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"  Researchers recently learned that women who suffer from painful periods feel more pain throughout the rest of the month as well, according to a post on ScienceDaily.com. A team of scientists at Oxford University took two groups of women\u2014those who experience PMS aches and those who have fairly &amp;quot;comfortable&amp;quot; periods\u2014and observed how they responded to pain stimulus. The experiment was done when the subjects did not have their periods and weren&amp;#039;t reporting any sort of period-related afflictions. The females in the first group (the crappy period group) were more sensitive to the pain stimulus than the second group. If you&amp;#039;re someone who suffers from period pain, you are so not alone. One estimate puts the percentage of women with monthly aches at 90 percent. And while researchers haven&amp;#039;t yet discovered how to decrease your sensitivity to pain during the rest of the month, there are some easy ways to quell discomfort like cramps and breast tenderness during PMS. Pop an anti-inflammatory OTC med as soon as you sense the first twinge of aches. If that doesn&amp;#039;t work, your gyno can prescribe a stronger painkiller. Heat also helps, so try placing a heating pad or hot-water bottle on your belly. If the pain is unbearable and these tricks don&amp;#039;t work, check out our article on what your cramps are telling you to find out if the pain could be signaling something worse like fibroids or endometriosis. Do you suffer from painful periods? Do you feel like you&amp;#039;re more sensitive to pain in general compared to your friends who don&amp;#039;t get cramps? Do you have any tricks for relieving or dealing with the discomfort? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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