43 period is like I’m in labour

[Timelessp]

Ibuprofen and paracetamol not touching the sides I genuinely feel like I’m in labour with contractions (im 100% not pregnant unless im the Virgin Mary)
ia this normal for my age? Periods are becoming shorter and no steady flow
gone from a 32 day cycle to 27/28 days
I want to cry

@FloofPaws thanks, I think the product name got cut off. My GP is suggesting estradiol testing between day 2-5 of periods. Changing cervix how lovely 🙈
@Timelessp hope you feel better soon, I've just taken some ibuprofen.

I was going to say that. Perhaps I’m being naive, but surely pain severe enough to make you scream in pain warrants a trip to A&E? For a start, you don’t actually know if it is your period causing the pain?

I was going to say that. Perhaps I’m being naive, but surely pain severe enough to make you scream in pain warrants a trip to A&E? For a start, you don’t actually know if it is your period causing the pain?

My periods felt like that when I was a teenager. Mefenaic Acid on prescription helped but there might be better options now. They were literally as bad as my labours were, at least until the later stages.

But I would also see a GP in case there's another reason.

This started with me age 38 and it turned out to be stage 4 endometriosis

Things that help me
Hot water on my back and stomach (shower)
Heat pads
Be you patches
Kind of child pose yoga or on all fours rocking
Codeine

Oh and I have mefanamic acid now to take too
I still have days where it is screaming in pain but I don't go to a&e as
I can't actually move
They can't do anything
Waiting for excision on my endo

They did a scan for me and it turned out to be endometriosis and adenomyosis

First time I've ever genuinely seen my doctor being properly sympathetic

I take buscopan and ponstan forte when it's bad but it still takes half a day to kick in

I had to go on all fours and chew down on something last month - at least with giving birth there's a baby at the end of the pain!

Can I ask if anyone experiencing these have had a c section?

For me it's so random too
Once I was sat working away and next minute, bang
Had to ring my manager and say I'm going off sick and they were "oh what's wrong? Could you just?"
No, I need to go off the phone to scream!

Before I had my children, my endometriosis used to make the tops of my legs hurt during periods. I used to put a hot water bottle on them. My endo seemed to settle down after childbirth, but my PCOS went into overdrive instead. We can't win as women!

No Caesarian for me - 2 vaginal births which tbh were nothing compared to this pain!