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Do you get a pain when you ovulate?

49 replies

hewlettsdaughter · 02/06/2003 20:17

Hi, I have never really been aware of when I ovulate before, but in the last few months I have started to notice a pelvic pain, kind of under my belly (on the right-hand side?) around the time when ovulation should be occuring. I have noticed that people have referred to ovulation pain on other threads - is this normal, then?

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ZsaZsa · 02/06/2003 20:18

It's normal for me but not for everyone

codswallop · 02/06/2003 20:19

Aha! she forgot to change her name!!

Ghosty · 02/06/2003 20:38

I never used to have it before I had DS but since then I always had a pain for about 2 days in the middle of my cycle. I was worried about it at first but then I made the connection. It feels a little like wind!!!!

Khara · 02/06/2003 20:43

I never had any ovulation pain until after I had ds2, but now I do. It's exactly like Ghosty describes - a bit like wind - and lasts a couple of days.

yoko · 02/06/2003 20:47

this pain is known as mittelscherz,not all get it and it varies immensely painwise.some months i get it and the pain is incapacitating,please though,if you do suffer from recurrent bad pain go to your gp,mine is worse apparently due to adhesions around my ovary.

bunny2 · 02/06/2003 21:19

I get it too, since ds was born. Mine is more like a period cramp.

mammya · 02/06/2003 21:23

like others, never had any ovulation pains before I had dd. Now I do, not every month though. It feels a bit like a cramp, can be very painful, very worrying until I made the connection.

codswallop · 02/06/2003 21:25

sopranos tommorow!1

Bossanova · 02/06/2003 21:55

I have had this too since I was a teenager. Mine's a sharp pain like the stitch you get in your side when you've been running.

Ghosty · 02/06/2003 22:01

Codwallop ... what are you on about??

SofiaAmes · 02/06/2003 22:06

I got pains on and off. Though when they were particularly bad it turned out I had a few cysts on my ovaries. My ob/gyn (in usa) put me on the pill for a few months and they went away and so did the pains.

crystaltips · 02/06/2003 22:14

Codswallop - it's YOU - otherwise you are too quick off the mark .... spotted your own msitake eh? Before the rest of us

alibubbles · 02/06/2003 22:17

I get Mittelschmertz too. it became more prominent after I was sterilised, apparently quite a common after affect. It seem to appear every other month so when ovulating on one side only in particular.

I had a scan on Wednesday and found I have fibroids, one the size of a tennis ball as well as also having kidney stones. The fibroids were incidental, I went for a renal scan. The fibroids explain a lot.

I am now waiting for my GP to get the results and see what he says.

The Mittelschmertz pain is dreadful, I feel as though I need to open my bowels but can't, or that I am really constipated, so I just sit on the loo for about 20 mins, nothing happens but makes me feel better. The pain is so regular, you could set your watch by it, normally 4.20 on a Sunday afternoon!

Soluble aspirin (600mg) seems to work plus colofac for irritable bowel or Buscopan is also quite good for helping with the pain.

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hewlettsdaughter · 02/06/2003 23:19

Thanks for your messages, I feel somewhat reassured. The pain is like a period cramp, and isn't incapacitating. It may be that I have noticed it more recently because I'm generally more aware of where I am in my cycles at the moment (ttc).

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hewlettsdaughter · 02/06/2003 23:22

Alibubbles - hope your appointment with the GP goes ok

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gingernut · 02/06/2003 23:37

I had it for ages before I realised what it was. Then I became far more aware of it. It's like a windy, constipated, quite acute pain low down in the tummy and also a bit in the back, but it only lasts an hour or 2. Strangely, I haven't really noticed it since ds was born. Maybe I'm just not ovulating!

suedonim · 03/06/2003 08:33

I've had the same experience, sometimes with a stitch-type pain and sometimes a dull, low cramp. Mind you, one particularly bad session I had turned out to be appendicitis and I got whizzed off to hospital!

meanmum · 03/06/2003 09:26

As we're trying for number 2 and I get this pain now since having ds does this mean I should be trying when I have the pain, before I get the pain or after I've had the pain.

Does anyone know?

Girly · 03/06/2003 10:05

All 3 meanmum, before, during and after! more fun that way!

gingernut · 03/06/2003 10:20

Girly's right there . Both times I got pregnant (1st time m/c, 2nd with ds) we tried on the day I got the pain, and were also trying generally !!!

alibubbles · 03/06/2003 10:20

Hewlettsdaughter, thank you for your kind wishes.

Gingernut, that is a good description of how it feels, I also feel as though it goes straight up my back passage, as you say it doesn't last for long, but when you have it, you know about it!

Meanmum, girly has the right answer!

pie · 03/06/2003 10:35

I've felt it ever since I started my periods when I was 9 To me it feels like Bossanova's stich discription.

meanmum · 03/06/2003 10:37

You're right Girly. Much more fun. Mind you this month I'm taking Ghosty's advice and going for the every second day option. To much information I'm sure but hey ho.

Enid · 03/06/2003 11:00

I have always had it too and it feels exactly as alibubbles describes, much worse since I had dd2.

Enid · 03/06/2003 11:00

But I don't get period pains though