menstrual cramps

I hate PMS. I do have problems and always end up using a heating pad and laying down and taking a few Advil to help. NOthing else works for me but Ibuprofen type pills. Tylenol doesn't help me at all. But all we can do is try to get comfortable as possible because if your not it can and will be worse for you. Maybe you should go to a doctor since you had a abnormal pains with your period. I had a shirt once that said I suffer from PMS! which the PMS! was huge and under the letters in smaller print it read P= putting up with M=Men's S=Shi.t!. I always liked that shirt it got a few laughs..

A hot bath always helps me if it's really bad. Otherwise a heat pad. I used to be incapacitated for a day every month, but since I had a baby, I haven't had any period pain. I'd recommend trying other things first though, as having a baby is a rather expensive cure with a lot of side effects ;)

I've had some painful menstrual cramping before, but I've never taken anything for the pain. After a few hours the pain usually subsides for me. I don't like relying medications for something like that, but that's just me. Now if I was sick with a fever, I would take my medicine like a good girl. LOL One thing I noticed was that if I eat junk food a day or so before my period is due I would cramp up terribly. So now I try my best to avoid such foods before my period is due. I haven't had any horrible cramps in a few years now.

I had my first menstrual period when I was about eleven or twelve years old. Admittedly, I used to feel uneasy and had dysmenorrhea whenever I go through it. But I refrain from taking any medicines as I believe that somehow, it will have an effect on my body or to my resistance to illnesses now or in the future. There was even an instance when I was in my fifth grade where I really had a difficult experience because of this. Some of my cousins came here in the city to visit us. Summer vacation had just started. And on one of those days, we had a 'cold refreshments splurge', including ice cream, ice candy (hardened shake in a plastic container), and citrus fruits. I wasn't able to calculate that I was about to have my monthly period then. I kept on eating cold foods and sour fruits (guava in particular) and as a result, my stomach ached and ached. All throughout the summer, I wasn't able to enjoy myself because I was practically in bed. I even thought that I will not be able to attend school the following school year, which was my sixth grade. After almost a month of taking medicines given by the doctor, I got well but I definitely became skinny. I spent the remaining month of the summer getting my healthy body then. I recall the doctor telling me that a guava is more sour than calamansi and my body was sensitive to sour fruits and foods. Now, I don't get those cramps and uneasiness that much anymore ever since my husband and I got married more than five years ago. Anyway, it's adviseable that one refrains from doing heavy tasks, and taking cold or sour foods.

I also suffer with the same problem but mine is every monthly visit I feel too much pain specially on my first day. My grand mother told me not to eat sour food and drink like pineapple juice and sour oranges because she said that it can increase the pain and I can take not cold soft drinks and I must not drink cold drink specially with ice. I don't know if my grand mother beliefs are true or not but I follow everything that she said.