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muchacha
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27 Aug 2006, 8:22 am

LqdCrct wrote:
However, after a while I just got sick and tired of dealing with it so I went on DepoProvera. I haven't had a period since. So now I look like all the other normally functioning women out there. It's great.


Is that stuff really that effective? I've never been on it but I know other women who have and they still had some symptoms.



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28 Aug 2006, 3:23 pm

My sensitivity in certain areas :oops: increases dramatically to the point that any kind of touch is downright painful when I have my period. Before I had children I had incapacitating cramps but after having children my periods are pain free, though sometimes I bleed so much I'm surprised I don't drop dead 8O.



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23 Jan 2007, 9:36 pm

I don't cramp much, but I bloat a lot. I keep a couple pairs of pants that are too big for me the rest of the month, just for those first two days. I bloat 2 sizes bigger some months. I never connected that with the other sensitivities before though.



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01 Mar 2007, 12:07 am

Dandelion wrote:
(being brave and starting a topic, since I wanted a women's forum)

I'm a bit tactile-defensive, in general. I also suffer from occasional dysmenorrhea (ie debilitating cramps and vomiting on the first day of my period). It doesn't happen every month (working out every day seems to make it not happen), but I've noticed that even when it doesn't happen, all my tactile sensitivities are about ten times worse on that first day.

So ordinarily, I can tolerate regular clothes, after I've taken the tags out. But on that day it's strictly cotton knits, no elastic, no tight waistbands, nothing that touches my neck, and I can't put my hair up.

Does this happen to anyone else, and is there anything you can do to make it less of a problem?



Absolutely. For years. Sweat suits or loose pants and t-shirts were about all I could stand.

For the generic miseries, I found taking pamprin (a diuretic) helped a lot. Didn't feel so bloaty and irritable. And taking ibuprofen when I thought my period was due, before it started, helped tons with the cramps issue. It's as if catching them before they have a chance to get started pretty much keeps them at bay.

Oddly, although I had horrible cramps for days each month as a young woman, once I went through childbirth I never really had bad ones again. Theory is (my theory) that I blew out all the nerve cells! :lol: