It has been reported that the contraceptive pill "does ease period pain".
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A Scandanavian study has found that women who are on the pill suffer from slightly less severe period pains.
However, the NHS have highlighted how this information could be misleading because it's possible a whole other list of factors could have played a part in how severely they experience the pain.
An article on the NHS website states: "It simply shows that in 2 points in time, on average, women on the pill assessed their period pain as being slightly less than non pill users did. It is possible that many other factors played a part in these women's experience of pain."
The study, published in the journal of Human Reproduction, was a cross sectional survey followed groups of 19 year olds, some from 1981, 1991 and 2001. After a health questionnaire 5 years ago, the women were contacted again to see if anything had changed.
The researchers also found that the increasing age was associated with less period pain to a lesser extent than pill use.
The contraceptive pill is currently prescribed by doctors as an unlicensed treatment to reduce period pain.
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