menses
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"Discrepancies in the incidence of who gets migraine attacks associated with menses is likely due to premenopausal women having more regular menstrual cycles and thus more menstrual-related migraines," says Ailani.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 12, 2024
Anytime before the “quickening”—the time in pregnancy around 16-18 weeks when women can feel the fetus moving within them— women could ingest herbs or teas to try to get their menses to restart.
From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2022
Just like the reason she started taking birth control: to help mitigate severe cramps and heavy bleeding that accompanied her menses.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 10, 2022
A doctor researching mifepristone in the 1980s said the drug would prove useful “as a menses inducer for women who are late with their periods.”
From Slate ● May 13, 2022
They went home and did so and had children, and their wives were not sick when they had their menses.
From Kankanay Ceremonies (American Archaeology and Ethnology) by C. R. Moss
