Exercise when you have your period

Iv had bad periods since my first, always EXTREMLY painful lol. I have a prescription for pain med for my back at the moment that hels and i take 2 panadol and 2 nurofen aswell. The problem i have is that i get it sometimes for 3 weeks at a time, others a day or 2.
Exercising during that time is always better, even if its just a 10 min walk down the road, it gets everything pumping better and i find it helps with some of the pain.

Exercise sounds like the most unappealing thing in the world when you're suffering from debilitating cramps, but it's actually the best pain reliever I've found. You probably will be too dizzy, nauseated, and faint to do a normal workout, but taking a walk or doing light housecleaning does wonders. Just keep reminding yourself that the sooner you start moving the sooner you'll feel better.

I totally agree! Just do something, maybe not your normal workout, but something light to keep yourself moving. I also have terrible cramps and take prescription strength Ibuprofen and I also use a ThermaCare abdominal heat wrap - they are WONDERFUL. You can get them in your drugstore in the hot/cold pain relief section.

So I’ve been going to the gym quite religiously except when I have my period. During three weeks I build a rhythm and by the third week I feel great and then that one week it’s surprising that I can even get out of bed. The week after I find it really hard to restart exercising again, especially after a week of uncontrollable binge eating. I hurt all week and my only consolation is yummy treats.
Does anyone have ways to deal with it?

I know exactly how you feel! I'm always exhausted the week of my period! Like I'm talking about exhausted to the point where I'll get a full nights sleep and be falling asleep during the day. I could sleep all day during TOM.

I am really not trying to be mean but suck it up and go to the gym. We are women in the 21st century and we aren't sent to the red tent. It's just a little annoyance once a month. It will actually help you feel better.

I agree suck it up!!! go gym and do it u will find it more of a struggle but once u get in to it will be ok.
and exercise can actually help the pain .

What if I told you that it has hit me WHILE I was at the gym, walking on a treadmill? :-p I barely made it to the locker room before I had to start crawling.
Or during a championship basketball game in high school while I was point guard?
During adolescence I would attempt to knock myself out.
Exercise only applies to moderate cramping, and for me, second day cramping. For the sake of us few who are legitimately in h---, please understand. (In case you happen to see one of us in a locker room, or by the side of the road after collapsing during a bike ride) One day I might need your help, as much as I wish I could handle it on my own.
My gynecologist, BTW, concluded that I produce too much of the hormone that induces cramping. She believes my body actually thinks I'm giving birth, in a way. Her only solution was birth control or take prescription strength ibuprofen daily. Neither of which, I was willing to risk. I had exploratory surgery to check for endometriosis during an appendectomy. I don't have it.
I'm not offended, I just want people to be aware of this nasty form of cramping that some women face.


I'd also add that it has usually been a really humiliating, vulnerable, and sometimes dangerous experience. I can't even predict the days it happens and there is a less than twenty minute window of time during which taking the meds will even be effective at mitigating the worst of it.