Dysmenorrhea is a quite formal medical term, meaning the occurrence of painful cramps during menstruation. The most simple and equivalent word to dysmenorrhea would be “period pain”, which is something I have been suffering for about 20 years. The only treatment I have ever used is to take one or two tablets of painkiller when it comes. Once it had been panadol or aspirin, but soon both of them had lost its spell on me. Now I have to use some drugs containing ibuprofen.

During my early to mid 20s, I did want to develop a more longer termed insight and did try some Chinese herb medicine at a time, but no magic had ever happened so far, no matter what I did. Hence I gave up, and in the past 10 years, I have totally gotten used to what had happened and simply consider it as what’s supposed to happen.

But here comes a thought, a thought that has aroused in the last two months but yet to be confirmed with more evidence in the future. Just about yesterday, I suddenly came to realise that there wasn’t any severe pain that had happened in my last period, and a month down the track before this month, there wasn’t any significant pain had happened either. I remember that I did have a quick thought last month when I noticed the change, but I didn’t actually link it to anything.

However, this month when the same thing happened again, I can’t help thinking why. I had thought all kinds of possibilities, diet? stress? or weather? …..but except practising Yoga, there is nowhere else that I can actually attribute what had happened to.

So here you go….Yoga???? My period pain’s gone because I am practising Yoga? Even myself couldn’t believe that. Actually I have never heard of that before today. But since this was a thought, I googled it on the Internet. There are many articles which had mentioned about some Yoga poses are proven to ease Menstrual pain (such as cat, fish, cobra and bow pose as the above photo). It must be joking!!! It wasn’t for this reason that had initially gotten me into practising Yoga!!! Now it seems that I am getting the benefits from some good byproduct

But I won’t say it too loudly until I confirm it. It’s just a thought, not an announcement. I need more time to make sure my guess is right.