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DD struggles with periods

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RosiePosie15 · 30/07/2020 15:52

Hi, I’m new here so I hope this is in the right place. DD16 has been struggling with her periods for over two years now, regularly throwing up and missing school plus fainting once or twice. I’ve usually made her go in to school for yr11 but now she doesn’t have to, she just lays in bed most of the day when on. We’ve gone to the doctors several times over the last year and are now on a third treatment. The thing is I think she’s after some sort of miracle cure. I keep telling her that’s she’s just going to have to tough it out but she always gets super defensive. She takes a lot of painkillers too because she says the pain is unbearable. She’s also developed toasted skin syndrome from hot water bottle usage but she refuses to give it up. When I was 19/20 my periods were bad so I took the pill and have stuck with it since (with some obvious breaks to have kids). Is there anything I can do?

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Dancingdeer77 · 01/08/2020 12:59

If you want to go private PM me, I know a really excellent consultant for this. I’ve been badly treated by the NHS (the one recently found to be institutionally misogynistic!) so I don’t rely on getting the right advice first time. Be in your DDs corner and keep telling her this isn’t okay and she doesn’t have to just grin and bare. Champion her.

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