I get massive menstrual cramps, what to do to relieve the pain?!
Question: During my eight red days half of them im on pills. I know its not healthy and I grow dependence on them. Is there anything else besides pills I could do to relieve the pain? I've missed two days of shool and I'm afraid I might get behind in my classes. Anything else, besides pills.
Answers: During my eight red days half of them im on pills. I know its not healthy and I grow dependence on them. Is there anything else besides pills I could do to relieve the pain? I've missed two days of shool and I'm afraid I might get behind in my classes. Anything else, besides pills.
You might find relief by starting a regular exercise routine (it helps your body manage pain better), take vitamins - Zinc, calcium, and B vitamins have found to be helpful, a source of heat (heating pad, hot water bottle, etc) to ease cramps, etc. There's a lot of suggested remedies online. Pain relievers without codeine shouldn't get you hooked, so they should still help when you need it.
There is the option of going on birth control, if you aren't already on it. It should regulate your periods and lessen the cramps. While that does put you on pills, it may be a better alternative that debilitating cramps, and you won't develop a dependency on hormones.
And more importantly, if you haven't already, go to your doctor or gynecologist and make sure you have nothing that's making your cramps worse. You'll want to rule out anything like ovarian cysts or endometriosis before starting to focus on treating just the bad cramps. Make sure that's what they really are first.
i always lay on the couch with a heat pad on my lower stomach.. put in a movie and before you know it poof they're gone :) works for me every time! :) hope i helped
Thermacare makes heating patches that you can use to help relieve the pain and still go to school. Also, exercise and cutting back on caffeine/chocolate is supposed to help.
I had a friend who got terrible cramps -made her faint in the hallway in school! This doesn't help you now but they will probably get better after you have a baby. Maybe you should think about using birth control. It would actually keep you from having your cycle. You would still have a time when you bleed but it wouldn't be your regular period and your cramps would disappear or be much less intense.
Other than that a heating pad on your back and/or front helps. But, I never really found anything other than ibuprofen that took away the cramps...well, other than having babies. That's pretty much taken care of it for me.
Masturbate to orgasm. I know that sounds kinda crazy, and probably the last thing you want to do when you have awful cramps, but it gets the blood flowing so much more than a Midol.