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Diagnose me!
(Yes, I will be speaking to my doctor about this at my annual on 2/22. Yes, I Googled. And yes, I also know this may be more appropriate for Health & Fitness, but they seem more fitnessy than healthy, so that leaves you guys for now.)
For the past 5-6 years, I've had on/off cramping 2 weeks or so before my period. Like, excrutiating, dull, centralized, bloated cramping right beneath my belly button. It starts off mild, then it slowly becomes debilitating as it wraps around to my back. It goes away after a few hours, and it occurred so infrequently that I never brought it up to my doctor at my regular checkups. It's not gas or stomach buggy. The only thing that helps is a heating pad. All was normal at my annual visits until last year's abnormal pap, followed by a colposcopy and LEEP. Got the all clear after that, but the cramps have definitely picked up a lot in terms of intensity and frequency over the past 6 months or so. I'm not on any hormonal BC.
What could this be? Endometriosis? PID? Diagnose me, please!
Re: Diagnose me!
hmm... well i've got nothing else..lol... Hopefully its nothing! Feel better
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Same here...cysts can be very painful. They actually put me on birth control to shrink it and within 6 months it was gone and I haven't had the pain/cysts since.
Does it hurt more when you press against it? You are describing similar things I had before we found out I had an unbilical hernia.
Starting 2 weeks before my period I would bloat and get crampy as usual but say trying to do dishes, if my stomach pressed against the counter I was doubled over in the worst pain ever.
If that is what it is, try laying down and lightly feel under your belly button for a lump. If you feel one, that would be my diagnosis. If not, I hope you get some answers at your next appointment and feel better
I used to have "stop me dead in my tracks pain" when I was ovulating. I also had many small cysts on my ovaries that would have contributed to it.
I hope you feel better soon!
my kind of shot across my whole midsection when i had them the first time. the second time (when i was KU with the boys) it was on one side-ish but centralized enough that i thought i was having a m/c.
um, FTR, i knew i was pg at the time. i'm not saying you're KU! lol.