Forum Miss Bimbo, fashion community / How bad are your cramps? - How bad is your menstration cramps?

i didn't get cramps until i started birth control, and they were absolutely horrible, i couldnt move any part of my lower body without a jab to my midsection

you know those icy-hot brand patches they make for back pain that you just stick on to your back, they're adhesive?
they do make ones for menstrual cramps, but the back ones are bigger and spread the heat out more, and work better for me
anyway i use the back ones and they stay hot for hours, and it eases the pain a bit. that with some pain killers and some really salty chips, and im good to go for a bit.

Mine used to be pretty bad (I used to take a day off school each month :S) but have definitely been better since I've been on the pill, though my doctor seems to think I shouldn't get cramps at all, well I dang well do, they're just not quite so bad. And now my period is usually about 5 days instead of the 7 or 8 it used to be.

Bad but usually only for the first day. I've figured out how to avoid by taking medication before the pain begins - if that's successful it's slightly better. But I have had those days when I can barely move, even fainted.

Nemaine wrote:

Typhani wrote:

Mine used to be pretty bad (I used to take a day off school each month :S) but have definitely been better since I've been on the pill, though my doctor seems to think I shouldn't get cramps at all, well I dang well do, they're just not quite so bad. And now my period is usually about 5 days instead of the 7 or 8 it used to be.

Is he male :3

I remember a few years back there was some doc coming on air everywehere telling people that PMS was "all in the mind"

Really.  Care to explain why I fainted from pain every month until I got on the pill?

If only every male had one actual period.....

I used to faint too, the pain was so baaaaaad. Now it only gets really bad when I haven't had a sugar overload xD
You name the painkiller, I had it =/
I used to get migranes too. Strange that they also stopped when I went on the pill :s

Im a combination; i get a wave of VERY bad ones that can last about 2 hours, after that, im fine.

I'm the put-me-out-of-my-misery-type, sometimes it gets so bad it feels like I can't even walk. :s And nothing really helps either.

I used to get cramps really bad they used to have me nearly in tears then I grew to blank the pain alittle and take some anadin which killed the pain. Once I gave birth to my son I stopped suffering with cramps can only hope it stays that way even after the 2nd child is born.

I never used to get them at all, then after a few years I would get them occassionally.
for the first year after I had my son though, I would get them bad, and also really moody and irritable before my period which has never happened in the past. Hormone overload? Any way, they're back to normal now, with no cramps. I have weird periods though. My last lot....I had my period light for about 3 days and then 2 weeks later had a normal one.

Oh my gosh, they're horrible. I switched birth controls (which I got on to help the cramps in the first place, but they were messing with me in other ways), and since I did, I dread it. I have to curl up on my bed with some midol, an icy-hot patch and some chocolate. My husband knows better than to make me angry when I'm cramping, lol.

I need to switch again, and I plan to when I go to the doctor in a couple of weeks.

I don't get them at all! Whoo! I just get a really bad backache the first day.

They hurt enough for me to take 2 midol. So...pretty bad but not so much that I'm crying or anything.

It depends what overy (sp?) they come from, i always know when im having a heavy period and when its the left one, because they are so painful i cant talk, but i always know when im having a light one and from the right, because i cant feel them until i lay down .. which sucks when im tired