Nothing Clever Today

[reiko18]

I had the bulk of my day today hijacked by fucking menstrual cramps. Fucking menstrual cramps. I feel cheated out of a big chunk of my Sunday, because I instead spent so much of it writhing in pain

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[unrelatedwaffle]

Nothing, I repeat, NOTHING ever helped me with menstrual cramps other than obscene amounts of Advil (2 every 6 hours? More like 4 every 4!). And even then the pain was still sort of hovering beneath the surface like a caged animal.

And then it got EVEN WORSE, and no amount of OTC drugs could stop the pain, so I said fuck it, went on the pill, and cramps are gone forever. Not that this is a practical solution for everyone, I'm just emphasizing how home remedies are no match for the power of a spasming uterus.

[reiko18]

Well my mom told me the whole horror that was menstrual cramps for her from age 12- early 20s, which not to belittle you, but sounds much much worse. She said she would take like 8 Midol at a time and it'd make her ears ring. She ended up taking like, B Vitamins and drinking red wine because she know thinks that she might have had some sort of anemia. As she put it to me, she grew up in a time where people treated you like your pain was all in your head, and not a real, physical thing. She was embarrassed to be in her 20s and using hot bottle waters to ease the pain because it made her feel like an old woman. She also apparently would get to sick she'd throw up all thet ime, and thus couldn't eat. One time her brother was so worried that she was starving herself that he made her this huge breakfast, and she ate it because she knew he was trying to help and didn't get what was going on, but then just ended up ralphing it all later. This sounds like an anecdote that ends up in an episode of Mad Men that makes everyone think about much