Period pains feel like labour

[Motherofmonsters]

I think my first period since having DD 11months is on the way and it is so painful.

It literally feels like I'm in labour.

Is there anything I can do to bring it on hoping that might ease it a bit.

[Motherofmonsters]

Frockdestroyer - ive taken other tests since then to get another positive and it never happened. The only test I got a faint positive on was a super cheap one. Clearblue ones were negative, I have no bump or weight gain and the flutterings totally disappeared. If I got another positive I wouldn't have just shrugged my shoulders

[frockdestroyer]

@Motherofmonsters

After the faint positive and then negative I would have just gone and got checked out by a doctor. That with the flutterings etc. Would have definitely be worth a check up.

Funnily enough I know someone who last week gave birth on her living room floor to a baby girl. Had no idea she was expecting at all, no signs or anything.

The mind and body work together very closely. If you know you are pregnant you notice and show/experience symptoms a lot more.

It's like noticing you have a cut and then suddenly it hurts even though the injury happened a while ago.

[Lucindainthesky]

Sounds like it could be twins

[Motherofmonsters]

Sorry everyone, this is going to be a very anticlimactic thread.

Frockdestroyer - fair enough, I just didn't feel like it warranted any further check ups. I used the not so trusty Dr Google. I promise it is real though, I've got a thread somewhere about fluttering and my positive. I didn't update about the following negatives though

[takenbywine]

Did you have non painful or mild periods before childbirth? @Motherofmonsters

[Motherofmonsters]

Takenbywine - when I was younger they used to be really bad and old almost faint but as I got older I would just get mild cramps. Annoying but I could get on with my day. These ones are making me bend over and lean on things

[Rachellow]

If it stops fairly soon, I think it could be worth checking with your gp in case of an early miscarriage. Hope you're feeling a little better now!

[takenbywine]

I don't know how true this is but I had really painful periods before childbirth which felt like labour as I could compare it. But now since giving birth, I have been caught out many times as there were no signs/pain of my period coming. It's pain free. Basically I heard from a few people that child birth changes it. If you have mild/pain free periods, your periods will be painful after birth or the other way round, obviously not sure how true this is.

[takenbywine]

I'm only saying this as you mentioned you use protection and still breastfeeding and not pregnant. I removed miscarriage out of the equation.

[sycamorecottage]

Could it be wind?

[Graphista]

Told this story before on here:

Neighbour of mine, ttc dc 3, thought she hadn’t been successful, no bump (slim too), no symptoms...

I saw her on the Thursday, not obviously pregnant or anything, saw her again on the Monday (our kids at same nursery) and she was pushing a newborn in the pram!

Had taken “unwell” on the Saturday night, initially blamed the takeaway curry, then felt worse and thought appendicitis and called ambulance on advice from ooh service, by the time ambulance arrived baby was here! Full term, both well, they spent one night in hospital just in case but she was discharged Sun afternoon.

And she HADN’T had a faint test a couple months earlier and absent periods!

[Hiddennameforever]

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[RainbowRaine]

Motherofmonsters
Could it be an appendicitis?

[KenAdams]

I'm having the same pains right now but no period. I have severe endometriosis though.

[Namechanger87851]

All my periods feel like this For the first day having never had anything to compare it to I remember being in actual labour and thinking “I knew my periods where painful and I wasn’t just being dramatic “

[Mothership4two]

@Motherofmonsters are you having contractions? If so, it sounds like a womb infection and you need to get to your gp sharpish

[cultkid]

I did have pains this bad when I had a ruptured cyst

If it doesn't go away with co codamol and ibuprofen call 111

You can try buscopan too

Do you have a fever

[rorosemary]

Maybe you need checking out to see if it's an ectopic or something.

[CormoranStrike]

Hope you are feeling a lot better soon

[Motherofmonsters]

Morning everyone, I've woken up with no baby, no period and no more pain. Maybe I just ate something that hated me

[sycamorecottage]

Told you it was wind

Seriously though, perhaps a call to your gp might be in order next week.

[MitziK]

@Motherofmonsters

Morning everyone, I've woken up with no baby, no period and no more pain. Maybe I just ate something that hated me

You still need to repeat the pregnancy test.

Remember Braxton Hicks contractions from before your baby was born?

[Motherofmonsters]

Mitzik - I did another test, still negative

[PaperMonster]

Glad to hear you’re ok now. In my 30s I regularly had periods that felt like labour and was diagnosed with something called false labour syndrome or something similar. I hadn’t been through labour at that point. I was completely out of it and often found myself in hospital as panicked colleagues had taken me there! It went away - and I subsequently realised that actually they’d been far worse than labour!! Had normal periods for a while and then a few years ago they started affecting my head in a way I’ve always struggled to explain!