It's the offical "I HATE CRAMPS" thread - stay out if you don't want......

[LynneSin]

...to hear all my bitching but


OUCH!!!!!!

[FleshCartoon]

1. I'm right there with you.

I was soaking in the tub at 2 a.m. last night just trying to calm them down.

[LynneSin]

3. I'm at work and I want to kill everyone who uses their damn...

....speakerphones

:mad:

[FleshCartoon]

9. Oh?

Do you get noise sensitive, too?

I've never heard any other woman mention that, but I get very noise sensitive. Also, touch sensitive--I feel like I'll crawl out of my skin if I'm brushed against.

[LynneSin]

10. Both BIGTIME

On the elevator this morning I purposely let the elevator door shut so that person rushing to get on it wouldn't.

I didn't want anyone else near me!!!

[mr_hat]

2. I saw them once, between Bo Diddly and The Clash.

[sniffa]

16. they're awesome

i Love that ones song, about an "f'd up girL faLLing down the stairs."

[Book Lover]

38. OK, sir, what's the deal with the "L"s?

Did I miss something months ago when I was on hiatus? Why are your ells always capped?

[Fenris]

4. Hey, Lux Interior has a great voice!

:D

[JCMach1]

25. Yeah! They are great... whacha talkin' bout

LS?

[supernova]

5. Heating pad

always works for me. :hug:

Side note: I'm switching to the three month on one week off schedule. Only 4 periods a year. Weee!

[LynneSin]

7. For all I care take the damn thing out of there....

...just 12 monthly reminders that I'm planning on not having children.

[supernova]

14. Yeah. *Sigh*

I missed that opportunity, I'm afraid.

On alighter note, sex is a great cramp reliever.

[StopThief]

62. In my experience, you're correct.

Every past significant other as well as my Wife (No, there has not been anyone else since we met) swear by a good "inner wall massage".

:evilgrin:

[Book Lover]

40. I'm totally curious how that works for you

Post your experience here, please! I myself have an easy time with my period, so I don't mind getting it (ducks LynneSin's thrown shoe) but I am curious to know what your periods will be like when you do get them one you go on the new cycle.

[sus]

6. *somebody* needs to get l. a. i.....wait. how.....l..a.. nevermind.

[Insider]

8. ...and cramps hate us

extra strength tylenol is my only friend, dammit.

[LynneSin]

11. I'm on Aleve

I left my Bextra at home, but I don't think it works as well as Vioxx

[Rainbowreflect]

30. Aleve is the only legal thing that works for me.

Two Aleve, a thermacare heaty pad and everyone leave me the f**k alone.

[fudge stripe cookays]

50. Three Motrin and a heaty pad for me...

Oh...and alternate with chocolate and Bailey's on the Rocks as necessary.

[Beaverhausen]

64. Hersheys Dark Chocolate Treasures with Almonds

and red wine!!!

[tandot]

12. I feel for you...

I am usually get the whole PMS thing, cramps, moodswings and all...




I wish guys would go through that instead of us.

[Bertha Venation]

13. I can bitch about nasty-ass brassieres. I can't bitch about cramps.

But I'm very sorry you have a rough time of it.

[LynneSin]

Girls: What would this country be like if Men got Cramps & PMS

Seriously.......they will NEVER know

[dawg]

34. Believe me ....

We suffer from them too!

[Bertha Venation]

57. Men: two extra paid days off every month -- it'd be in the labor laws.

:eyes:

[jus_the_facts]

15. I NEED some MORPHINE.....

....but suffer with only lame ass Pamprin!! :mad:

I'm feelin' yer pain Lynne!x(

[sniffa]

17. foot cramps?

[LynneSin]

20. MENSTRUAL CRAMPS YOU DAMN ASSHOLE

Sorry, it was the pain raging through me

[lovedems]

18. With cramps I get the lower back pain

and they both suck just as bad. One isn't worst then the other. I live in a house with 5 "boys" and they stay out of my way when the cramps come on. They know. They know....

[Lefta Dissenter]

19. ANAPROX!!! (eom)

[hlthe2b]

21. All I know is that any woman who kills as a result of PMS

NEEDS ME ON THEIR JURY!!!!!!!!!! I can fully understand....

[LynneSin]

23. Have you ever read Lawrence Sanders "The Third Deadly Sin"

I tend to read that book when the cramps are bad. In his Deadly Sins series you know who the serial killer is and their motives. The basis of the book is how the detective catches the criminal. In the Third Deadly Sin, the killer is a woman who kills every 28 days.

I so can relate to that woman!!!

[Insider]

26. i love those books

time to read them again

daniel blank was first, right?

[LynneSin]

28. Yep

That's the only one they made a movie with Frank Sinatra as Edward X Delaney. The 2nd one was the murder of a famous Artist, the 3rd one was the PMS killer and the 4th one was a therapist.

Third was the best, but only because I'm a woman and I could appreciate why she killed them!!

[hlthe2b]

29. LOL!

:toast:

[sasquatch]

22. I used to get EXTREME hamstring cramps during football two a days

I swear it felt like my hamstring muscles were trying to grind my leg bones into dust:(

[Lars39]

24. After years of experimentation, I used Exedrin Migraine(coated capsules)

Seemed to work better for me than Aleve, Tylenol, etc. It had caffeine in it so I wouldn't be totally zonked. Try not to kill anybody. :)

[Cheswick2.0]

27. It could be worse

You might have to have an emergency hysterectomy one day. When that happens and you can't have anymore children (if you want children,,I don't know). You would welcome the cramps back.

Drink lots of water. Use a hot water bottle (ir really works) and you can also massage your uterus which helps pass the clots(which are what is causing your cramps by forcing your cervix to dialate).

Sorry to be so medical..but I used to work in a women's clinic.

[LynneSin]

31. My grandmother lost her Uterus when she was only 30

For me, I wouldn't care. I'm at the point that I know I don't want children. But I can appreciate where you are coming from!!

[Hell Hath No Fury]

36. "...causing your cramps by forcing your cervix to dialate."

Just reading that sentance made my girlie parts twinge with fear!

I went through three previously unheard of/glorious years of permi where I had no clots/no cramps. Now I'm moving into a new phase where I'm back to both.

Yeegads, it's a bitch being a woman sometimes. :(

[cap]

32. next time try taking ibuproferen at the start of your period

and then take it every 4 hrs. Your body is releasing too much progesterone and ibuproferen is an anti-progesterone agent. You must take the ibuproferen right at the beginning of your period...when you feel pain it is too late.

It is truly amazing how many gyns don't know how to treat this. I have suffered truly amazingly bad periods and I mean down on the bathroom floor knotted up in a ball, throwing up, running a fever. My sister was taken to the emergency room once. For a while, I could count on taking one to two days off work due to cramps.

[cap]

35. for right now...

if your not a work... I've found hot tea, a glass or two of wine (enough to make me drowsy...hot pad or electric blanket around the tummy) and some ibuproferen and then a nap to sleep off the worst of it...

[LynneSin]

45. I love those thermapad thingies

I can put one on inside my undies and ta-da!!! Instant heating pad. I just ran to the local drug store and got a box because I had none at work (and I'm 2 days early).

[DoBotherMe]

41. Ibuprofen works

every time. Or as I call it, "God's gift to women."

[arwalden]

33. I Get Leg Cramps And Foot Cramps Very Often.

Is that anything like the cramps that women get?

-- Allen

[physioex]

37. I am a guy...and I know that wasn't a smart thing to say...EOM

[arwalden]

39. Not A Smart Thing To Say? Really? -- I'm Totally Serious. I'm Sincere.

Why would anyone have a problem with my question?

-- Allen

[physioex]

42. LOL...

Have you lived around a woman and not noticed the changes? You would have to be living in a vaccum...

[arwalden]

44. Apparently I Live In A Vacuum.

[physioex]

49. Learn your place.....

You will much be much happier....

[geniph]

61. Ever had really really bad diarrhea with cramps?

That's the closest analogy I know of - the godawful cramps you get with really bad diarrhea.

I never had cramps until I was about 30, then I went to the GYN convinced I was dying. She laughed at me. :mad:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

43. No...it's more like getting kicked in the balls for about 24 hrs straight

while being expected to function normally in your everyday affairs

Just helping you to better empathize :D

[LynneSin]

47. I was trying to visualize the best way of describing it

and it seems you've summed it up best.

This is why men have no problem taking away all our reproductive rights. THEY HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA!!!

If men got cramps every month and knew what it was like to carry a child for nine months, they'd make sure birth control pills were 100% covered by healthcare and stop making stupid laws about a woman's right to choose.

Men have NO idea!!!

[King Of Paperboys]

60. MEN are trying to impact your reproductive rights? ALL men???

You know what? I don't appreciate that.

"Men" are NOT trying to impact your reproductive rights, in any way.

There is a vocal minority of people who are trying to control ALL human activity to suit their twisted definition of "right," but these are NOT "men."

SOME men fear your ability to control your own body. A lot of WOMEN do, too. If YOU control your body, then hundreds of millions of women have to re-evaluate the choices THEY have made.

This is not a "MEN" vs. "WOMEN" issue. I love women and I respect women. To suggest that I, as a member of a group called "men," want to take away your reproductive rights, is insulting.

While I can't know the pain you're feeling, I can at least try to empathize. But "men," as a whole, are NOT trying to stand in your way. Many of us are standing at your side.

Edited for spelling.

[Book Lover]

48. Not really

I can only speak for myself, of course, but no. It's more of a dull ache and is not relieved by stretching out - in fact, curling up feels better. I once dated this guy who was an asshole, but I loved his heated waterbed for crampy times.

[Pithlet]

65. Different kind of pain

Leg and foot cramps (at least for me) are shorter lived, and a sharper pain. Menstrual cramps usually last a lot longer, and are a dull, nagging, persistant pain, although they can be sharp at times. I think the level of pain is about the same.

[LWolf]

66. no.

We get those, too.

These are mild versions of labor pains. Same muscles, same job...to open the cervix and expel what's in the uterus. Just not as strong, since a period is not on the same level with a whole human being.

[nini]

46. wait till pre menopause

OY

:eyes:

[stellanoir]

51. Aside from taking a lot of potasium during the days before

to reduce water retention and subsequent cramps and smoking pot, those are the only things I know to be effective to reduce cramps. I've not done either in years. Now I just take the day off.

Oh wait, am remembering now that supplementing with tinctures of Black and Blue Cohosh and drinking copious cups of raspberry leaf tea did allieviate a lot of pain and suffering a decade ago. Think I'll try it again.

Hope you feel better LynneSin.

[LynneSin]

52. In 30 minutes I'll feel better.

I'm getting ready to leave work. I'll be home at 4:30, I'm going to take a long bubble bath and reread my copy of the "Third Deadly Sin" and reminding myself that Zoe Koehler could be a femimist hero!!!

[TX-RAT]

53. Obviously your not felling well

I should probably baby sit Abbott until your felling better.

[LynneSin]

54. No can do: Cats make wonderful heating pads

Plus petting the cat will help calm my nerves. I plan on having Abbott on my lap for about 20 minutes of feline therapy!

[WilliamPitt]

55. ...eagles suck...

*ducking, fleeing, giggling*

[LynneSin]

56. I hope your pee-pee catches a diseases that causes it

to create massive pain once a month.

Only then you'll understand.......

BTW, we're winning the Super Bowl this year!!!

[TX-RAT]

58. Married for 30 yrs

I feel massive pain once a month.

[GOPisEvil]

59. I am SO glad you weren't go through this while I was visiting.

I might not have made it home alive! :scared:

[Pithlet]

63. They're awful

I'm still nursing little one, so I'm enjoying a reprieve. Get plenty of rest, use a heat pad, devour a pint of ice cream, and pamper yourself. I hope you feel better :hug: