stephanie is: 
at work.
so i never got to sleep again. the medicine was fully kicking uterine ass by 5:30am but i wasn’t able to get completely asleep before the alarm went off at 6am. i got to work before 7am and was able to walk in the door behind someone else (which is good cause i forgot my passkey and the building is locked before 7am). the elevator to my floor was locked out but the stairs to the call center weren’t (i guess cause they are all all sorts of shifts). now i am doing timesheets and enjoying being non-crampy. i had given up on all pain and cramp medications – and was even entertaining the thought of filling myself full of hormones (birthcontrol pills) to stop them, but i decided to try a more natural solution first. i found that two herbs and a good mix of vitamin b’s work four times faster and better for me than 4 advil. so no more cracked-out-stephanie after 20 advil in one day, bleh hehe. i do hate swallowing herbal pills though. they taste like ass and they are huge.
okay… must do timesheet lameness…
non-chemical medicine
so those kind of non-asprin things do work for pain ?, not that I get periods or anything but is there herbs and vitamins for headaches. (i take 3 500mg asprin tablets and the pain keeps on going)
Re: non-chemical medicine
well dong quai is really good with my cramps, but i don’t know if it would do stuff for headaches… you’d have to look it up. unfortunatly it is a “mild sedative” and i only got 3 hours of sleep ….*thud* z z z z, hehe.
Re: non-chemical medicine
Hey, what exactly was this herbal cocktail you took? I’d love not to have to chow down a whole bottle of Advil every month!
Pills
The herbal pills I take for my monthly chaos are huge! I grind them into a fine powder and then mix them with juice. The taste probably much better, but I can’t stand to swallow such large pills.
hehe, sex helps out cramps…
makes mine worse afterwards 🙁 ow ow
Whew. Who ever created the theory that sex cures cramps should be shot. And I bet big money a man created that theory! heheh Makes mine worse too.
I actually went on birth control pills at age 14 to stop the insanity that my squirts caused and it has been amazing and wonderful and perfect and now I am nice and normal and have NO cramps. WOOOT! Then again, I have a hormine deficiency that the Pill helps with, so I need to take them.
i am about to just start going on the pill…not for cramps ( i only get them one day at the most, but pretty bad still.. ) but to stop babies. hehe. but i won’t mind if it helps other things. but like spooky i think i have a hormone deficiency so the pill is prolly good for me..
i always just take the midol cramp formula and it works in minutes for me..have you tried that?
it doesn’t do a thing for me. i have to take like 4 advil and wait a few hours for it to sorta help… the herbs are much better.
a friend of mine said she also gets killer cramps, too. what was the herb/vitamin combo you used?