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Is it true that your period pain and symptoms get worse as you get older?
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Old wives tale: Not necessarily and once you are done having children you can have an in offcie tubal, and an in office endometrial ablation which is a minor procedure that I do in office on my patients that gets rid of the lining of the uterus so no more periods or drastically lighter periods. Your period serves no useful purpose once you do not want to get pregnant, so no need to suffer.
Answered 7/28/2012
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No: After age 38, ovulation frequency is markedly diminished and those periods without an egg being produced(anovulation) produces fewer cramps and pain. See a gyn md for an evaluation of other possible causes of increasing pain such as endometriosis, .
Answered 7/23/2013
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