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The aching miseries (congestive dysmenorrhoea): mapping out your miseries THE ACHING MISERIES (CONGESTIVE DYSMENORRHOEA): MAPPING OUT YOUR MISERIES
It's a good idea to start by sorting out which of your symptoms are due to the 'aching miseries' and which aren't. One way to do this is to keep a chart. It's quite easy to make one on squared paper. Mark the months off at the top of each square, then number each square from 1 to 31 down the left hand side of the paper and you are ready to begin. Mark each day of your period with a P and put a cross or some other symbol on any days when you suffer from any of the symptoms you have noticed. If you suffer from several symptoms (and most of us do) use a different letter to represent each one — H for headache, D for depression and B for bloat, for example. But make sure that you keep a key on the chart somewhere to remind you what the symbols mean. I knew a girl who suffered from bloat and backache and bad temper and marked them all with a B. It caused us both a lot of trouble trying to sort out when to start treating the bloat, because she couldn't remember which was which. In the end we had to wait another month and use another set of symbols before we could get started. Which didn't improve the B for bad temper!
When you have kept your chart for a couple of months, you will probably see that many of your symptoms turn up in the days immediately before your period starts. Often they get worse the nearer you get to your period, but if you are suffering from the aching miseries, they go away altogether once your period has got going. After three or four months there will be a very clear pattern on your chart. If you look at the charts overleaf you will see what I mean. Now you'll be able to see just how much of your life is affected by your periods. It can vary from two or three days per months to nearly a fortnight.
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