The Women's Pain

Normally, every young and middle-age woman has to deal with the menstrual period every month. Intensity of the pain is different which can be no pain to very severe pain in each person. The pain may affect some women so much so that they cannot spend a normal life in the period. One who suffers from the pain generally takes pain-killer medicines to relieve their pain. The person with the severe pain may take stronger pain-killer medicines than usual. Using oral contraceptive to relieve the pain is not new, but in an article “The pill 'does ease period pain'” (2012) make us sure via the study that it may help to relieve the pain in addition to prevent pregnancy. However, some people use it in wrong indications because the drug is easily to get in Thailand.

According to “The pill 'does ease period pain'” (2012), oral contraceptive medicines may lessen the pain who suffer from menstrual period. Although the medicine have no indication for this case, the study of Dr Ingela shows us that severity of the pain is significantly different between woman who take the drug and women who do not take the drug. This is very significant because the pain leads to problems not only to the individuals but also to the nations.

Normally, in menstrual period, women may be easily angry or feel uncomfortable with no pain to moderate pain. In unusual cases of very severe pain, my girlfriend is a good example. In some of her menstrual period that pain-killer drugs cannot help, when she is suffering from the pain, she cannot do anything even standing. I think women who likely to have very severe pain in the period should prepare themselves to confront the emergency situation by carrying the drugs all the time or finding a good man to take care of. Moreover, I have heard that after the first pregnancy this symptom will be better.

From my education and experiences as a pharmacist student, women who have a pain in menstrual period will take pain-killer medicines. In mind pain, they take simple drug, Paracetamol. In more pain patients, they take stronger NSAIDs (Non Steroidal Anti Inflammation Drugs) such as Ibuprofen, Mefenamic acid, and Naproxen Sodium. In some severe cases, the women additionally take oral contraceptive drugs, 21 tablets mixed Estrogen and Progesterone, every day for 4 courses and stop for 7 days to let menstruation occur, which means that 84 days women will have menstruation only 1 time. This will reduce the chance of severe pain. In case of my girlfriend, she had taken Dian^®-35(one of oral contraceptive drug) every month for 1 year. Throughout that year, she had no sign of severe pain.

Sometimes people do not use oral contraceptive drug for medical purposes. This might be a problem of people in Thailand since the medicine is easily to get at drugstores. Some men and women want to take the pills just because they want to have big breasts or good shape. Since public advertising of dangerous drugs is illegal, pharmaceutical companies try to avoid it by using some symbols and colors to let people know that they are particular drugs. For example, in some advertisement, there is a woman who has a good shape telling audiences to fine “Y” symbol in orange color. Then, the ad displays telephone number for viewers to get more information about a particular brand of medicine that they can get it at drugstores. Everything is a business, isn’t it?

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References

The pill 'does ease period pain' (2012, January 18). BBC News. Retrieved January 18, 2012 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16597692