09/11/2022
This. Is. Never. Normal.
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I have hopped on so many calls, received messages, and spoken to so many women and girls of all ages who have been told that their pain is normal, their prolonged bleeding is normal, their everything is normal and casually labeled as "bad periods" as "tough luck" as a prescription for birth control and wave goodbye.
If your cramps are so severe that you are staying home from work or school, vomiting, passing out, or simply immobilized on your couch or bed for the day - you deserve treatment, and you deserve NOT to have to live with this pain. It is real. It's not ok. It's not normal. Our doctors look for life and death, not quality of our days. Those "bad days" add up. It deserves investigation and real treatment. Even if BC helps the pain, the minute you go off of it, you will likely be back in square one, it's not a treatment, it's a bandaid.
Get a second opinion. Find a doctor who listens. You deserve it.
I do virtual consultation and coaching for period pain and irregularity. If you have questions, send me a DM and we can see what your best path may be.