that answers to 3/4/5 that don't boil down to "not a big deal" are frequent and yet not considered a problem by many doctors, not the subject of much medical research, etc. Your experience shouldn't be lucky, it should be normal.
Yes!
My period pain was so bad that sometimes I couldn't
think concentrate talk
and
sometimes I was gasp-breathing sometimes I was almost sobbing/screaming
and I got brushed off by Drs with
"it can't possibly be that bad"
and
"the pain will get better when you have children" (this when I was 15.)
I started menstruating age 12, and I missed so many school classes due to pain!
and it wasn't until I was 21 that a Dr thought to refer me to a gynecologist for endometriosis screening (I didn't have endometriosis, but given my level of pain it would have been appropriate to refer me to a gynecologist much sooner.)
no subject
Yes!
My period pain was so bad that sometimes I couldn't
think
concentrate
talk
and
sometimes I was gasp-breathing
sometimes I was almost sobbing/screaming
and I got brushed off by Drs with
"it can't possibly be that bad"
and
"the pain will get better when you have children" (this when I was 15.)
I started menstruating age 12, and I missed so many school classes due to pain!
and it wasn't until I was 21 that a Dr thought to refer me to a gynecologist for endometriosis screening (I didn't have endometriosis, but given my level of pain it would have been appropriate to refer me to a gynecologist much sooner.)