For the menstruating people here

Do you ever have such intense pain from cramping you pass out?
It happens to me every few months, but doc still claims there's nothing he can do about it. Not even give me stronger pain killers.

Edit: just to give you an idea:
I once got those extreme pains at work, and my coworkers genuinely thought one of my (then baby) nieces had passed away due to my crying.

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Mamapolo2016 · F

I had similar issues from puberty on. I'm 72 and thus have lived through different levels of medical advancement and awareness.

Wildly erratic periods, pain (sometimes of the severity you describe). More than one doctor suggested I was hysterical about my 'female parts' and I should just quit it.

In my mid-twenties I was told I was pregnant. Went through five months of prenatal care. Then my doctor - a bedside jerk but a better technician, said "You're not going to have a baby. You're going to have an operation."

They removed, as I recall, 17 ovarian cysts and diagnosed endometriosis. I was told only pregnancy might ease or cure it. It did ease. It produced my daughter. But it didn't cure it and at 34 I had a hysterectomy.

I was delighted to be finished with all that insanity.

SW-User

@Mamapolo2016 That's quite the history.

Even if I wanted kids, I wouldn't have any. Reason being
1. Female offspring often have even worse cramps than their mom.
2. I don't feel capable of taking care of another human life with my mental and physical issues.

Even tho I have PCOS, I only missed my period for 3 months (all in one go), as far as I know, so I don't think I'd have a lot of cysts on my ovaries anyway.

Mamapolo2016 · F

@SW-User I truly don't know. I once went six months with no periods and then immediately nearly two months with nothing but period.

Clearly I wasn't put together right.