To ask why my ovulation pain is so bad?!

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I swear ovulation is worse than the period! I can't be the only one surely?!

All the gps want to do is put me on the pill, but that doesn't agree with me so I just have to suck it up it seems

(Currently in bed feeling sorry for myself )

@bumble270 I hope not for your sake.. I'm 43 and it has been getting progressively worse since 38 onwards. I have fibroids so can't have a Mirena 😐

Yes I've had 3 sections

Yup me too. Called the NHS helpline which didnt help at all after all pain killers failed. We are TTC as well so hot water bottle it is for me.

Mine are awful, I put it down to only having one tube after a ruptured ectopic pregnancy. I was fine before

No rtwt op but is the coil recent? I had horrendous ovulation pains the first few months to a year of having the coil. Its such an acute pain you just know exactly what happening there. After a while had no issues though. If you've had issues before then it's worth pursuing.

I've been admitted to hospital twice with suspected appendicitis, both times it was ovulation pain.
I would be doubled over and unable to walk.
They did investigate and found 4cm cyst on one ovary, they just left it and it went on its own when I got pregnant.
Mine was always on the right hand side.
Second time I got sent to hospital was after I had my son, by section.
I've got an implant now, best thing I've ever done and wish I'd got it years ago.

I do and have done since my teens- usually on my right side so not every month. I also get bloated and constipated. It's agony and usual lasts 2-3 days

This is me too. Its actually excruciating. My actual periods are a non event in comparison. I can tell which side an also get the hot poker up the bum feeling when I sit down. Lasts anywhere from 6 to 48 hours. Drs havent found anything. I dont have endo and I've just been told to take pain killers to cope. I actually called an ambulance once (first ov past 3rd child, it came out of the blue, I nearly passed out and was on my own with said 4 month old). I'm pretty tough usually. No answers just empathy

Mine has got worse since 2x sections and the merina. I get the pain, bloating, wind, rock hard belly, utterly exhausted and like a bear chewing a wasp. The 3-4 lbs don't help either. And every bloody month, I forget what it is til I'm doubled over. Cycles seem to be shortening too, which is great. I'm down to about 24 days now.

Pain during ovulation is called mittelschmirz. It feels like a stitch or as if you've been drinking too much and your kidneys hurt. Maybe keep a record of which side is hurting and if it switches each month then that's what it is. If not, maybe a trip to your GP?

Yes mittelschmertz (german, literally, for middle ache!) My mum had her appendix removed for what turned out to be mittelschmertz.

I had one last massive one pre-menoprettymuchpause - like my ovaries had gone supernova. Now I just get a pukey migraine if they do splutter into life. I've had ne period in the past 10 months but they don't feel quite finished, yet.

I get this. Worse if it's on my left side. Bowels feel like they are constipated and have squits cramps at the same time. I'm lucky I can work from home some days and spend most of it curled up in a ball on my bed until it passes.

I have been having horrendous pain for about a week immediately after my period finishes. I wondered if I was now ovulating early. It’s different from my former cycle, pre baby. I also had a c-section so wonder if there’s a connection?

Saw a gyno and she ruled out cysts.

Yep I had a section, 2 lots of gynae surgery and 2 rounds of ivf.

I had horrendous ovulation pain which began after a c section for DC1 - it was so bad I could hardly walk and had to stay home from work.
When I did fall pregnant it ended up being a ruptured near fatal ectopic and they removed my left tube - turns out all the ovulation pain was due to adhesions and scar tissue from the c section which damaged my tube. Once it was removed the ovulation pain stopped x

I had a straight forward labour no section

I was having the pain before pregnancy on my right side every other month, then had my left ovary removed through laparoscopy and it now happens every month
It makes my back and legs hurt as well

From what I read about the coil it seems 50/50 if it will make it better if worse, the pills make my period worse and I get migraine and nausea. We want to TTC in the next year or two so don't want to do anything too long term with contraception

What pill have you tried? The combined gave me morning sickness (never been pregnant and wasn't having sex so couldn't understand why I spent half the day nauseous). The mini/progesterone only pill is fab and stopped periods, there's one that gives you a 12 hr window to take it. I can't get that anymore (moved overseas) so have the implanon which is also good

Yes! This is a new thing for me, didn't happen pre-kids or when periods returned after first baby but second baby seems to have broken me. I lay in bed for a few hours yesterday with it and I found that helped. What birth control did your GPs recommend for it, PPs?

Crossposted with @chainmail - is Implanon the implant? I'm eyeing that up as I used to be on mini-pill and loved no periods.

Never suffered with it before having my ds but after having him (once everything settled down again) I would get terrible ovulation pain with cramps and bloating and twinges so prevalent I could feel which ovary the egg was coming from.

I wondered if it was anything to do with the c section I had when having ds - things moved around and tightened up when they were fishing around down there and sewing me back up perhaps? Who knows but I'm on the pill now and do not miss those mid monthly pains

BSGE centre list here
www.bsge.org.uk/endometriosis-centres/

And mefanamic acid is quite useful for reducing monthly flow if that’s a problem.

Oh, and mittelshmertz my arse - what’s the German for “feeling like my ovaries are being eaten by something very angry and hungry”?

@Greyponcho that did make me lol!

Thank you I will take a look

So glad (but not) that I'm not the only one
🍰 🍫 🍷 to everyone suffering too x

Op I could've written this myself. Mine has gotten gradually worse the past few years to the point 2 weeks ago I had to drop my shopping basket, hold on to the shelving in the shop and then run out to the car to sit down and do labour breathing while driving home - all while trying not to crap my pants and faint at the same time (to be blunt - sorry folks!) Mine is horrendous. No known Endometriosis but I've never had a lap so I dont know how they can know for sure 🤷

My Endocrinologist said it could be my ovaries releasing much more fluid when the follicles burst, causing more pain and irritation, and possibly more than one follicle at a time are maturing to ovulation. I did have PCOS when younger but my body somehow corrected it's self around 30yrs old.

It will be scar tissue. I've had a fallopian tube removed as well as 2 c sections.