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Habits that enhance period pains

Women undergo normal menstruation and it is almost a part of their lives. This would have been okay if this bleeding did not bring with it period pain, commonly referred to as cramps. A good number of women experience period pain as throbbing, cramping pain in the lower abdomen which at times is accompanied by lower back pain, nausea, diarrhea, and headache. A severe case of this two-to-three day long experience is usually referred to as dysmenorrhea.

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