if u feel the first cramp and think “i dont need a painkiller yet, itll pass” ? that the devil speaking, take that painkiller immediately
It’s a lot easier to prevent cramps from getting bad than to stop them once they already are. Take the medicine sooner and use the heating pad sooner rather than later.
This is true of pain medication for ANY condition. My mom drilled this into me back when she worked as an O.R. nurse: Do not wait until the pain is bad. If you know it’s going to be, get ahead of it. First cramp? Medicate now. Twinges of a headache? Medicate now. Pulled your back and you know you’ll feel it later? Medicate NOW.
This is why service dogs trained to alert for migraines are so helpful, with most migraine rescue meds you need to take them as soon as you possibly can, the earlier the better, and a trained dog can tell you’re going to have a migraine before you notice a single symptom and alert you that you need to take your meds, making them way more effective than they would be if you waited until your body started giving you symptoms you’d actually notice to take them.
And then sometimes dogs will train themselves to be migraine alert dogs…
