STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

Cricket · Gucci

What do you do to relieve CRAMPS???

Tati · Chanel

Boil 1 cup water and throw in some cinnamon sticks for about 5 - 8 minutes let them boil and then drain and drink up . You can add a tsp. of honey for flavor. You should feel better within an hour.

Elle · Hermes

Do you have a heating pad? Lay down for a 1/2 hour and have some tea and use your heating pad. I also find that if I 'let it all hang out' I am more crampy than if I am being held in by something, so maybe try jeans instead of sweats? Hope you feel better!

Karina · Chanel

Heating pads, Camomile tea, Advil

Alegria · Kate Spade

Sorry you're not feeling well. Take a long hot shower. A heating pad works wonders. I have one that I can strap on and still move around and get things done. I have also come to find that if I am wearing a tampon it hurts even more. Sometimes moving around helps so perhaps cleaning the house will help you get your mind off of it.

Cricket · Gucci

Thanks girls. I think I'm going to drink some chammomile tea get a strap-on heating pad. That's a drug store type item, right? I seriously don't have 30 minutes at a time to lay still w/ a heating pad. I'd LOVE to be able to take a Percocet right now, but I have to do some driving w/ the kids.

jen · Kate Spade

Go on the pill

I've been on it since I was 16, I'm 19 now and it's all for cramps (I don't have sex). It works wonders. I don't know if this is a one time thing for you but if you have reoccuring bad cramps, considor the pill. It also really lightens your period which is great!

Mia · Kate Spade

Tea and heating pads? My cramps laugh in the faces of tea and heating pads! Only drugs will do, Advil (good), Pamprin (better) or codeine (best, and which you can get OTC here - yay!).

Lilykind · Hermes

quote:
Originally posted by: Mia
"Tea and heating pads? My cramps laugh in the faces of tea and heating pads! Only drugs will do, Advil (good), Pamprin (better) or codeine (best, and which you can get OTC here - yay!). "

Note to self: Move to Canada. Get codeine pills.

I use green tea myself in the face of cramps.

Mia · Kate Spade

Note to self: become codeine dealer

hee.

Seriously, they're called '222's - just come on up, ask at any pharmacy and a bottle of opiate derivatives can be all yours. (is codeine an opiate? i think...!)

kealoha · Kate Spade

i take some Aleve & drink hot water w/lemon.

Cricket · Gucci

It's day #2 now, and we're driving 7 hours today (hubby is doing the driving), so I dug out the one Percocet I saved after my last C-Section. I don't know how else I'll be able to handle sitting still for 7 hours w/ cramps. This way I have an excuse to sleep and tune out my toddler.

nyc_shopgirl · Dooney & Bourke

vicodin

Seagal · Nine West

I usually get horrible cramps and last month my girlfriend brought me disposable heating pads that stick to the inside of your underwear, against your lower belly. They worked great - each one lasts 12 hours and they can be worn undetected under clothing. I think that they only cost about $6 for 3, and they are sold at the drugstore next to fem. napkins.