Current medical status: general anxiety, panic disorder, agoraphobia, since age 15.
Current medical treatment: no longer on SSRIs, since I get terrible side effects from everything. Take the occasional Xanax, as needed. currently doing weekly CBT with psychiatrist.


According to the data, you might be experiencing dysmenorrhea. Dysmenorrheal is a painful menstrual bleeding. The pain that you experience might be due to detaching the inner lining of the womb. The sensory nerves can sometimes present a wrong location of the pain because they are responsible for sensations from several locations. When the sensation is too strong, a slight mistake including wrong location of the pain might occur (another example: almost every pain that originates from the abdominal organs can be felt as pain on the skin of the abdominal wall). If the pain is accompanied with bigger bleeding and clogs during that day, this possibility is more probable.


You might want to visit your gynecologist to rule out other possible conditions. Mean while, applying heat on the place or on your lower abdomen might decrease the intensity of the pain.