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Dear Annie,

You're lucky! I know of one young girl, that suffered from eight to ten days a month, with three days of cramps so severe that she wasn't able to go to school. Now explain that to the teachers.

It affected everything in her life, not to mention the amount of pain killers she was taking every month. Birth control pills turned out to be the only thing that helped. It lessened the pain and cycle.

What the medical profession is not trying to find out, is the wherefore and why menstrual cramps are such a problem with some women. I know I suffered a great deal, but it was only for one day, and my mother told me that cramps were unheard of when she was young...and living in Greece.

Does this problem have to do with our diet?

God Bless,

Zenovia

Yes

Some of it has to do with diet, a lot of it has to do with exercise.

Not to gross the guys out: My baba, my mom, and me all had the bad cramp problem. We joked that that was why baba had ten children, as she could avoid ten or so years of the problem. They could have been debilitating, but my mom would do what her mom did before her: shove me out the door for good hard exercise. It worked. The women in my mom's family always played a lot of sports and tended to be fond of manual labor that other folks would hire out (saving money while avoiding pills).