Plenty of women rate cannabis as their most effective self-management for period pain, and no trial has ever tested it in period pain. What the research does show, including the one change it makes to the second half of her cycle.
Perimenstrual asthma is a recognised phenotype with prevalence figures, an emergency-department signal, and a name doctors know. What drives it, what to log across two cycles, and where ibuprofen gets complicated.
The advice to cut caffeine for PMS has less behind it than it sounds. What does move: hormonal birth control, her sleep that week, and the hour between coffee and her iron.
She skips the gym on day two and apologizes for it. The research on training through her cycle is far less dramatic than the internet, and it mostly points the other way.
The same two glasses land differently, and the week of her cycle they land in changes the bill. What the evidence says about drinking and PMS, and the small moves that help.
Pain during sex has a medical name and a short list of usual causes. The question that sorts them is where the pain lands, not how bad it is, and the thing that gets her to an answer is usually one sentence from you.
A cyst is a fluid-filled sac, and her ovaries build one on purpose every cycle. Here is what usually clears on its own, what does not, and the two shapes of pain that mean moving tonight.
The bleed she had on the pill was not really a period, so what has to come back is the whole cycle underneath it. Here is the timeline, the method that is slower than the rest, and the short list worth a call.
The bleeding in the first weeks is not a period. The cycle underneath it can restart months before any blood shows up, which is the part almost nobody gets told before it matters.
Brown at the start, bright red on day two, near black first thing in the morning. Almost all of it comes down to one variable, and only two shades on the whole chart are actually saying something.
