Ovulation Pain = Before / After, Help & Advice please

[TreeHuggerMum1]

Hi.

I'll be blunt, I have the least regular cycle due to a hormone imbalance!
I have this month purchased ovulation kits to start next month and was planning on using my monthly ovulation pains as a sort of predictor of when to test as its hard to work out with the usual 28 day cycle....
Now I am wondering if the pain is before / after / too soon / too late.
Anyone have any advice on OP?? Greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Hi Treehugger I think it might well be different for everyone but I am monitored regularly (am on clomid) and I know that I get pain for a couple of days before ovulation and then it gets worse after ovulation. Not sure why!

HTH

It's difficult to say because I think it's different for each woman. I have different pains at different stages. Before ovulation I feel achy and bloated with the soreness seeming to radiate from one side (presumably from where I'm ovulating). On the day I ovulate the ache changes to a sharper pain and I get a lot of 'poker up arse' type feelings as I actually ovulate. After ovulation I get a very strange sharp feeling across my stomach. I was told by a gynae that actually I was 'lucky' as I was feeling the egg get ready, its release and the strange feeling afterwards was the blood from ovulation irritating something (pelvic cavity perhaps, I forget). He was studying types of pain and stage of ovulation and said the pattern was typical.

I find that monitoring ewcm is more predictable. It always turns up a few days before the ache starts.

Good point Show regardless of what pain is going on in my undercarriage, the EWCM is always a reliable sign!

Am new to this, what on earth is EWCM?????

its cervical mucous which changes in consistency and volume around ovulation to help to mobilize the sperm.

Im very much with gardenpixie, my ov pains are like that.

I once went for an internal scan and was told that i had a "black mass" on one of my overies, when i questioned this, they said it was almost like a "scab" from the egg causing an actual hole or wound in the ovary where it exited. This explained the pains. My whole entire undercarriage aches and drags and sometimes it hurts to sit down when i am ovulating.

However, after ttc for 16 months, timing things around these pains, i dont think that it s reliable at all.

I have also used the ov prediction sticks and found them to be useless as well.

it s a minefield out there, so good luck.