What is the strongest painkiller I can get for period pain?
Good luck getting a doctor to prescribe anything stronger than the codeine you are already taking! If there was no sign of endometriosis, cysts, or fibroids with your surgery then you will not be able to get anything stronger. You can ask for a referral to a pain management doctor to see if they have any other treatment options available to alleviate the pain. Have you tried Depo-Lupron? This is a medication that will put your body into a medically induced menopause and cause you to stop having periods. This may help you since your pain is only with your monthly cycle. You could also just try Depo-Prevara which is a birth control that is injected every three months. This also stops your period which would eliminate your pain. If you don’t like shots you can try continuous birth control like Seasonale, which is three months of active birth control per package and skip the week of placebo pills and go right to the next package of birth control. Unfortunately, because of the abuse of pain
