Constant right abdominal/ovary pain lasted months now

[cookingmama02]

A few months back I would say January time I started getting a bad pain in my lower right abdomen, after multiple doctors trips and hospital visits I still have no answers as to what is going on. The pain radiates from the far side of my right lower abdomen into where I would say is my ovary and that is where it occurs the majority of the time, it is a sharp stinging pain whilst the area surrounding is a constant dull pain. It's causing me a great deal of anxiety, it is keeping me up at night. I'm scared to eat because that is starting to make the pain worse now, I'm even having to come home early when I leave the house. I'm booked in for a scan but I don't know how long I am going to be waiting, the area does not hurt to press only rarely for a split second. Has anyone experienced this or have any ideas what it could be? Thanks.

@Nimbostratus100 ovulation pain is literally mentioned on the nhs website.

I also had an ovarian cyst that ruptured and needed surgery - it was very painful.

You are mistaken here.

"The human and mammalian ovaries are innervated by sympathetic, sensory, and a few parasympathetic nerves."

https://jneuroinflammation.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12974-020-01752-1

Ovarian cancer may be a 'silent killer' but it's misleading to extrapolate that to assert that ovaries have no sensory nerves. That's like saying breasts have no sensory nerves, because breast cancer does not always present with pain.

Just to add to the responses here, the pain you feel with lower bowel motion may be due to adhesions between the bowel and the ovary (so as a poo moves along the bowel, the bowel moves and that tugs on the ovary, causing ovarian pain). You're most likely to have adhesions if you also have endometriosis, and in fact it may be you have an endometriotic cyst (endometrioma) in your ovary. I did, and had exactly the same pain you are describing.

Also, ovarian pain can frequently be referred pain, usually the front of the corresponding thigh, so that can be another clue.

If the wait for the NHS scan is taking to long, I found its fairly easy to get an ultrasound scan privately, and relatively cheaply (£65-£100). Search for 'pelvic scan' and your area. The places who do private pregnancy scans often offer this.

Just to clarify above, the tugging on an already inflamed/cystic ovary would cause the pain; I don't know whether jiggling of a normal ovary would cause pain!