My mom won't let me eat pain killers and just told me I should go for a walk to get rid off my period pain.

She doesn't understand that if you feel like you have to throw up, because you have so painful cramps, that walking doesn't relive the agony you're in.

I often have EXTREME period pains and have had them since I started my period when I was 10. As I have been getting older (i'm 17 now) the extreme ones are fewer but I still get them fairly often.

I have constant pains and cramps throughout the day, (where I can almost ignore it and go on with my day as normal) but 2-3 times a day for a few hours I get spikes of extreme pain.

My lower back and pelvic area feels like it's getting stabbed by knives and my lower body and upper back almost feels numb. I feel like I could throw up any second and when the worst hits me I can't even stand on my feet. I just want to curl over because the cramps are so bad.

I'm in so much pain that I have to hold back my tears. And sometimes I just wish I could die so the pain would be over.

Nothing really helps; painmeds lessens the pain slightly, warm water bottles and pads can help if combined by something else.

Masturbating is the thing that helps the most, but doing that for hours on ends for a few days is not really ideal. Especially when you feel super gross and bad emotionally.

And now we get to the reason for this post, exercise to relive period pain. If I don't have that much period pain it can help relieve most of the pain for maybe an hour after excercising. I would have to use pain killers or warm water bottles to completley get rid off the pain.

BUT that's when I don't have EXTREMELY PAINFUL cramps!

When I have cramps like I have had today, exercising is doing next to nothing for me, it almost makes me feel even worse.

The relief I get by excercising is so small and short that it's hardly noticeable. And now I'm sweating, and I sweat a lot more during my period for some reason, and feel tired and even grosser than before.

It's NOT worth it for me in that instant.

If I had taken a pain killer I would have gotten a little more out of the excercising, but not a lot.

So now because I don't go outside and excercise my mom thinks I'm not doing anything and just want to pop some pills and "take the easy way out".

And when I actually do something about it, i.e. masturbating, "I'm just laying around doing nothing".

And I understand that you shouldn't completley rely on pain meds, but if that is one of the few things that actually makes me able to try and funtion like normal then why shoul I not be able to take them?!

I just don't understand...

And I also understand that it can be confusing that sometimes I don't have to take pain meds and stay home from school and other times I want to stay home for a couple of days. Like I'm not exaggerating to skip school, sometimes I just have extremely painful period pains and other times I don't.

I didn't choose to have period pains like this!

Anyone that have any advice? Either on how to get my mom to understand or relieve the pain?

Thank you if you read through this long rant, I'm sorry it got so long.😅

- J.E.Ö