But I don’t care.
Lynn Harris at Salon, who gets horrible cramps (don’t you love knowing this kind of stuff about journalists!), waxes poetic about ThermaCare Menstrual Heat Patches:
Supposedly -- like those little pouches you put in your ski gloves -- they contain iron and charcoal that heat up when they're exposed to oxygen in the air, but I'm pretty sure they're magic. At the risk of sounding like a PSA ("Hey, kids! Try getting high on life!"), they are so much better than drugs. Not only do they not dissolve your stomach lining, like the handfuls of Advil I used to take for relief, but they also actually work. They heat up almost instantly, and soothe the pain almost as fast. I go to bed with one on, I sleep through the night, I wake up, it's still warm. I walk around with one hidden under my clothes, thinking, "Too bad all you poor slobs don't have a secret toasty little friend like mine!"
All I can add is hells yeah. I got these bad boys for free in a tampon pack last year and I’ve been obsessed ever since. Especially since I’ve went off the pill (don’t you love knowing this kind of stuff about me?!) and my cramps are back like a motherfucker. Love it.
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Do you put it where I think you put it? If so, wouldn't that require some Very precise timing to avoid a mess?
oh my god. no no no. it's for on your stomach, dave. to relieve cramps. sorry i wasn't clearer.
Okay, that makes more sense, and explains what's going in the picture on the box. The Salon quote made it seem more salacious than a stomach patch.
Wow...I wish things like this worked for me...but speaking of things you wished you didn't know about people, check out my column about the very same article I wrote earlier today.
I, too, am a member of the Severe Cramp Sisterhood. For more "too much information", you can see my comment over at VRGirl's.
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