Anyone else? (Ladies only plz :) )

Shrelana
Shrelana Posts: 248 Member
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Anyone else have menstrual cramps that are pretty much crippling (WITH pain meds)? What do you do about it, what helps???

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  • Shes1CraftyMama
    Shes1CraftyMama Posts: 152 Member
    HEATING PADS!!! This and I started taking camu-camu and royal macca. Get them at a vitamin health store if interested. These two helped TONS. The heating pads helped when the cramps came but the other two supplements made it so I very rarely get them anymore...good luck!!!
  • StyxxandStones
    StyxxandStones Posts: 120
    I had my dr. rip out my uterus. That helped.
  • CoffeeNBooze
    CoffeeNBooze Posts: 966 Member
    I had my dr. rip out my uterus. That helped.


    yeah me too, worked wonders
  • Shrelana
    Shrelana Posts: 248 Member
    I had my dr. rip out my uterus. That helped.


    yeah me too, worked wonders

    Yea...I kinda want to have kids yet :P
  • Shrelana
    Shrelana Posts: 248 Member
    HEATING PADS!!! This and I started taking camu-camu and royal macca. Get them at a vitamin health store if interested. These two helped TONS. The heating pads helped when the cramps came but the other two supplements made it so I very rarely get them anymore...good luck!!!

    I may try the camu camu and royal macca :) I know right now I'm on the pill and it shortens my period to 3 days instead of 5 (used to be I'd be in bed for 7 days - one before and after and then the entire period because I simply could NOT move). Now it's usually 1 to 2 days of it hurts to even think about moving....doesn't quite cut it when you work full time.
  • Shannon2714
    Shannon2714 Posts: 843 Member
    How old are you? I dealt with this for years and ended up being diagnosed with endometriosis....sucks like h*ll.
  • Louisianababy93
    Louisianababy93 Posts: 1,709 Member
    I take long hot bubble baths!
  • Shrelana
    Shrelana Posts: 248 Member
    How old are you? I dealt with this for years and ended up being diagnosed with endometriosis....sucks like h*ll.

    27 - when I was in high school, I would spend 7 days on average in bed...the worst times were up to 2 weeks
  • Shannon2714
    Shannon2714 Posts: 843 Member
    How old are you? I dealt with this for years and ended up being diagnosed with endometriosis....sucks like h*ll.

    27 - when I was in high school, I would spend 7 days on average in bed...the worst times were up to 2 weeks


    Yup...that was me. I'd talk to your gyn.
  • Shrelana
    Shrelana Posts: 248 Member
    Exercise is the best thing you can do. If you don't move it will get worse and worse.

    That's the thing...I have been doing the gym thing for 8 weeks now (this is my second period since starting), last month, I went to the gym on my bad day, and paid for it by ending up curled up in a ball on my couch for 3 hours...kinda makes me scared to work out when I'm having the cramps...
  • Shrelana
    Shrelana Posts: 248 Member
    How old are you? I dealt with this for years and ended up being diagnosed with endometriosis....sucks like h*ll.

    27 - when I was in high school, I would spend 7 days on average in bed...the worst times were up to 2 weeks


    Yup...that was me. I'd talk to your gyn.

    Have an appt in January, I can talk to her then...
  • Shannon2714
    Shannon2714 Posts: 843 Member
    How old are you? I dealt with this for years and ended up being diagnosed with endometriosis....sucks like h*ll.

    27 - when I was in high school, I would spend 7 days on average in bed...the worst times were up to 2 weeks


    Yup...that was me. I'd talk to your gyn.

    Have an appt in January, I can talk to her then...


    Good luck!
  • marywilsoncline
    marywilsoncline Posts: 301 Member
    I don't have periods anymore since I've lost weight , Big SMILE:bigsmile:
  • Shrelana
    Shrelana Posts: 248 Member
    How old are you? I dealt with this for years and ended up being diagnosed with endometriosis....sucks like h*ll.

    27 - when I was in high school, I would spend 7 days on average in bed...the worst times were up to 2 weeks


    Yup...that was me. I'd talk to your gyn.

    Have an appt in January, I can talk to her then...


    Good luck!

    Thanks
  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    I usually try to sleep through it. Benadryl and pain meds.
  • mjhedgehog
    mjhedgehog Posts: 249 Member
    I curl up into the fetal position and pray for them to go away. :cry:
  • ekkand
    ekkand Posts: 592 Member
    I take long hot bubble baths!
  • brevislux
    brevislux Posts: 1,093 Member
    Personally I hardly have any cramps... You can use birth control. Or get a hot water bottle to lay on your stomach. Or even exercise, people say it helps.
  • s_wicked
    s_wicked Posts: 28 Member
    I had bad cramps. They didn't even compare with labor pains. When I was younger, I would lay in the tub and position the shower head so that the hot water was massaging my stomach. Now, I have a Mirena (IUD). It stopped my periods. GYN inserts once every five years. It was my only option to try to control my periods which had gotten to be 10 days long and sometimes 2x a month. I have reactions to anything with estrogen ( the pill shut down my liver, and dropped my potassium level). It's been almost 10 years now and i'm loving it!!!
  • SunnyAndrsn
    SunnyAndrsn Posts: 369 Member
    Exercise is the best thing you can do. If you don't move it will get worse and worse.

    Agreed. It's hard to do, but it helps so much. I have a lot of pain now, I didn't when I was younger. I'd love to get it ripped out, but not yet.
  • kimosabe1
    kimosabe1 Posts: 2,467 Member
    mine suck complete *kitten* and I hit the gym everyday for like 2 hours when I'm on it. That helps because I'm real hungry on it also......

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