Help my dd15 with horrendous periods

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Poor thing, she has stayed home from school yet again with bloody awful period pains. Nausea and not being able to stop crying even though she didnt feel sad so was intermittently laughing at herself and basically had no clue what was happening to her.

She tried so hard to go in, but she missed the bus because she couldn't get it together from the bout of crying and her legs felt like jelly. I told her to come home.

What can i get for her to help? We have ibruprofen lysine which i believe is what is in feminax.

Is there anything else i can try. Shes a good girl and upset about not being in school.

Dont want to go down the pill route which is what i did.

I was like your daughter op, it was horrendous.

The pill did change my life and made things so much easier. BUT I'm now late 30s and I'm under a gyne now for fibroids and suspected endo. The pill might have masked the latter and they think the fibroids might be my bodies reaction to the pill and the extra hormones for all those years.

So I'd suggest you push this with the dr and try and get a diagnosis before any treatments are proposed. That said, if it's heavy periods with no underlying cause, the pill is excellent.

Best of luck.

www.nhs.uk/conditions/heavy-periods/

Read this article plus the link further down that page to painful periods. Then you are both aware of the options available. Suggest you arrange a consultation with a GP to discuss the management.

However whilst waiting
Tranexamic acid can be brought over the counter (if you speak to a pharmacist)

www.nhs.uk/medicines/tranexamic-acid/

@SecretDoor

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/heavy-periods/

Read this article plus the link further down that page to painful periods. Then you are both aware of the options available. Suggest you arrange a consultation with a GP to discuss the management.

However whilst waiting
Tranexamic acid can be brought over the counter (if you speak to a pharmacist)

www.nhs.uk/medicines/tranexamic-acid/

It used to be available OTC but doesn’t appear to be anymore. I asked recently at a pharmacy and was told it’s prescription only.

Sorry to hear that she is feeling like this.
Mine was like this during my teenage years. I would be faint and hot every month and often sick with the pain.
My period was just like this on day 1. Hot water bottle and sleep did the trick with paracetamol.
The only thing that 'cured' the pain was a combination contrqceptive pill but I did not go into this until 18.

Mefanamic acid is a godsend (same family as ibrufen) and is good for the pain. Tranexamic acid is great if the bleeding is extreme. You get both from gp. I wouldn't really be in agreement with a girl so young going on the pill, it's designed to prevent ovulation which is natural & hard to know what long term use could do but that's up to you both and your gp.

Please if she happy for it you go with her of course let her have the pill. I wish I’d have had it at 13 it would have saved me 6 years of hell.

My daughter has Tranexamic acid. It has helped her anaemia and period pain. She still suffers very badly with anxiety and low mood for a few days before her period (and I mean BAD low moods and anxiety) so we are thinking of the pill for her.