Endometriosis can cause severe cramps during your period, but people with the condition can experience cramping at other times, too. Cramps may occur during sex or when you use the bathroom.

Medically reviewed by Allison Herries, RDN Magnesium supplementation or increased dietary intake may help period cramps ...

Dealing with typical period symptoms, such as moodiness, cramps, and headaches, is bad enough. But if you feel like death is coming for you every single time Aunt Flow stops by, that may be cause ...

Understanding endometriosis and its impact on daily life can be the first step towards better management and care.

Period pain can be so bad that doctors have a medical name for it: dysmenorrhea. In some cases, severe cramps can be a sign of a serious health condition. But even when they’re just cramps ...

Menstruation, or a period, is the bleeding that occurs about monthly in healthy people born with a uterus, from puberty to ...

A report published in the Archives of Internal Medicine journal in 2012 found that women with a history of severe menstrual cramps reported significantly less pain when they took a very high dose ...

As a young adult, I had such bad menstrual cramps that I was bedridden for two or three days at a time. As I got older, the cramps subsided just as the mood swings took over. If someone had ...

WUKA head patches solve both of those issues. Easy to wear and discreet, they helped me with painful period cramps without the fuss. WUKA heat patches are pads you stick to the outside of your ...

One of the early studies into magnesium on period pain in 2007 found that 250mg of the mineral a day reduced PMS symptoms including cramps by over 35% over three bleeds. Since then, a thorough ...

Formed in a broken bedroom in Bristol, on the verge of homelessness, and rife with anger, The Menstrual Cramps were born. Politics on the brain and injustices surrounding them, they jumped ship to ...