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[hoursintolovers.livejournal.com]

i'm a new member. and dysmenorrhea victim :( yuuuck
anyway
cosmopolitan had some exercises that help ease bloating in their magazine this week and i've heard they actually work, i am going to go ahead and share!
i went ahead and took a picture of the page, but if any of you need to see the pictures closer then i can try to do that for you





they increase abdominal pressure, which reduces intestinal gas and bloating
repeat three times

1. wide second position
stand up tall with your legs slightly wider than shoulder-width apart, pointing your toes out to the sides. bend your knees slightly, and place your hands on your hips. lifting your heels off the floor, bend your knees until your legs are at a 90-degree angle. your knees should extend past your toes. squeeze your glutes as you hold this position for a two second count, return to the starting position.

2. figure four
lie on your back with your knees bent, feet flat on the floor, and your arms at your sides with your palms facing down. keeping your left foot planted firmly on the ground, place your right ankle on top of your left thigh. grab the back of your left thigh with both hands and gently draw it toward you as far as you can comfortably go. hold for a 30-second count. return to starting position and switch legs.

3. abdominal curl
sit on the floor with your knees bent. lean backward, resting your weight on your forearms. contract your abdominal muscles and use them to pull yourself forward until you can hold onto the sides of your thighs with both hands. be sure to keep your elbows high and wide and your shoulders back and down. hold here for 30 seconds, then return to the starting position.
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i also have a question. in order to get rid of my cramps each month that come with bleeding my doctor has said i can stop taking my last row of pills and just miss my period for the month, but how on earth am i supposed to know if i get pregnant? i'm using all precautions, but in rare cases it still happens, has anyone done this before?!

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[ladieophilia.livejournal.com]

I don't know if the exsocises will help bloating. I think that just staying active helps. I have found that doing crunches while on the rag makes cramps worse because it is an anaerobic excorsise. Doing aerobic exorcises helps out cramps and bloating. So does lots of drinking water.
As far as the pills go, there are a lot of girls who do what your doctor sugested. It is becoming common practice. Basically you will have cramps and a period every other month instead of every month. You won't have to worry about the getting pregnant because you still have the chemicals. (I am guessing that he didn't tell you to not take the pills for a week, but to skip the 'week' and move to the next pack)
If you want to try out things to help out with your cramps first without doing the skipping thing, I suggest working out like I said above, and also eating lots of potasium (vita K). Also stay away from pain killers. Some one told me that thier doc said IB profine can make cramps worse. It alliviats the problem for a little while, but at the same time compounds it by pushing back the inevitable until later, when you then have twice as much. I didn't believe it at first, but I tried it out and well, it worked. Once I feel a cramp coming on, instead of reaching for the pills I go for a walk and then streach it out in a back bend. That is on the first day and I don't get any after that. And with eating vita K, it is nothing compared to what they used to be and are completely managable.

[barisaxyvet.livejournal.com]

just to clear something up, potassium (atomic symbol "K") and vitamin K are two totally different things (one an ion, one a molecule). To see the chemical structure for vitamin K and some nifty info about what it does (for all you lovely science geeks out there, like me), follow this link:
http://arbl.cvmbs.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/misc_topics/vitamink.html

Some pretty cool info there!

[ladieophilia.livejournal.com]

okay, you caught me there, but I was trying to put up the potasium because of the way that it helps moving lactic acid out of the muscel cells and vita K because of its properties for the blood and the way that it helps kwith keeping blood consistant, which also helps with cramps. That was a bad poo on my part.
Thanks

[barisaxyvet.livejournal.com]

yeah, no, you were totally spot on with the potassium thing. I just like the fix the world one little fact at a time. :)

[sulingsi.livejournal.com]

hey, about your final question, tons of people do that skipping the placebo week of pills. that's what people mean when they say they're 'skipping their period'. it doesn't work for everyone, usually people will make sure to have their period every other month or every 3rd month to check on the pregnancy issue and to make sure the system's still in working order. i skip my period that way all the time, it's great for dysmenorrhea!

thanks for posting the exercises! i wonder if they really work.

[plymouth.livejournal.com]

I'm on an 8-week cycle on my BCPs - I take active pills for 7 weeks and then I take nothing for a week (I don't find the placebos help me remeber anything so I don't bother with them). I find that's plenty often to know I'm not knocked up. I actually tried to do a 12 week cycle but my body would not accept that - starting at week 8 I would spot and then I would bleed lightly straight through until I took my week-off (so I could bleed for an entire month if I didn't take the week off until week 12). So skipping placebos isn't a forever thing - most doctors recommend you have at least 3 or 4 periods a year. The one other consideration to take into account is that the longer you wait between periods the more tissue builds up inside you, so the cramping and pain when you DO have your period has the potential of being worse. I don't have this problem (my period after 8 weeks is the same as my period after 4 weeks) but I have heard of people who do.