Dysmenorrhea can be divided into two broad categories:
primary dysmenorrhea and secondary dysmenorrhea. Women who suffers primary
dysmenorrhea are most likely to develop pelvic pain, painful cramp of painful
period, backpain, nausea, diarrhea, vomiting and dizziness. Secondary
dysmenorrhea leads to many identifiable disease. It can be endometriosis,
ovarian cyst, fibroid.
As for me that suffers primary dysmenorrhea, the only
medicine doctor would give to me is mefenamic acid or painkiller, other than
that would be contraceptive pills. It works by inhibit the production of
prostaglandins, more or less like that. Living with dysmenorrhea is like you
having labour contraction every single month, not-so-morning-sickness-like for
24-72 hours every month. People often says, period cramp is much less hurt than
contraction of giving birth. People often take this thing lightly. They would
say, “contraction pain is worse than your period pain”. That’s so true. May God
bless every moms out there.
But people whom having dysmenorrhea have to suffer the pain
every single month. It affect our daily life. As for me,when dysmenorrhea hit,
i have to lying on the bed under the blanket, my hands and legs become cold,
crying for the unbearable pain, putting heating pad on my stomach, eating pain
killer that will not last long that makes you have to eat another dose the next
few hours. If you’re lucky enough, your body will produce little amount of
prostaglandin, thus you have less pain. But the next month, the pain will
comeback like its seeking for vengeance. Its too painful and unbearable.
I vomits for 24 hours after I started menses. The next day,
nausea, diarrhea and pelvic pain and whatnot would be my company throughout
period. I tell my friends about having dysmenorrhea is not easy. There are no
exact medicine to cure or treat dysmenorrhea. You have to depend upon
painkillers. Yet, they sees this thing as not-so-serious-period-cramp problem. Not
until you guys experience this. Hats off! That’s why I reluctant to open up
about this problem. At most “ahhh is it period pain? every ladies experience it
what” kind of answer I got.
It’s not easy to live with dysmenorrhea. The level of pain
is not the same like normal people have when having period pain. As I have
mention above, it affecting my daily life. I have to skip classes every single
month. if this thing can be transfer, I would transfer it to them and make them
experience this thing especially experiencing that
‘not-so-morning-sickness’(vomiting) part for not only a month but maybe couple
of months. For sure they will say, how can you bear this pain every month?..
This writing is solely based on my experience. Different
people experience different things. if your friends is having dysmenorrhea, be
there with them for they are not strong enough to go through it alone. They
need someone as a pillar of strength. Don’t see this thing lightly. the pain is
just unbearable that we feel like we want to poke out someone’s eyes, need someone
as a punch bag (people says) and so on. If you who read this feel not satisfied
with my writing, I’m sorry. Well I’m not that perfect writer. Chill!!
