Severe Menstrual Pain is killing me.. HELP?

Hi,





I'm 24 years old and ever since my menstrual period started around age 14-15 they have been very irregular. There was one point in my life when my period stopped for over 2 years. My period has finally become regular now for the past 2 years, but the first day my menstrual cycle starts each month, I get SEVERE lower abdominal pain! The pain is so severe that I would like to go to the ER, but due to also having diarrhea at the same time, I can't get off the toilet long enough to get to the hospital. It's become so painful that my mother has had to come into the bathroom with me, and hold me up on the toilet because I become so weak and also have fainting type spells. I also get the dry heaves and keep feeling like i'm going to throw up, but nothing ever comes up. I can't even drink water because everthing makes me want to throw up...even a Vicodine pill. I have taken Vicodine for this, but the pain becomes so bad that even the power of Vicodine doesn't do anything for me.





Another thing that makes it hard is we only have 1 bathroom, so when I get my the pain and diarrhea, I CAN NOT get off the toilet.. and for some reason...EVERYONE needs to use the bathroom when i'm in there. I have begged them: "Please stop knocking.. I can't get up..i'm so sick..please stop..leave me alone" But my parents both have bladder problems and they NEED to go. It is just so hard because when I get off the toilet, so they can go in there... I have almost went potty on the floor, because the pain is soooo bad it pushes on my colon and makes everything come out. It's like when you squeeze a tube of toothpaste. It's not even diarrhea really.. it's solid..and I have probably lost about 2-3 pounds just going to the bathroom. I also get the cold sweats and hot sweats and feel like passing out. I sit on the toilet, while my mom wipes the sweat off my face with a cold towel and I just want to take all my clothes off, because I become so over heated and soaking wet from the sweat. I have told my doctors about this, and they have never really done anything. My mom and my soon-to-be mother in law had this exact same problem, and the doctors found that they both had ovarian cysts. Could this be my problem too? The severe pain lasts about 5-6 hours, and after laying on the couch with a hot water bottle on my stomach, it goes away after I wake up from sleeping. I'm fine after that, and I go on with a normal period for the rest of the week. I only get the pain about one hour after my period starts each month, and I suffer so bad. I have also been diganosed with a Thyroid disorder which is still being tested..is there and connection to the two?





My symptoms:





1. Severe abdominal pain


2. Feeling of fainting; weakness


3. Cold and Hot sweats


4. Extreme sweatting


5. Wanting to throw up; gagging


6. Nausea and solid diarrhea


7. Heavy bleeding





Like I said.. I want to go to the ER when this happens, but I just can't get off the toilet long enough to get there. Any thoughts or suggestions?





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Severe Menstrual Pain is killing me.. HELP?
And some of those symptoms could be IBS. Please go see a doctor -- mention everything. If you have to wait a month, take the opportunity to keep a stool journal - how often you pass your bowels, any pain, gas, or bloating, episodes of spastic colon (the horrible intestinal cramps which create the diarrhea), etc. By all means, it could be a variety of factors but the bathroom ones are what I recognized. With your thyroid issues (another post) and these bowel issues, there sounds like an awful lot of autoimmune going on. Check out IBS on webmd.com to see if your symptoms match.
Reply:I went through this exact thing in high school. I would have to miss days every time my menstrual cycle would come around because I could hardly get up. Report It

Reply:you have some symtoms of TSS
Reply:The first suggestion is that this requires an exam by a gyno. You may have endometriosis.
Reply:I'm only 17 and I have//had those same symptoms. They did lyproscopic surgery and found out I have Endometriosis. Seriously, get it checked out it can ruin your uterus and ovaries. Going to the ER isn't going to help, go to a Gyno. asap. Best of luck to you








OH yeah go here!


It's a lot of help and support and you can learn more about your possible diagnosis


http://www.endometriosis.org/
Reply:dear,





there are two homoeopathic medicine i ask you to take:


calc.c 30 pills one dose every 5 days


bell 30 pills one dose 5 days beforeonset


one dose a day before onset


[pills to be chewed half an hour after food and a mouthfull of water taken.]
Reply:The symptoms that you are giving sounds like you may have fibroid tumors or cyst, you need to go for a pap test ASAP, the symptoms are heavy bleeding usually with alot of clots and severe cramps that can be in lower back , stomach and down into upper thigh areas. If the pain is severe enough it will cause nausea.. I went thru this for years, however was close enough to going thru my change that didn't have the cyst removed, once they are starved of estrogen the will usually shrink on their own, but as young as you are I would get to the doctor and tell him/her what is going on and get a pap test ASAP. In the mean time soak in a hot tub, as hot as you can stand it and take a pain killer, ibuprophen or just plain asprin, and soak in the tub as long as you can....my cramps use to wake me up at 2:00AM in the morn. and somtimes I would still be in the tub at 5:00AM just kept running more hot water in the tub until the cramps went away or at least subsided a little..


Hope you are feeling better soon.
Reply:Go to a doctor to have an exsame. It could be a cyst to endrometeris.
Reply:wht r u waiting 4 go to the gyno
Reply:Check with your Gyne/Obgyn.


Two things could be going on here: (!) fifroids (2) endometriosis


either of these conditions cause severe cramping, pain, and heavy flows, clots of any size should be reported to your doctor.


Hormones or your thyroid could be out of wack.