Period Pains?

Question

Does anyone have any methods to help make the pain less? other than painkillers...I've heard yoga and stretching helps, is it true? Thanks!!

Answer 1

Keep active although you probably won't feel like it. Apply heat to stomach and or back. The other good thing is using a home tens machine on the small of the back.

Answer 2

hot wheat bags (the wheat filled bags you can heat up in the microwave) or hot water bottles over the pain spots help. The wheat filled ones are particularly good as you can move the grain around to where it hurts - which for some reason helps more!!

Yoga can help tho you need to avoid some postures during your period. I find supine (some call them cervical) twists are brilliant stress relievers all round and especially at twisting out stress and pain around the tummy and lower back. There are lots of different examples on the web including http://www.yogalesson.com/abdominal/supine_twist.html

Apparently cutting down on the usual no-nos beforehand - alcohol, coffee, salt, sugar etc is also supposed to help.

Answer 3

Hot water bottle is the best if you don't want to take painkillers. A nice long soak in a bath will help too... Maybe do that first and then lie down with the hot water bottle. You'll be feeling better in no time!!

Answer 4

Good idea avoiding the pain killers your body will thank you in the long run. It is likely your hormones are slightly out of balance. Many other women have travelled this road.

http://www.ylcf.org/hormone-imbalance/06.htm

Miriam wrote her story in 1997 and revised it in 2002.

Stress --> Hormone Imbalance --> "Health Issue"

Yoga and other relaxation techniques - laughing at your favourite comedy DVD will help reduce stress.

As a preliminary do the on line hormone tests at www.hormoneprofile.com or www.johnleemd.com

If they recommend you obtain hormones please have a saliva test done see www.npis.info or www.salivatest.com. A saliva test will check out active hormones something that blood tests do not.

If a hormone is suggested by the saliva test please take the dose suggested for you. Size 10 shoes are not twice as good if you have size 5 feet.
The WHO (World Health Organisation) uses saliva tests.

A transcript of a John Lee talk - this explains why for hormones a blood test is worthless and much more
http://www.keepsmilin.com/transcriptdrlee.htm

Blood tests find hormones, but they are the ones on their way out of the body. They do not give the active hormone levels.

Search the web for "natural progesterone period" and you will find many pages read and carefully select.

There is a list of doctors at www.npis.info who are aware of the benefits of natural progesterone they may be more helpful than your GP. You are about to educate your GP :-)

Natural progesterone means natural to humans i.e. identical to that produced by the human body.

For a good explanation of how vital natural progesterone is to humans see

http://www.hormoneprofile.com/howhormoneswork.htm
and other pages on this site

After having done a saliva test any progesterone you buy must be natural progesterone USP. USP means United States Pharmacopoeia. Wild yam is that Wild Yam, the body will not convert it to progesterone.

Do not take fake progesterone/progestins manufactured by the drug companies they will be of NO benefit.

Hope this of benefit to you

Answer 5

This old lady told me to eat vegetables like cauliflower and broccolli before a period because it helps with water retention, don't know if this is true but it's cheaper than herbal and it seems to work. The curled up with a hot water bottle method works as well, best wishes

Answer 6

Cup of tea and a heating pad. You might also try to see a doctor it could be more then just a "pain". Not trying to scare you but there so many conditions out there that u might want to check for those symptoms

Answer 7

Peppermint tablets from Holland and Barrett always work for me, they relax your insides and soothe.

Alternatively, a hot water bottle pressed against the sore area or a nice hot relaxing bath.

Also, I have one of those squeezy stress balls to take my frustration out on when the pains get too much, try it, it works!! :)

Answer 8

i find that eating the night before i come on is helpful as then im full and the pains are less intense, also using a hot water bottle.

Answer 9

the best way to get rid of them is to keep moving, exercise just get on wit your day the worst thing you can do is to not be active when you have then. also another method is to put a hotwater bottle on your tummy.

Answer 10

Also, using a warm compress helps. Putting the compress on your tummy helps your tummy relax a bit.