To think you can die from period pains

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Posting for traffic as I'm in the midst of my agonising period.

SAw the dr this month about them as they have become so excruciating I often feel like I need to phone an ambulance the pain is so bad.

She prescribed me naproxen and is organising an internal scan for me. But here I am on my period again. I've taken the naproxen, paracetamol and codeine, got a hot water bottle on my abdomen but nothing is helping and I want to cry, be sick, pass out it is so bloody painful. What the fuck can I do??

I would call 111. If all those meds aren’t helping then you need to be seen imo.

Oh god, it's awful isn't it? Since coming off the pill and having children, I have one day a month where I'm completely incapacitated with the pain. It can be as bad as/worse than labour.

A bath always helps me - as does gentle yoga (literally the last thing you feel like doing - but it does help!)

Other than that - sleep. Tends to relax the muscles and allow the pain killers to really kick in. An afternoon nap?

Unfortunately, it sounds like fibroids.

I was diagnosed with them a month ago, following a scan, and am now waiting to see the gynacologist.

I am forty six, and my periods had been getting heavier and heavier, and more painful.
I am unable to stand up straight with the pain, and it feels like a red hot ball of fire is in my womb.
At times i can only lie down and moan.
I now take mefenamic acid, which helps a lot with the pain, and enables me to go to work.

Please make sure you get your appointment, and chase it up if necessary.
Good luck.

I suffer badly too and was told not to scrunch up but to stretch out and do some stretches / basic yoga moves like suggested by @ToeToToe.

I’d definitely go back and see your doctor, I think it’s something those that either don’t get periods or don’t get period pain can’t always understand how awful it can be. I hope this passes soon

With you 100%. I was on the pill (cerazette) which completely solved this, but when off the pill trying to conceive I was in crippling pain at least one day a month. Mine feel like waves of what I can only imagine to be contractions. I went for endometriosis scans and everything - nothing but agonising periods. Im now expecting my first baby and I am convinced it’s going to be good practice. I find Naproxen horrible - wrecks my stomach. Agree that Yoga, breathing, hot water bottle and quite frankly a massive bloody glass of wine and something mindless on tv to take my mind off it (watched on an iPad, lying face down on the floor) helps. Does seem to mean that my periods are very short. Good luck OP. You are not alone.

Could you have endometriosis? The pain it causes can feel like your are being stabbed in the guts with a thousand blades of glass! GPs can be useless and some don't even know what it is. An ultrasound won't pick it up unless you have cysts. Get a referral to a gynecologist.

I’ve been taken to a and e three times with suspected appendicitis, each time it was period or ovulation pain. It’s awful.

I’ve had a cesarean and it felt like nothing compared to period pain.

Thank you. The pain gets worse with each period or so it seems. I can't face running a bath, I can't even bring myself to roll onto my back right now. I'm in the foetal position. It's agony.

Going for a poo on my period is terrifying. It hurts more than active labour. I have to grip the side of the bath and scream. Even passing wind is like being stabbed inside.

Honestly I am not a complete wimp I have a fairly good pain threshold. This is sickeningly painful.

Im now expecting my first baby and I am convinced it’s going to be good practice.

Having a baby was nothing compared to period pain for me! You’ll be fine, congratulations :)

OP this is exactly what I get, except after having a baby it turned into agonising ovulation rather than agonising periods.

No advice but it’s honestly shit. I’m currently pregnant and have RLP which feels annoyingly similar :(

Pain on going for a poo could be caused by adhesions caused by endometriosis. Could you afford to go private? The NHS waiting list to see an endometriosis specialist can be long depending on where you live.
There's a blogger with endo who wrote a blog called Endo the World. It might be worth a read.

Btw codeine can make the pain worse because if the effects on the bowel, it can make you feel blocked.

Pain on going for a poo could be caused by adhesions caused by endometriosis.

Can it cause pain on sudden movement too? My gynaecologist thinks I have endo, and I get both poo pain, shooting pains up my arse and pains when I move too quickly.

I never really get p pains but about five years ago I came off the contraceptive injection and was told I prob wouldn’t get a period again for 3-6 months.
A month later I kept getting stomach pains, I thought I was going to die. I went to A+E and they couldn’t find anything wrong and that point they seemed to have stopped so I went home.
The next day I got the heaviest period I’ve ever had so I guess that was the cause!

That is not normal and it is not okay. You need to make sure your doctors are taking this seriously.

Oh yes.

Or at least it makes you wish you did.

Fibroid pain can also cause bowel issues, much to my dismay.
The gas and bloating beforehand, the shooting pains in the rectum, the pain while using the loo, and all the churning, gives me a dodgy tum. Each bloody month.

I then feel absolutely grey after the bleeding has finished.
It's an utter pain each and every month.

Naproxen caused me to have a lot of bleeding from my bowel.was very scary .hope they gave you a stomach proctor medicine,the locus doctor forgot to give me one ,and I was on holiday when I started bleeding

Locum not locus

Could the naproxen be making my pain worse do you think? Aside from the cramps (which aren't anything as namby pamby as 'cramps' sounds like. More like waves of extreme squeezing pain in my uterus) I have stomach ache and each breath hurts. Lying in my side isn't helping, nor my back.

I'm so incredibly fucked off to have a day like this. Completely written off. I can hear my young kids downstairs asking where's mummy. We were meant to be going to a family fun day, it's a gorgeous day, my husband is off work. And I have had to slink off to bed because I don't want my children seeing me like this. Last time my daughter burst into tears because she thought I was going to die. A human being should not have to live like this 2-3 days a month.

I can't afford to go private no. From what I've read, endo, fibroids and adenomyosis (sp?) are all untreatable aren't they?

I had fibroids. Day1 was agony. You do need a scan.
I would go to a&e. I did when I lost so much blood in the bath it was bright red. I was taken to gynae a&e.
Eventual treatment was a hysterectomy

No they’re not untreatable!

Fibroids can be removed. Endo can be laserd off.

Mirena might help with the fibroids.

Endo, depending on severity, can be treated easily enough. I had a laparoscopy and had it lasered off, in and out in a day. Totally worth it.

It makes me so fucking angry. Years of agony that made me want to die. And it's 'just a period'.

Get taken seriously OP. Make them.