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I started my periods when I was 15 years old, but the first three years I had no pains. They started when I was in college. The doctors say it's an infection but I tested negative. Sometimes it's severe other months mild. I take strong painkillers but they sometimes fail. Now I don't know what to do any more. They dehydrate, make highly irritable, body swelling and general weakness.