To say that I have finally experienced the dreaded arse daggers?!

[Confrontayshunme]

You tried to warn me, MN, but in all my nearly 40 years, I have never felt anything like it. To quote Supt. Hastings "Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the wee donkey!"

Was trying to supervise 20 children and thought I would scream or fall down and actually writhe on the floor. I did feel like I was being stabbed, so at least the name is right.

Honestly, I almost asked a coworker to cover for me, but I thought she would laugh if I said I was dying and my bum hurt.

Then, 10 of the longest minutes of my life later and they just stopped. What the hell?! Will they come back every time I have a period? Why now at almost 40?

I have so many questions and the internet is not helping.

Give me your worst arse dagger stories...

Javelin arse and fanny daggers - a monthly torture 🤦‍♀️

I used to get them. My Kegel8 cured them.

@Namechangedandoverwhelmed

I have only ever heard of this on MN and I live in fear of experiencing it.

What if it happens in a meeting / at work? It sounds like you would need to leave the room? Can you even walk? How do you make it go away?!

So many questions 😳

In a meeting you hold your breath and hope it doesn't make you squeal, you can't leave as you'd have to waddle out like you'd just started 🤣

@Sugarplumfairy65

Those of you who are linking them to your periods. I hate to tell you this, but my periods stopped 5 years ago and I still get it at least 3 times per month. It usually wakes me up during the night and can last up to an hour

Me too. I'm 55 and get them more than ever. Agree with pps that the "best" (but tbh, nothing is going to make it go away any quicker) thing is to get up and move around, sit on the lavvy and push downwards, hot water bottle and painkillers.

@ListenLinda

I get this too! About once a month around period time, only starting happening since i had the coil fitted?! Never could figure out how and why it happens, can anyone explain? I’ve never been diagnosed with endometriosis, have had an ovarian cyst that was removed during my last c section.

If you look up proctalgia fugax/fugace, there really doesn't seem to be any nasty clinical reason. Some say endometriosis possibly, some say pouch of something filling with blood (or emptying, can't remember) but upshot is, it's one of those things.

*sharted (damn you autocorrect!)

Never had javelin arse but used to get fanny daggers regularly. Post menopausal now and no longer happens.

More painful than childbirth in my opinion. You can't actually breathe.

I've just read the Wikipedia page on Proctalgia fugax and one of the treatments is a medication that I take for another condition (Diltiazem) so that explains why I don't get it any more, thank goodness. It's so sudden and so agonising I feel very sorry for anyone who gets it, especially regularly.

Oh my god, I’d managed to put javelin arse out of my mind since my hysterectomy 2 years ago, but I actually just involuntarily raised my bum off the seat at the thought of it!!

Never had this, sounds horrible. I hope reading this thread won't cause it!

Oh I had never linked this to my period. Fuck me it's weird being female

OMG! I get these during my period, not every time but often enough. However what I was not expecting was to get them during labour! With every bloody contraction 🥴🥴

@MissLucyEyelesbarrow

This is a good explanation of why it happens though I have no idea if the treatment they are flogging (in Australia) works.

I'm a GP. Funnily enough, as far as I can remember, I have only ever had male patients see me about proctalgia fugax, though maybe this is because women just assume it's something they have to live with? In men, anyway, it usually seems to go along with constipation, so treating that is what I usually try first.

Thanks for the explanation!

I might pass on the treatment though “gentle stretching of the affected muscles through the vagina or anus” I’d never be able to look the physio in the eye again

I had this when I conceived my son. Straight after the deed!

First and only time.

Why does. It happen ??
I darent goggle it !! 😂

I used to laugh at my mum when she had them. I thought she was just being dramatic and weird. Then one day I had them and OMG they are horrendous. What the fuck are they and why does it happen?

Oh god. I've never had this and now I'm dreading it.

Did get occasional fanny daggers during the third trimester of my last pregnancy though.

@takeabrolly

God I've found my tribe. I've had these pains for years. I'm well in the menopause and although they aren't so frequent I do still get them. Only ever had them in bed and (obviously) woken up in agony. I can barely breathe through it. I'd love to know what it is. I get several attacks for a few weeks then nothing for ages. I get up, walk about, stretch, curl up but nothing helps. Then it stops. My mum's friend suffers from this and she keeps icepops for this very reason. My sympathies to those of you who get them at work

Icepops????? Does she put them up her bum?!

Made me smile reading this! I get javelin arse too! Haven’t had it since last year now. It’s not nice!

Ah the ole javelin arse is alive and well I see. My sympathies.

I have only had them a handful of times they hurt.

@WettyHainthrop

Ah the ‘being stabbed up the arse hole’. The twice-yearly phenomena you totally forget about until it happens and you can’t breathe in, lest it happens again. Normally happens to me in the car or in bed.

In bed here too. All those months of forgetting, then the javelin reappears.

We used to call it "shooty bum pain" at work.

I hate to break it to you ladies, but it doesn't stop post-menopause or pose hysterectomy ...

Wow! Another sufferer here 👋🏻 but I had no idea it wasn't just me and my weird bum hole.

Flippin' eck, this place is a proper eye-opener.