Bel
12/4/2017
7:37:17 AM | Hello Emily,
Yes, I get incredible crawling and biting the week before and the week of my period and if a full moon is thrown in the mix on those weeks woooow watch out.
I believe I've read this is because our immune system is at it's lowest during this time.
This is from https://www.livestrong.com/article/547605-how-to-keep-my-immune-system-up-during-menses/
The body can be particularly receptive to outside factors during the menstrual cycle, such as stress, and immune system cell changes, notes the United States National Library of Medicine.
The body goes through it's cyclic repair during mensus, as the many molecular and cellular interactions that are part of menstruation take place.
(It's worth a read if you get around to it) It goes on to say that eating well- lots of nutrients like in vegetables, exercise, sleep and drinking lots of water help the immune system.
I personally find all those things help and also everything that Chrissie said- lots of lemon water, also exercise helps immensely even if it's just a walk and sunshine, if I miss a couple of days without sun it's a lot worse, 20 mins a day is enough, with as much skin out as you can. Lastly when it's really bad like too painful to make it through the day/night I also sit in a bath (Or like me if you don't have a bath, a giant 150L tub of water) with Epsom salts and baking soda.
I hope some of this helps you :)
Regards Bel
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