In order not to experience pain during menstruation, almost every woman drinks pills. So which ones are the most effective and why the promoted brand does not always matter.
Most often, drugs are sold by different trading companies, each of which invests money in its preparation for advertising and research. Therefore, some of them can be very expensive, while others with an identical composition will be cheap, just because they are not advertised.
Before you run to the pharmacy for an antispasmodic or anesthetic, understand what helps with menstruation, and why not always expensive drugs help faster. Consider that in the concept of a woman means a good painkiller.
What does the perfect tablet mean?
- It relieves pain well;
- Quickly begins to act;
- It is inexpensive.
There are no such pills, each will say, and partly be right. To relieve pain quickly, you need very potent drugs, and they usually cost much. However, it is possible to dissuade those who are used to buying only Solpadein or Nurofen Lady, there are other pills that can solve the problem.
Pain pills for menstruation: a list of the most effective
The antispasmodics are excellent for menstruation, since the pain comes precisely because of the spasm of the smooth muscles of the uterus, which throws blood away in jolts. That is why if you take 2 tablets of No-shpa or Drotaverin at once, you can feel relief from pain in just 15 minutes.
Antispasmodics are still good because they can be taken more than once per day.
While analgesics are more harmful to the body. If No-shpa costs about 200 rubles for 24 tablets, then Drotaverin will cost an average of 20 tablets 27 rubles.
As you can see, there is a difference in price, and the active substance in the medicine is the same.
The names of painkillers antispasmodics during menstruation:
- No-spa or Drotaverine is one and the same;
- Spazmalgon;
- Spazgan;
- Buscopan
Antispasmodics also help with other diseases that are associated with muscular tension, so they must always be in the first-aid kit. Strangely enough, for abdominal pains of an unknown nature, doctors are categorically against analgesics, but they will never scold for no-shpu.
They can offer it themselves to drink with renal colic and other problems. If the cause of dysmenorrhea is not clear, then it is better to take antispasmodics, rather than analgesics.
Good painkillers analgesics during menstruation
Alternatively, analgesics can be used to relieve pain, especially since they also help relieve symptoms and improve well-being.
However, we should not forget that many pills inhibit blood formation (Analgin), and some with frequent intake are also dangerous, they increase the permeability of blood vessels, threatening with internal bleeding (Ketorol).
- Ibuprofen;
- Nurofen is the same ibuprofen, only in the enhanced version;
- Sedalgin;
- Analgin;
- Pentalgin;
- Solpadein;
- Nise;
- Ketorol;
- Tempalgin and others.
In this regard, Ibuprofen is safer, which can be purchased under the trade name Nurofen or Nurofen plus. However, the difference, as with No-shpy in price, is very different for these drugs, although the composition is the same, except that instead of one tablet you need to take 2 or 3.
Analgesics and anti-inflammatory drugs are good because they relieve several symptoms at once. They can affect abdominal pain and feeling sick, relieve inflammation, if there is one. It is better if the doctor prescribes analgesics, because they have various contraindications.
In addition, if the pain bothers the entire period of menstruation so much analgesics should not drink. Try to find an alternative to these means of traditional medicine, alternate with antispasmodics, do physical exercises.
Elimination of pain in the abdomen without medical drugs
Sometimes you can eliminate pain without taking medication. For example, hold a warm heating pad at the bottom of the abdomen. Or drink a cup of tea with chamomile, mint, melissa.
As an option, massage the tips of the lower abdomen and lower back, lie down, bending your knees to the stomach. Some are helped by a warm bath, although doctors do not recommend it, bleeding may increase.
With critical days, you should think about changing the diet, reduce the intake of coffee and alcohol, and increase the amount of foods rich in calcium, iron and iodine. It is useful to take vitamins with magnesium and vitamin B6.
Often, on critical days, you want to eat less, so try not to burden your stomach with fatty fried foods. Fill the lack of vitamins and iron due to meat and fruit. So there is iron in the liver and pomegranates, magnesium in dried apricots and raisins, although you can choose peaches and grapes.
Some feel bad that they take a day off to rest in bed at home.
Often women themselves are looking for an option to get rid of the pain during menstruation and find it in yoga classes, various physical exercises. Doctors say the benefits of such exercises are that they help to relax certain pelvic muscles and allow for a good blood supply to the uterus.
Examination to identify the causes of menstrual pain, treatment and prevention
It is good if the pain lasts only a few hours or 1 day, and some experience cramping during the whole month. Here it is just necessary to understand what the cause of the disease.
Usually such manifestations as:
- Nausea;
- Pain in the lower back and lower abdomen;
- Dizziness and fainting.
All this requires careful examination, because dysmenorrhea can be diagnosed. It is primary and secondary. In secondary dysmenorrhea, there are problems with gynecology and internal organs, so it is very important to establish this.
What can cause:
- Strong stress and heredity;
- Uterus bend;
- Intrauterine device;
- Problems with the thyroid gland and adrenal glands;
- Hormonal disorders and inflammatory diseases.
These problems and much more can affect pain during menstruation. If the gynecologist did not find the disease along his line, it is necessary to be examined by other doctors: a cardiologist, a neuropathologist, an endocrinologist, a gastroenterologist. Usually, therapy is prescribed only after a comprehensive examination and testing.
For infections of a vaginal nature: ureaplasma, chlamydia and others, antibiotics may be prescribed. In case of endocrine system disorders, hormonal preparations can be used.
But these appointments are made only by a doctor. Contraceptive pills can be suggested as a therapy. If the cause of the pain was a spiral, then the doctor may insist on removing it.
Nerves and body also matter
Sometimes painful periods can cause muscle tension, stress, and nervous breakdowns. The woman winds herself up, after which she resembles a compressed spring. A psychologist or a neurologist may help.
One would recommend relaxation, other physiotherapy or the same yoga. Those who know how to control themselves and relax will be easier, others may need sedatives such as Novopassit or Putyrnik.
For those who have painful periods, it is very difficult to survive the premenstrual syndrome. They are usually screwed up and angry, break on others. This is where the help of a doctor, expressed in prescribing herbs or medicines, comes in handy.
Painful periods depend on the constitution of man. With a fragile physique, severe pains are quite probable, except for this, the pain threshold is simply increased for some, so they endure all the manifestations worse.
Some simply feel sorry for themselves, experiencing more psychological suffering than physical. Doctors quickly feel the edge of what is happening, so they refer one patient to a neuropathologist, and another to a gastroenterologist, because sometimes the uterus can be the cause of painful periods, but the nervous system or intestines.
Do not be afraid to understand yourself, visit a doctor during menstruation, instead of swallowing pills with handfuls, and perhaps the problem will be solved quickly.
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