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Follow @TIMEHealth. For decades, doctors have prescribed birth-control pills in the hopes of easing womenâs menstrual pain, and now a new study finds that it really does serve the purpose: using oral birth control pills helped relieve cramps, bloating and other pain in a 30-year study of Swedish women.