More than half of women who have a period experience pain. There are two types of dysmenorrhea (painful periods); primary dysmenorrhea is the most common without known pelvic pathology. Secondary dysmenorrhea is due to pelvic pathologies such as endometriosis, uterine fibroids, adenomyosis, or ovarian cysts. The solution for dysmenorrhea is birth control in Western medicine, which is good as a bandaid to alleviate pain, but it doesn't help figure out why you have pain in the