Girls/women?

Question

Why is it some women have SUCH painful periods?
Why?
Is there anything i can do by my self to stop the pain?

How do you deal with it when you have an important interview?

Thanks Beanie....but isn't it dangerous to use birth control pills?

Answer 1

I don't know why - but I know that there are girls who have it bad, and girls who don't, and the ones who don't usually can't sympathize at all! There's no "sucking it up" when your whole back and stomach cramp up, your legs start to shake, you start gagging and retching from the pain, and black out if you try to stand up! That was my monthly experience until I started birth control pills (my doctor recommended them after making sure nothing was physically wrong with me). Birth control helped alot. I also have to take prescription-strength Advil. Even with both those things, I still get cramps that I would rate about a 5 on a scale of one to ten - bad enough to be distracting, but I can deal with them. I've broken my tailbone and would only rate that about a 6, just to give you an idea of the scale.

If you have an important interview, maybe you can ask your doctor for hormone pills that might throw your period off so it doesn't come when you have the interview.

Keep your chin up, don't listen to any women who tell you to "get over it, it's part of being a woman", and talk to your doctor!

Answer 2

Go to the doctors and ask for help with your painful periods, its not fair suffering like you are, maybe you could ask your doctor for a referral to a gynaecologist about the pain you could have a simple underlying gynaecological problem that is causing you so much pain each month, have you tried Paramol tablets, they are really good pain killers that you can buy at any pharmacy, they are more expensive than normal pain killers but worth the extra money and should hopefully get you through your interview and the time it takes to get to the doctors, good luck hope this of some help and that you get the job/promotion at your interview.

Answer 3

i have date from 1990 where Kinsey Institute published report on sexual health, and they wrote that it is not dangerouf for you as long as you do not do breaks, what means you take pills till the time you want have kids, also some doctors recommend to wait one month and other even one year before having kids, important thing is to use new and what it means more expensive pills, which have less hormnoes and by this have minimal risk, if any, of causing problems, ofcourse if you smoke and take pills there is risk and big one, i dont remember about alcohol,
you should go to gyn. and ask him/her to do you proper test and pick right pills for you, the best go to two, if both will pick the same it means its the right one.

Answer 4

my daughter has suffered very painful and heavy periods since she was 12, she takes ponstan which the dr prescribes 4 her, she was advised to go on the pill to help with the pain and the heavy periods, talk to ur dr or go to a well women clinic they will b able to advise u btr, everyone is different in thier needs for these problems, good luck

Answer 5

I used to get really bad pains, so much so i could hardly move sometimes. Since going on the pill it has much improved. I used to find gentle exercise used to relieve a lot of it and a hot water bottle on my tummy used to help too

Nice bar of chocolate didn't go a miss either!! :O)

Answer 6

I take motrin for the pain ... but it's usually worse if you have a tipped uterus, there is no remedy for it, If they are too intense you can get on birth control they have helped people i know control the lenghth and pain of their periods

Answer 7

you can use the pill and no not dangerous at all also changing what you eat can do this but once in while its cause your having a good clean out take paracetamol and codeine from chemist hot bath hot water bottle big bar of chocolate

Answer 8

When have a bad period pain i just either take some paracetamol or a nice hot water bottle on my tummy works wonders

Answer 9

plain old hot water bottle-this eases the pain-you can also buy a mini tens machine from your chemist now that you wear to control the pain- being a woman is a pile of dog doo- good luck x

Answer 10

the 'pill' comes in a variation of 'formats'
i was put on pill at 14 as suffered from chronic pains
they soon killd most of the pain & i highly recommend it