Comments on: What are the the symptoms of constipation vs. period cramps? http://www.natures-medicine-chest.com/what-are-the-the-symptoms-of-constipation-vs-period-cramps.htm/ Natural and Alternative Treatments - A Holistic Approach In Medicine Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:24:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: T H http://www.natures-medicine-chest.com/what-are-the-the-symptoms-of-constipation-vs-period-cramps.htm/comment-page-1/#comment-25193 T H Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:24:18 +0000 http://www.natures-medicine-chest.com/what-are-the-the-symptoms-of-constipation-vs-period-cramps.htm#comment-25193 Constipation pain is higher, closer to your waist, but not quite that high. If you push into your stomach and more toward your side you can feel a firmness. That is the intestines backed up with "you know what". If you let it go very long it can be truly painful and potentially dangerous. Dairy & bread products (donuts, crackers etc) increase constipation as well as antihistamines (they dry you out) and pain medications. Not drinking enough liquids and other things, but these are the most common. The gas is a sign, but chocolate and beans causes gas in many people too. The cramps from your menstrual cycle are located down further and to each side above your pelvis in the general area of where your ovaries are located. These are increased especially when you pass any clots of blood..... larger clots equal more pain. I hope this helps you. ":-) Constipation pain is higher, closer to your waist, but not quite that high. If you push into your stomach and more toward your side you can feel a firmness. That is the intestines backed up with "you know what". If you let it go very long it can be truly painful and potentially dangerous. Dairy & bread products (donuts, crackers etc) increase constipation as well as antihistamines (they dry you out) and pain medications. Not drinking enough liquids and other things, but these are the most common. The gas is a sign, but chocolate and beans causes gas in many people too.

The cramps from your menstrual cycle are located down further and to each side above your pelvis in the general area of where your ovaries are located. These are increased especially when you pass any clots of blood….. larger clots equal more pain.

I hope this helps you. ":-)

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