Menstrual cramps can be very unpleasant

 Menstrual cramps can be very unpleasant. What can you do about it?

A nagging feeling in the stomach

Stabbing and abdominal cramps

And a sore back

Menstrual cramps can be very unpleasant. What can you do about it?

Period cramps

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What is menstrual pain?

Menstrual pain is pain before and during menstruation. Usually involves stabbing and abdominal cramps. Often attracts the pain through to the back or legs. The pain can be so severe that you can not work. Menstrual pain is annoying but goes away. 

Before or during menstruation, you can also get other symptoms such as

Headache,

Breast pain,

Bloating,

Nausea,

Diarrhea,

Dizziness

Fatigue.

Sometimes women are even faster sad or irritable before and during menstruation.

What causes cramps?

Menstrual pain is caused by the contraction of the uterus.  Each month an egg is released from one of the two ovaries. The endometrial thickens so that a fertilized egg can implant there. If no pregnancy occurs, let the mucus loose and it comes with some blood out. The uterus retracts to dispose off. Mucosa This contract gives the cramps and stabbing just before and during menstruation.

There is no clear link between the amount of blood loss and pain. There are women with little blood loss that many menstrual pain. And there are women who do not have a lot of blood loss menstrual pain.