Natural relief for teens with period pain

with my period from the time I was 12 !!!

I suffered with it until I was 19. For my first job, I needed a physical examination. When the (female) doctor found out that I had such pain with my periods, she prescribed a pain-killer and she also advised me to take it whenever I thought my period was coming.

One thing about this was that I found that I could at least manage the pain.

What I have discovered since though, is that getting regular daily exercise (1-hour walk at a fast pace) reduces the pain. Also -- staying away from deep-fried foods and eating more fruits and vegetables helps. When my system is clearing regularly, it helps.

I don't think it's a relaxant they need .... it's the pain and the inflammation that cause the upset stomach.

I may take a pain-killer with an anti-inflammatory to start with, but I usually just eat foods that are easy to digest on the first couple of days of my period. eg. toast ... chicken .... And I stay away from cooked eggs and fresh fruits and vegetables on those days

I hope this helps.

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w2k

All through school, from grade 6 on ... I missed 1 full day a month ... unless, of course, it started on the weekend.

As I look back on it, I realize how inactive I was ... and when I began regular exercise of any kind, things seemed to be better. I also learned what foods to eat and what foods to avoid.

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w2k

I had wretched periods in my teens, and my doctor put me on codeine! Probably a common response in the 1960's. Honestly, at the time, it kept me functioning (Midol, needless to say, didn't make a dent!). I'm not sure what I would have done if my daughter had it as bad as I did. Fortunately she made it through her first decade of periods with only ibuprofen. Not great either, but to be honest, I don't know what else there was to offer. As Soul Sis points out - we don't have control over our girls even if they are still living at home. We look for the easiest and least harmful solutions to whatever life sends our way. Raising teens, one feels perpetually in crisis mode or on the verge. I'm grateful to have survived it but have many regrets about things I failed to do while I still had their attention. - Surviving

You might look into Wild Yam and Feverfew. The Wild Yam is used for PMS and menopausal pain, the Feverfew for headache. There's much more to be found about them online so I won't go into it here. I found them for my daughter who had much more painful periods than I with accompanying headache. She found some relief and used them until she went on the pill. I still keep Feverfew around for headaches and my husband takes Wild Yam because the body converts it to DHEA.

Just a suggestion of something to look at other than prescription drugs.

The big problem I remember with periods (definitely in the mists of time at my age now) was constipation. It was like all systems stopped for a few days until the period came. So what you had was not just period pain but also wind pain and maybe a headache and also nausea. I remember one time an older friend suggested Milk of Magnesium (which is magnesium hydroxide) and I certainly had good effect from taking that for a few months. I took it after the symptoms arose rather than before like you would otherwise as a preventative (still, I hardly knew anything then, no-one talked about these things, they were all so seemingly wise and silent, or stoic victims of an affliction far worse than your own talked about briefly in whispers and a lot of women did not have problems at period time, and scorned any hint that for some it would be otherwise, I mean what could you be thinking?; I think these latter became our Australian feminists). After a few months though I found the milk of magnesium had lost its laxative effect for me and so it was back to the drawing board, but I never did solve the problem which of course may have a lot to do with where I am today prolapse wise. I have more recently discovered that milk of magnesium can carry away the body’s potassium so that may be the explanation of its ceasing to work for the body needs potassium for the good stool. I am not familiar with your magnesium chelate Soul Sister, but I know you would have chosen it for good reason. Apart from that, if the girls can make sure they have the vitamin C, avoiding bad fats (this is perhaps not so easy to do if they are having a carton of chips for lunch), potassium, magnesium and calcium everyday which you know full well about. Another possibility is a concentration on regularity, up to period time so that a few days’ constipation at period time might not be so uncomfortable. As for the period pain itself, one day a month of panadol should not be too much of a risk. But I defer to what you think on that. And for the contraceptive being to do for pimples and period pain, just suss out if there are any likely young men on the horizon before you veto that one. Yes, I know at seventeen, but the world has evolved, and young people are still great risk takers and know so much more than previous generations, and are not likely to listen to caution although still wanting mum’s love and ok, and they have more information and technologically advanced pills and whatevers than we ever had, heck it all started with my generation back in the late fifties with the telephone and it hasn’t slackened off; peer pressure. Your wisdom is needed mum.