livelifelarge24

I started my period last night and have been up all night with the worst cramps I've ever had. I laid on a heating pad all night, took advil, drank water, nothing helped. I finally fell asleep for a couple hours and then woke up with a stomach ache and have been going to the bathroom for the last hour. Now I have diarrhea. This is miserable. I know that the hormones and cramps can cause diarrhea and it has happened to me before. I am wondering though if this is so much worse because I was really constipated and hadn't gone to the bathroom in two weeks? I hadn't even had the urge to go to the bathroom although I'd been having stomach aches and knew I really needed to go. Would that make the cramps so much worse and cause the diarrhea to be worse? I was supposed to work today and I've called in sick because I'm so tired from not sleeping! You'd think at 30 years old I'd have a better handle on these things.