Any help with period pain?

I’m currently 17 turning 18 in a few months, I’ve been experiencing period pain/cramps ever since i was 11. Every month the pain gets worse. That could be because i possibly forget how bad the pain is when im off my period 🤷🏻‍♀. Anyway, every month my period lasts for 8 days which i think is normal but the cramps drag on for 4/5 days. The pain sometimes gets really bad to the point i faint. It’s become normal now for me that i throw up every period but it stops me from eating out of the fear of throwing it all up again. I’ve contacted the GP countless times, I know there are more serious problems people have and the NHS is currently understaffed but all i get is a phone call appointment and get told the same thing “take paracetamol”. Even those don’t work anymore. Has anyone got any ways to relieve period cramps, I’d really appreciate the advice, i cannot go through this for the rest of my life until menopause 🙁 and i also cant go on the pill either

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Mamapolo2016 · F

Clearly I can’t diagnose you, but I can share.

I had a similar experience, beginning with my first period at 16. My cycles were wildly erratic…nothing for six months, then two months straight. And pain.

This was 57 years ago, so I think progress must have occurred. It took a surprise ‘pregnancy’ to discover the issue. During the 5th monthly checkup, I was told, “You’re not having a baby. You’re having an operation.”

For polycystic ovaries. Also present, endometriosis.

I did have a healthy baby girl later and at 34 had a hysterectomy (this was during the surgical era known as “rip out all organs she’s not currently using and let God sort ‘em out.”)

I was told by at least two doctors that women were “so hysterical about their perfectly normal physical pain.”

If I had it to do again and knew what I now know, I’d have delivered a sharp powerful kick to each’s gonads, to see how hysterical THEY got. You know, medical science.