MENSTRUAL PROBLEMS: HOW TO COPE-IN VARIOUS SITUATIONSC-AT SCHOOL:
April 29th, 2009 | Posted by admin | Category: Pain Relief-Muscle RelaxersNo Comments
TROUBLESOME MISERIES-MOODINESS
Adolescence is renowned for moods and boys are just as moody as girls. People always say, ‘Oh well, she’s an adolescent. She’s bound to be moody.’ Which is annoying if you are in a very good temper and on top of the world but often it’s true. Your teens are the most likely time when you’ll be sorting out what kind of a person you are, or want to be. Some lucky people know all along. They and their parents seem perfectly contented with things as they are and nobody urges them to change their ways or alter their character. Others have to think things out at length, and decide whether they’re going to be what they want to be or what somebody else wants them to be. This is often very tricky and can lead to a lot of heart-searching, misery and depression, particularly if you don’t really like the way you are and know what a battle it will be to change yourself.
If on top of that your moods change abruptly, simply because a period is on the way, then your life is even more complicated and you can often find yourself in the middle of a blazing row you hadn’t really intended, or with a broken romance, or in a pitched battle with a
teacher — all made worse by the feeling that you can’t cope with any of it.
For a start, it does help a little if you know it’s only temporary and that by tomorrow or next Wednesday or whenever you’ll be feeling and acting like a different person. It also helps if you can remember to relax, difficult as that is when you are in the thick of some emotional
battle — in fact, almost impossible. But if you can remember at least to unclench your fists, drop your shoulders or breathe in second gear for a bit, it could give you just the few seconds you need, either for a breathing space or even better, to call a halt. And if you try and fail, you’re no worse off.
It can sometimes be a help if your friends and allies know that this is all part of the miseries. But friends and allies should be warned! We are often very unreasonable indeed when we are actually in the middle of a mood. When we have finished a period and we are quite ourselves again it’s easy enough to admit that the mood was part of the miseries, but if they try telling us at the time, it could make things ten times worse. I have been told by girls who know that the very last thing they want to be reminded of is that they’re acting up because they’re female. As one girl said, ‘It’s so bloody patronizing! And of course it’s true —which makes it worse!’ So my advice to friends and allies would be to talk these problems over when everyone is calm and rational talk is possible.
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THE ACHING MISERIES (CONGESTIVE DYSMENORRHOEA): THE SYMPTOMS
April 28th, 2009 | Posted by admin | Category: Pain Relief-Muscle RelaxersNo Comments
There are so many symptoms associated with the second kind of period pain, the aching miseries, or congestive dysmenorrhoea that nowadays doctors tend to lump them all together and call them the pre-menstrual syndrome or pre-menstrual tension, because they all occur in the days immediately before your period begins and clear up as soon as the period is under way.
You could suffer from dragging pain or an aching sensation low down in your abdomen or in your thighs or the lower part of your back; from headaches of various kinds including migraines or pain in your sinuses; from aching legs and feet; from a belly so swollen that you can’t do up your skirt; from sore and swollen breasts. Feeling bloated and putting on several pounds in weight is very common. So is fatigue, depression or inexplicable bad temper. Do you nag your family just before your period?
You could find that you become extremely clumsy all of a sudden or discover that you can’t see as well as usual; or that your sense of smell doesn’t seem to be so acute. Your hair may be greasy and lank and your complexion a ruin. You may grow a nasty crop of styes or boils. You may notice that you develop bruises on your upper arms or the tops of your thighs and just can’t account for them. You may get cravings for sweets or stodgy foods, when you’re normally a sensible eater. You may suddenly feel giddy or faint like some Victorian heroine. More seriously, you may find that if you suffer from hay fever, asthma or epilepsy, your attacks are more frequent in the days before your period.
It’s a long list and some of the things on it seem so far removed from what’s going on in your womb that it’s hard to see that they may be part and parcel of the aching miseries. Some of the symptoms are quite trivial. If the only thing you suffer from is a tendency to develop some odd bruises, you will not have much to worry about because they are not painful and won’t cause you any trouble unless you are wearing a swim suit. But many of the symptoms are serious, and deserve to be taken seriously. It’s just as well we don’t suffer all of them all the time!
Unlike the cramps this second kind of period pain doesn’t get better if you have a baby. Quite the reverse, in fact. It can often start after a pregnancy, particularly if you have had a condition called toxaemia while you were carrying. Once it’s started, it may get worse with each pregnancy. Toxaemia and the bloat are rather alike in some ways. Both of them give you swollen legs and ankles and make you look and feel puffy, with too much fluid in your tissues. Both can reduce you to exhaustion. Toxaemia is a great deal more serious than the bloat because it can affect your kidneys. As your kidneys are the filters that get rid of all the impurities and poisons from your body and from your unborn baby’s, you can see how important it is that they should function properly. The bloat may be unpleasant, but it doesn’t upset your kidneys. It’s just unsightly and uncomfortable.
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