Period legs

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Women's health is too quiet.

Do you get leg pain/aches and/or hip and lower back problems with your periods? I'm suffering a lot this month but do have endometriosis.

If so, what do you find works best?
I can't take NSAIDs and take regular paracetamol and dihydrocodeine or tramadol. Hot water bottle helps too but I'm miserable with it today.

Yes - also get shooting pains up my bum! And recently getting sweaty/itchy at night. Oh, the joys...

Yes, I get this and it's horrid. Yesterday I could hardly walk my hips and legs were so sore!
I get Mefanamic Acid and Co-Codamol from the GP but have also found some amazing patches that really help. They're called 'BeYou' and they're available on Amazon. I'm not being dramatic but they've honestly changed my life. They do smell quite strong (like a menthol type smell) and have a strangely cooling but also warming effect...I know that sounds mad. Anyway, they're fab!!

I hope you find something that helps OP as you do have my sympathy!

Yep, for around 3 days before and the first two days my legs are heavy and aching.
I brought some compression socks from boots in the end, which did seem to help- the feeling goes away after the first day now.

I get period legs, not painful though. For a day or two before my period they turn into heavy, lethargic masses. Stairs become something to endure.

also get shooting pains up my bum!

Yes, the good ole javelin arse!

Buscopan is the only thing that helps me. The pain in my legs and back are the worst. I also get the worst headaches the first day.

I get crippling sciatica- had a hysterectomy last year for adenomyosis but because they left my ovaries I still get the mood swings and the sciatica has been creeping Back. I second the advise that buscopan works well, but also resort to cocodamol.

I used to pass out very regularly, with my periods. The pain was horrendous.I used to be doubled over in pain, so I don't honestly know if the pain was in my legs or not. And yet, when I was 13, I remember dashing out of the bathroom, declaring (quite dramatically) to Mum "I'm a WOMAN!" and then regretting the day, until I was 40, when thankfully, I had my last my period ever. I'm now 60. I am so thankful that I don't have periods any more. No sudden surprises, of passing out, or the various injuries that entails. No more bloody Dr White sanitary towels xx (be thankful you didn't have those bloody horrendous things!) I remember having to be driven home from work, because I'd taken Co-Codamol, for the pain, and then almost passing out in the staff room.Completely spaced out, on painkiller drugs, that didn't actually do anything for the pain. Bleeding, for three weeks at a time, every month. Doctors, saying their was nothing wrong with me.

Thank god I'm not on my own with the thigh pain. I often get pain in my knees too. I'm due on now and my knees throb
I can't wait for them to stop. I started at 10 and a half. I'm 50 later in the year.

I get sore, tired and wobbly knees like I've just run a marathon as if

Sorr for hijacking, you guys seem to know a lot about this! Teen DD (17) has horribly heavy periods. She says for a third of each month she's in pain - cramps before bleeding starts, over a week of bleeding and continuous cramping and pain. GP has prescribed mefanemic and tranaxemic acids to help with the flow and pain, but she's got to the stage where she just wants it to stop altogether. Is there anything she can do or that the GP can prescribe for her?

I get a weird deep nonspecific ache in my legs in the week before my period sometimes. To my knowledge I don't have endo. It feels like nerve pain. I find that drinking can seem to make it a lot worse, but magnesium cream seems to help (I also take a supplement). No idea if magnesium can even be absorbed topically but it does seem to work.

Fibroids, on the womb was suggested. I've had SO many internal examinations, they could draw a map of the undiscovered world. I remember going back to my GP for a 6 week check up, and I immediately saw that he didn't recognise me. Not his fault, 10,000 patients, etc. But when I said, "If I bend over, you'll recognise me" it was met with a howl of laughter! I still don't know what it was, causing me such grief, I expect that I'll never know. I'm just bloody grateful that I don't ever have to have that pain, any more. Ever. Thankfully, I've kept up with my pelvic floor exercises, and I've NEVER been asked to push against any fingers that have been inserted. Inadvertently or otherwise. Chin Up OP xx LOL x You Houdini thing, you xx go girl x it doesn't last forever xx

It sounds really pathetic, but honestly, the only thing that even slightly helped me was a hot water bottle laid over my stomach x it wasn't much, no painkillers, etc. but it did help, a bit xx it was something to curl around x

Did a quick google and apparently leg pain related to endometriosis is becoming more widely recognised as an issue

www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/321457.php#treatment

give magnesium supplements a try. Have a google to see which form of magnesium to get...there are differing types for various symptoms. Worked a treat for me with peri related aches and for sleep. Better than sleeping tablets in fact. I can't remember now which I was taking. Also topical in form of epsom salts in the bath too maybe. Just make sure to go for a decent, well known brand.

I just use a long hot water bottle

Ah, i am currently laying in bed with this.

So bad, can barely move my legs.
I have endo and psos , cant take ibuprofen as i have kidney disease.... Sucks!!!!!

Yep, thighs, hips, back, cramp in my bowel (ibs too 🤦‍♀️ )
I thought I was alone!!

Before my hysterectomy I used to get:

1. Back ache
2. Stomach cramps
3. Headache
4. Spots
5. Sudden fatigue
6. Bloating
7. Loose stools

Generally felt like shit EVERY MONTH, God I don't miss any of that!

Yes, the first couple days of my period I normally get pain in my legs. It’s actually painful right down to my ankles, but after a few hours and some painkillers it usually settles down to just being painful in my thighs

Oh I know about the hell of this. I often lose the ability to stand due to the pain just before my periods.

I used to get pain in front of thighs at times, very unpleasant but didn't last too long.

Chanchanchan dd suffers like this. She initially was put on Rigevidon 3 months back to back with a withdrawal bleed. It was great for the 3 months but hideous pain in stomach and legs, vomiting, feeling so ill for the withdrawal bleed. It got so bad she refused to have the bleed and so the dr has put her on Cerelle which she can take year round with no periods apparently. I'm not thrilled she's on the pill like this at 16, but sge needs to get through her A-levels, D of E etc and this seems the best way.
The dr suspects endometriosis but they don't test for that yet.

I always have pains in my legs and lower back. I'm usually covered in those sticky heat patches and have a hot water bottle. Pain killers don't help but heat seems to take the edge off

Yes. My knees and my lower back.