yeah where are you at right now yeah spinal tap eleven is there another one that hurts it hurts okay we're ready i'll turn you off because it's all for you now it you feel it but well that was something yeah you didn't even it's like nothing happened okay it didn't flinch okay before we get going i want to listen we're all friends here yeah i showed you this morning big deal i didn't so this is the deal it's down here on on kim i don't know where you want to get this or not it's working so there's two of these on either side devil's got the same thing dina's got the same thing they're sticky on the inside they're pretty strong they've stayed there through multiple breaks so they're they're in a state right now for me yeah so you're going to say i feel like mine might be a little bit too loud let's set it up again lux is going to control you're are you delaying he's stopped [Laughter] we only have this many people standing around the studio when we have food segments that's right hold on and ryan reynolds yeah okay no more jokes concentrated i'm not kidding on your breeze here so let's start at one i always start at a three or four days it's actually like a gentle massage the one i'm not gonna lie because it's just weird if i do this by the time as long as it's making contact okay so so this is essentially just stimulating your nerves a little bit so we're not quite to the muscle yeah we're deep enough yet okay so i'm gonna walk you to three so generally we walk pretty quickly up to a five which is a standard crayon feeling uh yeah it feels like it's this is a four yes okay let's see let's hold on four four seconds no this isn't the indy 500. i feel like there's it's a it's it's uncomfortable but it's not painful yet yeah the feeling i'm getting it's irritating so it's irritating and then there's an important context because i'm going to walk you to a five so period should not hurt that you should be able to feel them there's a sensation of that contraction but it's not painful that's right so if it's painful something else is going on like you have endometriosis or something sometimes it is disabling and people need to stay home all day it is a pain that discomfort cannot fuel the discomfort okay i believe we've gone to a melanie's not at the desk oh she is yeah she's not ready for news so we're at a six right now yeah how are you feeling i feel uncomfortable but i feel okay like i told it yeah like i don't know if i stood up right now in this moment yeah i it would be weird well let's see you stand up okay i'll stay here i'll do it i'll stand up with you the thing about period pain is that you have to continue about your life that's right because people don't care that's right which is what we're trying to know [Laughter] try doing a moving in the morning with this pain been there done that exactly i'm going to sit down okay i'll stay standing this is continuing can i make a request yes can you is this an eight now no it's not an eight yes if we go up another level give us a one two three seven okay three [Music] oh yeah now it's kicking it comes in like a wave essentially so it might feel a little relieved i'm like oh that's nice right now i'm nice yeah yeah and then whoa there it goes whoa your yeah my eggs is a little too long so you had the equator and you went to chile yeah yeah is that what happened yeah yeah okay oh this is nine no it's not i'm gonna walk three two one nine now the joy in this room are you calling in sick to work at this level are you able to work i'm gone for the rest of august my legs are quivering are you willing to go to ten no no not for all the people for lucy your wife what you just experienced she takes me anywhere like my whole body's complexities we need you all okay i'll do a tent for a second okay for a second we literally we're at his head have we been this is so bad it's like watching the leafs in the first round come here i got you [Applause] okay but this hit right here oh okay okay okay coming up on youtube all right hold on for more information on this get some days done this was so important i know we're laughing it's nothing comical but it's true it's our lives this is the only way you can can i say something can i say something women are better than men [Applause] i i can barely say anything but yes i understand we knew that already i've been out of ten thank you so much

Channel: Breakfast Television

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Length: 9min 26sec (566 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 04 2022