To this day, modern medicine still doesn’t know why menstruation is uncomfortable, why it is much more uncomfortable for some women than for others, or why the discomfort can vary from month to month. Ibuprofen, naproxen (NSAIDs) and oral contraception are the current mainstays of conventional treatment for menstrual pain; however, I recently ran across some evidence that fish oil may also help to reduce menstrual pain and the even more mysterious (and equally dreaded) PMS!