Owwww! I feel like I'm in labour but I'm not pregnant!

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Has anyone experienced period pains so bad I felt I was in the later stages of labour??

I'm seeing a GP this afternoon. The medication I was given isn't strong enough. I can hardly bloody walk, let alone look after my DD (she has been bundled off to my parents, thanks mum).

What Id like to know is how do I get the doc to take me seriously? I can't take any hormonal contraceptive as it gives me migraines. I used to manage them with paracetamol and ibuprofen but that no longer helps.

I've also tried the other stuff, hot water bottles, back rubs, walking etc. nothing seems to help but time.

I can't continue like this, I daren't hold my baby when I'm like this. I just want to cry

Can something be done that's not as drastic as a hysterectomy? As I would like more children first.

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Hormonal contraceptives also gave me migraines and high blood pressure, but I recently started taking a progesterone-only pill for extremely heavy periods, which had made me severely anaemic!

I had strange side effects the first 2 weeks, but it's now been 15 months (with just 3 periods in that time!) and I feel better than I have in years :)

I can't take the progesterone only pill either; that's just the same

I totally sympathise. I don't have any DC as yet, but I do have extremely heavy painful periods with what I can only describe as crippling contractions that come in waves, a sensation that my uterus is trying to turn itself inside out, cramp like pain in my thighs and a pain in my hips, knees and ankles that can leave my legs collapsing beneath me. Codeine based pain killers and naproxen based anti inflammatories only just take the edge off the pain, but I'm still not able to leave the house for the first couple of days of my period.

I don't get on with hormonal contraception either, but when I did take the pill years ago it didn't make any difference anyway. I've seen every GP at the surgery, but none of them has been able to make the pain manageable and none of them have been willing to refer me to the hospital. Their "best" suggestion is that I get pregnant as it will probably get better after having a baby. Thanks Doc! Really hope you have better luck with your own GP.