# Period stuff. TMI etc.

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 8, 2005, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-stuff-tmi-etc/307440 "2005-06-08T12:43:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![DogMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@DogMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DogMom)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-stuff-tmi-etc/307440/21 "2005-06-09T18:47:33Z")

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I’ve found ginger root to help _tremendously_ with nausea. I noticed you were already trying it with the chocolate, but you may also want to try just the extract. Good luck. I sympathise completely with the period problems - I have _ferocious_ cramps if I don’t take my BCPs. I also can’t run them together, because my body is _determined_ that I WILL bigod have a period every month, so if I try to “force” it by skipping the “week off” I’ll have a short period that month and then an extra-long, hard, _painful_ one the following month.

Congrats, **Cyros**!

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**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/period-stuff-tmi-etc/307440/22 "2005-06-09T18:57:16Z")

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> [@irishgirl](#):
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> Anti-nausea meds haven’t worked, and I’m not looking forward to spending the next few days on the bathroom floor, hugging a hot water bottle, vomiting.

Ginger Altoids work on even migraine nausea for me.

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