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I tried to describe it to E. once as having a hot knife carving your insides, genitals, and upper thighs apart. That's how it feels for me. I've always had really bad menstrual pain, though at least with birth control it's now mostly manageable. I still have bad days once every couple of months, but that's an incredible improvement over what I had to deal with during my teen years, when nothing but prescription medications would work, and I didn't get those until I was 16. I missed 1-2 days of school a month on a regular basis before that.
Shani, I had a doctor when I was younger who didn't take my levels of pain seriously at first because she herself had never experienced menstrual cramps. She seemed surprised when I came back after she had prescribed me naproxen for the pain and it didn't work. But at least she was willing to admit that she had never had cramps and couldn't relate, and we were able to work from there.
And Hyacinthe, I agree with Shani--you captured it well. It's a hard thing to communicate.
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