Kaylee asked
My cramps feel weird, like underwear line, normal right but they feel sour.
Soso answered
Cramps low down along your underwear line are right where period cramps usually are, and they can feel like an ache, throbbing or even a sharp pain.
Cramps happen because your uterus is a muscle, and it squeezes to push out its lining. Those stronger squeezes happen pretty low down in your belly, which is right where your underwear sits. People describe the feeling in all kinds of ways, like an ache, a dull throb, or a weird burning, sour cramp.
A heat pad, or a hot water bottle wrapped in a towel that a grown-up fills, can help too, and in a few small studies heat worked about as well as medicine. There are medicines that help period pain, and a grown-up decides if you take one, which one and how much, for your age and weight. They tend to work best when a grown-up gives them as soon as the cramps start (or a day or two before, if your periods come regularly) and keeps them going for the first two or three days.
If your cramps keep feeling strange or different from your usual ones, tell a grown-up so they can check. If the pain is super sudden, so bad you can't stand or move, on one side of your lower tummy, or comes with a fever or being sick, tell a grown-up straight away.
Tell a grown-up if the pain stops you doing normal things like school, doesn't get better with the pain relief a grown-up gives you, or keeps getting worse from one period to the next.
Soso's answers are written by AI. They don't replace professional medical advice.