YOUNG-WOMEN Messages for April, 2001: Re: painful periods/ my sister

Re: painful periods/ my sister

From: Lynn D. Montgomery, MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 30 Apr 2001 21:37:02 -0500

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At Wed, 25 Apr 2001, mood wrote: >
>when my sister was 18 turning 19, she began having severe pain with her
>periods. one time, she woke me up in the middle of the night cause she
>was moaning, and she passed out from the pain. she's a really tough
>girl, and it takes her a lot to admit she has pain. she said the
>periods were not very heavy. she then went on birth control pills, and
>the pain seems to be a lot less now. she asked her doctor why the pain
>would be so bad, and the doctor said that it got worse probably because
>she had started ovulating. is this a common thing? i read somewhere
>that debilitating pain is not "normal", yet the doctor seemed to think
>that ovulation could normally cause this type of pain. what are your
>opinions on this?
>
>--
>mood flower
>

Mood flower, The pain associated with menstruation is likely the result of the uterus and its reaction to the blood within it at the time of the period. The uterus does not like blood and because of that it cramps when there is blood present. In some women, this cramping is very painful. By taking the pills, it lessens the amount of bleeding with each period, thus lessens the amount of discomfort or cramping... Lynn

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Lynn D. Montgomery, MD
Director, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Rocky Mountain Perinatal Center
Missoula, Montana

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