Most women have painful menstrual cramps from time to time.

I hoped to God it wouldn't develop into a painful cramp.

Most women have painful cramps from their period from time to time.

Then in 1975, I had a bout of painful cramps, which, it turned out, were caused by a severe infection.

She paused as one of those painful lower-leg cramps came and went.

I was sprawled out on the floor with painful cramps in my stomach.

With each painful cramp, Jenny's body was pushing her one step closer to the point of no return.

She tried to turn around to see if the portrait was still there, but her neck remained locked in a painful muscular cramp.

A heating pad or hot bath may help ease painful cramps.

These painful cramps can last a few seconds to a few minutes.