Ovulation cramps

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I'm smack bang in the middle of my cycle and it would be around about now that I'm due to ovulation. Earlier today, I experienced tummy cramps. These cramps are tummy danger cramps that leaves me nauseous and needing the toilet for a no. 2. These cramps come and go and I could have several episodes in a day or over a few days. I took ibuprofen and paracetamol earlier and it seems to have settled for now.

These cramps are not new for me. However, the past few months has been a lot more easier for me for this ovulation time. I hardly noticed cramps.

A few things have changed for me over the past few months.

1. earlier in the year I started to diet and I did a low carb and low sugar diet. Over the past month, a lot of stress came about. Family and work stresses and other stress too. All of this stress had me eager for a drink or 2 in the evenings after work. Also I had a lot of sugar cravings I began to eat more trash and more sugar foods regularly. Something I have to stop and change now.

I'm just wondering if my poor diet over the past month has anything to do with these ovulation pains. The past few months has been an absolute breeze for me with little to no ovulation pains or cramps. My diet went to sh1t and then today tummy cramps came with the middle of the month time.

Another change for me:
My relationship was sexless for the past 18 months but we are turning that around now and we did 3 times this month. Would the cramps have anything to do with an increase in sexual activity?

Any idea or maybe my diet and sexual activity has no connection with the cramps.

Sugar really effects me too. It throws me off quickly and I can go from zero symptoms to being in bed because I’ve nearly fainted.

If start keeping a daily diary of symptoms, food and drink eaten etc to see if there’s a correlation and if it continues to to gp. Usually they ask for some kind of diary so would be good to do anyway

Ovulation cramps should not last for days on end nor be so painful.
Are these pains cyclical in nature?. If so I would get this further investigated as both sex and your diet may not be the root causes. Are your periods painful too?.

Keeping a daily pain and symptom diary to show the GP would be helpful and if they have no idea what is happening then I would ask for a referral to a gynae.

Thanks for the replies.

I'm OK now today. I took some ibuprofen and paracetamol yesterday and that helped. It's why I track my cycles now so that I'm prepared with medicine in case I need it.

Before, I do remember cramps and pains setting in around about the middle of my cycle. They were though and went on for a few days.

Periods aren't as pad for me. When I was in my 20s I had some painful periods that made me sick but that settled too.

I just find it bizarre now because the past few months has been an absolute breeze with my monthly cycles. Then I go through a period of stress and I picked up some bad habits that I never really had before like eating a entire row of jaffa cakes in one sitting. I never did that before. Sugar has featured heavily in my diet over the past month and then yesterday I got some cramps and pains and I thought I wonder if its anything to do with the increase in sugar.

I will start a pain diary and also a food diary.

I wrote the op a few weeks ago. I was experiencing tummy cramps and I suspected it was ovulation. My period came last Sunday. I do think the pains I experienced was ovulation pains. Them cramps would have eased some what for me after writing the original post. My period came last Sunday and then it was a particularly bad one with tummy cramps and pains. Monday was particularly bad for me with the tummy cramps. I must have had about 12/13/14 episodes of tummy cramps. There was no difference between me and the scenes you would see of women in labour on TV. At least once an hour holding my tummy in pain and breathing and dragging myself to the toilet.

My period is over now and and all the tummy cramping spells are over too. I am left with some on and off pain in my armpit to the side of one of my breasts.

Is this all hormonal?

I'm going down the route of a 'reduced sugar' diet to see how I am with the next ovulation and period.

Does anyone else suffer like this? Would evening primrose oil help, I wonder?

Endometriosis may be a possible cause for these symptoms.

Any pain that is cyclical in nature and or gets worse up to and including menses should be checked to see if endometriosis is present.