Severe pelvic pain episode

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I’m posting for advice as I feel it doesn’t warrant a GP visit since it has now gone. But last night I got sudden severe pelvic pain, very low down. It reminded me of labour pain and went on for an hour. It was quite scary as I could barely walk and felt very unwell with shivering and shakiness, I felt cold even though it was boiling hot.

It stopped as quickly as it started and I feel normal now, just a bit of achiness this morning.

I’m 38 and normal cycles, I don’t get period pain but for the past few months have been getting pain on the last day of my period for a few hours which I’ve read is quite common and often age related. But it’s been a week since my period ended so what was that pain last night?

Do I just forget about it now?

I had this, was early pregnancy and thought it was pelvic girdle pain. Turned out to be a massive ovarian cyst that was torting (twisting) and ended up having emergency surgery. Never known pain like it. Never hurts to get checked out x

@Sproufortheelf Thank you for sharing and I’m sorry to hear you had such a bad time. I did wonder about cysts and whether maybe one ruptured but has now resolved itself.
I still feel fine today, I might see if GP will do a telephone appointment as it feels a bit pointless going in person when the pain has stopped.

I agree with the ovarian cyst theory. It may have been torting due to posture and that's why you now feel fine. However, I would get yourself checked: you need a scan to check everything is fine. Please do not feel your health is some kind of nuisance to professionals: if they make you feel this way, they are bad ones.

Agreed. I was still in A&E when it stopped twisting and I was absolutely fine but it can occur again at any time