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[pinkie.livejournal.com]

Has anyone ever had such bad cramps and be bleeding so heavily that they find themselves very nauseous especially in the morning? I'm not pregnant so don't tell me its morning sickness :-p I'm just curious if I am the only one that gets sick from there cramps being so bad? This is a first for me

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[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I've gone through eras in my menstrual life (26 years now) in which I've thrown up from cramps. I barely notice my periods, now.

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[pinkie.livejournal.com]

Well that is comforting. I've never felt sick from it before so I was just curious if was semi-normal. Thanks

[jpallan.livejournal.com]

I used to but I fixed it by switching to cloth pads and The Keeper, my periods became shorter and I did fine from then on out -- I don't know if I was maybe allergic to some of the tampon stuff or what, but I have much less cramping and no nausea now.

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[pinkie.livejournal.com]

Yeah I don't know if I am allergic to my tampons because I have been using them since I started my period 7 years ago, but who knows. Maybe I should try that out and see. Do you really like your Keeper? Thats all I read about but I don't know if I would be able to use it because my flow is sooooo heavy

[whatevah.livejournal.com]

Once in a while, if I let my cramps get out of control, there is some nausea (and a host of other unpleasantries) and once or twice that nausea has escalated. The worst it ever got was when I started to get numbness in my hands and feet (which fortunately happened only once and didn't last very long at all). I monitor and medicate my cramps very very closely now.

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[pinkie.livejournal.com]

What did you do to prevent or stop this nausea? I try to take pain meds but they don't seem to ease the pain. :-/

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[whatevah.livejournal.com]

I take naproxin sodium for cramps...usually 2 doses at the very first twinge (sometimes even one dose the night before I expect them), drink hot raspberry tea heavily infused with fresh ginger (antispasmodic and somewhat of a bloodthinner), wear a Therma care pad to help keep heat on my lower pelvis throughout the day. Nausea may also be helped by the ginger in the tea and failing that, peppermint tea also works very nicely (separately from the raspberry). That's my convoluted recipe for cramps. It keeps them down most months.

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[pinkie.livejournal.com]

WOW, great info I am going to try all of them :-) Because this waking up feeling sick because of cramps just isn't working for me. Thanks a lot!!!

oh yeah!

[thekumquat.livejournal.com]

Been there, thrown up, the lot. I used to take Ponstan but after a couple years I needed to up the dose and then it stopped working. Then I was prescribed the pill (Femodene), which worked for a couple years, and then the pain came back. Now I have a scrip for Ponstan (mefenemic acid)as well, beccause now there are 500mg tablets which really sort it out.
If that stops working in two years then I'm going to have kids, because pregnancy is supposed to help (I want kids anyway!)

I also avoid caffiene for the week starting 2 days before my period, and, thanks to the suggestion of my GP a few years back, have as much sex as possible during the pill-free 4-5 days before the bleeding starts. It really works!