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Giving birth to your uterus
TMI...I know, but having come off the pill my cramps are HORRIFIC! I feel like im 13 again. This is my 5th cycle off BC and each one is equally horrible. I was SO excited to get AF this cycle as we will TTC the first time this month.......and now that its here I just PRAY I get KU and have 9 months without AF!!!! I took tylenol, but hesitated as I'm trying to keep all meds out of my system. Anyone have any other cramp remedies that are not medicinal????
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Re: Giving birth to your uterus
I love my electric heating pad. If you can't lounge around on the couch all day, though, those Thermal Care menstrual heating pads are also awesome, and they last a good 6 hours. Sometimes though, you just gotta pop the pills. I know the pain are you describing, and I would just take the Tylenol.
Hope you feel better soon.
lol, I love the title to this thread.
My AF pain varies from month to month. A few cycles ago I was literally in tears from the pain. I took a TON of pain meds and lived with a heating pad plastered to my abs. I know, you were looking for med-free. This one was bad.
On less severe months I take many hot baths - hot hot hot, as hot as you can stand, or as hot as my water tank will make it - and I do a lot of yoga. Anything that really stretches out your abdomen is good. If might feel like hell at the time, but afterward I usually have a good reprieve (I spend a lot of time in child's pose or wisdom pose at the end
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Ditto the heating pad, I also drink some green tea, and that seems to help me a little. But I do take tylenol too. It is save to take when you are pg too.