What do you do when periods are painful?
- Take painkillers and lie down.
- Power on through if I have to, go to bed if I do not.
- Sleep.
- Try to get on with my day as best as possible as society sadly doesn’t make many allowances for people who aren’t feeling well due to menstruation.
- When they’re really bad, I curl up in bed with a hot water bottle, painkillers and keep really still in the dark. Most of the time, I just try and ignore it and use a hot water bottle to take the edge off
- Take painkillers and stay watered.
- I take a day off, try to get some rest in bed, drink hot tea and take lots of meds.
- Take pain relief and wear a hot water bottle. If that isn’t effective I tend to get into the foetal position.
- Be kind to myself. Make a hot water bottle.
- Cry. Take a Tylenol, wait for it to kick in, then sigh.
- Use a hot water bottle/my husband does ‘Mr. Miagi hands’.
- Do something to take my mind off it.
- Need to sit or lie down.
- Hot water bottle and chill.
- Try and take time off work, relax in bed.
- My periods are not painful.
- Use a hot water bottle, take it easy.
- Take a painkiller and rest. Maybe drink tea and have a hot water bottle if it’s really bad.
- Take ibuprofen.
- Painkillers, hot water bottle and TENS machine. Try to relax and not stress. Yoga stretches.
- Lay around or shower.
- Tylenol/Advil.
- Feel sorry for myself but just get on with it really.
- Get on with everything and feel horrible and grouchy or if it's too much, take it easier, do less.
- Scrunch on the sofa.
- If I can, lay down for the day. If I can’t, just deal with it.
- Take painkillers and get a hot water bottle if I can. Lie down if I'm at home, or find privacy to sit down in the toilets if I'm at work.
- Patience, haha!
- Sleep, lie down and rest.
- Take painkillers. Have tried the electro devices too.
- Get very angry and feel like I am going to die. I take painkillers and hot water bottle and if I can lie on the floor.
- Rest, eat chocolate.
- Paracetamol and hot water bottle.
- Take painkillers, run.
- Usually I take ibuprofen, make a hot water bottle, and then lie down and wait for it to pass.
- Lie on the floor with a hot water bottle. If in public, grin and bear it, zone out a bit until the worst passes.
- Foetal position and breath work.
- Painkillers, hot water bottle, relax.
- Every month is painful. Taking a warm bath, ibuprofen when it gets really bad. But mostly I just continue doing what I'm always doing because that's what is expected in society/work. Not just most men, but women in the workplace too, don't want to be bothered by it.
- Struggle and take pain killers.
- Take painkillers and sit down with a hot water bottle.
- Normally nothing.
- Hot water bottles are good. It’s not always easy to do but gentle exercise does help cramps. Rest is important. All else fails paracetamol.
- Rest, gentle exercise, heat.
- Take meds, hot water bottle and lie down also back rubs.
- Rest. Being gentle with myself mentally. Painkillers.
- Writhe around, try and do inventive yoga like poses and stretches to manage the pain, lie on a cool floor, hold a hot water bottle to where it hurts.
- Hot water bottle, painkillers.
- I complain and sleep.
- I use a hot water bottle.
- Go about my daily life while listening to death metal in my head. Also, cry when no one's watching.
- Put a hot water bottle on my stomach.