Well Tickledpink, if it's going to be like THIS, ME EITHER!!!!! :D :D :D

thanks be to birth control pills
 

Prior to getting on the pill, I had the 7day stretch with severe cramps the first two days. Now that I'm on the pill, my menstrual is only 3-4 days with medium to light flow.

My issue is the PMS. Not only do I want to stuff everything down my throat but I'm so freakin EMOTIONAL!! I wasn't like this in my early 20's. I often wonder if it's because I'm rapidly approaching 30??? Anything and everything will move me to tears a week prior to going on. What to do???

Now that depropovera (?sp) shot was a hot mess for me. I started taking that right after I had my youngest daughter (so I had to be about 23) and it BLEEEEEWWWWWW me up! I gained weight instead of losing weight after having that child. Then my period would never leave when it did come! Did not work for me! :eek:

This thread is TMI, lol, and we don't care, lmao. Anywho...

The pill made my cycle shorter and lighter with less cramps. Now, I still have them, but I can live. Before, I was shut DOWN: no school, no work, just sleep. But now, I can go bike riding, horseback riding, lol, lemme stop. I stopped the pill, and started again, and my cycle is even SHORTER!! Originally, it was 7 days, cramps at least 5 of them. Then it was 5 days, cramps for 3. Now it's about 3-4 days (YAAAAAY!), but I still have cramps for about 3 days.

When I was in Spain, my senora made me drink warm milk (YUK) and she put a thin blanket on my lower stomach, and ironed it. Oh, it was heaven. Better than a heating pad.

What we NEED to figure out is a way to alleviate the PMS. Do you think that if the cramps were gone, the binchiness would leave too? Nah, I doubt it. I'm just irritable. I think it's the inconvenience of the whole thing. Gotta take longer in the shower (which I really don't mind, lol), gotta go to the potty more often in the day, can't crank. It really is an inconvenience (sp?). Thank goodness we can have kids from it, lol, otherwise, it'd be a str8 waste.

Does anyone else feel completely fatigued at that time of the month? I always feel so tired that it feels as though I have been drugged or something. On top of that, my sense of smell changes. Everything takes on this really odd smell. I also get a headache on day two, that usually lasts until day 5 or 6, that no pills can get rid of. All this added to the cramps and back aches makes it a terrible, terrible time.

Hot baths and hot tea offer some relief, but there is nothing better than a lower back massage, where the pain hits me the hardest.

Re: thanks be to birth control pills
 

This is what I'm saying! I reeeeaaaaally thought PMS was a bunch of propaganda until I began approaching 30. Now, I'm not emotional, as in tears, but I want to snap over every little thing.

I tried the pill, but after I had a 30 day cycle, I bid the pill bye bye. I thought about the shot, but I don't have time to deal with side effects. Wihout Naproxen Sodium, I was like Ideal, no school, no work, shut down. I couldn't walk, move, or anything. Men have it lucky. :p . Hey, this thread is TMI! :D I bet the guys have been avoiding it like the plague!

Oh, and I'm LMPGBO @ U, korkscru. :D

1. Get a prescription of Anoprox from your doctor
or
2. get a prescription of Motrin, like 500 mg or so
3. drink warm liquids (hot tardi to know you out):p
4. get on the pill to have your cycle regulated


Back in the day I had #1 and #4, now I only use #4.

Yes. Midol is supposed to help with this, but hasn't so far. Does anyone know why this happens?

It could be a number of things, really:

-- carrying around extra water, and for what?
-- people saying ignorant stuff, when you done already told them, today is not the day
-- you couldn't sleep comfortably the night before, trying to be all in the fetal position so that the cramps will go away
-- you took too many pills (I was guilty of this back in the day, anything to stop the pain. i would actually tell my friends, "If I pass out, this is why...")
-- you've cried, cuz you're emotional, and you know crying makes you wanna lay down
-- everything seems bigger, harder, longer, more annoying, etc., than what it really is
-- it could be psychological :rolleyes:

Ohh my
 

When I was younger, I used to have hospital stays because my cramps were so severe... I found later that I had a tipped uterus and Endometriosis (Scar tissue in my uterus and other places.) I had to have lazer surgery to remove the scar tissue and stop my cramps...even today I take 800+ milligrams of motrin to stop the pain of cramps. But the pain has been significantly reduced since my preeteen days!!


Oh to be me!

Try Vioxx....
 

Also my doctor told me to try vioxx... it works as well but is pretty expensive, but you only take one a day. It is normally used for athritis of infammation (which is the main cause of cramps) Try it!


I was addicted to Aleve to, but just 2 pills a day was not working and I didn't want to od on the pills, so I went back to prescription Mortrin, still the best ever cramp fighter in high milligram doses. :)

Well, I know, for me and like others, things seem to be coming to a head now that I'm 30+. I think that once you get your tubes tied, things kinda change. It's just hard being a woman. THANKS EVE!!! :) :) :)

I didn't really believe in that PMS stuff either UNTIL I started having it. My family is always like on eggshells around me when I'm going through this. I'm not "emotional" either (crying and carrying on) but, Sisterfriends, I'm like a mad-man at times (very cranky and irritable, tired, critical (mainly of myself), bloated, etc.). MY sense of smell is also heightened during this time (I could probably smell a fly's fart a mile away). :D :D :D Now also around the last two days of my cycle, I'm like EXTREMELY...SEXUALLY AROUSED (I'm NOT kidding). My husband LOVES that, but he knows that IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN because my cycle is still on. :D :D

Gosh this thread is great. It's a wonderful way to relax, relate, and release.

LMNHO @ the shout out to EVE!!!!! Chit, where would we be without her! :eek: