Abdominal pains, swelling and irritability are common during menstruations. Nonetheless, when symptoms escalate into paralyzing pains, heavy bleeding and fatigue, doctors start using the term dysmenorrhea, a menstrual complication that can affect the quality of life of a women, hindering their everyday performance.
Even if studies are yet to determine how many women suffer from dysmenorrhea, with investigations that go from 16% to 91%, this sickness is known to affect a great amount of teenagers, and is usually mitigated by age and pregnancies.