Period pain in young daughter.

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She´s 12 & just about in tears.
OK,she´s a bit of a drama queen,but even so.
Is there anything I can get from chemist specifically for this?

Also, any herbal/tea recommendations?

Aww poor thing- I suffer with bad period pain, paracetomol and nurofen staggered helps.

Raspberry leaf tea can help- I know women take it to help with onset of childbirth, but it helps with the cramping pains for me.

Also a hot water bottle/wheat bag over the stomach can help.

My DD(10) is coming up to this, I'm hoping she doesn't take after me and has pain free periods .

I hope she feels better soon.

Chocolate?
I started my period today and I intend to mainline on Easter eggs later!

(And a couple of paracetemol)

I hope she feels better soon, it's horrible when you are young and only just getting used to it.

Doesn´t want chocolate as worried about her weight

She´s had half a paracetamol-anyone know if ibuprofen is better?

She´s being having them a couple of years but it´s only these last two she´s complained.

Trying to convince her to come out for a walk but she wants to lay about!

I started at 12 & remember having a rough time at about 14 & not being totally pain free until after having the children!

Ibruprofen will help more than paracetomol.

She is ok to take paracetomol and then ibruprofen a little while later.

I used to have miserable period pains at this age. I found that the thing that helped the most was to take pain killers as soon as the period started, rather than wait for the pain to start. Half a paracetamol is unlikely to have much effect at all - give her a full dose (correct for her body weight) of ibruprofen and make sure that she takes the next doses at the correct time interval.

Hot water bottles, wheat bags or even a hot bath will all help. So will exercise, but she needs to be feeling well enough before she will even consider that one.

Please don't tell her that the problem will stop when she has had a baby. I used to be told this from my very early teens, and IT DOES NOT HELP. Wasn't true, either, in my case!

Ibuprofen will probably be better. Cups of tea, chocolate (she could eat tiny bits if she's worried about her weight) and the duvet will help too. Nothing wrong with being a drama queen at the time of the month! I used to get dreadful period pains in my teens, I could hardly get out of bed with the agony.

You can get some good stuff from the doctor too.

Poor girl. A very gentle herb for female problems (in fact it works for almost everything) Is chamomile, it's good for colic in babies as well.

You can get the teabags anywhere but the better quality the better of course and or capsules from a good health food shop.

raspberry leaf is good too. I would try chamomile first though.

Regular paracetamol alternated with brufen will help. Shouldn't take Brufen if asthmatic. For her age, 1-2 paracetamol tablets is recommended dose.

My DD began to have terrible pain with her periods about 2 years after they started. The biggest thing to help her was taking Buscopan 2 days before her period was due. This has transformed her.

You might want to discuss this with your GP/pharmacist. I bought it in the supermarket. It is advertised for IBS symptoms. It is an antispasmodic though and that is why it helps.

I got that great advice here on mumsnet.

Unless she's a quite small 12-yr-old she can have the adult dose of paracetamol or ibuprofen. 1/2 a pill is unlikely to do much.

I find ibuprofen better for cramps, but paracetamol and ibuprofen work on different pathways so it's fine to take both at the same time.

Hot water bottle on the stomach is generally nice and soothnig, and/or a hot bath.

Thanks for all the advice.
Will get to Dr before next time.

Well, she has started on her Easter choc & that seems to have helped.

Have some chamomile tea so will try that.

Will certainly not be advising her to try having children-although it worked for me!

Give her the full dose of paracetamol, hot water bottle helps, exercise is fab but that is the LAST thing anyone feels like doing at that time of the month!!

As she's so young, I don't know how you'd feel about this, but you might like to know about it for future reference at least.

I used to have period pains that were absolute agony as a teenager. Nothing (except childbirth of course) has caused my so much pain since!

What finally helped was taking the pill. I took it, at my mums suggestion, and with the agreement of the Dr, specifically to see if it would help with the pain (I didn't take it as a contraceptive, and I was also underage at the time). I was terrible at remembering to take them everyday, and only managed the first month properly! I think I may have done a couple more months a bit more sporadically.

But, it worked! The pains went.

I still get period pains sometimes, but they are nothing at all like what I used to get then, it was truly awful. These days a paracetamol will do the trick, which was unimaginable back then!

I don't know which type of pill it was but I'm sure your Dr could advise.

Well she´s about 5ft6 & not skinny so easily adult size.

She had one tablet about 8o´clock this morning.

OK at the moment but tempted to give another soon as a "preempt" rather than wait for it to start again.

I did used to enjoy swimming when I could drag myself there.

I wonder if I can convince husband that we need a pool now

Oh and just to be clear, if my experience is typical (no idea if it is), you don't have to take the pill for a long time, like you would if using it as a contraceptive. Just a few months did the job for me.

Trip to drs- they can give something called metafenic acid tablets (sp) which help with uterine cramps.

There are also various yoga exercises that can help- sorry can't describe here but you can google

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mefenamic_acid

new I'd got the spelling incorrect!

I had that prescribed from GP for a long time until i went on the pill - for period pain reasons. I had completely forgotten about that!

It is worth reading this link about endometriosis (also for everyone else who has had severe period pain), as it's a relatively common condition that affects teenagers quite frequently. Unfortunately, severe pain is not normal (despite what people will tell you) and it's worth bearing in mind that there might be an underlying cause, because if so, early diagnosis would be a huge help - I speak from experience. I'm afraid I have wished very much that my parents hadn't gone down the 'treat it with painkillers and the pill' route.

THere are lots of other good sites - try googling 'endometriosis in teenagers'.

One tip from my dr is to take the nmeds- whatever you take- BEFORE the pain starts. he is quoted as saying if you are going to bang your head on a brick wall shouldn't you put on a hard hat first?

DD started periods at 10; started getting serious pain at about 13/14; tried mefenamic acid for about 6 months and helped a bit (helped better when she took it properly!) but went on the pill at about 15 1/2.

Takes the pill all the time so no periods at all - influenced by my period-free life as I have the Mirena.

Doctor very sympathetic and sensible.

I ahve heard so many people who have daughters on the pill without ever trying antispasmodic like Buscopan. It was one of my gynaecology consultant colleagues who confirmed to e that the idea I read on mumsnet was good.
I have treal concerns about fertility problems in girls who go on the pill at a yound age and wanted toavoid that if I could. Buscopan has transformed my 16 yr old DDs periods but we start it 2 days before period is expected. Another recommendation was magnet therapy that you can get from Argos. Will post link. That was my next solution to try after buscopan but needed to go no further.

here are a few options

I used to find stomach settlers like resolve helped me if I was having a bad period.

Longer term I always found them less painful if I was eating well, exercising and around the right weight, but that might be a hard one to convince a 12yo.

hot water bottle

painkillers (there is feminax but it is fairly expensive)

foot and back rub

peppermint tea

My mum used to give me Indian Brandee (not alcoholic but some kind of herbal concoction)

Feminax did not work for my DD unfortunately