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To think horrendous pain from ovulation isn't right?

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Skatastic · 23/04/2021 20:41

Currently on my 10th month or so of horrendous what I assume is ovulation pain. My belly swells up like I've been blown up by a pump, it hurts to move, it feels like my insides are being stabbed by hot pokers. The only thing to help is time and not moving - it tends to go overnight.

Asked the GP and he said IBS but I never have symptoms any other times of the month? It's always on ovulation day (I track my cycles and don't take the pill).

It is really, really annoying me and no amount of googling helps. Has anyone had this and fixed it? I was meant to be going to a friend's garden for a wine but instead I'm laying in bed with hot water bottles all over.

OP posts:
JocastaNu · 23/04/2021 20:43

I have this and after a lot of fighting with health professionals to take me seriously I was diagnosed with endometriosis. How are your periods?

FizzyApricot · 23/04/2021 20:46

Keep going to the GP, you shouldn't be in this much pain. They should give you pain killers and maybe a scan to rule out ovarian cysts.

CockneyNonRebel · 23/04/2021 20:50

Push for a scan OP. I did and they found adenomyosis and cysts on my ovary due to endometriosis.

LivingDeadGirlUK · 23/04/2021 20:52

I've had really bad pain when I ovulate since having my son, I was told it was because of the C section scarring. Is endometriosis only painful when you ovulate @JocastaNu?

BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz · 23/04/2021 20:52

I get it. It's a thing. It's called Mittelschmertz.

boredinthouse · 23/04/2021 20:53

I've had this for 10 years. Have had scans and hospital appointments. I've been told over and over it's "just" ovulation pain. I'm sure it's not, I've been ovulating for 20 years, but what do I know. I think it's possibly adhesions from my csection as it started just after my second one but no one is interested in helping.

boredinthouse · 23/04/2021 20:53

Oh that's interesting LivingDead as that what I think mine is

SquirtleSquad · 23/04/2021 20:53

Ask for a referral for a Gynaecology consultant appts and if they refuse or it's a huge wait then pay privately.
I had ten years of suffering with gynae issues until I finally saw a nhs consultant, he was sure it was endometriosis for me (despite 3 gps ruling it out Hmm) but the wait list for the surgery was 18months+ so I ended up seeing him privately and he did it a month later. I'm now 3 weeks post op and it has genuinely changed my life. My problems were different to yours but it's the same "area"

I appreciate not everyone can afford to do the private route but even if you can just afford the consultation privately you can then take those notes, diagnosis or recommended treatment back to the nhs and pursue it that way. Good luck to you.

museumum · 23/04/2021 20:56

I have the pain but no bloating. It’s excruciating for a couple of hours then reasonably painful for up to 12 hours. I use ibuprofen but have considered trying medications for pms cramps.

elsaesmeralda · 23/04/2021 20:57

Endometriosis can cause painful ovulation as well as painful periods. It also can make you bloat up, google "endo belly"

FizzyApricot · 23/04/2021 20:58

GP should be able to give you stronger pain killers especially for a short period of time. Please don't put up with the pain even if it means seeing another GP.

JocastaNu · 23/04/2021 20:59

@LivingDeadGirlUK

I've had really bad pain when I ovulate since having my son, I was told it was because of the C section scarring. Is endometriosis only painful when you ovulate *@JocastaNu*?
No, my periods were a nightmare as well. Along with random bouts of pain at strange times just for fun.

But the ovulation pain was actually the worst for me. It was much more intense and would reduce me to a sobbing wreck.

LaPampa · 23/04/2021 21:04

I have this. It was diagnosed as endometriosis. The pain used to make me pass out sometimes - a heat pad, hot water to drink and paracetamol helps a bit.

StillCounting123 · 23/04/2021 21:10

I have this. I don't have endometriosis, but I do suffer with ovarian cysts and torsion at times.

The pain is definitely real and intense!!

Interesting that some pp say about adhesions from C-section.... No professional that I've seen has ever mentioned this as a possibility, but my issues didn't start until after I had a C-section in 2019.

YANBU.

DressesWithPockets · 23/04/2021 21:12

I get this. I googled it and found out about Mittelschmertz. But mine isn't as bad as yours. I think I would pursue it further to see if it could be endometriosis.

Jasquers · 23/04/2021 21:14

I suffer horrendous ovulation pain too. Doubled over in pain. Feel so bloated and sick. Went to GP who referred me for scan and they found nothing. Have not had c-sections but pain worse after 2nd child. Just going to have to accept and live with it.

LivingDeadGirlUK · 23/04/2021 21:19

@JocastaNu thanks for replying, I have always had bad period pains since a teen, the ovulation pain is only since I had my C-section though. I only went to the Dr about it because I had a few weeks of random stabbing pains in that area that were incredibly painful, however these disappeared after a month or so. It was that Dr that said about the C section scarring.

LivingDeadGirlUK · 23/04/2021 21:21

Oh I've just thought of the other thing that changed after having my son, I never went back onto hormonal contraception, before my son I was on it for 15 years. Wonder if that's a factor at all.

nomorespaghetti · 23/04/2021 21:21

I get horrible ovulation bloating and pain, I have for a long time, since pre-children. Although it took me a while to realise what it was due to the timing. I always thought it was ibs. It’s awful, and for me lasts 3-4 days. I always convince myself I’m dying of something, then it goes! I really need to see someone, but I wonder if it’s just one of those things for me, because my periods are not painful at all (they were, pre-kids, but now barely painful), and I would expect them to be if it was endo.

Flowers for you op, hope you’re feeling better soon.

Woodlandbelle · 23/04/2021 21:22

I have this too. I have fibroids (was told this after both c sections)
I only got the pain mid cycle since having both sections. But it's horrendous. I take solpadeine now on the morning I am due to ovulate. Or the day before.

NameChangedForThisFeb21 · 23/04/2021 21:23

All those who were diagnosed with endo...did you all get period pains too?

I get NO period pain ever but really bad ovulation pain on one side and bloated stomach and legs for 3 days around ovulation. Periods heavy but fine and very regular.

I have a scan next week. I really hope it’s not endometriosis or anything damaging to fertility.

Cailleach · 23/04/2021 21:24

I've had this since I was about 12 - was fobbed off for years with the IBS shit, surgery last year revealed extensive endo, which I also lost an ovary to.

Oddly my periods were always ok, but ovulation was a different matter.

CharlotteRose90 · 23/04/2021 21:27

I have Mittelschmertz and adenoymosis and my symptoms were exactly the same as yours. Especially the hot poking pain omg it’s vile.

Changechangychange · 23/04/2021 21:28

I have this too - only one ovary though (the left one, which happens to be sitting behind my sigmoid colon - always hard to find it on scans).

Just mittelschmerz. Definitely not endo in my case, I’ve had lapartomies.

Shoppingwithmother · 23/04/2021 21:31

I get this too. I assume I have endometriosis, although I’ve never had it investigated.
Most months I get quite bad pain around ovulation time, and as others have said, one of the main areas is my C-section scar. In fact I can feel the tissue under the scar become swollen and hard at that time in the cycle, which then goes down again when I have my period.