So, I went to work today at 4pm. In the car I started to get light cramping. Since my period isn't supposed to come for about 4-5 days I dismissed it and thought it was indigestion or something.
So, I'm at work and I'm just walking around putting clothes away. The cramping gets worse and I run to the bathroom and there's blood. The cramping starts getting really bad and my co-worker offers to give me some Ibuprofen when she goes on her break.
So, I'm just bearing the pain and around 5:15 I'm ringing up a woman and I start sweating, then my vision goes blurry, then I get really cold, then this awful nauseas feeling. Thank goodness my co-worker was there. I waved her over and said "It think I'm gonna be sick, can you finish this?", then I ran over behind a counter and crouched down. My manager let me go sit in the back and get some water.

The pressure on my stomach and lower back was so bad I had to unzip my jeans. I just sat in the back with my head on the table sweating like crazy and shivering. I looked in the mirror and I was really pale too. I called my mom then waited. My co-worker gave me 2 pills on her way out.

So at home I sat with a heating pad on my lower back and stomach. It took over 2 hours to feel right again.
Yet, I don't know what caused this. I started taking the pill to avoid these kinda period cramps. But they're never got to the point where I wanted to throw up. I started taking the pill 2 years ago and my period pain was never a big deal so I'm really confused at why it came so early and why it hurt this bad.

Anyone have any suggestions?

I'll call the doctor or hospital advice line and see what they say.

Rachel, I was like that before I went on the pill. Never actually threw up, but I'd be cramping really bad, pale, dizzy, nauseated, felt like I was going to pass out. Going on the pill seemed to fix it, but over the summer, that happened to me as my period was starting. That time I actually did throw up on top of all the other symptoms. I don't know what caused it, but I'm going to mention it to my gyno when I go.

It sounds like you may have dysmenoragghia, Rachel. I have it and suffer with those exact same symptoms. I have blacked out before from the pain. I've also thrown up many a time, or I had the dry heaves. If you are on the right pill you shouldn't be feeling any pain. I would talk to your gyno and see what he/she says. I will probably be on the Pill for the rest of my life. I just can't function without it, and every time I've tried to go off it the symptoms return. If you do have the condition, and you're experiencing the pain from it while on the Pill, your pill might not be strong enough.

I'm not sure if dysmenoragghia can start up randomly after you've had your period for years. I suffered from day one when I first got my period. I was young so doctors kept telling me to start taking Advil every day the week before my period was to start, but it was never enough to dull the pain. Eventually when I turned 16 a different doctor put me on the Pill.

The symptoms can be really scary. I remember when it started getting really bad before I was put on the Pill. I was working after school at my local grocery store as a cashier, and one day while working I experienced my first black out. I got really sweaty, dizzy, sick to my stomach and all of a sudden I couldn't see or hear anything. There were many school days where I had to go to the nurse's office and would end up going home because the pain was so bad that I couldn't sit still in class. I would go home and curl up on my bed in a ball crying. If I stayed in one place for too long it would hurt something terrible, so I would spend a couple of hours "shifting" myself in different positions trying to get comfortable. Before the Pill, the heating pad was my best friend.

Definitely see a doctor, especially because you started bleeding early. I'm not a doctor so I'm not trying to diagnose you. I'm only saying that the symptoms sound the same as mine. It's not something to ignore because the pain will get worse and worse every month if you do have dysmenoragghia.

That sounds really scary!! I hope you get better Rach, and definitely see a doctor/gyno to find out what's wrong.

I would get to a doctor ASAP, that definitely is cause for concern.

I agree, see a doctor. That definitely doesn't sound normal.

I would also try to get in to see my doctor ASAP, or at the very least, talk to the nurse and describe to her what happened. How are you feeling today?

I feel good today. Just some slight cramping.

I'm glad you're feeling better, and I hope this was only a one-time occurrence for you!

I once had almost the exact same experience, it felt like suspected endo pain.

The first thing that comes to my mind is an ovarian cyst.