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Pretty sure junk food is making my periods worse.

  • 13-08-2019 2:30am
    #1
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭


    Does anyone else find this?

    But i didn't eat great this last two weeks. I got my period and my god was it a bad one.

    Much worse than usual.

    I knew this just from my own body. But then i did some research and its been proven sugar makes cramps worse. It makes more prostaglandins which makes you cramp more.


    Salty foods and fatty foods make more prostaglandins too.

    Other suspects are dairy and caffeine.

    Am going to have to cut them out ....i can't go through this again every month. Not even solpadeine knocked out the cramps.


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  • #2
    Salthillprom
    Registered Users Posts: 439 ✭✭Salthillprom


    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    Does anyone else find this?

    But i didn't eat great this last two weeks. I got my period and my god was it a bad one.

    Much worse than usual.

    I knew this just from my own body. But then i did some research and its been proven sugar makes cramps worse. It makes more prostaglandins which makes you cramp more.


    Salty foods and fatty foods make more prostaglandins too.

    Other suspects are dairy and caffeine.

    Am going to have to cut them out ....i can't go through this again every month. Not even solpadeine knocked out the cramps.

    Can caffeine make them worse? I'm on a serious caffeine bender lately, having gotten a new coffee machine. My periods are horrendous. They come over the space of 24 hours and then it's done, like it never happened, but I nearly bleed out over that 1 day and feel like absolute crap. It's handy in other ways though too, in that the hassle is over in 24 hours and I'm period free again. Wonder is it the coffee now that you mention it.


  • #3
    Addle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,812 ✭✭✭Addle


    Diet and weight definitely affect mine.
    Makes sense.
    Swelling, bloating, movement in the area will affect organs, I think!


  • #4
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Salthillprom wrote: »
    Can caffeine make them worse? I'm on a serious caffeine bender lately, having gotten a new coffee machine. My periods are horrendous. They come over the space of 24 hours and then it's done, like it never happened, but I nearly bleed out over that 1 day and feel like absolute crap. It's handy in other ways though too, in that the hassle is over in 24 hours and I'm period free again. Wonder is it the coffee now that you mention it.


    I am not a medical professional but yes I have read caffeine makes them worse and also that it makes the symptoms of pms worse.

    Makes sense.
    Swelling, bloating, movement in the area will affect organs, I think!

    I think its more that it affects your hormones.


  • #5
    Salthillprom
    Registered Users Posts: 439 ✭✭Salthillprom


    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    I am not a medical professional but yes I have read caffeine makes them worse and also that it makes the symptoms of pms worse.

    Makes sense because I get into the worst mood b4 mine


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