Dr. Secor has been a board certified Family Nurse Practitioner specializing in Women’s Health for over 40 years and here’s what she can say about women’s period pain:
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- Maybe normal or not (Physiologic, Primary or Secondary dysmenorrhea).
- Often improves with age, having babies and certain birth control methods such as oral contraceptives, the 3 month Depo Provera injection, the 5-year intrauterine contraceptive (Mirena or Kyleena).
- If it is worsening there may be underlying pathologies like endometriosis, STI (Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, PID), or various other conditions.
- Abnormal period pain is NOT easily relieved with over the counter medications like Ibuprofen (Advil) or Naproxen (Aleve).
- The earlier pain medication is taken the more effective it is. Once the pain is severe the over the counter pain medications often do not work as well.
- Young women may seek care for “period pain” when they are actually looking for birth control and may already be having unprotected sex and be at risk for pregnancy and/or STIs.
- Maybe normal or not (Physiologic, Primary or Secondary dysmenorrhea).
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