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From: susie@uwmacc.UUCP (sue brunkow)
Newsgroups: net.women.only
Subject: Re: pain relievers and periods
Message-ID: <543@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Dec-84 00:38:13 EST
Article-I.D.: uwmacc.543
Posted: Mon Dec 10 00:38:13 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 13-Dec-84 01:38:45 EST
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Reply-To: susie@uwmacc.UUCP (sue brunkow)
Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center
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Summary: 

In article <978@phs.UUCP> sam@phs.UUCP (Sherry Marts) writes:
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>     On occasion (once every three or four cycles) I suffer from
>uterine cramps so intense m leg muscles cramp, I have diarrhea and
>vomiting, and I faint.

Me, too.
In the last ten years, I think I must have tried almost every
prescription drug that anyone recommended for cramps.

Here are some of the best non-prescription cures I've found:
   1)  Eat (protein and carbohydrates) every few hours to keep
your blood sugar steady. (This is very difficult for me, because
I often feel sick enough that the last thing I want to do is eat.)
  2)  Hot tea.  (Tea's a diuretic, and just having something warm in
your stomach also seems to help.)
  3) If you get bad leg cramps, get someone to massage your legs.
  4) Several friends of mine have recommended calcium. For me,
it caused the worst cramps I've EVER had!

  I hope this helps somebody.
Does anybody have some  others that I haven't tried?

                                  Sue Brunkow
                             Univ. of Wisconsin
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