living with dysmenorrhea means living with a such severe abdominal pain that the pain travels into your back and down your legs, it means spending several days in the fetal position cuddled up to a heating pad because you physically can’t move, it means feeling like you’re going to either pass out from the pain and/or from nausea, and it also means living with people who look at you and treat you as though you’re weak because they can’t even begin to fathom how severe your period cramps actually are.















