Almost 30% of those who live with dysmenorrhea experience severe symptoms – a pain so chronic that it impacts their day-to-day lives. But despite how common it is, should pain ever be seen as OK?

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 ...

However, when prostaglandin levels are high, the contractions can be stronger and cause pain. Primary Dysmenorrhea: Common menstrual pain that appears with the onset of the period and is not ...

Menstrual pain is known as dysmenorrhea, which occurs in the pelvis ... the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium and FinnGen, a large-scale research project in genomics and personalized medicine.