Ovulation pain!!! So bad

[Happyhappy37]

I experience the worse ovulation pain ever. I can hardly walk when it's happening. I literally just had to take two paracetamol.

I've always had pain when am ovulating, but the last month and this ( current as I type) it's been so bad.
When I do try to walk I have to do so gingerly.

Am I the only going through this?

[Hairydogmummy]

@ivfgottostaypositive that's awful, you poor thing! Sounds hideous. You are right @Chicken123 what we have to go through is rubbish. I feel like it's constant too. I get spotting before and after my period, lots of bloating, pain at ovulation and with pms. I feel like you. I'm only okay for a few days a month.

[Happyhappy37]

@ivfgottostaypositive that's horrible. Sorry you had to go through that

[ivfgottostaypositive]

I used to get this after my c section - my stomach would swell and the pain was so bad I had to take a day off work every month - in the end I went to the doctors and they did a scan but they couldn't see anything.....then I nearly died from a ruptured ectopic pregnancy....turns out the pain was from severe adhesions and scar tissue - one ovary was stuck to my uterus. I had two ectopics in the space of 18 months and ultimately lost both tubes. No ovulation pain now 😢

[Chicken123]

@Jasquers
I’m exactly the same as you. I feel like I just don’t get a break from the pain or discomfort. I have maybe one morning of the month where I wake up feeling okay and I’m not swollen or bloated or in pain. Other than that, I have my period, followed by O pain, then bloating, nausea and sore breasts etc leading up to my period and then everything that comes with that.
It’s bloody awful what we all go through X

[Happyhappy37]

@oohyoudevilyou 😂 don't know why I burst out laughing. But I can see how masturation would help i.e relaxing the muscles etc

[Happyhappy37]

@MrsMop1964 oh dear. She must've been so scared. Hope she's feeling better now.

[oohyoudevilyou]

I had terrible ovulation pain during the times I wasn't on the pill and TTC. really didn't fancy PIV sex when it needed to be done, so very inconvenient! I also found it harder to pee during those couple of days around ovulation, and had to bear down to empty my bladder...no idea why! What did help me was masturbation - swift, solo and perfunctory...sometimes 2 or 3 times until i felt the "congestion" feeling has eased .

[MrsMop1964]

I took my teenaged daughter to A and E yesterday because she was crying with abdominal pain, felt hot and cold, as if she was about to pass out . Long story short- the doctor thought it was most likely ovulation pain. I felt like a total fool and guilty for wasting their time because I used to suffer from it terribly every month. But as I am past the menopause I 'd forgotten and it never even crossed my mind! I asked her 'does it feel like someone is stabbing you, twisting your insides and sticking a poker up your bum?' and she said 'yes.. thanks mum..'

[howells]

Yes, it was usually just a small amount, brownish/pinkish. Not bright red. I read that it was from the egg bursting out of the ovary or something.

[Hairydogmummy]

@howells did you? That's reassuring. It's only a tiny bit and not fresh blood but still was a bit concerned. I do sometimes have to take painkillers and it can last for days. Loads of egg white discharge too. Only started happening to me in mid 30s. Along with the terrible PMS and a host of other hormone related issues...

[howells]

I used to get the occasional ovulation bleed as well as the pain. IIRC it’s nothing to worry about. Pain was so bad I often had to take painkillers.

[Happyhappy37]

@Hairdogmummy oh dear. Never heard of that before. It's good to know

[Hairydogmummy]

I also get bad pain and bloating when I ovulate on the right! I've had it on and off for about 6 years. When it got really bad and stuck around it turned out I had a blood filled cyst which went down without any treatment. Now it's just ovulation again. Last couple of months, I've also had a bit of brown blood appearing so will have to ring GP if that continues I guess.

[Happyhappy37]

@indemMUND jheez that sounds awful. Years you say. I've never really had it bad until 4 years ago. I believe the worse I've had is the last couple of months. Others were bad but, I didn't have to take pain killers.
I mostly ovulate from my right ovary.
I've never had painful period.

[indemMUND]

Just to add, I've never had bad period pains. It's only ovulation that hurt like hell. Probably due to the blood or fluid pushed out at the same time. I'm quite thin so can physically feel the inflamed side.

[indemMUND]

I had ovulation pain so bad every month for years that I could only curl up on my side, take painkillers and wait for it to pass, prior to getting pregnant. I knew exactly which ovary DD came from, confirmed by the early scan I had. I had a pattern of left two months in a row then right. DD was a righty
She's 8 now and I'm on the non stop pill, which has stopped my periods, but every now and then I get severe pain on one side and can't get up until something pops (absolutely awful bloody pain) and after a while I can move again.
Mittelschmerz runs in my family. Nana, Mum, then me. Hope DD doesn't follow the pattern.

[Happyhappy37]

@Eskdale2004 oh my. That's sounds awful.it does vary in severity month to month

[Eskdale2004]

Another here who suffers with O pain. It’s horrendous some months. It feels as though something is going to burst down there.

[Happyhappy37]

@CrumpetsAndPuzzles interesting, may be worth a check.

[Happyhappy37]

@Jasquers oh my word that's not nice at all. I used to hear that when we start having children period pain reduces alot.
Does your age contribute to the pain?
I thought as we age periods, ovulation pain reduces.
Am 37 going on 38 in December

[Jasquers]

I feel like I have only 7 days a month where I have no pain! Ovulation pain is quickly followed by horrendously painful breasts and intermittent womb ache, then the actual period pain, before the calm before the storm starts up again. It got worse after my second child. My age(41) probably doesn't help either.

[Happyhappy37]

@Bumblebei honestly us woman deserve to worshipped, with the amount of things our bodies go through. We are superwoman
@Jasquers wow you get three days of pain that's tough. I usually just have one day instense pain and then it very mild for few more days.

[Jasquers]

I have the most awful pain too every month. It lasts for 3 days. I feel sick, doubled over in pain and can't sleep. had a scan last year at hospital and they found nothing. I've just accepted this is how it's going to be every month

[Bumblebei]

@Happyhappy37 I try to keep thinking it’s my body doing its thing and I usually only have a day with intense pain. Over the years I’ve had to go on and off contraception just to give me a break from ovulation pain. Being a woman is hard work lol!

[Happyhappy37]

@nomorewineever oh my I suffer with the bloated as well . Yes the right is always were I feel the most pain. I hardly notice when it's the left.
Yours sound bad. I've never experienced the nausea and sweats.
Thanks for replying