No more cramps!

[v3g4n.livejournal.com]

When I posted earlier about boiling yarrow into tea and it relieving my cramps completely, there were some doubters as to whether it was placebo.

I'm telling you, I have always had HORRIBLE cramps for which I downed Aleve. So the last period I drank the tea whenever I felt the pain and it would put the pain back in its place.

So the next period (right now), I have NO CRAMPS. This has never happened to me, at least not in a LONG TIME.

Inga Muscio, in the book Cunt, mentioned that when one stops taking the pharmaceuticals, one might notice the pain going away. I don't know if that is at all true, and I definitely didn't believe her, but now I wonder.

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[jurisenpai.livejournal.com]

I've tried the non-medication route before, and I've had to be taken into the clinic, crying in pain. The only way I can get any relief from my cramps is to take the Pill in conjuction with several days of Advil.

But if your pain has gone away, that's amazing! How exactly did you make your tea?

[v3g4n.livejournal.com]

I've had to be taken to the doctor crying in pain too. But this was one of my first periods. I had to get an injection in my bum to make the pain go away. :)

Yea it is amazing. Have you tried Yarrow? It is supposed to be the strongest of the herbs that you can get. I wasn't about to try any weak stuff, my pain is bad.

I bought bulk dried yarrow flowers and then just boiled them in water. Voilà. I also left the dried flowers in the bottle I kept the tea in so that it would continue to seep.

[persephone82.livejournal.com]

I go the herb route, usually. I drink red raspberry tea, and it works as well at Tylenol, which is what I was using before. I was told that if I drink it all month, then I won't have any cramps at all. I haven't done this, though, so I still get the cramps. But the tea takes them away.

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[v3g4n.livejournal.com]

Cool, I'll keep the raspberry all month idea in mind if they come back. :)

[obfuscate.livejournal.com]

Inga Muscio says a lot of stuff. There are certainly lots of methods of dealing with things that don't involve medication, but medication is still valid treatment, and Inga Muscio.. ugh. Suffice it to say I hated that book.

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[v3g4n.livejournal.com]

I think that medication is a valid treatment, but I think it should be a last option. It tends to be a first option or a second option all too quickly before properly searching out more information and possibilites of herbal remedies. At least that is what I see.

As for Inga, I didn't hate the book but I also didn't love it and I didn't finish it, and don't plan to. I'm more concerned with governmental politics etc than I am with reading it. I do think she made some good points as well as some questionable ones. I highly questioned her assertion that stopping pharmaceutical use would end the cramps, and I still don't think it is true, I just am wondering. And I do have to credit that book with giving me the impetus to get off the pills finally. I'd thought about it before, but reading Cunt pushed me that bit farther... even if I didn't read the whole thing.

Hate is strong word. Why did you hate it?

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[obfuscate.livejournal.com]

Because it was packed full of a lot of bullshit, and I spent $15 - which is really not a small sum - on that bullshit. Because she's so sure she's so all-knowing, and it often seems she is completely clueless. It doesn't help that so many people seem to tout it as some sort of Bible for Women. Which I find very, very scary.

I agree that medication should not be the first option, but sometimes it is the only option that will actually work.

[v3g4n.livejournal.com]

Ah. I didn't buy it. :) Yea, I don't know, it's not my Bible, that's for sure. :) But I still think there are some thoughts in that book that are valid. I don't remember whether I felt that she acted as all-knowing, it's been too long, but I do know that I dislike that kind of attitude. People get upset with me sometimes for not being confident in my opinions! I think that it's smart to recognize that your opinions are subject to new information and that you are only one head amongst many and you could always use more outsider input, you know?