If you have had it, can you please tell me about Pelvic Inflammatory Disease.

[Dumbledoresgirl]

As I have been suffering from on/off low pelvic discomfort for some while now and it seems to be getting more frequent. I went to the GP and had an examination but she did not detect anything amiss although admitted I was very tender. I am not sure if she was thinking of PID though.

My symptoms are a feeling of tenderness or mild discomfort or aching in my pelvis - sometimes low down at the front, sometimes more towards my hips, sometimes lower back.

Also, if you had it, did you find sex affected you? I sometimes feel congested low down after sex, though no actual pain during intercourse. Does this sound familiar at all?

Thanks.

Could be PID (which I've had, years ago) or something else gynaecological, could be IBS. But if it's bothering you, you must go ack and ask for a test - if you don't want to go back to the GP, go to your local sexual health clinic. If you did have something like chlamydia (as I did), it could potentially be very serious if left untreated, but very easy to treat (and I've had 2 kids since).

had it years ago. had low level grumbling in ovary on 1 side, not really pain though, for a couple of months. it was very localised and i put it down to some kind of stitch (daft apeth i was, a stitch with no exertion ?). was totally nothing to write home about.

did have sharp pain reaction with intercourse but only for the two days before i got really ill. I felt fine in the morning but got suddenly hot and fevered after lunch, fainted at work and woke up hospitalised, IV antibiotics and morphine'd to the point of hallucinations. spent 2 days like that, it rapidly cleared up, no causative organism ever given. they could swollen ovaries on both sides, tubes etc inflammed.

no long lasting effect on fertililty, thank my lucky stars.

hope you get answers soon.

Thank you both. Merryberry, your experience sounds quite frightening. I wouldn't want to go through that.

I have been tested for chlamydia - negative - just as well as dh and I are each other's only partners and if I had chlamydia it would have meant he had played away. Also, I am not worrying about fertility as I have had my family. Still, I want it sorted it out if it is PID, if only to avoid Merryberry's experience.

yes, it really festered away in there for ages didn't it in my case, then whammo, it somehow bust out into my bloodstream and that's what KO'd me. i do have a proper-shock-the-medics-high pain threshold, like i have a useful feedback loop missing. So my grumbling feeling may well have been a proper warning if i'd thought(*) about it.

sorry i have no idea what tests could be done to spot it in advance, only that ultrasound once i was in hospital helped them diagnose.

(*) but i was 20ish, who thinks about it so much then?