To petition for the eradication of Javelin Arse

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I don’t know who to petition. The government? God/ess/deity, the EU?

I’ve just been to the supermarket and I was looking forward to browsing being outside my house for an leisurely hour or so when I got the worst Javelin Arse I’ve ever experienced. It literally winded me. With nowhere to sit down I ran around sweating and nauseated and ran back to the car to sit it out. It should be high on the list of afflictions to be eradicated (lighthearted obviously)

YABU - Woman up and deal with it
YANBU - It’s the worst pain

Isn’t it funny how barely any of us talk about it. We are just expected to not talk about it, put up and get on with it

I'll sign. Jeez it's the worst thing. I've had it since I was a kid. DM always told me it was constipation but it wasn't. For a start, one of the things that would typically set it off was having a big old poo!

As an adult it seems to happen two or three times a year, sometimes after sex, sometimes during a period, sometimes after a bowel movement. The worst episode ever, though, as after having a haemorrhoid banded. They promised it was a painless procedure, which it was in itself, but my god afterwards I thought I was being torn limb from limb.

Never had this ? What is it?

Its a sudden, unexpected, sharp stabbing pain. Enough to stop you in your tracks, take a sharp breath and pull that surprised face you make when you are doing your kegels.

It stopped when I went on the mini pill, changed my life as it was horrendous after my second child.

How are there so many people who suffer this but its not a commonly talked about problem. Can you get cream for it?

I always call it glass arse. Had it a lot as a young adult - not since having dc.

I have only experienced one period of javelin arse and that was after a pph with DD2. I was sent home despite literally being unable to sit down, which is a tricky situation when you've had a c-section and you're breastfeeding. I was in absolute agony for 4 days before making an emergency gp appointment. The GP slotted me in at the end of the session and spent 45 minutes listening to all my pains, sensitively checking them out and carefully giving me (breastfeeding safe) medication for each problem. Not sure what she prescribed for javelin arse but I sat down comfortably that evening for the first time in days.

So there must be a medical cause and a medication solution. I'm going to go out on a limb and say if men got javelin arse there would have been ££££ of funding and additional sick leave simply to overcome the problem!

It sounds like its hormone related. I dont remember having it when I was on the pill.

I used to get it after going for a run. Sitting down for 10 mins squashing my arse into the bed helped it go away and I'd be fine.

Then it came more often out of the blue and I thought it was related to my Crohn's. I've told nurses and doctors who look at me blankly, obviously it isn't that common! My God though, when you wake up in the night with that shooting pain and have to just wait it out... 😩

I get this and discovered its official name, Javelin Arse, on MN a few years ago. I typically get mine when I’m on my period but occasionally at other times too. It often means I need a poo but I have to wait for the pain to pass before I can go. Luckily mine seems to be more fleeting than some people describe on here, I would never take painkillers for example as it’s over in 10 seconds or so, but it’s such a sharp and unexpected pain that it always takes my breath away, I have to stop and grab onto nearby furniture etc until it passes.

I have stage 4 endometriosis and a frozen pelvis but have never had JA. My husband gets it though, really severely and always in the middle of the night. It's so painful that he just doesn't know what to do with himself. Sometimes he paces the house and sometimes just curls up in a ball.
So it's not just a woman thing 🤔

OMG.

I get a really severe pain just before I need a poo when I’m on my period. It’s absolutely crippling.

Never at any other time of the month. I always wondered was it bowel endometriosis.

Is it actually javelin arse?

IDK but again, I used to get that before I took the pill or had kids - and my GP told me the best cure was having children

Bum knives.
Come to think of it, I haven't heard it for a year or so.

Explained to dp once it's like having a heart attack up your arse

Horrendously painful. Anyone else have a kind of internal ‘pop’, then the pain passes?

First got mine after DC2 born, and it was quite frequent but less so now. I had a few episodes of 10-15 min but usually it’s maybe 2 or 3. But feels like about five hours.

It's not just a female thing. My dad gets it. He sometimes has to get up in the night and just pace about until it eases.

I think it's basically cramp in the rectum and/or sphincter. Like when you get a stitch. But in the hole instead of the diaphragm.

I'm get it fairly regularly probably during most periods I will have some episode. Bad ones make for a very bad night. I often get in a hot bath. I have to fight the instinct to push against the pain as more than once I've spent whole days afterwards feeling bruised or unstable around my arse! I have to lean on trolleys or walk gently when it comes on in the day. And I've had to pull over the car more than once.
I'm interested in some of the solutions suggested on here.

Are you talking about Proctalgia Fugax , intense cramp in the anus and anal canal ?
Sit astride the edge of the bath and let your legs really hang down so you can feel your anus being pressed upwards . It will fade after a minute or so .

@coffeerunner me too! I assume it's endometriosis somewhere around the bowel because it's only ever just before I get my period. It's absolute agony, there's nothing like it.

I used to get this then I gave up highly processed wheat products white bread cheap pasta shop bought cake biscuits etc. I get it occasionally pre period if I slip up and risk some custard creams.

God I get this. Did not know it had a nn. Javelin arse is the best description ever for this.

I think I get this sometimes, always in the middle of the night but no idea it was called javelin arse. I think mine is when I'm slightly dehydrated and therefore slightly constipated.

A huge fart usually sorts it.