Sildanafil: A Safe and Widely Used Drug for Severe Period Pain

A small study conducted in 2013 reported that a safe and widely used drug might provide total pain relief over four consecutive hours for women suffering dysmenorrhea. But before you rush to get yourself a packet of this miracle drug, I'm afraid the study wasn't big enough to rely upon. The researchers ran out of money, and they've struggled to get funding since. It's really no wonder that treatments such as Lydia Pinkham's vegetable compound thrive. Whether the Pinkham's really believed in the power of their own medicine is unclear. Here's her diary from 1879, not long after the vegetable compound had become a best-selling sensation. In October 1880, Dan Pinkham died,