Grrrr

[cuzgoatsrkool.livejournal.com]

Don't I love getting my period the night before classes begin...and spend the entire night tossing and turning in immense pain and needing to pee every 5 minutes. :(

Although I am thankful for the Always "cotton-like dry weave" because they are 50 times comfier than the old ones...

I have no point to this except I'M IN PAIN! My first class is in about an hour :( I took an Advil Migraine hoping it would help...although I think I threw them up last time :( At least my hot shower was a temporary relief...I think a long, hot bath is in store for tonight!

-Heather

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[nelsolidarida.livejournal.com]

Ugh, i have this to 'look forward' to - might try to bring myself on early to not have it starting *exactly* at the beginning of induction week.

[cuzgoatsrkool.livejournal.com]

I was gonna skip mine (on the pill) but most times i try i break through anyway :/

good luck to ya!

[whoremoan.livejournal.com]

Is Always the one with those ads that say "have a happy period"? Those make me laugh so hard.

[cuzgoatsrkool.livejournal.com]

lol, that's Always. soooo funny :P

[skeptictank.livejournal.com]

Some things to try since you have no option of staying home and I know how hard it is to concentrate when you're so uncomfortable:

~ Drink lots of water (i.e. more than usual) for a couple days leading up to your PMS-ing days and well into your period.

~ Pick up some of those stick-on self-heating patches that they sell a most drug stores in the girly supply aisle. The heat should tell your stomach to relax a little and those will save you the trouble of having to haul around a heating pad and find a seat near an outlet. Don't be a walking fire hazard!

~ Drink herbal teas. Most health food and vitamin stores will have special teas made specifically for women and woman issues. They'll have things like Evening Primrose Oil in them to calm cramps and ease the actual flow of things. Since hot water isn't always an option at school, grab a big ol' container, brew some up, fill the container with your tea and some ice cubes, then stick it in the fridge overnight. Maybe throw in some fresh peppermint leaves if those are available. (I always drank "grandma's tummy mint" tea from Celestial Seasonings when my stomach was upset as a little kid.) Then in the morning you can fill up a couple of water bottles with your iced tea and haul it to class with you to sip during the day. This will have WAY less sugar than normal iced teas and the herbs will soothe your insides all day long.

~ You can do some light stretches between classes to help calm your crampy-muscles. Even just breathing deeply and stretching your arms up over your head, then slowly tilting from left to right (using your stomach muscles to keep control, of course) is enough to make those weird stabbing ones subside. Google yoga pictorials, because a lot of those can easily be adapted to stretches that you can do seated at a desk or standing around without taking up too much space.

~ One last thing, I see you found pads/liners that make you happy, but I found that once I started having school AND sitting at a desk for work, my skin was still too sensitive to sit on a regular ol' pad all day. I switched to Natracare (I get 30 for $2.75 or so at my local Health Emporium and the prices may even be better online) and I've got a happy hoo-ha. I used to just bear through normal discharge ickies and whatnot because I hated pads so much but I use Natracare for just any ol' thing now.

[cuzgoatsrkool.livejournal.com]

wow, thanks for all the tips!
i bookmarked the Natracare page and am going to search for some in my area..seems like they'd feel a LOT better.

i used to have some of those heat patches....im not sure where they got too! im a big one for the magic bags when im at home... ive tried to keep up with the whole drink lots of water but i'll try drinking more herbal tea like you said.


thanks a ton!!

[skeptictank.livejournal.com]

I am a big believer in the idea that if you can't cure the BIG problem, you can at least lessen the smaller ones related to it. And when all else fails, take the day off and eat ice cream.