Woman only please

[Tammylb 174]

Mine was a week late this month ,( I was Hoping it was gone for good lol )but when it came it was very heavy , and the cramps where worse then ever !! What are you all taking for cramps?? I took Tylenol arthritis 650 mg .

[Darianna75 131]

Mine are so heavy I can't make the drive to work!! The pain is so bad that I get a fever and vomit for several days and can't leave the bed. Vicodin doesn't even touch the pain and I have gone to the hospital and they said it's "just a period" .. Bastards! My pcp said I was too old for bC (38) and wouldn't give me a prescription for it. Might be time to call an obgyn and get some Tests run . Had surgery in feb

[BitterSweet* 835]

@@Darianna75, girl that sounds like a nightmare on wheels!! So sorry! BCPs would probably be ok at your age (as if 38 is even old) but only if you don't have a long history of taking them. The longer your exposure to synthetic hormones like estrogen, the higher your risks are for things like breast cancer later on in life.

Ask your current OB/GYN for a progesterone only BCP (like Nor-QD) and you will forget you ever had this problem. I had the same thing going on and have been in perimenopause since I was 36. Yeah, I know. It was so bad that I just knew I was dying - bleeding so heavily that I went to the ER on 2 separate occasions!! LMAO. Bought myself a nice diagnosis of anemia as a result. Those pills really helped.

Edited August 12, 2014 by BitterSweet*