throwing up, painful cramps, fever during period

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I've basically been going through the same thing as the girl at the top, though its only happened to me twice. I first got my period when i was eleven and now I'm thirteen. Last month, on the first day of my period, I woke up with a really bad cramp then threw up. Then, this morning, the first day again, i woke up okay, went back to sleep, then woke up again about two hours later. I stretched a bit and decided to take a warm shower, but I found myself running out of the shower and throwing up in the toilet. I really hate this and it's going to be kinda embarrassing if this continues once school starts again...

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Every female in my family has this problem. We feel very faint and naseous. I have discovered that we react very strongly to the hormone drop that facilitates the start of the menstrual cycle.

Once we throw up, we feel instantly better. This is from the same hormone that causes morning sickness. During early pregnancy, we feel sick and faint, throw up and then go about our day.

The school is very familiar with us now. My daughter throws up in the health office once a month and then goes back to class.

It lessens with age.

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I've had very similar problems. With me, it's odd 'cos the amount of severity changes quite a lot. I've had my period ever since I was 12 going on 13, and from the beginning I would have to lie down on the bed in the school nurse's office and throw up into a bucket...sometimes.

In general I always feel worst on my first day, but symptoms run the gauntlet from not only throwing up but being so dizzy and faint I actually do pass out/feel woozy, loose all sense of time, to being basically conscious but unable to stop having the dry heaves for 24 hours straight and not being able to sleep, to just having ordinary cramps and feeling "stomped".
Sometimes I curl up on the floor and cry and ask passers-by to "kill me" so I don't have to feel this way anymore, sometimes not. On the times I've felt faint, I've almost wonked my head in the bathtub once and another time, did hit my head on the edge of a table on the way down! It seems my body has it in for me.

I would take iron/eat foods with iron in them, but with being unable to keep even water down...

Anyway, thanks for all the advice guys.

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I've had the same thing I'm 18 and i started my period when i was 10. it's only happened to me twice now. but mines like the 2nd and 3rd day of my period not the first day. i called my doctor and they told me to take 3 Advil for the pain, and to go see a gnyo (i have no idea what a birth control doctor would do for me). any ways I'm suppose to start in two days, I'm nervous and scared that I'm gonna be in so much pain that i throw up again.

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I just went through this TODAY..it happens every 6 months for me....like I can time it...I'll be going through this same thing in April, I can count on it.

But what I did, after all the screaming and everything that freaked my boyfriend and roomate out....I laid down, not completely in the fetal position, but with my legs bent like I was sitting on a chair next to me...and, yea this is gonna sound weird, tried to calm my breathing and concentrated on the American flag waving in the wind...weird, yes, I know but it worked...Not immediately of course but eventually, sleep caught up to me and the next thing I knew, 2 hours later I woke up feeling refreshed. I lay in bed all day after that just making sure that devilish feeling wouldn't come back...But I'm good now...I hope that helps you!

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Hi ladies

I see the one woman's advice is to stop drinking caffeine. She lists good reasons for saying this.

But...

I drink more caffeine while I have my period -- seeing that caffeine is a natural pain reliever FOR WOMEN ONLY. It does not have the same effect on men.

Different strokes for different folks... Caffeine helps for my pain -- and I get severe pains basically every month!

Good luck -- we all know that this type of pain sucks!

sunset1978 · Newbie Joined: 20 Nov 2008 Posts: 3

I know the kind of pain the topic starter is referring to. I got my period at 12 and it was bad for a while. It got better in high school, but once I hit college I would have at least 1 period a year that had me doubled over in pain and having fevers. After college it got better I assume because I started taking better care of myself and exercising more. I lay off coffee a week before I am due to start my period and I kick up my workout a bit more. But the week of my period I make sure and relax and take time for myself. Today is the first day of my period and I have a twinge of cramps, but I took 2 Aleve and they should be gone shortly.

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