To ask what your go to period pain cures are?

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I'm curled up in agony. Need to leave the house soon. Have tried ibuprofen and a hot bath, which eased it a little but it's creeping back up! Wondering if there are any magic cures that I am not yet aware of!

I have uterus didelphys (in a nutshell two wombs/ vaginas/cervixes, etc). As well as the other issues this gives me, acute period pain is the worst symptom. I am due tomorrow and I literally dread it each month. I'll tell you what I do (not a healthcare professional):

• max daily dosage of paracetamol/ codeine (solpadeine) and brufen daily. Take the brufen with food or milk
• 3 buscopan tablets daily (8 hr intervals)
• an ova tens machine cranked to max (15) on back and right hand side pelvic region
• heat up pads for down my legs to my knees
• no caffeine (this kills me) but banana milkshake. Bananas are meant to help but I simply can't
• sounds wanky af and I am not "new age" but on YouTube there are pain relief videos (bear with me) I don't usually believe in that but there is a pulsing white noise one and it helps me breathe through the contractions and calm me down
• dark room and a fresh scent (lemon, lime, fresh laundry)
• if I'm waiting for the pain to subside I will often get on my knees on bed with head pressed into pillow and back end up high and rock back and forth

That's quite the image, I'm sure

I feel for you, OP. Ppain is a life changer for me, so much so that I'm already dreading something happening in the first two weeks of December as I know it's not something I can cancel...

... if all else fails, I sit in a bath for hours and just keep topping it up...
it's grim

I get a prescription painkiller called Zapain, it's paracetamol and codeine, it's the only thing that works for me.

I suffered for years until I discovered Ponstan Forte (mefenamic acid). I only needed 1 or 2 a month and it was an absolute life-saver. Nothing available without prescription had any effect at all.

@Mollie85 Has your doctor not prescribed a stronger painkiller for you? I was on Mefanamic Acid which was a million zillion times better. Awful that you have to suffer in such pain.

I second everyone's recommendation for Buscopan. It's a wonder drug imo. I was given it by my doctor when I was having gallbladder attacks and it's the only thing that worked - and it works for ALL cramping pains. I love it.

Get checked out firstly, I use mefenamic acid on prescription its the only thing thats worked for me. I was up all night crying in pain before id had enough and went to the docs demanding they do something

Feminax Ultra. It is fabulous and was the only thing that sorted out my back spasms when my period came with a vengeance

Mefanamic acid. But only if I took it at the first sign of my period. Any later and it was useless. I'm lost menopausal now, so thankfully don't have this to suffer any more.

Jamandbread on the other hand I'm perfectly certain that your post was intended to be as patronising as possible.

Not ALL acute period pain is dangerous. Some may be. However many women who suffer a lot of pain have nothing wrong with them. I'm one and I've known many others. I actually had a laparoscopy at one point and there was nothing wrong. I'm not suggesting that people should ignore the pain or put up with it, but I am suggesting often it just happens and isn't endometriosis, fibroids or anything else.

Now hop off and polish your ego on someone else. I'm out.

Oh and don't put words in other people's mouths. They may spit them back out.

Walking and co-codamol. Plus hot water bottle. If the pain is bad enough to induce nausea then pink migraleve which has an anti sickness element as well as the paracetamol and codeine.

So many things to try here - thank you! I'll speak to my GP and also chemist.
I don't always get it, although looking at the fancy period tracker app, I've had cramps on the first day for the last four periods. Otherwise it's on and off. Usually i wake up in the night as it's starting with pain, take ibuprofen and eventually dose off and hear nothing more about it! But in the morning when I need to get up and going, it's less than ideal!

Oh and re orgasms, not so much for period pain but I have definitely hurried it up/brought it forward before using this method when my period has been falling at an inconvenient time!

I used to be insycj bad pain I would be sick from the force of it. Tablets didn't work as I'd throw them back up. I used to writhe in bed for a full day crying and screaming and delirious with pain I once started to pray despite being pretty much an atheist. There was nothing wrong apart from a very long cycle of 50+ days. I took the pill eventually and it changed my life.

Now I'm off the pill ttc and my cycle is more normal 28-32 days and pain is not as bad. I can't take codeine as it makes me queasy.

My best remedy is st the first sign of pain (sometimes middle of the night) I start the ibuprofen, then paracetamol and alternate then two hours apart. I use hot water bottles at home and heat pads if I'm at work. This month I've had IBS and discovered buscopan it cut the pain down to just needing heat and a few painkillers. You get one specifically just for cramps, it's a muscle relaxant.

Feminax feminax feminax

Going on the pill is the only thing that has ever worked for me.

For those people who have said it's normal to be in that much pain...I had investigations and nothing wrong was found. I was just unlucky like my Mum. It is so debilitating,I also would have the squits and life was pretty grim. My mum ended up having a hysterectomy at 42,luckily for me the Mirena is around nowadays. Any side effects will always be easier than the enduring pain I've had all my life.

Unfortunately for some people, heavy periods and extreme pain ARE normal. It's shit, but we're not all the same. Heavy bleeding, spotting, extreme pain etc. are not always signs of endometriosis or fibroids or infection - some of us have had a load of investigation and there's nothing wrong, it's just what our body is like.

Traxenamic acid for the first three days, plus ibuprofen before I'm due on works for me, but sometimes it's still not enough.

Feminax ultra. Only thing works for me.

And I've been in hospital on a morphine drip in the past.

Menopause!
But before that, naproxen and nothing but. Does bother some people's stomachs though - fortunately mine is made of iron and no other drug would touch my period pain, including cocodamol.

The menopause.

Morphine drip? Bloody hell.

I had terrible pain with light periods.
Mefenamic acid was my friend (took double doses for years by accident, and on an empty stomach against directions but had to or I would throw it up).
Stopped needing drugs after I had a baby.

It's not such a problem since I had my coil out, but buscopan and naproxen used to be my go-to remedies. Nothing else even touched it.