Plastic Surgeon Reveals What Hurts More: Periods or Heart Attack?
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- čas přidán 11. 05. 2024
- Viral videos have claimed that period cramps hurt just as bad or worse than heart attacks. But is this TRUE? I get to the bottom of it on this video!
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I've had open heart surgery TWICE and still say that my periods are more painful in the long run.
Damn. I don’t get cramps offer. I was one of the few women that get very mild periods. Having a gallbladder attack or an ovarian cyst pop hurt like hell compared to my periods.
Depends
Absolutely! I had one open heart surgery to remove a tumor growing on one of my valves. He said it was a slow growing tumor and benign, but it still had to come out. It was the biggest he'd ever seen or removed. He also said my heart is twice the size it should be, and I have congestive heart failure. Still, my periods were just as painful if not more so, and very irregular ever since the first one. Endometriosis was terrible, and the ovarian cysts that would pop kept me home from school or work many days. They were agony! So glad I had the hysterectomy at 28, even though I did have to jump through several hoops to have it. I always joke that I would be a good first autopsy for a wannabe coroner. They can just play "connect the scars" and "what's missing in this picture"!! LOL
My mom has got her stones out of her liver and my mom says same
You must have unusually bad periods. For vast number of women it is not even close to that painful or debilitating.
I suffered from endometriosis for several years and then had a heart attack in 2018. I didn't realize I was having a heart attack. I thought I was just not feeling well until the pain crept into my left under jaw. I went to the ER the next day because I read an article about "muscle pain" in the left jaw could be a sign of a heart attack - which it was.
The period pains I had were no joke, I could not even sit up. So yes, period pains hurt waaaayyyyy more than a heart attack.
Edit: I am very glad that I underwent hysterectomy
but now u cant have bebe :(
Same here!! Endometriosis was so bad the internal bleeding caused all my organs to stick together in one mass that took my doctor 4 hours to cut apart and put back in the right places! When I woke up, he told me everybody in the hospital had come in to look at his pictures and they were all shocked. He said he didn't know how I could even sit up straight since everything in that mass was connected to my spine.
All that said, when I was doing pre-op, the doctor said I had had a recent heart attack and had me get clearance from a cardiologist to do the surgery (hysterectomy). He also made me see a psychiatrist to make sure it wasn't all in my head. I assured him it was in my belly! Then he made me sign a waiver saying I would not harm, maim or kill my family members or his due to the lack of hormones. They withheld them for several years to make sure it didn't come back. The weird thing was they never found the tumor that was growing inside my heart and caused the heart attack until 9 years ago. I was 28 when I had the second hysterectomy. The first one was a partial and I still had regular bleeding 5-7 days a month afterwards. Changed doctors and redid the hysterectomy since the first doctor left endo and tried to call it "scar tissue" that was oozing. Not on a regular cycle every month. I was never regular when I had all my organs! Why should I be regular after a hysterectomy? lol
@@julianokleby1448 oh my gosh, I'm glad that you are better now. I feel you so much when even healthcare professionals are not taking us seriously and telling us that it's all in our heads. Before I did my hysterectomy a nurse even said to me "oh but your poor husband! You will never be able to have a child!". Not all women want to be mothers 😌
Same
@@johnhammond6248sometimes that's the point. And sometimes a person's health is more important then a parasitic clump of cells, John.
My cramps were so bad, I even passed out multiple times! I also regularly vomited. I am glad it's over! Never had a heart atack... as far as I know...
I dealt with the same starting in middle school. I had to sit in the back of the classroom with a bucket for vomiting while intermittently passing out. I endend up having endometriosis. Later in life, i was in labor for over 10 hours and simply refused an epidural because the labor pains were laughable and didnt even touch my period "cramps".
I had the same thing as a teenager, stood up felt a ridiculous pain in my side and blacked out waking up half on half off the stairs, good thing I wasn't fully up them 😅
We are bad@$$
The honest to god truth of the matter is that period cramps are different for EVERYONE. Some people might only feel a slight ache or sting, while others might be completely crippled. It all depends on the person.
@chunkysneakerz right! That's how mine were when I first started, but they ended up being so much worse. I've had cycles where I was willing to sleep in the bathtub filled with water so hot it felt cold because that was the only way I could relax from the pain. The water made me feel like I was burning my nerves, I ended up getting an iud to manage my symptoms better
This isn't a completely untrue comment...however it was likely written by a man. Just sayin'...the MAJORITY of menstrual cramps are in the OMG Im dying category. Especially "back in the day" i.e. 30+ years ago. Anyhow to anyone who is BLESSED enough to be able to have short or just "uncomfortable" periods...yes, Im jealous. But more than that I wonder why this came of as belittling instead of grateful and SYMPATHETIC! women..we gotta do better.
@@aalihte3378 hi, op here. i have short, but very painful periods. i can assure you, i am a man, but i am not male.
@wolfieisacat13 I wished for short, less painful periods since my first one at 16! I had ovarian cysts that would burst (thus one wonky ovary) at 14, and that might have had something to do with me starting a day late and a dollar short. From the get-go, 9 days of feeling like I was a pig to the slaughter and no less than 2 economy packs of overnight pads per round, sometimes twice a month! I was told by many doctors "It'll all work itself out eventually and you won't even notice it".............yeeeeeeeahno. My body has always hated me.
@aalihte3378 they are totally not. You are in the minority. If that were true women, literally would en mass take monthly sick days, which doesn't happen. Most women while uncomfortable can function just fine. It's more like bad gas, not hear attack category pain. I am a woman btw.
Crazy how we can historically go from men believing and asserting that it was a woman's duty to go through all of this pain for the sake of childbirth, to dismissing the pain that women experience. 🙄
Nah, girls aren't joking when they say that periods hurt like hell, I am a believer now.
Bro chill
lol girls exaggerate. I'm a woman and it's not that bad..I have never even met another woman who has had such bad periods. It's a lie
@@Diamondr11Blue huh
😒50 years old and have had my period for 40 yrs all I can say I'm tired of it.
menapause is no joke
I'll be 55 in September and I still have mine... it's quite annoying 🙄
After you've gone a year w/o a period, it's time to celebrate. I did. Not being stuck with having a period is one of the best things that ever happened to me. I love it!
@@illume5145 Menopause is great. It's the perimenopause that's absolutely horrendously horrible.
I’m currently on myfembree for fibroids that has stopped it for almost a year. I’m only 38, and it was causing periods with only 10 day breaks between, some months had 3 periods. I’m so upset because I desperately want another baby, but in no position to have one. Single mom who hasn’t dated in a decade. So I’m running out of time quickly, but dk if I can even still get pregnant or how if when I come off the meds my periods are still jacked up. 😫😭
A friend of mine had terrible period cramps and pain for years. After her hysterectomy she started getting chest pains but decided to ‘walk it off’ as it was probably just from lying down after the operation. A few days later she decided it was worth getting investigated. She had had multiple heart attacks post hysterectomy and was rushed to open heart surgery for a triple bypass. I asked her, after she woke up from being in an induced coma for 3 weeks, was the heart attack terrible and she said it wasn’t as bad as her period pain. But the pain after the bypass was much much worse than them both
I watched that original video, it came out about 3-4 years ago, I think. Thank you Dr Youn, I’m not surprised that you acknowledge all the gaslighting that women have endured throughout the centuries. It’s no surprise to all us women, who have experienced it monthly, but it is still satisfying when a man acknowledges it. Most of us women know that if men had to experienc the pain of childbirth our species would have died out long ago.
I absolutely love dr Youn. I love how ‘for women’ he is, and not like the majority of males, even male drs, who are quick to dismiss a woman’s pain or complaints.
Hear attacks kill people and women miss having heart attacks missed all the time because we are so use to being in pain.
I’ve never had a heart attack but I read somewhere heart attack symptoms (and just other ailments in general) differ in men and women.
This also might contribute to the medical bias women experience too
@@ComaLies225 it’s not that they actually differ they are just detected sooner in men and they don’t often see the later stages where women tend to only be recognized at the later stages of a heart attack
I have never had a heart attack but have had periods. There have been times when I literally could not move due to the cramping in my stomach and pain in my lower back. I do take pain medication sometimes when pain becomes unbearable.
Periods can be an emotional and physical rollercoaster ride.
These period pain machines fail to include that not only are cramps painful, they are accompanied by bloating, excessive bleeding, muscle pain and nausea.
I would say that menstrual cramps are WORSE than heart attacks.
Ah yes, the nausea. Sometimes to bad that I can barely eat for 2-3 days. I've been called "rebellious" for not eating. On top of that I managed to wreck my stomach with ibuprofen because I took it on an empty stomach for several years. The pain crawls into my lower back and inner thighs, so I can barely walk sometimes. Pain still gets dismissed.
At its worst, period cramps can feel like a xenomorph is about to burst out of the lower abdomen...even more so for women with endometriosis!
I heard that women are not taken as serious when they are having a heart attack as a man and I also heard that a women may have different symptoms when they are having a heart attack. I can only speak from my own personal experience but I used to have bad menstrual cramps, during my periods, then when I was getting married and went on birth control pill, I no longer had the pain. When I went off the medication to start my family, I still had no discomfort.
Blah blah blah, keep it up liberal
@@tmandoesgamesv2.018 Yeehaw, these damn liberals want medical care?? HAHA not in my country!
@@tmandoesgamesv2.018 i don't know what's liberal about her message i think you should check it's definition before commenting and making assemptions you watched the video right so you're smart enough to do research about the subject may you be guided to a less hateful way
I was on the 3-month shot after my oldest living. Instead of my monthly, my stomach would swell up like I was pregnant. Went on the monthly shot and gained over 70 lbs in a year. Took 4 years to get it out of my system and a trip to a fertility specialist to get the plumbing unclogged to get the second bambino. Next two were effortless 😯
@@bronwentillman8385 Oh my, that must have been awful.
As a woman who has suffered menstrual cramps and a heart attack, I can say that they are very different pains. Plus, every person experiences pain differently. The menstrual cramps that I had were not a steady, continuous pain but would be sporadic. The heart attack was very different. There was a lot of pressure in my upper chest and back and I just felt horrible. Thank goodness at the hospital they did not hesitate to take me in because within a very short time I went into cardiac arrest and had to be shocked and then rushed to the cath lab for stents.
Each woman experienced different pain during period. I used to not felt anything until I had endometriosis. For 3 years I was in terrible pain during period that I've never experienced before; it felt like you're getting punched repeatedly inside your stomach directly, and squeezed and pull out the womb. The pain crawled from the lower stomach down and up to the back and felt like your tail bone also getting punched repeatedly. And the cramp... Oh boy... After sitting for long, when you got up, you couldn't straightened your back because your stomach cramped so awfully bad, you stay in bowing position for several minutes until the pain slowly subsided, then went along with your day like usual.
How awful
I've had both. I can say without a doubt, having a widow maker stemi (100% blocked) heart attack hurt so bad I knew I was dying.
And I suffered large fibroids heavy periods and cramping.
:(
My cramps over the years have varied in pain. The worst was feeling like I was reliving back labour for 10x longer than my actual labour.
I have a medical condition where I get chest and muscle pains regularly and even the specialist said I would never be able to determine if I was having a heart attack or not. Heck, even when I thought I was hemorrhaging the ER took 4hrs to see me.
In the end, life continues, and most of us females have no choice but to push though as there so very few of us that have others willing to step up and help us out when we need it.
I've never had a heart attack so I cannot state whether or not period cramps are that bad, but I do find it interesting that the video of the men having the stimulator on, has them debilitated. Yet women go to work everyday and are expected to work through it.
I wonder if that pain simulator addresses back pain that can come along menstrual cramps. I could tell the moment my period started every month...back pain first followed by the pelvic cramps. Some were so bad I would vomit. Fun times.
Yes ... the back pain gave me a clue that it's starting.
Dr. Youn, this video is one of the reasons I enjoy your content. Thank you for *acknowledging* the toxicity & bias in medicine.
I really appreciate how you contrast it with *evidence* *based* data. Thank you for being an advocate & educator for *ALL* ppl 🫶🏾.
I'm on medication, because of the cramps.
I’m glad I asked….o wait…
I didn’t know I was having a heart attack. But my cramps would run down the inside of my thighs and it felt like someone was stripping the veins right out of me. My low stomach pains were just in describable pain.
Just ask a woman who's had both which is more painful 😂
Exactly, why is this so hard? Obviously you'll need a large sample size to account for differences in pain levels experienced with both, but yeah there is such thing as a "silent" heart attack; there is no such thing as silent period cramps. If you get cramps, you get cramps and it hurts.
@lwoods1940 that's true about the sample size. Also, some women don't suffer from bad cramps. I had fibriods & would bleed like a faucet turned on high for weeks but no cramps. The bleeding was so bad I had a hysterectomy at age 36 due to being chronically anemic & I couldn't have children anyway due to poor fertility. But, thankfully, I didn't have cramps on top of it. Honestly, I would be interested to try that cramping simulator to see how bad it could get.
@@stacin821ooh thats so interesting. no cramps??? very very cool. I feel like that should be studied. I bet it could help tens of thousands of women. Im so jealous right now. ❤❤❤
@@aalihte3378 I feel immensely for women who do have bad cramping. Idk why I didn't. My reproductive system was basically defective from a young age 😂 I can joke about it now but it was really hard back in my 20s/early 30s... having cramps on top of it would have been absolutely miserable. Being a woman can be extremely difficult 😕 I hope that you are doing well on your journey ❤️
They won't believe it
Menstrual cramps last for a few days, ALL day and ALL night. Every month. For up to 40 years. Even with pain meds they can be excruciating. Imagine going to work, taking final exams, caring for children etc. under these circumstances. The only pain that is as debilitating are migraines. Chemo was nothing compared to both.
I was literally about to come here and say only 40 years?!?! And then the lightbulb turned on. I actually forgot we dont bleed UNTIL puberty lol. 🙄 talk about brain holes (i have MS)
Depends on the person. I have endometriosis and PCOS. I have had periods that leave me in bed with a heating pad, vomiting from the severe pain. And I know pain. I walk daily on two bone-on-bone arthritic knees, and have massive issues with my back. I have had 18 surgeries, including one that made an incision from sternum to pelvis for an incarcerated bowel obstruction emergency surgery. And my period pain can sometimes lay me out. But my best friend has very little physical discomfort with hers. Only part of perimenopause I like so far is the reduction in periods and the pain I experience from them.
Id say as anyone who has a period and had a heart attack which is more painful. Thanks for sticking up for us about the medical bias
Women will cry about anything
@@tmandoesgamesv2.018 empathy seems like something you lack when it's a trait that define humans saying that period pain hurt is real and please before saying rude things why not doing research
Had a heart attack; commonly called "The Widow Maker"; emergency triple bypass ... jaw ache, cold sweat, general feeling of dread, extreme blood pressure, but no chest pain. Gall bladder attack was so much worse pain; thought I was actually dying. Pain is so subjective.
Periods are WORSE. I had a heart attack, felt No pain. Open heart heart surgery Unexplainable pain But only for a short period cramps keep coming back monthly for YEARS😡🤬
Kidney stones in passing....omg, the WORST. I was thrown to the floor grunting and vomiting, it was unbelievable, UNBELIEVABLE.
I’ve heard of the husband stitch🙄 I’ve not had a heart attach so can’t compare. When I hear men crying about a kidney stone being like labour I say hell no!!! During my 3 pregnancies I get a condition which causes( hydronephrosis) my kidneys to have the urine flow back into my kidneys causing many infections as well as 10-12 stones in each kidney by 3-4 months. These can’t be surgically removed until the babies are born so I must suffer through the pregnancy. The do put stents in but they only minimally help that prolonged pain. I think labours worse mine were 24-36 hours and a heart attack doesn’t last that long but I hope to never find out!!!
Thank you comment section for helping to normalize my experiences with excruciating cramps in my late teens early twenties. I thought something was wrong with me and i just had t9 accept it. Cramps so bad i would vomit and a few times just literally pass out like faint like pow on the ground unconscious pass out. ❤❤❤ im old as dirt now. But this is a discussion for every young lady and every doctor and just damn it just EVERYBODY! to think of all the random pain ive literally just shrugged off because i thought if its less than a period, it must be benign. I have MS and i thought my pain level was just "a little" rough. Now I feel Ive got permission to tell doctors that its serious 😢 thank you ladies!❤
Are those doctors not medical professionals? How can they make such differences in care between the genders? Or they studied to work on men alone and women are just an afterthought even though they can give birth (!), have a completely different body and need a more complex approach? That's wild.
It’s called misogyny, women were excluded from clinical trials until late 1990s
Yes, women are often an after thought. Even medication are tested on men and not women in studies (and the effect on pregnant women and baby is even rarer). And it's also why pediatrics is a specialization because they vary too greatly from the standard male adult. Patriarchy is still strong in the medical field.
Because they're taught "one size fits all". If a guy isn't in pain, neither is a woman. If this med works for this person, it'll work for everyone. Male doctors see women patients as "head cases" because we express our pain, while guys just suck it up and duct tape it.
an important note, i think: not every woman’s period pains are the same. some don’t feel much at all, some have awful pains.
I’ve had periods so painful I thought I was going to die: cold sweats, pain shooting from my lower back down through my knees, throwing up, not being able to stand, passing out because of the pain… but for years doctors said I was “just unlucky” and to take ibuprofen. The medical gaslighting is real.
I spent 3 years trying to get a doctor to give me a hysterectomy because my cramps were so bad I would pass out multiple times a day all week long while on my period. I went to 7 different doctors before I found one that would actually listen and ran tests before concluding that I needs a hysterectomy. Once he finished the surgery he informed my husband that he had such bad lesions on my uterus that he didn't know how I was even up and walking around when not on my period. He said they were so bad I never should have been able to have kids. He also said that if we had left them in place they most likely would have turned cancerous. So yes from the moment I got my period at 9 Yeats old all the way through mh life until I was 26 I dealt with the pain of these lesions inside me and doctors only ever prescribed birth control. That's it just birth control that's all any doctor ever did to help me.
I barely cramp anymore but I'm hella lucky. It used to be the first two days of my period I couldn't keep food down. It's different for different people or the same person at different ages.
I had endometriosis and adenomyosis, so yeah........there's no pain worse, even kidney stones. And I've never heard any heart attack patients complain about the pain of a heart attack.
Same, going for a consult tomorrow for hysterectomy.
@W_-sr5pn good luck! I hope everything turns out for the better!
I have stage 4 endo.... The pain literally gives me a fever and paralysed me with pain...even just breathing would hurt..
From the moment I experienced my 1st period to the moment I had a total hysterectomy (14-37) I have never not been in pain. Endometriosis, adenomyosis, polycystic ovarian syndrome with an irregular cycle felt like have a miscarriage every 3 months. Can a heart attack be more painful than that? I don’t know, but having had doctors tell my mother it was all in my head to seeing the shock and horror of my gynecological surgeon when he saw how bad I was inside made me realize that I was not crazy.
I love that Chris Farley skit! 😂 He flips out when they gave him decaf instead of regular coffee. ☕️
I'm lucky to not have any pain during my period without being on birth control. However, I know plenty of women that are tortured by it.
The period simulater would be more accurate if they also had a ten pin bowling ball on their bladder.
2:08 this right here hit me where it hurts! In 1996 my mom died from a heart attack. What made things more crazy was she worked for the hospital that sent her home with indigestion and didn't take it seriously. They didn't run any scans on her or anything that had to do with her heart whatsoever. They just treated her for indigestion. She went in I believe on a Tuesday and then she was dead by that Friday. Turned out when she went on Tuesday she was actually having a minor or a mild heart attack and as a result of it going untreated she had a massive heart attack in her sleep and died Friday. These people worked with my mother and knew what she was like as a person and knew she wasn't prone to exaggeration to being dramatic. So imagine how un seriously other women are taken!
as a woman i wouldn't think cramps hurt more than a heart attack bc i heard a heart attack was like having a semi press on your chest. i know cramps get bad from experience and personally i've had them feel nearly as bad as contractions but a semi on your chest i would think would be way worse. maybe rare exceptions with endometriosis but idk as i don't have that. also as someone with doctor ignored chronic pain.
It all depends on the woman and her cramps. I had horrific cramps growing up that would last weeks to months ( my period would last months) then there are women who have nice average flows who barely get cramps, so it all depends on.
Mental cramps hurt like hell but now I have a heart problem and that is a lot more painful
For 30 years (from age 11 to 41) I had debilitating cramps - and then some. During school years my Mom was called to come pick me up and take me home because I kept fainting from the pain. I would be dripping wet from sweat sitting on the toilet with diarrhea, a bucket by my side to vomit in, and bent over to help me so I hopefully wouldn't faint again. When I wasn't on the toilet, I was in bed writhing in pain turning from side to side with my arms cradling my lower stomach. This went on for 24 hours once a month for 30 years. My Mom said (in a rather shocking tone) that I reminded her of what it was like when she was in the active stage of labor. Finally at 41 I was diagnosed with endometriosis and had a hysterectomy. Every month for years I would thank God that I no longer suffered that pain. I wouldn't wish that monthly experience on my worst enemy.
I remember being blown away at how much my period hurt when I got it and then shocked at being told I had to function
I’ve had to drive my friend to the ER three times because her period pain was so bad she’d almost pass out/pass out or be unable to move before she was diagnosed with what is essentially extreme period pain, I can’t remember what it’s called but yeah… period pain is so much worse.
Ever since I had my first periods, I felt pain. I consulted several doctors and believed them because I was young and it was long ago when information was not as available as it is now. Docs told me my pain is “kind of normal” and I thought to myself: ok, I just have to learn to live with it. And I did. More than 20 years later I’ve found out I have external kind of endometriosis (it’s the one where womb is not involved, but other outer organs are) And my current gynecologist told me that pain is the symptom.
I thankfully had not heart attacks, but I had experienced other rather painful things… which I considered not as painful compared to my monthly experience.
Well, my period felt like the beginning stages of LABOR and I HAD all NATURAL. SO YES, period PAIN hurts. Passing a KIDNEY STONE is almost as painful
I tried that period cramp simulator and it wasn’t even as bad as my cramps. The only thing I have experienced worse then my cramps was passing a kidney stone two days after I had just passed one and even then it wasn’t much worse
There are varying types of periods for girls and women. Not everyone has it as bad. Some of us have it really bad. (It gets BAD!) And some of us have two uteruses, and it’s technically twice as worse! After I found out I have two, it made sense why mine has always been so extra.
My period pains are so bad I can't even walk. Its only gotten worse since ive developed more illnesses
Yes i have had the extra stitch(es) and heard the doctor tell my husband that it will be nice and tight. (I am 72 and yes, stitches where a thing back then) My third baby was 10.3 and no stitches because i had a mid wife. She even reduced my hemorrhoids which the last two male doctors didn't do a thing. And at times period pain is worse than heart attacks.
I had such bad problems monthly for so many years that when I had a baby, it wasn't that much worse. Think going from a pain level of 8 or 9 to a 10. No big deal. I am now in my 60s and over that and I don't miss that part of being younger at all.
I've had both cramps and a heart attack. Worst pain I ever had was when my back went out when I was 16. I went to the doctor with chest heaviness and shortness of breath and was diagnosed with COPD. I had already been having heart palpitations for years and was used to that. Went to the ER 2 months later and was sent home. I found out later it was a heart attack. I do not have COPD.
I believe it. I had a tummy tuck several years ago and was terrified of the pain after surgery. It was an incision from hip to hip. I woke up after surgery and thought this is nothing compared to my cramps. I've had cramps so bad I woke up crying in a ball, feeling like I had a knife inside me it was so brutal. The recovering from the surgery was nothing in comparison. In fact I hardly took any of the post surgery pain pills, and I was given the good ones, oxy codone, I hardly took any after the surgery. I used them for cramps I had during future periods I had, since they were so much worse than recovering from the surgery was. I've never given birth, but was always terrified of what the pain must be like if just a period was that painful. It wasn't that bad every month, thank God, but there were countless times when it was.
I know that they've made me crunch up in a fetal position and cry before, they used to be pretty severe in my teenage years. And after experience labor pains I can tell you that they are a similar feeling to the beginning to moderate waves of contraction which makes sense to me considering the areas of pain.
I've had several heart attacks and my period is more painful.
I used to have such bad period cramps that it would make me physically ill and make it difficult to get out of beds some days, everyone just kind of brushed me off except for my mom lol.
I got on birth control a good six years ago just so I wouldn't have to deal with the pain anymore :')
I got my first Nexplanon about four years ago and I'm having off and on issues with it even on the second, but much better than being bedridden from cramps and aches
Lived with endometriosis from 13-48!
I was so afraid to get a hysterectomy!!Yet it was so freeing! Had no idea how much pain I was in monthly 😢
thank you for addressing how women are often overlooked!!
I used to have really bad period pain every single month to the point of not being able to do anything, just having hot water bottle on my abdomen while I was curled up in fetal position waiting for it to go away. No painkillers would help other then my dad's painkillers for kidney stone pain.
Gratefull beyond belief to birth control meds due to which I get pms (craving food and being mildly grumpy) but none of the other period stuff. ❤
I considered myself lucky since most of my periods throughout my life haven’t been so bad…until recently. The older I’m getting, the more painful my cramps have been getting 😭😭😭
When I was a teen my period pain was horrendous and one time I had started my period and when I was walking into the house I passed out. They took me to the emergency room and they ran tests on me and said I had passed a large kidney stone. It was the same level of pain. Except it made me pass out. My periods were always that bad and I was happy when I stopped having a period when I was 44.
Period pain can be really bad and disrupting to your life. I had several heart attacks thinking it was something else. When I had a widow maker heart attack the pain was so horrible and intense and I truly thought I would not live through it. My advice for women with chest pain is to go immediately to your doctor. If I would have gone when I thought it was something else I wouldn’t have the damage to my heart that occurred because of the heart attacks in the beginning and then the widow maker that left me with a lot of damage.
Haha that chris farley snl reference is one of my favorite skits haha
I dare any of these boys to go one day with stage 4 endometriosis. I've had kidney stones that were a cakewalk compared to menstrual cramps. I had an ovarian cyst burst and almost kill me and that was about the same level of pain. Think about that.
I’ve had periods which I’ve sailed through, and ones that have left me curled on the floor not knowing whether I was going to vomit or shit myself . It can be tricky trying to plan life around that, just never know what ya might get that month . Yay 🎉
The fact of doctors discharging and gaslighting women is so true for me.
Another time a doctor almost dismissed me from the ER saying I had a migraine even though I was sure I had a stroke since on the way to the hospital half my face was frozen.
He said I was having a migraine. I asked can you lose function of your face and have numbing on one side of your body from migraines and he said yes and tried to discharge me. All the techs that were waiting to give me a MRI lookee at him like he was crazy and I'm sure they are what lead to another doctor coming to check me out. turns out my coratid artery had internally been broken my body was constantly trying to clot it and small bits of that clot was traveling to my brain causing the mini strokes I was having.
Luckily I’ve never had a heart attack so far, but I had periods for 20 years. The level of physical pain was ok for me until a few years ago when I was in trouble for almost 10 days in a row with a hormonal cycle every 20 days. After several tests nothing really showed up except for a liquid ovarian cyst. Then I decided to go on to birth control, the cyst is over, my period as well (temporarily) and I’m the happiest woman I’ve ever been in my life 😊
I have a Septate Uterus that I had surgically corrected, and before having it corrected, I had to be on birth control just so I could skip my period because it was so painful that I wouldn't be able to go to work or school. It would only be on the first day of my period, but it would be so bad my mom would have to have codeine on hand to give me a dose and even that only would slightly take the edge of the pain off. Now, after having my corrective surgery, my period pain is more normal. It's not so bad that I'm moaning in pain and having to take codeine one day a month because anything else wouldn't have any effect on the pain.
Considering some heart attacks are silent, you can say any pain is worse...
I think it depends on the woman, some women breeze through periods, others like myself suffer so bad that you can’t stand still. I have never had a heart attack and hopefully never will, but I can’t see it being more painful than the period cramps I used to get. The feeling that I used to get with cramps was as if somebody with long fingers nails was ripping and squeezing my uterus nonstop for days.
Ive had both and the heart attack was more painful and terrifying.
Never had heart attack but I have period pain for 2 days straight with no relief until they work themselves out
Thats ever so subjective. I had some period pains that were pretty awful, but my periods were relatively easy, compared to other women I know. My heart attack, which was giving me warning pains for two days prior, were about as bad as my period pains, until day three, and about 45 min into the attack when I became nauseous and the pain was so consuming I couldn't think. Fortunately I was at my dr's office at the time, so I got to a hospital and stented in no time
It's even worse if you have fibroids..... it can sometimes feel like you're being literally cut in half.
I’ve had menstrual cramps, I have painful varicose veins in my uterus from my 9lb pregnancy, have given birth twice naturally without medical aid, AND I have a degenerative esophagus disease that causes horrendously painful spasms. In my experience with pain, nothing has touched the esophageal spasms. Those are the closest thing to a heart attack that I can imagine😳 Not to ever take away from pelvic pain, but it’s not as incapacitating for me as the esophagus. I think women should be given more than Tylenol for IUD insertions and procedures of that nature. I almost came clear off the table once.
My periods got very bad after having children, it was like having a baby every month in the end. Ended up having a hysterectomy and found I had adenomyosis, so no wonder. I know a few recovered heart attacks victims and they never mentioned severe pain
this tiktok guys need a hug asap
I want to try one of those simulators so bad to see if it really feels like period cramps.
I don't understand why we're comparing 2 différent things. When I was a teenager the pain was so bad that I lied down on my side. I couldn't talk. I just had to wait for it to go away in a day or two. (like when you have a very bad migraine).
It wouldn't be hard to do an in-depth study on this. Most period havers would happily be strapped to a period simulator to figure out their pain level if it meant watching non period having folks experience the same!
sincerely,
A trans guy who had severe endometriosis as a young teen.
All I know is that my cramps have gotten so bad before that I have had to bite myslef to cause a differnt kind of pain so that I did not yell out in public while I was at work. And yes I had to bite so hard I broke the skin.
I mean yes period pain can be insanely painful but no idea if it's as painful as a heart attack because I have no idea what that feels like
I had my period for 2 years straight. I was given iron supplements and a psychologist. Nine doctors and five years later turns out I had cancer the whole time.
Cramping varies a lot from lifestyle, genetics, and diets to even other internal factors. I've dealt with mine and it made me extremely uncomfortable to the point where I'm unable to eat and would get nauseous cause of stress being a factor but there are times where its been more manageable too. Heart attacks don't vary theres pain scale I believe nobody can manage through a heart attack . I lost my dad from one and he didn't know he was having one til he fell on the floor cold...
I’ve had both, years of cramps so bad I would have to take pain meds to the point they knocked me out, lost jobs from not being able to go to work due to cramps. A few years ago I had a heart attack due to deterioration of artery to heart. Heart attack was painful but cramps were way worse! I waited quite awhile before calling ambulance, called because I broke into a sweat that instantly drenched me and I had always heard symptoms were different for women than men. Not saying it wasn’t painfully but I could breath through the heart attack pain, cramps had me screaming and rolling on the bed crying from pain.
I have about a dozen physical health conditions and I'm 35 now but until I was in my mid 20s I was always told I was exaggerating my pain. I dislocate or sublux easily and most of my joints have major tears in them.
i love how so much guys are like “😨😰” when they find out that period pains are more than just a simple stomach ache
I've heard of the stitch it's crazy. I love watching guys doing those tests sometimes they have to do our normal day stuff, and they can't. But my favorite is the machine to feel childbirth 😅
Never have a heart attack. hopefully i dont ever get that in future. In movies it always seems so painful.
So dont know if its the same as cramp, dizzy, backpain, vomit and sometimes diarrhea.
It really depends on the person and each cycle. Before I gave birth I had quite painful periods, some cramps were so bad and I felt like I might faint, they were comparable to early labour/contraction pains in my back.
Since I had my daughter and have a healthier diet and exercise I literally get no pain at all. I never used to believe women who said they felt no pain but now I know it’s possible!
The most I might feel is a very mild ache that I barely notice and only for maybe half an hour on one day 😂 I feel very lucky now. It’s very hard to say that period cramps are comparable to a heart attack when that only refers to women who experience debilitating cramps, which aren’t normal. Maybe they’re common but not normal.
I have very bad period cramps. As i curl up in pain bad, get the heat pad. There's the duller persistent pain for a few days, then full blown "stabby" pain when the cramps worsen. The latter comes in waves. It's not fun. I've had to resort to cramp specific pain meds. I would take the pill to stop periods, but the side effects from that is too much, especially making my BP not OK.
IMO both mentsrual cramps and heart attack experiences vary so widely amongst the people that experience them that it’s not as simple as a “yes” or “no” answer. I’ve been lucky to only really experience mild to moderate cramps but I’ve heard many stories about women who have debilitating pain with their periods all the time to the point they can’t get out of bed as a result. I don’t doubt that there are many women who have had more pain from their periods than some people experience from a heart attack
I’ve experienced both - period pain is 1000 times worse