To ask for distractions from my period cramps

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Day off work, plenty I need to do but period just started and I have mega cramps, currently in thighs. Taken max strength pain killers and a warm bath, now I need to think about something else. Till they pass. Any ideas? Help

If you can get to a shop I get the heat patches or my back and a hot water bottle for the front. What kind of pain killers do you take? I'm on 30/500mg co-codamol and they usually take a bit of an edge off, enough for me to relax a little. Drink plenty water also. Xx

Can you apply one of those heat pads or heat rubs to your thighs where the pain is?

Hot water bottle, whatever painkillers work for you and a really entertaining and absorbing movie. Even something that you've seen before helps, as it's comforting. You'll get caught up in the film and hopefully it'll distract a bit from the pain.

Soluble solpadeine max is the answer.

Cheers folks x

I am taking feminax Ultra, that usually takes the edge off. But sometimes if I don't take them soon enough the cramps really kick in a heat pad might help and I have been rewatching a soapy drama on Prime which was a nice distraction, I am just bored of painful periods after 30 years of this shite. They aren't always unmanageable, just heavy, and I can usually take the meds and carry on. This morning is a bad start I suppose I am impatient for when it gets manageable again so I can do stuff instead of trying to get comfortable.
Hmm turned into a stream of consciousness there! I do usually punctuate!

Fibroids? I had terrible periods, super heavy bleeding and the pain was excruciating. I did have ovarian cysts, and had to have my right ovary removed, but the fibroids definitely didn't help. They were sorted out by the fitting of a Mirena coil. It might be worth speaking to your GP about it. It's been life changing for me, and I'm planning on having another one put right in as soon as the hormones in this one run out. Absolutely no side effects for me, although I know it doesn't work for everyone.

That sounds hard Socio, glad you have found a solution. I have always had heavy and generally painful periods so it is my 'normal' so I am probably too accepting of it. DH always tells me to go to GP but then I feel human again have a couple of lighter months and move on! I have just taken a soluble paracetamol to help get through. I just want to get my housework done, I have one of my sister's coming over for snacks and Buffy tonight so the evening is perfect for my situation but I want to at least hoover and buy some snacks before she arrives!

It took it for normal too, but it got worse in my 40s and after almost a decade of me collapsing in pain, fainting, bleeding for twenty days out of each thirty and needing to take traxenamic acid (sorry not sure of the spelling) to stop the bleeding, a real working solution was offered. I'd speak to your GP. If they can help you, it could seriously make a difference in a really good way. It's worth a chat, at least.

apparently dark chocolate is amazing, as it contains magnesium which helps with the cramps in an amazing way to remove pain! So get yourself some super dark chocolate :-)

The paracetamol worked! I am not that bad not bleeding extra days and not irregular, I think it is still necessary to speak to GP but the drugs do work. I will also seek out dark chocolate ... Now I am going to fully distract myself with a go at cleaning windows with an extendable pole. If I had my own extendable pole then period pain would not be an issue.

Thank you for getting me through the morning much appreciated dark chocolate biscuits to all x