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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 12:29 pm
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It's not so much the cramps that make me wish to commit acts of random homicide, but the fact that in untold thousands of years we have yet to evolve ourselves right out of this.
Open Letter to My Body:
Seriously. What purpose does the pain have? And yes, I know the biology, but pain is supposed to be warning to the body that something less than kosher is going on--this is kosher--God, am I misappropriating terms here--this is theoretically supposed to happen. It is not new and strange and foreign--it's been almost twenty years, give or take a year or two. You cannot possibly see this as some kind of new event that requires nerve endings to fire out warnings to tell me something's up. The visual and tactile senses are quite aware of what's going on. I do not need the Red Flag of Oh Something Is Happening Oh Pain to figure it out. Thank you, body.
--Seperis, pissed
This, I feel, would be an excellent time to get into a flame war about something stupid.
I have never appreciated mint cookies more than at this moment. I cannot even articulate my appreciation.
On the upside, I get to use the mood cranky and lie in bed and whimper bitterly about my lot in life.
Open Letter to My Body:
Seriously. What purpose does the pain have? And yes, I know the biology, but pain is supposed to be warning to the body that something less than kosher is going on--this is kosher--God, am I misappropriating terms here--this is theoretically supposed to happen. It is not new and strange and foreign--it's been almost twenty years, give or take a year or two. You cannot possibly see this as some kind of new event that requires nerve endings to fire out warnings to tell me something's up. The visual and tactile senses are quite aware of what's going on. I do not need the Red Flag of Oh Something Is Happening Oh Pain to figure it out. Thank you, body.
--Seperis, pissed
This, I feel, would be an excellent time to get into a flame war about something stupid.
I have never appreciated mint cookies more than at this moment. I cannot even articulate my appreciation.
On the upside, I get to use the mood cranky and lie in bed and whimper bitterly about my lot in life.
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From:*still curled in fetal ball*
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From:If men got cramps? There would be walkathons and charitable foundations and ribbon magnets to put on your car. There would be research institutes. There would be 48 hours of extra leave time per month.
I'm just sayin'.
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From:I am resenting men atm.
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From:*also waves a red icon in front of your eyes to infuriate and inflame you*
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From:...or I might start crying uncontrollably. Seriously. What was evolution thinking?
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From:Evolution said, we must separate the wheat from the chaff, and the goats from the sheep, and the women from the men, and lo, there appeared a great sea of blood welling from a fount of the earth. And the men of that country said EWWWWWW, GROSS and returned them into the plains. The women thereof abided, saying, this is the issuance of the earth, our mother, and we must sticketh it out.
And have been stuck with it ever since.
Sucks to be the endurance runners of the race.
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From:*sighs* The only real consolation is that this doesn't happen often. Just enough to make me twitchy.
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From:I've had friends who were *monthly* taking half-days off or full days because they couldn't get up. I can't even imagine that.
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From:But now I am googling that word to check it out. Thank you!
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From:My partner found something called "Health by Chocolate" that has extra anti-oxidants and such and makes you feel high the way it interacts with your hormones - kinda awesome. It's made for cramps, even says so on the little pink wrapper. Probably not the level of cramps you are talking about, but, you know, chocolate never hurt anyone. *nods sagely*
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From:*and hugs, too*
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From: (Anonymous) Date: 2007-12-04 07:16 pm (UTC)(- reply to this
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From:At least my boobs get bigger right before?
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From:He got all quiet and thoughtful, and has been satisfyingly attentive during Bad Cramp Time ever since.
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From:My second thought was to remember the college bio course where the prof pointed out how very easily menstrual cycles stop and noted that women are actually evolved to spend most of their fertile years either pregnant or nursing (under nutritional conditions in which breastfeeding was a valid form of birth control because women weren't getting enough calories to support ovulation as well) and hence the modern-day full-time menstruation is the oddity.
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From:Seriously, if men were the child-bearers, the species would have become extinct several millenia ago
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From:But then I also don't understand why our teeth can't regrow more than one time. There seem a lot of very sensible and yet not too fundamental or complex improvements possible, that I sometimes mourn not living sometime when biotechnology will be further along.
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From:Yeah, nature, that makes *so* much sense, for half the population to spend at least a day curled up in intense pain. We're getting rid of a not-very-big amount of extraneous wall that was just an add-on, not getting rid of something the size of a melon! My fave is that I get shooting pains up my thighs as well.
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NSAIDs, not acetaminophen
From:For me, ibuprofen works much better than acetaminophen or even the codeine-acetaminophen combo they used to give out before the NSAIDs became available. The glossy russet Advil pills with their sugar coating saved me many times, because in a pinch I could take them without water, though I try to take them with food.
But I have no answer to why the same natural process causes negligible discomfort to some and disabling pain to others. I'm more mellow about it since the advent of Advil, and more so due to gratitude that aside from the pain, the whole uterine lining thing worked just like it was supposed to, caught two fertilized eggs, and supported two babies for long enough that they had no serious problems on delivery. There's no correlation, though, as far as I know; I was just lucky.
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Re: NSAIDs, not acetaminophen
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From:If you want some busybody advice: A of mine friend with (previously) horrible cramps has found that the only thing that reduced them reliably was a temporary change in diet. There are many tiny changes she makes for a few days every month, but the one with the biggest impact was cutting caffeine out entirely.
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From:Hope you feel better soon.
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just wait....
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From:*joins you*
*shares chocolate coated munchies*
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