The pain I have to bare during my first day of menstruation is like a nightmare..

Those who don’t feel much during their first day is sooooooo lucky!!! I used to always end up vomiting and get extremely dizzy. Even drinking water and taking some kind of pill always made me nauseous (vomited the pills back up). My body felt like it was on fire but freezing and like those days were horrible. My doctor eventually put me on bc and cramps are tolerable but back pain and nausea is still present. To sum up everything... periods suck 🥺

Honestly it HURTS SO BAD. NSAIDs don’t work and I can’t even take a shower cause it feels like I’m going to faint.

The comfort of reading the comments realising I’m not the only one feeling like I’m fainting and cold sweating during my period

watching this while suffering lmao

my family always thought I was exaggerating, but after having two kids I realized it's just like having birth contractions. and to this day it still hurts so much I can't look after my kids when I get it :(

My cramps forced me to stand up over the toilet and I felt like I was going to pass out. I felt like I was giving birth and my mother said that she had it too. I hate being a girl

These comments feel like a safe place to share that we're not alone! I was on birth control for acne from the age of 14 til the age of 21. It was several months after going off the pill that I learned how painful my periods are naturally. It has been 8 years since I went off the pill, and it has only gotten worse. The first 2 days of my period, I have painful cramps, and I have to have my heating pad on high, be on our near a toilet, and holding a bowl, because the cramps give me the urge to poop and throw up, and it will often come out of both ends at the same time at some point. 🥺 I hate my period so much and I can't work or be with people or function like a normal person. NSAIDs take 4 hours or so to kick in and take the edge of the pain and sickness off. After the first 2 days, it gets better, and the bleeding starts to slow, as well. I hate the NSAIDs I take, and I think they may be the reason I now have acid reflux. I have always wondered if I have endometriosis because women on both sides of my family have it. I don't like that they load you with drugs over a long period of time to attempt to diagnose you with endo, and then you have to get surgery to find out for sure...I know lots of women have way more intense pain and suffer longer during their periods. You girls are all amazing! We are in this together and none of us should feel alone! ❤️

God bless all of y'all lovely ladies in the comments! I'm so relieved to learn that I'm not the only one who goes through this- my periods just seem to be worsening, to the point where I can barely function. I have these episodes where I get extremely hot and fatigued, and I can't breathe and my heartrate gets extremely rapid. My vision always goes blurry and I can't form coherent sentences, or even really make out anything but shapes and outlines. It feels like I'm going to die. I'm absolutely terrified for the future, because I don't know what I'll do a year from now in college, when I don't have my parents to administer minerals or other supplements when I have these episodes...I'd do it myself, but sometimes I'm just completely paralyzed. I have no clue what to do, and am honestly just heartbroken. I wish I could function like a normal person. And these issues last two weeks before my period, the week of, and two weeks after..I'm in this constant cycle, and it's absolute torture. Does anyone have anything similar and, if so, what has helped? I have a lot of sensitivities and wouldn't like to go on birth control, I'd rather do something natural. Thanks all!

I want to confess myself, sometimes my cramps are so bad that i throw up from the pain.

Currently on a painful period 😭 it never stops it’s driving me insane!

it makes me so shaky and im crying right now...it feels like a blender is ripping up my insides my stomach burns so much and its not just on the first day..its everyday until it goes away i cry evevryday because it hurts so bad all the time and i have 8 or more days everytime,,im in my 4th day and it still hurts so bad and i barely can breath it hurts. i can barely get up thats how bad it hurts and i dont have a doctor for this and my mom doesnt even know bc im scared of telling anyone..i dont have anything at home and i suffer every month every 8 or more days...

i always in this pain no medication no check up ...I was on school suffer so i just go home and rest then 10x i always go to comfort room.

I’m usually able to control it with 600mg-800mg of ibuprofen, but if I don’t start medication in time it’s just excruciating. It wakes me up at night. I’m about to start birth control and I’m so excited to get rid of this monthly torture.

Is this thing a curse a genetic curse? Beacuse i know women who feel nothing when they get their periods? This is not fair is it?

I'm in so much pain u can't lay down I can't stand up so it's torture and I have to go to the bathroom every 5 mins why am I a girl

I’m really happy i found this video, i’m not diagnosing myself with this but i am so tired of feeling dismissed about my period. Being ‘overdramatic’ ‘over exaggerating’. I have the cold and hot sweats shaking and back pain and i puke everyday of my period which causes me to feel nauseous all the time while on it and can’t take more medication after throwing up with the horrific cramps because of the recommended medication dosage, i miss so much school because of it. My mom is taking me to a doctor to see what’s wrong with me, but i have been on multiple medications. I first tried advil, ibuprofen, midol, advil extra strength, now i have prescribed medication meant to help inflammation of my uterus. i took it today for the first time but i hate to say that it did nothing and the pain like it usually is was just muted slightly. i think i’m going to show my mom this video so when we go to the doctors she knows a little more.

This video changed my life! I tried taking the pain medicine 2 days before my period like you instructed and OMG usually I’m in horrible pain for 24 hours mostly just my back, but the last 2 months after doing this trick, I’ve had NO PAIN! Thank you! I’m 28 years old. I can’t believe I’ve been taking the pain pills wrong this whole time. Thank you for uploading this :)

People have no idea the crucial pain its worse than labor pains it makes it hard to breathe the pain on your back omg its hard to describe

My doctor has only given me birth control for my cramps, and when I went to the doctor 3 times before, he told me to take Tylenol. I feel very alone and like I’m not being listened to. I’m crying in my bed right now because I’m in so much pain, and I’m trying not to throw up. I have so much to do at school and work this week, and I can’t deal with this.

I used to go home from school and no one took me seriously. Feeling it now because I've been off birth control. It's been yrs since I felt this. Getting back on that pill

My periods used to be painless. I would experience pain the first couple hours but that was it. Now for the past year or so I have had pain that has caused me to vomit, pass out, take a couple days off from school. I can't do this anymore, but i'm happy that that it's not just me. I hope things get better with time because I don't think I can stand another year of this.

anyone watching this with really bad pain right now omg

I finally got diagnosed last year, i been dealing with this since the age of 14. I went to the hospital several times when it got really bad. I use to vomit at-least 3 times a day, take so much ibuprofen and nothing would work. Some months it’s not that bad and other months I genuinely don’t want to be alive, the thing that sucks the most is that some people don’t understand this condition. One time I had anatomy lab & couldn’t even sit in class to take my test because i so desperately wanted to curl up into my bed because all of the pain I was feeling. These cramps are no joke & I salute all the ladies out there that deal with this condition 💖. I hope later down the line they find a better route than just pain killers. Because sometimes the pain killers just don’t decide to work no matter how much you take.

I just vomit earlier this day because of extreme painful period. The experience is really crazy everytime I had it. Words can't even express it. I want to get checked someday so it'll stop

I always miss school or work on the first day of my cycle and the pain is UNBEARABLE I’m not even exaggerating... I can’t eat or drink water (basically I can’t digest anything) for the first 24hrs because I always throw everything up 🤢 and I still vomit even if I haven’t eaten anything, I do get the diarrhea symptom also, the pain is so horrible that I can’t walk straight 😩 I stay in bed all day, sleepless nights; when I first got my menses I never suffered from cramps until the age of 14/15 I’m 18 now and the pain isn’t normal I usually describe them to my mommy as pregnancy contractions although I’ve never gave birth they just feel that way and no pills don’t really work for me 😔 I dread the day the of my next cycle every month 😪 I don’t know if I suffer from dysmenorrhea but I’ve been reading up on it a lot and I’m gonna go to the doctor to find out if this is what I have and if it can be treated because this is crazy!!

I’m so relieved in a way by these comments! I thought something was seriously wrong with me and I was the only one! My periods are so painful and I can’t take anti inflammatory pills because I’m asthmatic 😩 normal pain killers like paracetamol don’t even touch it and Codeine based pain killers make me feel so sick, I get heavy bleeding but not all the time, I get pain in my hip, back, groin and thigh before my periods arrives and once it does the pain is unbearable and no one understands they just compare it to their menstrual cycle 🙄

Periods are a curse. Every month I feel as if I cannot breath because the pain is too strong. I vomit and faint and the cramps are so so painful. I just don’t know what to do anymore. Each month is becoming more unbearable. Tips anyone ?

I can’t even walk right now, couldn’t even keep my menstrual disc in, nearly fainted when I pulled it out the pain was so bad. Nobody was home so I just yelled as much as I needed to and it helped!

I've been suffering extremely bad periods for over 10 years, but with no diagnosis and all scans and even the keyhole investigation showed nothing! I get all the worst bad symptoms each month and I've still found no relief. It's torture. I am based in the UK. I have tried various medications to no success. At the moment I am on mefenamic acid but found no success or proper cure yet. I am too scared to go to GP anymore. I am made to feel like I am wasting their time. It takes out so many days mensing lost jobs, missed classes and total failure in all my endeavours as I've never been able to attend anything regularly yet. I do exercise and I have a very balanced, rich, conscientious diet. I am very depressed today about all these years wasted away suffering for nothing. Other than just putting up with the unbearable and indescribable agony, what can I practically do right now to better my future health and live a comfortable life? Thank in advance.

34 still with painful periods I've had since I was 12. Could the continued pain be due to not having kids? The pain is overwhelming the first day. I am lucky that advil does take a bit of the pain away and taking it a few days before really can help!

Ive been having it since sometime in highschool. It usually happens the second day of the full blown period. When I wake up I start to feel uneasy until a little after when I get up for the day is when I start to cry in pain. My thighs my lower back, and even my pelvis feels like someone is cutting me open. My muscles feel very weak, when I try to go downstairs I feel like I'll collapse on the floor. I end up taking 3 ibuprofen while drinking a lot of water and eating chocolate cookies, after an hour goes by the pain starts to subside. So yeah I believe I have Primary Dysmenorrhea. Sounds about right.

Vomiting,diarrhea, I was given Demerol at 13, then birth control no endometriosis. Had a tubal pregnancy. Had no kids cuz I couldn’t face 2-4 days in bed a month. It was finally, years later partially relieved by pressure on femoral arteries! Sad it still isn’t taken seriously😔

it enrages me how if this happened to men, there would be proper treatment instead of the doctors just saying 'its normal take some paracetamol'. the first day of my period is unbearable. i spend the whole day over the toilet crying and usually pass out atleast once. we deserve to be taken seriously, this level of suffering should not be brushed off as 'normal'. if nothing was wrong, your body wouldn't be telling you that there is.

I go through so much pain on my first day of my period, I asked a doctor about that and he told me it's normal! Yet none of my sisters or mom have ever experienced that,,, it hurts but I use painkiller s

Thought I was the only one who experienced, extreme PMS, excruciating pain, nausea and numbing pain in the thighs...I assumed it must mean there may be infertility issues but most of the research claims that those symptoms dont necessarily equal infertility.

I’m dying rn

It's not just the pain that affects us so much..but also what comes with pain i.e loose motion, feeling pukish, headache, no energy, full body ache, depression, feel sleepy still can't sleep cause of pain, fast heart beat, breathing problems. All these makes me feel I'll die but I don't even die..I just want to die this pain just making my life hell..I hope I die soon to get rid of such pain

Before even period starts I start getting leg pains and slow abdominal pain whi h then grew very very painful....I would cry so much on the first day ...I could not get up for taking bath or for potty. Even it would continue in 2nd and 3rd day.. I would cry the whole day

Me and my sister is suffering dysmenurrhea every first day of menstration, I can handle the pain by taking a NSAIDs but my sister is different. My sister would collapes immediately when her first day of dysmenurrhea comes, what's wrong with my sister?

I've been suffering with this since i was 12. My mother didn't care nor did the doctors. I had one doctor tell me it was all in my head. After i had my son i was offered the mini pill. That stopped the pain. I get pain but it's more manageable and i can go on with my day. I hope this helps someone thay is still suffering

I'm extremely upset & angry as I sit up here in agony, nausea, weakness, fatigue, hell watching a video intended for children, yet I'm 25. No NHS professional has ever helped. They've never helped. I am not in education nor employment. Just to type this, it's taking me ages. I need and deserve help.

It's weird but at the same time it's okay that I only look for period pain when I have Very bad cramps God plz help me

I need help, I’ve been showing signs of being sick and my period this time has been the worst it’s ever been, nothing works but I’ve barley been getting heat flashes. This definitely is my worst period and scariest, I can’t even get up, the pain keeps going up and down

Period pains suck.its like stabbing sharp pains in your stomach back and legs.absolutely agony.whilst at school I was always told to do p e lessons as exercise supposed to help with cramps baring in mind I could barely walk and I made a right scene of myself Infront of the whole class.and when I started working I was told to man up as every women gets periods I was told that after I passed out in the staff room toilets and yet I wasn't allowed to go home.periods are awful yes I know every woman gets them but we ain't all the same.ive took the pill.ibuprfen paracetamol yet I'm still suffering.god bless every woman is suffering we lady's should be taken more seriously period pains are horrendous and to those who don't have them are well and truly lucky.all the best everyone out there is suffering xxxx

The first few months of my period I really didnt have a problem. All I had to deal with is making sure I didn’t bleed through, and then it got worse. I started feeling really tired, and shaky. My thighs hurt a lot, I felt sick and I’d always throw up at least 2 times. On top of that I have really bad period pains, like crying can’t move can’t eat can’t think. More than sure this isn’t normal, any help? It also doesn’t always happen.

I have a lot of pain in my belly now.. I can't listen to the video

I’m 20 and I still get them but after the primary first 3 days it goes away

Anything apart from toxic substances with major potential suggests that can help, as this is not a one time issue, but recurring?

I am crying right now reading tge comments of others suffering from this pain and thibking that my pain won't be gone for a long time. Jesus, i want to have a normal menstruation 😭😭 (I am a girl, using my dad's phone)

What about spinal pain? Is that normal. I've never felt it before this month and it's freaking me out

just came hike early from school cause of painful cramps… I usually faint or get faint symptoms- anyone else?

Kratom is effective for the pain as well and I find it better than NASIDS. I stopped taking NASIDS all together and opted to not do the surgery. I also suspect in my case fungal overgrowth may be a contributing factor which may be causing many disruptions in the whole region, I also get UTIs, have IBS, stomach issues.

The second day of my period is a nightmare, I can’t get up of my bed, y throw up, and Fainting for me is super normal when I’m on my period, the pain is unbelievable, I can’t handle it I feel like I’m gonna die of cramps

I am 26 and throw up too in the middle of the night. This is not normal I been going through this since I was 19

Never used to get pain from my period but this time I had suffered a lot for 4 days continuously. Menstrual cramp strts from afternoon to Till 7pm. May I know the reason please ?? I took painkiller and drank lots of warm water with ginger n lemon. What should do I do in this lockdown ???

I recently came off my pill to start trying to conceive. I went on my pill for 7 years to mask my period pain. Coming off my pill the pain has returned and is just the same. I cant believe i have to go through this until i fall pregnant. I stress and worry when my next period will be from the nightmare I have to go through each time. It feels like im dying, I can't move, i throw up with the pain, have diarrhea and feel dizzy to the point i feel I'm going to pass out. Wherever i am at the time my period comes on, i immediately have to get home to bed and try my best to sleep off the pain for a few hours. Its the worst few hours of my life, absolutely excruciating and unbearable, i have put off pushing for help/surgery for so long as im absolutely petrified of it 😢

Okaa well it feels like I’m finna give birth

I have been suffering with heavy periods and period pain for so long! Even on birth control I still get pains and bloating. When it comes to taking breaks off my pill the pain is so awful I can't move and can't walk because of the heavy flow and the pain, I find it so embarrassing to talk about but as I'm only 17 doctors refuse to listen to me and just don't believe the possibility that it could be something else and just hit me with the "it's normal" statement. I'm scared to take breaks off of my pill and I only manage to make it 3 or 4 days before I have to take the pill again. Over the counter drugs don't work like paracetamol and ibruprofen most of the time I just have to be in bed rest or curled up on the floor. Do you think this could be endometriosis?

Is it ok to take mefenamic acid monthly? To relieve pain?

I’ve always had bad periods where I would have to miss school for 3 days. Now, I’m 24 and in 2018 I got my period and I was sick for 3 weeks. I kept throwing up, some diarrhea and I was nauseous during the entire 3 weeks. It happened again earlier this year in January and I was sick for 3 weeks and now it’s happening again!!! It’s now October and it’s happening and it’s been 2 weeks already, it always starts when I get my period but happens randomly and I never get any answers. Does anyone experience this or has?? I really need all the help I can get.

For me it’s alway the first day of my period is the worst. I can’t eat, I barely drink water, I can’t go to sleep because I can’t get comfortable laying down, hurts to move, my legs have the worst pain and they shake horribly. It’s the exact same pain I felt while in labor having contractions. Also I never had issues getting pregnant with my son, but we are trying to have a second child and we’ve been trying since January. Could this be a reason why?

I am sorry but my provider failed to treat my ENDOMETRIOSIS because she just assumed it was this. I disagree that a pelvic examination is not nessecary. Had my primary doctor taken my pain seriously I would not be infernal today. So no. This is not helpful and if anything it is harmful

Seriously yaar😭🙏 only a painful period girl know that how painful and embarassing it is💔... Here I'm also 😔 uffffffffff 😠 it's so irritating and painful 😭

The pain i gonthrough like im having a baby on all four screaming in pain sick dizzyness headache pains in legs terrible i started my peruod wen i was 18 dnt no if this is anything to do with it im 36 now an till this day i suffer every month i have no kids either so maybe this could be why

Hello! Ladies. I been having painful periods ever since I start started 12 years of age always bleed heavy can't move around because of the flow of losing a lot of blood, but now I take birth control pill and I still go through the pain with my lower back and legs feeling like I want to throw up it's not a good feeling to have. I can walk around with me taking the pills, but the pain have not gone nowhere which sucks

Barley survived the night, I need a solution bc I can’t go through this anymore. Enough is enough, especially when you get so sick, dizzy nauseous, weak, can’t keep anything down and can’t function normally.😭

I get to see what causes this pain, I seem not to see any remedies, does this mean we shall have this pain forever?

Iam very sick today cuz this 😥😩

I'm sorry but period pain is NOT normal at all. Discomfort yes but pain no. This is a fact a lot of OBGYN's have said this. I've had pains so bad since I was 14 and ibuprofen, Paracetamol, Mefenamic Acid (Ponstan), Naproxen (Naprogesic) even medicines that contain Codeine never helped and NO doctor took my seriously I'm now 23 and its gotten so much worse

Can having ibuprofen or buscopan can lead to infertility or reproductive problem?

Can dysmenorrhea cause infertility?

I normally take ibuprofen and it helps all the time with my cramp pains however it hasn’t been so I took a 800mg Motrin (Normally would work) however this time it has NOT. I’m dying like crazy. These pains are too much 😅 I’m 20 and it’s only getting worse as I get older .

i don't think i'll ever understand if women are exaggerating?? because i don't even realize when im on my period, maybe i'll get a little cramp. the only time it's hurt was when i had an ovarian cyst but then again i have high pain tolerance

I'm 35,36 next month. Imy time has always been painful,but over the last year it has been getting worse. I had never had the legs pains until this past year. Right now its so bad that I feel like I have fire running from my hips to my toes. It's so bad 😭 I can't walk right now.

I suffer from extremely painful periods and unfortunately have NSAIDS hypersensitivity...so i have to bear the pain... is it okay to take oral steroids as an alternative pain reliever?

Pain meds don’t work on me. I’ve even tried Morphine shots (at the hospital) - did not work! I just have to suffer through.

I have 3 problems like these My stomach hurts all the time I can't even walk probably, have very heavily bleeding in period time ! It goes all over my legs!! I need to change my clothes after an hour!! I want to do workout!! But never can because I feel pain over there!! I have went to so many doctors!! They said it's need operation so without operation maybe it will not be fine!! My life is like hell ( ･ั﹏･ั)

um I just fainted on my period what do I do

I have terrible upper stomach pain. It's so bad I feel like taking loads of pain killers and ending it all. I've been trying to conceive for 8 months too so to see my period is really draining me.

I wanted to die because of the agonizing pain I experienced every single month all those years ago! Thinking about it now is devastating! The throwing up for two days, the piercing stabbing pain, the thirst and so much more! I hope there is help for the young women going through what I call a crippling disorder of mammoth proportions out there today! It is life changing and incredibly intrusive in a women’s daily life! I remember having to cancel engagements, call out from work and no matter where I was I made a mad dash for home before the horrible agony was to begin! After two to three days of my body betraying me I looked like a person who hadn’t eaten for weeks, my eyes sunken into my sockets and so weak it was difficult to move until I could eat again just to have the whole thing happen again next month! Believe me when I say prayers do not help and doctors were as incompetent as they are today! I had no choice but to take birth control pills and later on the depo provera shot which did help, thank God, but after many many years of suffering and finding the right doctors to finally help me!

Period cramp are the worst

After 2 c sections. My first menstrual day feels labor.

And if I'm 26?

I get injection every month bc of painful periods

Currently on the toilet dying

Does endemetriosis means not having a child?? 😢😢😢

Im sorry ,All U Women have to experience servers pain , And myself relief is coming soon ( I this post comments where 3 years ago 🙏

I want babies so bad now.

I live on ibuprofen 400mg and pain killers actually mybulen or gen pain I double doze my self and I was told to when I have kids the pain will go away.. it’s a lie instead my one of daughters have the same type of pains

Im shaking im so weak i cant stand it feels ike someones continuously fiddling with my back bone the nausea makes me cry even harder the fact i xant eat lest i vomit what i dont have the way my body can fell freezing cold and burning hot with a split sec The fact I'm gonna wake up in the middle of the night for the next three days just to cry myself in the bathroom while i havw to deal with the diarrhea that accompanies this shit Why the fuck is this so mentally and physically draining.At least I'm not the only one right?

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I don't want to be a girl in my next life😭😭