Your Period Pain is Not Normal. It’s a Cry for Help from Your Uterus.

Justin Feasel
Apr 20
4 min read

Let’s cut the crap.

If you’ve ever been told that your cramps are “just part of being a woman,” you’ve been lied to. If you’ve ever doubled over in pain, popped three ibuprofen, and still had to work, smile, and pretend like your uterus isn’t staging a full-blown coup against your sanity—this one’s for you.

Because here’s the truth: Period pain isn’t normal.

It’s not empowering. It’s not “womanhood.” It’s your body waving a giant red flag—sometimes literally—screaming that something is wrong.

At The Point: The Place for Acupuncture in Gastonia, we don’t treat symptoms like pesky visitors. We interrogate them like they just set your house on fire. And when it comes to menstrual pain, Chinese medicine doesn’t mess around.

🚨 Painful Periods Are Not Your Personality

Let’s say it again for the people in the back: Painful periods are a sign of dysfunction, not destiny.

In Chinese medicine, menstruation is a finely tuned dance of qi (energy) and blood. That dance is supposed to flow gracefully—unclothed, uninterrupted, and definitely not like a scene out of The Exorcist. When pain enters the picture, we know one thing: stagnation has taken over.

It’s like your uterus is hosting a traffic jam. And everyone is honking, slamming the brakes, and flipping each other off.

Here’s what that stagnation might look like:

Sharp stabbing cramps (Liver Qi Stagnation or Blood Stasis)
Dark, clotty blood (Cold in the Uterus or Blood Stagnation)
Mood swings that make you question your humanity (Liver Fire or Heart Qi Imbalance)
Periods that ghost you for months or show up fashionably late (Spleen Qi Deficiency or Blood Deficiency)
Breast tenderness, bloating, migraines, diarrhea—the usual hell buffet

You’ve been taught this is “normal.” We’re here to say HELL NO.

🧠 Western Medicine Gave Up on You at “Just Take Birth Control”

Let’s be real: Most gynecological “solutions” in the West are about masking symptoms.

Pain? Here’s a pill. Heavy flow? Hormonal IUD. Can’t get out of bed? Try a heating pad and antidepressants. There’s no shame in using these things—but they’re not solutions. They’re suppressants.

Chinese medicine asks the question Western medicine avoids: Why is your body attacking itself every month?

Spoiler alert: it’s not because you’re broken. It’s because you’re stagnant, inflamed, and ignored.

🔥 The Fire in Your Womb: Liver Qi and Blood Stagnation

The liver is the queen bee in charge of free-flowing qi and blood—especially to your uterus.

When the liver gets pissed off (usually by stress, emotional repression, crappy food, sitting all day, or generational trauma), it turns into a control freak. It stops the natural flow of energy. And suddenly, your uterus is suffocating under a mountain of stuck energy and unprocessed rage.

Sound familiar?

You’re not emotional. You’re energetically constipated.

❄️ Cold Uterus = Dead Bedroom and Demonic Periods

Ever been told to stop drinking iced coffee or walking around barefoot in the winter? Your grandma wasn’t being dramatic—she was being right.

A cold uterus is a hostile environment. In Chinese medicine, warmth is life. Cold contracts. It slows circulation. It stiffens tissue. And in the uterus, it creates pain. It thickens blood and leads to clots the size of small planets.

Want to keep your reproductive organs happy? 🔥 Warm food, warm feet, warm emotions. 🧊 Ice is for injuries, not ovaries.

💉 Acupuncture: Sticking It to Period Pain

Here’s what we do at The Point:

We don’t “manage” your cycle. We rewrite it.

Acupuncture taps directly into the energetic chaos you’ve been living in. We select points that:

Move stuck Liver Qi like a bulldozer
Build Blood so you don’t feel like a ghost after your period
Dispel Cold so your uterus stops feeling like a frozen tomb
Regulate the Heart and Spleen so your hormones don’t act like a reality TV show

Patients often feel a shift within 1-3 cycles. The bloat deflates. The pain quiets. The rage recedes. You actually start to like yourself again.

No, it’s not magic. It’s medicine—REAL medicine that listens to your body’s cries instead of slapping duct tape over them.

🥬 But Wait… There’s More: Food Is Medicine Too

Don’t you dare try to heal on Doritos alone.

In Chinese medicine, food isn’t fuel—it’s pharmacy. During your cycle (and especially the week before), your body needs:

Warming foods: think soups, stews, ginger, cinnamon, bone broth
Iron-rich blood builders: beets, spinach, dates, eggs
Digestion-friendly staples: avoid raw salads and dairy bombs that gum up the spleen

Food is the front line. Acupuncture is the airstrike. You need both to win the war.

⚙️ Want to Take It Deeper? Ask About Nutrition Response Testing

Sometimes period pain isn’t just energy—it’s toxicity, deficiency, or inflammation hiding in plain sight. That’s where Nutrition Response Testing comes in.

We test your body’s actual neurological reflexes to pinpoint what’s dragging your system down—like heavy metals, pathogens, or food sensitivities that are sabotaging your hormonal harmony.

And then we custom-tailor a plan using Standard Process supplements, targeted nutrition, and of course, acupuncture.

No guesswork. No endless lab bills. Just results.

💣 Final Word: Stop Suffering in Silence

If you’re reading this while curled in a ball, waiting for the pain to pass—don’t.

Come see us. Schedule a damn appointment. Take your power back from the pill bottle and the gaslighting. We believe your uterus has a voice, and it’s tired of being muted every month.

You’re not crazy. You’re not cursed. You’re just untreated.

Let’s fix that.