Time of the month relief

LolaDub

Ladies, when your time of the month rolls around what do you do to get on with normal life and ease the discomfort? I'm to be found under a duvet with chocolate for the first day and with some tea and toast i'll pluck up the courage to venture out into the real world. A friend of mine puts orange peel on her skin to alleviate the agony although i'm not sure what the purpose it supposed to be

MysticalSoul

Evening Primrose Oil is a miracle worker

Weidii

Orange peel? :S

I sit down with chocolate and a movie in a people-free room

I know people who go mental during their rag week and take it all out on those around them.

Quality

Hot water bottles... Tracksuits.. Warm showers.. Tea..

And lots of drugs..

JackieO

A hot-water bottle, an early night and neurofen plus by the bucket-load.

Cathmandooo

Trudge through the day and get an early night in bed, hot water bottle or some manly hugs generally help. Nurofen plus if it's very very bad.

LolaDub

I find nurofen plus does nothing! Never heard of the evening primrose oil, might give that a go next time. Mine is very irregular so being forewarned is forearmed is out the window!

Cathmandooo

LolaDub wrote: »

I find nurofen plus does nothing! Never heard of the evening primrose oil, might give that a go next time. Mine is very irregular so being forewarned is forearmed is out the window!

nurofen plus never does anything for you or never helps your cramps? I find it an excellent painkiller for anything from cramps to wisdom tooth pain. I suppose these things all work differently for people.

larko

I'm sufferin at the mo:( but not as bad as I used to be. The evening primrose capsules are great. I take two every day without fail. I buy them in Lidl/Aldi as they are only 1.99 per pot. I have been told that 2 per day is the right amount for painful periods. It really wont have an effect for about a month or so. I'm not pain free but it's a whole lot better than it was.

To make myself feel better in the short term I have a twirl*.


* a chocolate one not a spinning one.

LolaDub

I rarely take it, usually just to make myself feel like it might get better soon! But no i've never felt much of a difference with it

Madame Razz

Chocolate; and proper chipper chips always make me feel better!

LolaDub

God Bless the chipper chips!

xzanti

Oh Lord, I go crazy in the run up to 'that magical time' my poor bf knows at this stage just to take the craziness with a pinch of salt.. I take things really personally for example, he knows not to joke with me for those few days, terrible really, poor fecker... As for the 'event' itself, I find disperin and hot tea helps.. And of course chocolate.. Glass of wine helps sometimes too

SarahJ

A good moan, a cry, and getting my boyf to feel sorry for me usually does the trick

LolaDub

Why do we have to deal with this every month! Surely once every six months would suffice! I get depressed in the run up to it, anyone else have that?

SarahJ

Yes, and thorugh it too, I usually feel a bit down in the dumps, and oddly, really paranoid. Is this strange?

Awayindahils

It got to the point last month that I couldn't walk and sit up straight, well sit up at all, so from this month on the ring.

No one in my family gets bad ones so they have no idea and moaning about it it is no way normal in my house.

The old walking thing does do the trick though, well after a 2 days or so.

Miss Fluff

A deep hot bath and industrial strength pain killers

Quality

LolaDub wrote: »

Why do we have to deal with this every month! Surely once every six months would suffice! I get depressed in the run up to it, anyone else have that?

Absolutely.. And hysterical..

I can deal with the pain.. but the mood swings are the worst...

Karen_*

Some co-codamol and a half bottle of vodka usually does the trick!

LolaDub

Erm half a bottle of vodka??????? How do you manage to head to work like that

rain on

Lately I have found that repeating "I'm not losing my mind, it's just hormones" to myself helps with the irrational weepiness.

Piste

Feminax and chocolate are all I need. Being in an all-girls school I have an endless supply of sympathy.

GirlInterrupted

irishamethyst wrote: »

Evening Primrose Oil is a miracle worker

Starflower oil is better, has more of the active ingredient. Keeps the hormone spots at bay too.

metamorphic

an ex of mine used to enjoy intercourse on day 2 of her period. Would that be in any way common?

GirlInterrupted

metamorphic wrote: »

an ex of mine used to enjoy intercourse on day 2 of her period. Would that be in any way common?

More so than you might imagine..

You are more sensitive to all sensation when menstruating, both physical pain and pleasure are heightened.

ellebelle

A few orgasms! I'm serious something about chemical release and pain killer & relaxant etc..... it works.

Maple

Dissolvable Solpadeine, the granddaddy of tablets helps with cramps. I take Evening Primrose Oil so that helps with mood swings.

Envisioning boiling in oil all the muppets who annoy me also helps. I know that its just the period related madness so I keep the mouth shut but the daydreams help alot.

Oh and i'll be found munching on carbs for a day or two. 2kg sack of spuds between two slice pans generally.

Rozabeez

Neurofen plus, deal with it. Used to be so bad with cramps I was prescribed ponston for about a year, the first time I took it I slept for hours haha.

The week before it is the crazy week for me, but only every few months. It'll result in crying over films, any films at all.

GirlInterrupted

Rozabeez wrote: »

Neurofen plus, deal with it. Used to be so bad with cramps I was prescribed ponston for about a year, the first time I took it I slept for hours haha.

The week before it is the crazy week for me, but only every few months. It'll result in crying over films, any films at all.

Even The Exorcist?

Rozabeez

I'd probably cry at the awful things that poor child went through.

*Sobs* Books can do it too.

Madame Razz

Rozabeez wrote: »

I'd probably cry at the awful things that poor child went through.

*Sobs* Books can do it too.

I was like that on a pill before, ridiculous stuff:eek:

F.A.

I must be odd as I cannot stand having an orgasm during the first three days - it actually prompts a wave of cramps rather than help against them. I do, however, feel much hornier around that time of the month. Makes for lots of frustration on top of really bad pain! :mad: Painkillers help, and for some strange reason, a short gagging sensation at the hight of a cramp seems to shorten its duration. Weird, I know. Before you wonder, I found out when I was biting my pillow in sheer agony...

I also find really small gulps of very cold water somewhat helpful. As I am restless, warm water bottles don't really help. Pressing/intense rubbing a certain spot at the back also relieves the pain. But without painkillers, I would still be fainting as I used to as a teenager. I suffer from low blood pressure, and intense pain can send me straight down to the ground.

Malteaser!

I take Nurofen plus like they're smarties. They only work from the second day on though, on the first day I try to do as little as possible because the pain is just unbearable. Hot water bottles help a little but it's still very uncomfortable!

LeahBaby

3 top tips to make you feel better on your period.

1. watch a girlie movie with popcorn and maltesers and have a good cry

2. Give out stink to your boyfriend for doing something he shouldn't be doing or not doing something he should be doing

3. Make him apologise and make it up to you with chocolate..

I nearly fainted with the pain this month.
I was out and I had to lie down until my head stopped spinning.
I was worried that I'd never be able to drive home.
Hasn't happened to me since I was a teenager.

LolaDub

Yeah when i was on the pill i would cry at everything. i bawled my eyes out at bllod diamond-get ont he plane leonardo sniff sniff baaaaaaawwwlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll they *sob* can *sob* still save *big big sob* youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

She Devil

Oh guys, i am going through the worse period ever!! Last night i woke three times roaring crying. Three times my boyfr went to get me my hotwater bottle and tylex, Im thinking it was cos i was on a plane yesterday flying back from spain, could that have caused more clots than usual?? Cant figure it out but it feels like contractions! AGH!
And yeah i go mad just before my period, keep crying and go all paranoid! what are we like

Cazlou

manukahoney wrote: »

Chocolate; and proper chipper chips always make me feel better!

Ultimate feel-better food!!!!

SarahJ wrote: »

Yes, and thorugh it too, I usually feel a bit down in the dumps, and oddly, really paranoid. Is this strange?

I'm an emotional person at the best of times but pms turns me into a gibbering wreck, when I was on the pill I was ridiculously paranoid - I even thought traffic lights were out to get me!:o

She Devil wrote: »

Oh guys, i am going through the worse period ever!! Last night i woke three times roaring crying. Three times my boyfr went to get me my hotwater bottle and tylex, Im thinking it was cos i was on a plane yesterday flying back from spain, could that have caused more clots than usual?? Cant figure it out but it feels like contractions! AGH!
And yeah i go mad just before my period, keep crying and go all paranoid! what are we like

I had that this month too!:eek: I was in agony! Thought I was passing my entire insides:( could barely walk - and had to go to work over the other side of the city for the first 2 days - I had heat-pads on constantly to ease the muscles (barely worked) was lashing in the nurofen (I usually swear by it to take away the bulk of the pain, but no effect whatsoever this time), my migraines came at me with meteoric force, I had no appetite (reeeeeeeallly weird for me!) and was constantly gagging. And that's just for starters:o

Like F.A. I also have low-blood pressure and I think I go anaemic with the blood loss coz I've to double and sometimes treble my iron intake for that week every month.....
I have Evening Primrose oil, and I always mean to take them - I most definitely will now after reading some of your recommendations! Thanks ladies!:D