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bit worried - severe af-type pains but only on one side

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wannaBe1974 · 22/10/2006 22:19

woke up in the night with excrutiating af-type pains on the right side of my lower abdomen. ve painful and the pain is at the front but goes round to my back iyswim. Have taken pain killers and pain has eased signifficantly but is still there and occasionally flares up. Also feel ve nausious.

Af not due for another week and there's been no bleeding.

Please someone tell me this isn't necessarily something serious.

am going to try get gp apt tomorrow but am bit concerned in the meantime. help.

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hunkermunker · 22/10/2006 22:19

Any chance you could be pg?

hunkermunker · 22/10/2006 22:20

Could be your appendix, if you still have it?

CountTo10 · 22/10/2006 22:21

Hmmm I sometimes get pains like this a week or so in the build up to my period - I think someone has said before you can get this type of pain when you are ovulating

SPACEdoutzombieCADET · 22/10/2006 22:21

how are your waterworks?? you could have a urine infection.

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wannaBe1974 · 22/10/2006 22:22

no I had my apendix out when I was 10. We've been ttc but I had a normal af last month - so on cd19, although my mum also said I could have had an af anyway - although she's more worried about my ovaries

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Twopinkoneblue · 22/10/2006 22:23

Could be an ovarian cyst. Sometimes they just burst causing pain.

VeniVidiVickiQV · 22/10/2006 22:25

I get an awful "squeezing" type pain and an ache for several days when ovulating. I think you are past the point of ovulation though....i think it best you go see your GP tomorrow.

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wannaBe1974 · 22/10/2006 22:25

OMG, and if that happens how serious is it?

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Twopinkoneblue · 22/10/2006 22:32

Lots of us may have them without knowing. I'm sure it's not serious. Best go and get checked.

lulumama · 22/10/2006 22:33

pain that wakes you in the night is not good....have you called NHS direct.

would definitely go to docs...

pain on ovulation can be a stabbing/ shooting pain but that doesn't go on too long.....if period due next week...ovulation should have been and gone already...as VVVQv says...

just get checked out..esp if TTC..want to ensure all is well...

hunkermunker · 22/10/2006 23:01

I had an ovarian cyst burst. It was quite honestly the worst pain I've ever had. I thought I'd been stabbed and I fully expected to die. To put it in context, childbirth was a doddle by comparison. I'd do that three times over rather than have another cyst burst.

It could be mittelschmerz - basically ovulation pain, as has already been said on the thread. I've had this too, a couple of times.

Hope you feel better soon.

jackieglyn · 23/10/2006 08:27

Hi Wannabe1974,

this sounds like gallstones to me. i had this for months before the doctors diagnosed this. The pain starts on the right hand side of your stomach / side and moves around to your back (around your shoulder blades. Is this what you have?

AttilaTheMeerkat · 23/10/2006 09:35

wannabe1974

I can think of two possible causes apart from those mentioned (would not think this is ovulation pain).

It may be adhesions (these are sticky strands that tether organs together - I note you had your appendix out previously, any abdominal surgery would give rise to some adhesions) or endometriosis (particularly if periods are painful).

WOuld suggest you visit your GP with a view to getting a gynae referral.

peegeeweegeeWITCH · 23/10/2006 10:21

Wannabe, it is unlikely to be something horrendous, but I would get in touch with the doctors if I were you.

fwiw - I regularly ovulate on cd19.... so don't rule it out...

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wannaBe1974 · 23/10/2006 10:31

hiya

thanks for all responses

pain is much better today although am feeling a bit achy but otherwise feeling ok. Have spoken to gp, who said I need to do a pg test first and that she will then see me this afternoon.

Am fairly sure it wasn't ovulation pains as have had these before and never on that scale.

Atilla when I was younger I did used to have excruciating period painds, to the point of passing out, but these went away completely when I went on the pill, and never returned when I stopped taking the pill to ttc. - don't know if that is therefore relevant?

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AttilaTheMeerkat · 23/10/2006 16:23

Hi wannabe,

re your comments:-
"Atilla when I was younger I did used to have excruciating period painds, to the point of passing out, but these went away completely when I went on the pill, and never returned when I stopped taking the pill to ttc. - don't know if that is therefore relevant?"

I am still wondering whether endometriosis is a possibility with your good self. The excrutiating pains do point to this and the taking of the pill would have suppressed the problem.

Would be interested to hear what the GP has to say about it all - some GPs though are very ignorant of endo and this person may not mention it as a possible cause.

Keep us posted and if the GP is of no help ask for a referral to a gynae. Problem with endo (one of many) is that it is usually diagnosed only through laparoscopic (keyhole) surgery. Ultrasounds and blood tests won't detect it.

hunkermunker · 23/10/2006 17:12

How did it go, Wannabe?

Tutter · 23/10/2006 17:15

waiting to hear that you're ok

have only just seen thread otherwise i would have urged you to do a pg test earlier to rule out ectopic pregnancy

merrily · 23/10/2006 17:34

my first thought on reading this was possible ectopic too

I hope you are okay wannabe

Tutter · 23/10/2006 17:43

merrily - it sounded all too familiar to me

but hoping i'm very much wrong

Tutter · 23/10/2006 20:32

wannabe?

Tutter · 24/10/2006 08:44

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wannaBe1974 · 24/10/2006 12:00

hiya all, sorry I hadn't come back to this thread - my mil came to stay last night so didn't get a chance to come on to the computer until now. Thank you for all concern it is very much appreciated .

Well I did a pg test yesterday afternoon and it was bfn, went to gp yesterday afternoon and she examined me both externally and internally and said that in her opinion it wasn't anything to do with ovaries/uterus/any of that but that it was more likely to be a bowel spasm. As the pain had virtually gone by then she said that hopefully it was a one off but to keep an eye on it and if it recurs then to go back. Feeling fine this morning so really hoping that it was a one-off.

Thank you for all concern

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