Cramps question

Now that I'm no longer on birth control pills, I have really terrible cramps again. I don't want to go back to the same pills I had before, because starting in my late 20s, they totally nerfed my sex drive. So I have a couple questions:

1) Does anyone know if there are very low dose birth control pills that will control out-of-control periods? 
2) Does anyone have other remedies for ridiculous cramps and incredibly heavy periods? (I have some weird allergies, like to aloe and echinacea, so I'm wary of most "all-natural herbal" stuff.)

I don't have health insurance. I can afford Planned Parenthood-level fees though.

Unexpected good thing...

On Facebook, nearly every person I'm "friends" with from high school has been posting pro-marriage equality stuff for weeks. No one has posted any anti-stuff. I did like all these people in high school, but I wasn't great friends with most of them, just school friends. Our little mid-Michigan school seems to have done a pretty good job at some things.

We had a good sex ed program in which we were taught that different people had different sexualities and there was nothing wrong with that. I think that helped a lot. Sex ed was certainly the most important class I took before college -- the only one that might tie with it is home ec. 

Twilight, Chapter Three: Our Daily Three Minutes of Hate (p.58-60)

Angry feminist writer without a publishing contract and with cramps talking about Twilight ahead. You have been warned.

Tonight, not only do I have cramps, but my sinuses are acting up and my back is killing me because I can't take Tramadol when I have cramps because it does nothing for cramps, and I don't want to know what happens if you mix Tramadol and Midol, and of course Midol does almost nothing for my back pain. Also, Tramadol has a certain cheering effect that I am now missing. I'm not gonna try for thoughtful analysis or try to give this horrible excuse for a "novel"* the benefit of the doubt. Tonight, Ms. Meyer, fuck you very much.   

It's good to have some description of the way your characters move and look while they're speaking. It is not good to have description every single bloody time they say anything. Particularly when they're saying very little. If you need description every single time anyone says anything, your dialog stinks. Needless to say, Ms. Meyer's dialog is as rancid as a Porta-Potty in hour 57 of an anti-gay rally.

Also, how does this work? "The gold in his eyes blazed" (58). I guess now we know that the pupils and whites of his eyes aren't blazing. Well that's necessary information.

( Forks has no tow trucks. Forks needs no tow trucks. )