5. Nausea
You may have heard someone say that their pain is knocking them sick. This is something that has become a bit of a misunderstood and misplaced saying, as, in actual fact, pain can knock someone sick.
Nausea that people feel during intense spells of pain is not imagined at all, it is a real symptom of dealing with extreme pain. It is true that pain can knock you sick, it isn’t just a saying. Plenty of people who suffer from dysmenorrhea have claimed to have felt sick in the build-up to their cycle.
There are just as many people who claim that they feel the bulk of their nausea whilst actually in the midst of a rather unpleasant cycle. Unsurprisingly, there are a lot of people who claim that nausea brought on from dysmenorrhea can linger on for quite a while after the cycle has finished. What fun!