Researchers hope to see if period pain as a teenager makes chronic pain as an adult more likely.
A new study will seek to identify changes in the brain when teenagers experience period pain and whether it is linked to developing chronic pain in later life.
Dr Vincent said chronic pain, which is pain that lasts longer than three months, affects about 30% of the UK population and has a huge financial cost for the individual, society and for the NHS. Dr Lydia Coxon is conducting a series of sensitivity tests on volunteers to understand how they process painAlthough her teachers were supportive, the 17-year-old said she still needed to take some days off when the pain got too much.
"It feels like a wet towel and you're wringing it in your stomach and pain shoots down your legs and it hurts my back, just like an overall ache," she said.Volunteers will have an MRI scan to help researchers understand what changes occur in the brain when someone experiences period pain
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