Period pain

Hi everyone

Sorry this is not exactly a TTC question but seeing as all of us are so aware of our cycles I thought someone might be able to help.

Since coming off the pill last year I get quite bad period pain on the days leading up to AF and on the first day of it. This months its really bad to the point where it woke me in the middle of the night and I had to curl into a ball with a heatpack and panadol until it went away.... it was almost excruciating.

I know some pain is normal but Im starting to worry, also because Ive been TTC for 4-5 cycles with no luck so I guess Im wanting to make sure everything is ok. My cycle is long at 38-40 days but it's regular, and Im ovulating.

Any help much appreciated.

Thanks Oxy, Ill try that.

I meant to say in my message does anyone know how much pain is enough to be really worried about/get checked out? Is there anything else I need to watch for?

Thanks Ladybee. Do you mean vitamin b6? Can you buy that from the chemist/supermarket as a vitamin?

I have been tested for PCOS before and all clear, but not endo so yeah just worrying

Hi, from what I have heard most women get some period pain either before or during their period. If it is painful enough to stop you from doing normal daily activities (such as working), you are worried about it or you are having to take strong drugs for it then I would consider getting it checked out.

I had bad period pain and it turned out that I had endo which I had removed. The only way you can tell if you have endo is by laparoscopic surgery which is obviously fairly invasive so it's not something that the drs take lightly. There was quite a criteria for the surgery such as needing to take time off work for the pain.

In saying that I still have period pain and I had the surgery 3 months ago so I'm pretty annoyed it hasn't helped! But as I say, most women do experience some pain so I wouldn't go jumping to conclusions that you have endo, just wanted to share my experience.

I think that sounds quite normal - some months it would wake me up and would have to take nurofen and a wheat bag and then some months hardly anything!

I would get it checked out. Lots of people experience pain but lots of people don't. I went down the track of checking out my period pain as it was so bad that I can remember days in my teens where I just had to sit and concentrate on breathing. I've since discovered that the pain I feel when not on the pill is very much what I feel in labour.

I got pregnant before I was offered a laparoscpy but there are blood tests and things that they tend to do before a laparoscopy anyway so if you're in pain I figure there is nothing to lose by getting it checked out. Especially if TTC.

Re managing the pain, the pill is the only thing that has ever taken the pain away for me but Ponstan and Naprogesic can be worth a try.