AF cramps starting with exercise?

What are AF cramps? Sorry if this a silly question

Well, I'm past the age of AF happening, but exercise exacerbates my chronic migraines and has been giving me fits the past three months. I had previously had them under control somewhat and would exercise just fine, even if I had a mild migraine. Now? If I try to work out and have one of those simmering just beneath the surface headaches? Forget it. It will turn into a full-blown need the rescue injections deal.

I recently went through an intervention protocol to stop this nonsense and it had no effect. I'm at a loss with the whole thing, to be honest.

As for you, OP, could you be perimenopausal? All sorts of interesting things start to happen around that time of the month when it gets to that certain time of life.

Have you had a check up lately with GYNO?

Francl27 wrote: »

Well I don't think so, I'm 36, and nobody in my family had menopause before 50. I just notice it now I guess because I didn't use to exercise before, lol.

Peri can start waaaaaaaaaaaaaay before actual menopause. We had trouble conceiving, so I had lots of bloodwork done. I was diagnosed perimenopausal at 30!!! I still have to get to May before I can say I'm officially menopausal, and I'm 52. That's 22 years that I've been messing with hot flashes and my periods being weird. Granted that I'm outside of the norm, but there ya go! (BTW, I had 2 kids during that time.)

What does AF stand for, though?

Wiseandcurious wrote: »

Forgive me for saying this outright, and if it is a rude word in the English language I will edit it, but why is it that people never say e.g. "menses" or "menstruation" here?! In my country (of origin) hardly anyone uses euphemisms for that! It gives me a horrible impression that women are somehow considered dirty every time I see a new one. It's a big pet peeve but if someone can explain the linguistic/cultural reasoning may be I can make peace with it? Not a native speaker obviously. Thank you!

Menses and Menstruation aren't really used colloquially in English. Most women call it their period.

Francl27 wrote: »

Wiseandcurious wrote: »

Forgive me for saying this outright, and if it is a rude word in the English language I will edit it, but why is it that people never say e.g. "menses" or "menstruation" here?! In my country (of origin) hardly anyone uses euphemisms for that! It gives me a horrible impression that women are somehow considered dirty every time I see a new one. It's a big pet peeve but if someone can explain the linguistic/cultural reasoning may be I can make peace with it? Not a native speaker obviously. Thank you!

I don't know. I'm not a native American either. I just picked up on the words others have been using I guess (and apparently 'AF' isn't 'in' anymore either, lol).

I am guessing AF means "Aunt Flo" but that was never used in my age group. We always just called it our periods. Menses and menstruation just sound so scientific so nobody used them except in health class. I am a 58 year old American, and I never heard many of the euphemisms people seem to have grown up with. I think they are more of a family thing than a cultural thing across the board.

Also, I started getting my first perimenopause symptoms in my mid to late 30's and didn't actually hit full menopause until 52. I was so looking forward to menopause that I was really disappointed that it took so long and celebrated when it happened! Now I am in that perfect window of time where I am too old to need sanitary protection but too young to need incontinence protection. That is one aisle of the store I never go down!

I just take a couple of Aleve prior, if I can remember. I usually don't though and just deal with it until I get home and can take something if cramps haven't subsided. Vigorous exercise made it worse so I would advise doing moderate to low intensity for those days. I echo the advice to schedule a doctor's appt. since you're within the 1-2 yr timeframe for a check-up, anyway.

I have endometriosis. Although the pain and other symptoms have diminished quite a bit on my eating plan, it's not consistent. It's no fun feeling bad when you are trying to improve your health!

Wiseandcurious wrote: »

Forgive me for saying this outright, and if it is a rude word in the English language I will edit it, but why is it that people never say e.g. "menses" or "menstruation" here?! In my country (of origin) hardly anyone uses euphemisms for that! It gives me a horrible impression that women are somehow considered dirty every time I see a new one. It's a big pet peeve but if someone can explain the linguistic/cultural reasoning may be I can make peace with it? Not a native speaker obviously. Thank you!

In the past some people didn't think it was okay to talk about. Woman weren't supposed to have messy bodily functions and if they did it was supposed to be secret. Some people still act like women are dirty for menstruating. Some women/girls are very embarrased about it or are just using the term that is common to their peers or family group.
I use the term period. I feel weird calling it anything else.

To the op- I don't get cramping before my period from exercise. I did notice that I got much worse cramps/heavier flow during my period when I did particular exercises so I don't do those during that week.

Thank you Lounmoun and Mamapeach, period it is then! It does resolve one frustration for me and lets me use a term acceptable both for myself and native speakers I may be talking to, so it really does help me.

rabbitjb wrote: »

Perimenopause symptoms can start 10-15 years before menopause

This is the case in my family, grandmother in the 30s, my mother about 36-37, I am already getting the first hints of weirdness at 38. In any case one year is how often one schedules gyn. exams, no? may be it varies by country? I would check with a doctor if it bothers you.