{"id":171,"date":"2005-07-13T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-13T22:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2005-07-13T16:03:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-13T22:03:00","slug":"heating-pads-can-help-menstrual-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/13\/heating-pads-can-help-menstrual-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Heating Pads Can Help Menstrual Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breakupgirl.net\/\">Lynn Harris<\/a> reports in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/\">Salon.com<\/a> about her switch from painkillers to heating pads to help alleviate pain related to menstruation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the risk of sounding like a PSA (&#8220;Hey, kids! Try getting high on life!&#8221;), 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&#8217;s still warm. I walk around with one hidden under my clothes, thinking, &#8220;Too bad all you poor slobs don&#8217;t have a secret toasty little friend like mine!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0000Y8H2E\/familyresourceco\/\">ThermaCare Menstrual Air-Activated HeatPatches<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/mwt\/feature\/2005\/07\/13\/object_lust8\/\">Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lynn Harris reports in Salon.com about her switch from painkillers to heating pads to help alleviate pain related to menstruation. At the risk of sounding like a PSA (&#8220;Hey, kids! Try getting high on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}