The key with bad cramps--and I learned this the hard way until I read a book about the subject by a doctor with the same problem--is to take a couple of doses of an anti-inflammatory medicine like Advil or Motrin (some form of ibuprofen) during the two or three days leading up to your period. It's critical to take the ibuprofen before the period itself starts, then keep up with that ibuprofen till the bad cramp days are over.

Cramps and other types of muscle pain are caused by chemicals called prostaglandins. Ibuprofen and aspirin are both prostaglandin inhibitors. But you need to take the inhibitor medications before the prostaglandins begin to do their painful deeds to head them off at the pass because the inhibition process takes some time to work.

Learning about the ibuprofen-in-advance approach has really helped ease my bad cramps. On really bad months, the early ibuprofen approach doesn't get rid of the pain completely, but when I take it right, it helps cut the pain down significantly. And in plenty of months, it does help get rid of the cramps almost completely. Those are miserable days. (That, by the way, is how labor feels--like hard, bad cramps that come in waves.)
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