Anyone had horrible cramping episodes like this ....?!
Question:
Anyone had horrible cramping episodes like this ....?
Has anyone ever experienced something like this? My sisters and I, and even my mom when she was younger all experienced really horrible cramps at period time. It was always right when we started and the cramps would very quickly escalate into nausea, dizziness, and cold sweats. We would wind up laying on the floor unable to get up just writhing in pain and most of the time we would eventually vomit...and things would being to subside a little, and then would be painful for a little longer and then slowly become bearable again. Then usually I'd just sleep a couple hours and not have much cramping for the remainder of the period. The whole ordeal lasts maybe like 3 hours or so (even thought it feels like forever!) and sometimes my hands would be numb and my whole body just freaks out! Now it only happens like every few cycles, but when I was a teenager it was like every time! Only thing doctors ever did was give us stronger advil....
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That's exactly what I suffered for for years when I was younger. My doc diagnosed me with Dysmennorhea and put me on birth control so the hormones could make my symptoms better.