Thank you for your help! :-)
I don't take pills. I will try to eat more fruit and do more exercise since I don't really like fruit and I don't really exercise. Hopefully this will help! Thank you very much!
It's normal for your period symptoms to change like that as you get older. You're body changes with age, and your diet, amount of exercise, and stress levels can all make your period get better, stay the same, or worse as you get older and your hormone levels change. I've always had severe cramps, but they got worse by the time I was 17. You can talk to your doctor/gyno about what could be causing the change, and in the meantime try exercising daily (at least 15-30 minutes, try yoga if you're not the kind to be really active), healthier diet (increase water, cut back on caffeine and fatty, sugary foods, eat more fruits), and taking relaxation time to de-stress (yoga will also help with this!). I started doing all of this and my cramps when from the worst pain ever down where I could't move for days to maybe a 3 on a scale of 1-10 pain within 2 months and it no longer affects my daily life.
Also, if you take Midol or some other pill to help with the pain, try to start taking them a day or two before your period actually starts because it will start to neutralize the factors that cause cramps before they actually hit.
Hope this helps!