Talk:Dysmenorrhea

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Contents 1 Level of pain 2 Contradiction 3 Survey 4 Reimprove template

[edit] Level of pain

Some women say that even bad cramps are nowhere near labour pain, others say that some cramps can be worse and some gynaecologists would explain that because both sorts of pain are similar in cause and therefore the pain of each varies for woman to woman, who is right?

[edit] Contradiction

Under "Dysmenorrhea," it says dysmenorrhea "does not appear to be affected by childbearing," but under risk factors "nulliparity" is listed. Why the apparent contradiction? 72.181.235.222 23:51, 26 April 2007 (UTC)Brian Answer some women have no cramps after child bearing, but some don't.

The cited study seems to contradict the effectiveness of accupuncture for pain relief. This should probably be re-written. Jredwards 06:25, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

The sentence "although some pain is normal during menstruation, abnormal pain is not" is circular reasoning. Obviously abnormal pain is not normal. What makes this pain "abnormal" and thus distinguishes it from "normal" pain? Does the author mean excessive pain is not normal?68.101.70.151 21:21, 21 June 2007 (UTC)Britt

Yes I think most women have times in their fertile life when they have light cramps but some women have geuine dysmenhorrea.

Most women who have suffered from Dysmenorrhea had times where they didn't suffer from it - they can tell the difference. Fdskjs 19:31, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Survey

I've just added a Norwegian study to this article. It had been incorrectly placed in the PMS article. The fantastic people at WP:WikiProject Norway provided a translation of the ref. See this discussion for more information. WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:51, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reimprove template

Having removed the refimprove template from this article on the basis that there were few fact tags in it and no discussion of the template here, I have been directed to previous edits which make it clear this was an error on my part. Accordingly, I have reinstated the individual fact tags in the Secondary Dysmenorrhoea section which were placed by User:Kusunose and removed by User:WhatamIdoing. It's extremely important for an editor looking to add refs to be able to see where other editors have requested them, and ideally to be able to see a rationale for those requests on the talk page.

The one I didn't reinstate related to prostaglandins, as I believe this is covered by reference 3 (Wright & Wyatt). Nmg20 (talk) 07:42, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Kusunose did not place those ref tags; all they did was disambiguate Japan. This is why we should use diffs; then it would be clear that I was the one who added the cite requests. 66.30.20.71 (talk) 11:19, 16 May 2008 (UTC)