Oh my God don't get me started on the period issue. I will never shut up. I probably have the worst case of so called "cramps" out of anyone I know of or have ever even heard of. Although for me, I don't even call them
cramps, mine is more like
LABOR PAINS. You guys my periods are AWFUL. I cry 24/7 and no I am not exaggerating. If I start my period in the middle of the night, it will wake me up in a solid dead sleep, no joke. I can feel my periods coming almost 2 weeks before they actually start. I cannot even wear Tampons anymore because they are too painful. I cannot move or get out of bed. I use a heating pad set on high 24/7 when I'm on my period and drink I don't know HOW many glasses of hot hot hot Peppermint Tea. I take Advil every 4 hours until I am at my max dose for the day and then I lay there in agony. And yeah I know Advil is hard on the stomach but thats the
only thing that will even
half way help. I take baths so hot that I can barely even sit down in the water and my skin turns bright red. If I start in the middle of the night - 2, 3, 4, 5 in the morning, whenever it is, I will have to get out of bed half asleep, "pre-heat" my damn heating pad- set on high, make boiling hot Peppermint Tea, run boiling hot bath water, lay in there for the longest time (while drinking the tea) until the water gets cold, then get out and use a heating pad set on high. I then rub this Menthol crap on my stomach called Menastil that smells like Peppermint that is
supposed to ease the pain. I also have to put one of those Thermal Heat Strip things onto the front of my panties so that it will hopefully touch my stomach. My God it sounds like I am going into battle
My husband doesn't even ask what I'm doing anymore he is so used to it. He will wake up and ask if I'm ok and if I need anything. He knows exactly what I'm doing. But absolutely no one actually
understands what I go through
It is so painful I just dread when my period comes. It's scary. I think this is why I can't get pregnant (although the lack of a sex life could also be a contributor lol). I seriously - seriously need to go to the doc and have them check me for Endometriosis. I'm 99% sure that I have it, I just don't know if I wanna find out
Birth control pills did help but I refuse to take those for the rest of my life just to stop the freaking pain. I shouldn't have to do that. Plus I would like to have a baby one of these days, and I certainly can't do that when I on BC! Not to mention I have PMS like nobody's business. GEEZ. I wonder why
I don't know. I am just miserable.