Cramps!!!!!!?!
Question: Cramps!!!!!!!?
I've had my period for about 2 years!. I play the highest level of soccer, that I can in my age group (which means soccer 5-7 days a week)!. Every time I get my period I have really bad cramps, and it hurts to run, at soccer!. Midol helps me for a while, but the cramps recur!. It's really hard to function at both soccer and at school!. Does anyone know any tricks to get rid of cramps, without getting prescription medication!. Thanks for your help :-)Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
Over-the-counter pain relievers such as ibuprofen or naproxen sodium used around the clock as soon as you notice the first sign of your period help to reduce the severity of cramps in many women by inhibiting the release of prostaglandins!. Acetaminophen (e!.g!.-Tylenol) will help the pain but does not have the effect on the prostagladins!.
Regular physical activity often reduces cramping in some women!.
Natural progesterone may help reduce the symptoms that are causing menstrual cramps!.
Supplementing your diet with zinc and calcium has been found to reduce cramps, bloating, and related PMS symptoms!.
Herbal remedies such as Viburnum prunifolium, Scutellaria spp!., and Cimicifuga raemosa have an antispasmodic effect that may reduce some menstrual cramps!. Other useful herbs include cramp bark, squaw vine, unicorn root, bromelain, evening primrose oil, and blue cohosh!.
Try taking a warm bath and using aromatherapy or using a heating pad on your lower abdomen or back!. If you don't have a heating pad, a heating pad can be made by filling a sock with rice and heating it in the microwave!.
Taking time for yourself, relaxing, and letting those around you know that you are not feeling yourself will help by reducing the stress of your everyday life that may contribute to your menstrual cramps!.
good luck !!!!!!
take care, OK!!!Www@Answer-Health@Com
Regular physical activity often reduces cramping in some women!.
Natural progesterone may help reduce the symptoms that are causing menstrual cramps!.
Supplementing your diet with zinc and calcium has been found to reduce cramps, bloating, and related PMS symptoms!.
Herbal remedies such as Viburnum prunifolium, Scutellaria spp!., and Cimicifuga raemosa have an antispasmodic effect that may reduce some menstrual cramps!. Other useful herbs include cramp bark, squaw vine, unicorn root, bromelain, evening primrose oil, and blue cohosh!.
Try taking a warm bath and using aromatherapy or using a heating pad on your lower abdomen or back!. If you don't have a heating pad, a heating pad can be made by filling a sock with rice and heating it in the microwave!.
Taking time for yourself, relaxing, and letting those around you know that you are not feeling yourself will help by reducing the stress of your everyday life that may contribute to your menstrual cramps!.
good luck !!!!!!
take care, OK!!!Www@Answer-Health@Com
Moderate exercise, drink plenty of water, and reduce the amount of foods you eat before your period that contain salt, sugar, and chilli!. As well, you can take St John's Wart at the beginning of your pms (one week before your period, up to the middle or end of your period)!. This will help with the ease of bleeding, reduce blood clots, and relax any tension in your body!. The most important thing I found is wearing pads or tampons that are not bleached!. Manufacturers of feminine products know that bleach helps to induce bleeding!. The more we bleed, the more products we purchase -- it's terrible (and poisonous), but true!. I only use unbleached pads (Naturacare) and it has help immensely! Also, take advil (ibuprofen or your choice of pain killer) as soon as you start to feel any pain!. I find that if my pain is or is going to be really bad, I walk it off for about 15 minutes (as soon as I get cramps or just after, and after taking some pain killers, and have put a hot water bottle on my lower back)!.
By watching what I eat a few days before my period, taking St John's Wart as soon as my pms starts, and wearing unbleached pads has helped me from having extreme cramps that would sometimes send me to the hospital (fainting, extreme pain) to having what I can see other people have described as a "normal" period/cramps!
Good luck :)Www@Answer-Health@Com
By watching what I eat a few days before my period, taking St John's Wart as soon as my pms starts, and wearing unbleached pads has helped me from having extreme cramps that would sometimes send me to the hospital (fainting, extreme pain) to having what I can see other people have described as a "normal" period/cramps!
Good luck :)Www@Answer-Health@Com
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try some nice hot tea, or the heating pad, playing soccer and keeping active should help also
try midol or another type of period pain reliever!. http://www!.cvs!.com/CVSApp/catalog/shop_p!.!.!.
nice hot bath at the end of the day!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
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try some nice hot tea, or the heating pad, playing soccer and keeping active should help also
try midol or another type of period pain reliever!. http://www!.cvs!.com/CVSApp/catalog/shop_p!.!.!.
nice hot bath at the end of the day!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
If you're at school, go to the nurse, get tylenol, lay on your tummy with a heating pad!. try really hard to go to sleep for about thirty minutes!. It works!. It should take care of your cramps for the rest of the day!. Also you can eat lots of yogurt!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Mine usually goes away after a while and if it doesn't i stretch where ever the cramp is and breathe evenly!.!.that helps me with my period crampsWww@Answer-Health@Com
i use midol and i exercise alotWww@Answer-Health@Com
A heating pad sometimes helps!. Or soaking in a tub of hot water!. Sometimes the doc with put u on BC if it's really bad!.Www@Answer-Health@Com