I get realllyyyy bad cramps during my
period. Like i want to cry or roll ina
ball and die. I once had to go home from
school cuz i cudnt even sit walk or
anything. Should i be worried about this?
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Happiness03
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Posted: 12-23-07 18:06pm
How long has this been happening? I would
call your doctor. Pains that intense are
not normal. I am sorry to hear that. Are
you currently on the pill?
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Tylanas
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Posted: 12-23-07 20:15pm
I had cramps like that from about age 16
until age 20. If you've only stayed home
once then you're getting it easy. Thrown
up yet?
I experienced painful periods as well.
Keys to survival:
1. Take pamprin (trust me, pamprin or
maybe midol. Asprin is weak!) the MOMENT
you feel cramps coming on. The longer you
wait, the longer you will be in pain. I
heard of a girl whose mom wouldn't buy her
pamprin because her mother didn't have
painful periods and didn't know how
painful they could be so she didn't
believe her daughter.
2. Use a heating pad on your lower stomach
until the cramps subside.
3. DO NOT curl up into a ball. Believe me,
I know the urge is strong. However, doing
so actually increases the severity and
duration of each and every cramp and
decreases the relief period between them.
Doing all of this should help make the
cramps bearable when you do get them. But
these are short-term solutions. For a long
term "cure", I suggest...
Birth control. There are multiple uses for
birth control and one of these uses is
cramp relief! I went from someone who HAD
to take pamprin immediately or turn into a
writhing, puking mass for hours, into
someone who doesn't need to take pamprin
at all - ever!! I now have barely mild
cramps. Maybe some wimpy girls would take
pamprin, but for sufferers like us, mild
cramping is like a sneeze.
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Flurries in the air
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Joined: 07 Nov 2007 Posts: 388 Location: Chicago
Posted: 12-24-07 01:12am
thank you for the advice! I took like 4
tylenols today they kinda helped. I am
trying to get my mom to let me take birth
control but she thinks its for the wrong
reasons =[
boooo
but thank you anywayz!!
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Maji
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Joined: 23 Sep 2007 Posts: 108 Location: ,
Posted: 12-24-07 01:21am
oooh dont take so much tylenol.
sure it's helpful, but too much of it and
its fatal.
not even kidding.
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Tylanas
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Posted: 12-24-07 09:30am
Yeah, that's why you MUST go get some
Pamprin or Midol. DEMAND this. It's safer
for you AND it works. It reduces cramping,
bloating and some of the moodiness. Some
women even take it starting a few days
before their period to reduce the symptoms
of PMS.
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mominashoe
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Posted: 12-24-07 09:57am
I take Aleve liquigels (ibuprohen)....it
really helps with muscle pains, including
period pains. After I have the baby I'm
going to try midol and pamprin. They
never worked for me when I tried them
before when I was younger, but I'm going
to give them another shot.
Exercise helps too. It's good to know
that rolling up into a ball doesn't help
because I would do that all the time. Just
get up and take a walk and that helps with
the pain. One year I started my period on
the same day that I had to run a marathon
and I didn't get a single cramp. It was
amazing and wonderful. I hated periods!!
Oh my gosh, yes I know how it feels to
have a mom that doesn't understand about
stuff like that! When I was a junior in
highschool I had to leave school because I
was so ill and I had been having
incapacitating pains and PMS every period
for a couple years. It was then that she
said sometimes people take something for
the pain. I was like WHAT??? There's
something I can take for this? It's so
terrible when you realize that something
could have been prevented and it's your
mom of all people that could have told you
and helped you out a little.
Hope you feel better.
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Flurries in the air
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Joined: 07 Nov 2007 Posts: 388 Location: Chicago
Posted: 12-24-07 13:22pm
o my mom helps me, she gives me midol,
tylenol or anything else that we have but
she just doesnt get why i wud want to go
on birth control, she thinks its cuz i
dotn wanna get pregnant. When we went to
my gynocologist cause i had cysts my gyno
suggested birth control my mom refused. It
is kinda stupid but what can u do =[
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Tylanas
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Posted: 12-24-07 14:14pm
Get it yourself from Planned Parenthood.
It's your body, and in this case you're
allowed to take bc if you want to. PP
won't tell your parents and as a student
you can get pills for free.
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