When I got my first period, I didn’t feel empowered, I felt confused. No one really explained what was happening to my body, and the sharp cramps hit hard. I spent my teen years hunched over in class and at basketball practice, trying to push through something that always made me feel like I was falling behind.

As I got older, it only escalated. My cramps became so intense that I ended up in the ER in the middle of the night, curled up in pain, barely able to move, and waiting to be told what was wrong. My family worried it was appendicitis... I worried too.

What I heard over and over was: “Everything looks benign.”

I was given strong pain meds, sent for pelvic ultrasounds, and told to monitor it. Eventually, that cycle became my new normal, and I could literally feel when the next hospital visit was coming.

Then one day I added it up: 864 hours of my life lost to period pain.

I knew I couldn’t keep sacrificing that much time, energy, and peace, especially while trying to build my career. So I looked for alternatives and eventually saw a naturopath who suggested specific oils. I tried them, and to my surprise, they actually helped.

At first, I doubted it, because I couldn’t find much North American clinical info on it. So I dug deeper into global research and found studies (including work out of India and China) showing meaningful reductions in menstrual pain with those same oils.

The relief was real, shocking yes!!!.. but the routine wasn’t practical. Oils were messy, time consuming, and not exactly discreet. I kept thinking: there has to be a way to make this easy enough to use anywhere.

That’s when I learned that in places like Germany and France, transdermal patches are used to deliver ingredients in a simple, wearable format. And it clicked: what if period pain relief could be as effortless as putting on a patch?

That idea became Happy Cramps.

I started small, quietly sharing prototypes and doing simple beta tests. Then the messages started coming in, dms, videos, “I can’t believe this worked for me,” and “I finally got through my day.” It felt like all the time I’d lost was turning into something meaningful.

Happy Cramps exists to make relief more accessible, more discreet, and easier to achieve, so you have more good days, more freedom, and a better toolbox for your cycle.