What products do you use to relieve period🩸 pain?

I take 200 mg of magnesium glycinate a day, which has almost eliminated cramps for me. This will also help withe the constipation. You have to take either magnesium glycinate or magnesium chelate for it to absorb properly. Magnesium citrate is also effective, but not as good as the other two. Magnesium oxide is almost useless for cramps.

My period pain reduced dramatically when I started doing yoga. Helps with overall blood flow or something I guess.

I also drink more water on my period. I drink like 30 oz of water first thing in the morning, which helps me poop, because usually on my period I get hella constipated, which contributes to my cramps. Also my uterus is tilted, which may make a difference with how/why I experience cramps.

When I was younger I used to swear by these heat patches, especially when I had to go to school or be out and about. They were lifesavers.

Also, for me, I found Aleve to be far superior than Tylenol in reducing period cramps. But that may depend on the person, I have a friend for whom Aleve did nothing so her go-to is ibuprofen.

Drinking a strong (well-steeped) cup of raspberry leaf tea, daily.

A few additions:

- TENS - I have an Ova+, reasonably priced, it isn't miraculous, but when I have awful cramps it is what allows me to get out of my bed and reach the fridge or the bathroom.

- CBD.

- Period underwear/pads also help me, I feel that without a menstrual cup or tampons my pelvic floor is more relaxed and hurts a bit less.

- A few extras/supplements: turmeric, Omega-3, ginger.

- Also, the symptothermal method is a wonderful tool for assessing your hormonal health, you might want to look into it. Getting to know my body and my reproductive system has been fascinating and the most empowering thing I have done lately.

Having said this, periods should not hurt. PAIN IS NOT NORMAL, and should not be normalized. Sadly, this has taken me years to understand. If you raise the issue with your gynecologist and he or she doesn't take your pain seriously or says it is normal, you might want to consider looking for a second opinion.

I don't usually experience severe period pains - it occurs once in about five years, but when I do, I go and lay in a bathtub and turn on the hottest water I can handle. Like almost boiling, so hot that I look like a cooked lobster when I get out, but not to the point that it actually burns. And I lay like this until the pain goes away. You don't have to fully submerge, only lower back and your stomach are important. Removable shower heads work too. This is the only thing that helped me, when the cramps were really unbearable. I understand, that you aren't always at home when you're on your period, but I hope this can help someone in here.

Otherwise I (rarely) just use a painkiller.

I rarely have period pain anymore (following a healthy lifestyle helps a lot), but when I do, I take a medication called mefenamic acid.

echoing a healthy lifestyle with plenty of exercise, healthy whole foods, plenty of restful sleep, decreased stress, delicious warm beverages, warm baths/showers, heating pads (buckwheat pillows can be handmade at home and contain no plastics) and laughter (i like to search YT for female standup comics). ironically the months when i didn’t have to interact with LVM and listened to what my body wanted the most (including taking days off from work before my Day 1, so i could just rest and take care of myself), my periods almost surprised me with their mildness.

I used to get terrible periods as a teenager. I had awful attendance too because unless it came at the weekend, I had one day off school every month. I have family members for whom periods got so bad that they got hysterectomies. I've changed my lifestyle a lot though and they've got amazingly better! I can actually go out and live my life as usual even while on my first day now which is a shocking improvement.

The main thing is healthy eating and lots of exercise. I go swimming twice a week and try to go to the gym once a week. Regular walks help a lot too. Whenever I cut back on the exercise, my periods get noticeably worse.

I can't take pills so I take liquid paracetamol on the first day. Hot water bottles and lots of regular hot meals do a lot of good too. Echinacea tea and Raspberry leaf tea is supposed to help with period pain so I drink these.

Switching to period pants and reusable pads really helped reduce my period pain as well! Before that I used to use disposable pads and I think I disagreed with the chemicals they use in them because they just made everything much worse.

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Exercise and diet really helps relieve period pain. Not on that particular first day but doing exercise and eating better if not healthy all the time helps.

And I also take a muscle relaxant called "cataflam" which doubles up as a period pain reliever according to my gynaecologist. I can check the drug name and share if interested.

Hot water bags help as well. So does camomile tea.

Just gonna echo everyone else here, when I started walking for 30 minutes twice a week on a treadmill I saw a dramatic reduction in both the heaviness of my flow and the intensity of cramps. I didn't change my diet much either, just worked out a teeny tiny bit. When it was bad I used to use those heated pads you throw in the microwave. Also I would make myself a tea of fresh minced ginger, fresh lemon, and honey.

My new gyno suggested reacted magnesium. I also started taking 650mg of Tylenol. I know that's probably not good, but I have a fibroid and my cramps hurt like hell sometimes.

HPA axis dysfunction in women with premenstrual syndrome: A meta-analysis based on cortisol levels (psych.ac.cn)

IJERPH | Free Full-Text | Association between Dietary Habits and Severity of Symptoms in Premenstrual Syndrome (mdpi.com)

putting these studies here for more of a long-term, radical approach.

Possibly vitamin D.

i take fiber supplements from walmart great value brand help with the stomach issues its big chunky chalky tablets but idk if there are other options, tylenol, (recently started taking Vitex supplements cause I suffer from PMDD cant say if it helps a lot yet). If I have sleep disturbances due to period I use dr teal's melatonin lavender body lotion helps me feel more rested.

Mirena IUD. No period and 99% pregnancy prevention efficacy for 8 years. Only hurt as much as a period cramp going in .

Menstrual yoga and a hot water bottle!