Normally, everyone experiences some uneasiness and pain on the first day which gradually subsides as the flow reduces. You may try some of these measures to ease your discomfort.
* Practice the yoga poses mentioned in Home remedies for PMS regularly or at least a week before the commencement of your periods. However, stop any kind of strenuous exercise during menstruation. Also rest yourself at proper intervals and stay away from all kinds of stressful and arduous activities.
* Include more of drumstick, bitter gourd, beetroot, green veggies in your diet. Avoid foods with a high glycemic index and meat.
* Aloe-vera is a highly valued herb in Ayurveda and very effective in treating all kinds of menstrual problems. Intake of aloe juice or aloe-gel before and during the periods will go a long way in alleviating all kinds of pains and symptoms.
* Asafetida (Hing) is another condiment from the kitchen which you can count upon. Fry asafetida in a little ghee and take this paste thrice daily. For a bloated feeling in the abdomen, you can have a glass of buttermilk mixed with a pinch of asafetida.
* Or you could boil a few pods of garlic in a cup of water and take this water three times a day.
* ½ a teaspoonful of bruised or crushed sesame (gingelly) (til) seeds with hot water twice a day also eases your pain.
* Take 8-10 leaves of neem and grind it into a fine paste with ginger juice and have this during your periods. This can provide some relief. A decoction prepared from the leaves of lemon grass leaves, taken twice a day is also quite effective.
* Also try some of the remedies mentioned in the post Home remedies for excessive and heavy bleeding, especially the one in which you are advised to sleep with your legs slightly raised by a pillow.
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13 comments:
Try green tea. Budweiser is also quite effective.
Severe period pains should always be investigated to check for a treatable cause. As a rough guide, if your wife has had severe period pain (known as dysmenorrhoea) since around the time her periods first started, it's less likely a particular cause will be found.
There are exceptions to this. Conditions such as endometriosis can sometimes cause severe pain from an early age (although the pain typically gets worse as the disease does more damage with each monthly cycle). Other causes include fibroids, pelvic inflammatory disease and sometimes a narrowing of the cervix. Bear in mind, though, that period pains are rarely a sign of disease, especially in younger women.
Have you ever tried using a heating pad? it works for me. taking a really hot shower works good too.
Unfortunately I feel your pain, literally. For about a week out of every month I have severe mood swings, pains, and I am nauseous the entire time.
I have found that just laying down in complete silence with the lights off, and a heating pad, make me feel some better, but it still hurts.
Have you tried muscle relaxers. I hate to advise anyone to take medicine, but I understand your pain, it can be very unbearable. I dread the 1st of ever month.
I also have cysts on my ovaries, which doesn't make the pain any better.
Hope you find something that helps!
An anti-inflammatory will help for those dreadful cramps. I personally use advil, but midol and aleve help as well.
Something else that helps is to drink hot raspberry tea as well as have a heating pad on your stomach or back. The tea aides healthy menstruation and tones the uterus. Many naturopaths use it.
I also have horribly painful periods, one time I even had to be rushed to the hospital in an ambulance and be hooked up to morphine for awhile because of the pain. What my gyno thinks the problem is, is endometriosis. Look it up. The only way they can detect it is by doing a Laproscopy
Severe period pains should always be investigated to check for a treatable cause. As a rough guide, if you've had severe period pain
There are exceptions to this. Conditions such as endometriosis can sometimes cause severe pain from an early age (although the pain typically gets worse as the disease does more damage with each monthly cycle). Other causes include fibroids, pelvic inflammatory disease and sometimes a narrowing of the cervix. Bear in mind, though, that period pains are rarely a sign of disease, especially in younger woman
warm compress on the abdomen for 15-20 minutes. knee chest position, or take analgesic ex. Ibruprufen (Midol)
The best thing to do is to eat foods that will relieve some of the cramps like carbs, bananas/raisins, and yogurt/milk. They're supposed to relieve cramping and bloating. Stay away from high sodium foods, which can cause excess bloating, discomfort, and gas (eww!) and caffine. And then exercise, but you may have to slow down the exercise a little, so it doesn't feel to like too much. Yoga may help too and it relieves stress!
Take a soft cotton towel dipped in cold water and put on theabdomen ,this gives spontaneous relief .
Take 1tsp Cumin powder and 1tsp honey in 1/2 a cup water 5 days before the menstruation begins .
Chamomile Tea is helpful in relieving menstrual cramps in women.
Drink some tea made from fresh ginger and sweetened with a little sugar.
Castor Oil alleviates period pain and menstrual cramps massage some hand-warmed Castor oil over the lower abdomen to relieve period pain and menstrual cramping. Using the Castor oil pack method over the lower abdomen can also help reduce menstrual irregularities and uterine and ovarian cysts.
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