Dealing with bad cramps?
in Women's Health ·
I hit my first period back in fourth grade, and honestly, I was a sobbing mess from the cramps every single time. It wasn't like those girls who just deal with five or six days of it; I was stuck bleeding for eleven or twelve days straight, which was absolutely brutal. Back in freshman year of high school, my gynecologist actually tried to push birth control pills on me, but I just wasn't having it. Fast forward to recently—I finally tried an Advil, and it was like a total rebirth. Now, my cycle lasts maybe six days tops, and the flow is barely half what it used to be.