***Period Support and Guide

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Hi. I am continuing on from another post I named as **Period Rants** as I for some reason could not access it. Cloudfare denied crap. So I thought the best solution for anyone who wants to access free support and advice should be given an option 2.

Any bad cramps and period pains I had in the past are resting in equal status to this Bank Holiday Monday menstrual bonanza, **jokes.

I think the other one is more about crying your guts out, but trying another period strategy is to work through all the guilt, blame and pain and focus on all the non-tax tampon alternatives.

Bring it on and finish in style, so to speak.

Ohe let me say I don't know what's wrong with me but if someone says anything at all to me a few days before, or during the 3 days I have it or the day or so after let me tell you what.... i become hulk-smash for about a week to 8 days of every month. the world is on fire everything is on fire and I hate life and everything is just sh*t during that time... I am assuming this is some hormonal imbalance..not to mention the night sweats, and feeling like it's 500 degrees indoors. And the pain, jesus the pain in my abdomen. and the diahreah? is that normal? I mean wth.

sorry if it's tmi.

I turn into an absolute emotional b*tchface

i'd love to know what i can take to regulate this because it sounds JUST like me.

Starting your period when it is very warm, sunny and humid like it is today is not a great thing. Because the usual remedies I take for cramps and discomfort like hot baths and heating pads are not very helpful when the weather itself is hot. Today was my grocery day, and the weather combined with my cramps and tiredness and put me in something of a fog. When my dad was helping me take the groceries into the apartment I asked him where the other grocery bag was because there were two and then I realized I was carrying the other one in the crook of my hand. We both had a good chuckle over that, but inside my being so out there kind of disturbed me.

Well, at least I'm not having hot flashes and night sweats in this kind of weather. Yet...

I've began taking pms tablets again, and hope that it may not give me any worse problems than when I was on the pill or anti-depressants. Basically, my stance on taking contraception has come to a futile end.
Ladies, no venture with the patch, they have the worst risk of clotting than apparently any other pill.
That said, you would need to try out some for a while before finding an answer that fits with your hormones.

PMS tablets are natural and not artificial.

This time might make me more anxious seeing as I am away by the time I have my periods.
As for some saying they have gaps in the month where they might get some bleeding and others worse, it needs careful monitoring. As with anything that is hereditary in your genes in these matters.

Abdominal pains can vary but anything else like crippling pains can be a sign of an overactive uterus producing too much oestrogen. If a hard mass emerges, it's either a hernia or a growing full mass would require surgery.

I had problems with my period, same as other posters in this thread. Pain, dizzyness, unable to eat...
I've been eating hormonal birth control pills for years now. I started eating them back when I was still a virgin.
Now I skip the sugar pills so I skip my period. Menstruation causes so much discomfort and hygiene issues for me that it's easier for me to skip it.

I sacrificed my pride and got real drugs. I like benzos for the two or three days of hideous sound sensitivity and bitchiness that precede my period. Hey-- safer than staying drunk. And PA may have PASSED medical cannabis, but it's going to take them another 50 years to figure out how to implement it.

The biggest thing that has helped me, is I switched to using cloth pads. I no longer use any disposable pads and definitely no tampons. I am very sensitive to the chemicals in those products and when I used them I had horrible cramping and severe pain. Now that I use cloth pads I have only mild cramping and I'm not bleeding quite as heavy as I used to. I heard about this for years, but it took me a long time to finally make that change, and I wish I had done it a long time ago.

So, I started at the beginning of this week and today has been the most crippling of all. I took an anadin and two naproxen I had left from last year this morning and it took hours for the pain to subside. Hot water bottles lasted for so long, but the heat always takes on some humidifying approach later on. As for pills or placebo's, I don't usually take them, well not anymore, unless I feel a low hormonal response getting in the way, and PMS is still an issue.

Taken from my other thread.


The 'meltdowns’ as most would put it, are frequent, but everything still looks the same, and then you feel you’ve lost some of your identity or of someone who used to respect you.
In any case, the hormonal responses you experience from a young age, include hallucinatory mantras often escalate up to the menopause, at least this is how I interpret it to be.
If I’m lucky I’ll get away with it, if not , I’d better start looking for more ‘thor support’.

The person I live with is an onion melting pot unto herself, with variating opinions and irritating phobias, some of my own subconscious doings but mostly of theirs. I keep out of their way as much as possible.

I spend the afternoon sobbing in agony and despair that I have decades of this torture left. I wanna rip my reproductive organs out.

My periods used to be way more painful than they are now. They also used to come every 21 days.

Now my periods come every two weeks it seems like and go on forever. I need to see my gyno soon.

i got a copper T initially there was spotting for few days. Now i am doing fine.

I get heavy bleeding have to change pads after half an hour but that was there before getting copper T also. It was due to the hypothyroidism. The hormonal changes lead to increased bleeding.

So now the doctor gave me Trenaxa to control the bleeding. it helps a lot and there is much control

I suggest if you are having painful or heavy bleeding contact a good gynaec they will suggest good medicines
for relief

I have a new type of burning sensation and bleeding, it's called thrush. It's the first and last time I ever mix up lubricants again.
111 said it was cystitis, and how exactly would they know over the phone..it started Friday and just carried on, but today I've changed to the correct meds and taken an anti fungal tablet and have canisten cream. I gave my ex a split once and he ended up using sudo cream.
Cest la vie.

No pms this month, but super painful first day (so far), nauseous. Pms tend to ease the pain after for me. I have relatively regular cycles 27,5 days most of the time, 26-28 days. For the same amount of days since I was 13.

I can't go swimming today... Big frustration. I already woke up grumpy. I just want to punch things and scream, but I can't do that. I know herbal tea in infusion can help, aneth, camomilla, mg (don't you crave chocolate?) or vitamin E would play a part. Put something warm on your belly (towel kept on the heating or in the dryer) and keeping warm is better (no cold water...)

I should have known, I had cramps in my legs swimming yesterday. At 2 good m of depth...