periods are disgusting

[baratron]

ARGH. Period pain. I have been woken up every 2 hours by it. Now I have run out of doses of medication, because both the painkillers I'm using can only have 4 doses in 24 hours. I have to wait until 12:10 before I can take something again. ARGH.

Why can't someone invent a painkiller where you can take it every 4 hours for the whole 24 hours? Is that really asking too much?

Also, this period turned up during the night on Monday - I woke up with it on Tuesday morning. My last period started on a Thursday, and the one before that on a Saturday night. What is with this 25-26 day cycle? I want a nice regular 28 days, or even better, a nice regular 32 day cycle. Something that maximises the time between one period and the next, not minimises it.

And often, when women have shorter cycles, the periods themselves are not so bad. This one is as disgusting as my last (Ness, do not click the link again!). Possibly even worse, as this time looking at what's coming out makes me feel nauseated.

When my head is more sorted, I need to go and get my uterus looked at.

Comments

[x-mass.livejournal.com]

different drugs?
parcetamol, ibuprophen taken seperatly

the advantage of codeine of course is that it can be titrated

[rowan-leigh.livejournal.com]

I am pretty certain that H-L is allergic to ibuprofen and similar drugs (NSAIDs.)

[baratron.livejournal.com]

That is what I'm doing. Paracetamol with dihydrocodeine to fill in the gaps. Unfortunately, I can't take any NSAIDs, else I'd be on mefenamic acid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mefenamic_acid). And double unfortunately, paracetamol only lasts a maximum of 5.5 hours, so I can't take it every 6 hours and expect to not be in pain at all.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Almost anything except bloody paracetamol?

[baratron.livejournal.com]

You can take more than 4 doses of opioids in a day? I'll have to check that out.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Well, consider that the standard OTC doses are 500mg paracetamol / 8mg codeine (8 per day) and 200mg ibuprofen / 12 mg codeine (8 per day) but that doctors regularly prescribe 500 mg paracetamol / 30 mg codeine (8 per day) for more severe pain. 1/4 a gram of codeine every day makes one very happy most of the time.

The difficulty is getting it with OTC medicine without either lethal quantities of paracetamol or any quantity of ibuprofen (if one is sensitive to the latter).

[baratron.livejournal.com]

I don't have OTC medicine. I have 30 mg of dihydrocodeine tartrate (equivalent to 60 mg of codeine phosphate). I can assure you, it does nothing to my mood! Tramadol and morphine are the only opioids/opiates that make me happy! Whereas pethidine is plain evil and I never want to take it again (it gave me the worst panic attack ever to the point where I tried to run out of the hospital in terror, not a good idea when you're tied to the bed by a drip).

Having said that, I just read the booklet, and it only says 1-2 tablets every 4-6 hours when required. There's no sign of a limit to the number of doses in one day. Hmm. I'll check that out elsewhere.