Our story · Relief for hard days
Period pain isn’t something you just have to put up with.
Odélise exists because millions of women lose days to pain every month, and most of us still get the same advice: it’s normal, take a painkiller and wait. We think you deserve better than that.
60-day money-back guarantee
Why we exist
Common isn’t the same as normal.
Up to 9 in 10 women get period pain.1 For a lot of us that means a morning on the bathroom floor, a workday spent bent over a desk, cancelled plans and nights without sleep. Then it comes back next month.
Because it happens to so many of us, it gets brushed off:
“That’s just periods.”
“Everyone gets cramps.”
“Have you tried lying down?”
We don’t buy it. Pain that takes days out of your life every month deserves a real answer.
- Up to9 in 10
- women get period pain1
- About190
- million women and girls live with endometriosis2
- Nearly1 in 5
- get no relief from painkillers3
- About9 days
- of productivity lost each year to period pain4
The usual advice
“Take a painkiller and wait” isn’t a plan.
It’s what most of us were told: at school, at the doctor’s, at home. Painkillers help plenty of women. For others they barely make a dent. And even when they work, you’re still curled up, waiting for them to kick in.
Meanwhile the days add up. Work, school, sleep, time with the people you love.
We started Odélise so you’d have something else to reach for on those days.
What we believe
- 01
Normal doesn’t mean okay.
Something can be common and still be worth fixing. If pain is costing you days, it deserves to be taken seriously. So do you.
- 02
You deserve more than one option.
A pill shouldn’t be the only thing in the drawer. Everyone should have something else to reach for on a bad day.
- 03
Relief should fit into your actual day.
Not lying flat holding a hot water bottle. You should be able to feel better on the couch, in bed or at your desk, and still get on with things.
What we’ll do. And what we won’t.
We will
- Only sell what we’d use on our own worst day.If it wouldn’t help us on a bad day, it doesn’t go in the store.
- Back our claims with published studies.We name our sources. The ones behind this page are listed at the bottom.
- Give you a real guarantee.60 days to try it. If it doesn’t help, you get your money back.
- Answer like people, because we are.Write to hey@odelise.com and a real person writes back.
We won’t
- Promise a cure.Nothing we sell treats or cures endometriosis or any other condition. We make things for getting through the hard days, and we’ll say exactly that.
- Fill the store with maybes.We’d rather sell a few things that earn their place than a shelf of gadgets that don’t.
- Tell you to just put up with it.Not now, not ever.
Where we started
We started with the worst days of the month.
Our first product is the Period Therapy Brief: a soft brief that covers your belly and lower back with heat, massage and 162 deep-red LEDs.
Why the back too? Because 3 in 4 women with period pain feel it in their lower back as well.5 Relief that stops at your belly only does half the job.
- Heat, massage and red light in one brief
- Power bank in the front pocket
- Wear it on the couch, in bed or at your desk
Sore back on other days too? There’s also our BareSupport back belt.
Your next hard day doesn’t have to look like the last one.
Try the Period Therapy Brief for 60 days. If it doesn’t help, you get your money back.
Questions first? Email hey@odelise.com. A real person will answer.
Sources
- Ju et al., Epidemiologic Reviews, 2014.
- World Health Organization, Endometriosis fact sheet.
- Oladosu et al., American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2018.
- Schoep et al., BMJ Open, 2019.
- Chen et al., 2018.
