Severe pain and vomiting during your period?
I'm 15, and since I was 13, I've had severe abdominal pain on the first or second day of my period, to the point of passing out, and I'm always vomiting. When I was 12, I didn't have any period pain at all; everything was fine.
So, today is the second day of my period this month, and I've vomited over four times. Now I also have severe abdominal pain, and painkillers aren't helping. A hot water bottle would help, but too much heat makes me even weaker, so I'll pass out faster. My gynecologist says I should take the birth control pill because it relieves period pain… but I don't want to take the pill.
Does anyone know what I could do? I'm fed up with suffering like this every month.
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Again to the female doctor and you can be consulted or examined for e.g. endometriosis. If you don’t feel good at your current female doctor, change the doctor.
With such severe pain and additional vomiting, there is always suspicion of an endometriosis.
And in fact, the pill (preferably in the long cycle) is the most effective drug against endometriosis. In this case, this is a real treatment and not a contraceptive – the effective contraception would, so to speak, be just a “side effect”.
Do you really want to reject an effective treatment just because you have prejudices to the pill?
Well, I’m not saying that you actually have an endometriosis – the diagnosis must naturally put your female doctor. But such a diagnosis is relatively complicated; it requires a abdominal reflection to be quite sure. However, as the pill helps against regular pain, whether it occurs with or without endometriosis, you can easily arrange the pill.
If the pill helps, you are helped: for if it is an endometriosis, you have an effective treatment and the further progress of the disease is stopped, and if it is not an endometriosis, then your regular pain is still gone.
So endometriosis can’t be because I’m still young. I’ve been researching and there’s a lot of it from the 20th. It’s a year of life.
You know, when I studied medicine at that time, it was said that endometriosis was a disease of women over 40. That was wrong, we know today.
And it’s just as wrong to have endometriosis over 20. In fact, in rare cases there are even young girls who do not yet have their days and in which endometriosis hearts have been found during abdominal surgery (due to another disease).
So you could have an endometriosis. In the case of the complaints you give, you have to think about it, no matter what age.
It is also possible in so young years. Let’s examine you. The Internet sometimes also knows less than a doctor actually knows.