Pelvic pain between ovulation and menstruation- ovarian cysts or endometriosis?
For the past five years, I’ve been experiencing pelvic pain similar to menstrual cramps (but worse) beginning the day after I ovulate and extending for the next two weeks until I begin my period (at which time regular menstrual cramps are actually a relief). The pain will come (very quickly) and go and may happen several times a day for two weeks or just a couple days within that time. It never happens before I ovulate or after I start my period.
It’s been getting worse and worse and I have to take Ibuprofen now to cope with it. I’m trying to figure out what it is. I thought for a long time that it was endometriosis, but I’m beginning to think that it could be ovarian cysts. A couple of months ago, the pain was almost nonexistent! I had just recently stopped eating all animal products and thought that had done the trick, but next month it was back and I was extremely discouraged.
I don’t want to go to the doctor for treatment because they will either want to do surgery, tell me to get on birth control, or tell me to keep taking painkillers. The pain disrupts my life (like waking me up in the middle of the night when I have to be up early the next day), but so does taking medicine because then I’m groggy and out of it and can’t function correctly.
Lately I’ve begun to think that perhaps the condition is being exacerbated by chocolate (and all caffeine products, but I don’t drink coffee). I haven’t eaten chocolate for the past few days and the cramps have been mild enough that I haven’t had to take any Ibuprofen. My mom has fibrocystic breast disease and can’t eat chocolate because the caffeine and tannins in it will inflame the cysts and cause her to be in extreme pain for days. I was wondering if it could do the same for ovarian cysts?
The information out there seems to just talk about sever pain during menstruation or mittelschmerz ovulation pain but nothing for pain that happens in the two intervening weeks. Has anyone else experience what I’ve described? Does anyone know anything about the link between ovarian cysts and chocolate or caffeine? Do my symptoms sound like endometriosis or ovarian cysts or something else? I would really like to find a natural treatment for this and I’m almost positive that it has something to do with diet. I love love love chocolate but I would give it up if it meant getting my life back two weeks out of five.
I have PCOS and I don’t have a problem when I eat chocolate. I’ve never been told by doctors to stop eating chocolate, so I doubt there is a connection.
I think you should go visit the doctors. Tell them about the pain and tell them you’ve tried taking painkillers. I used to get really bad pain all the time, and I still do. If you don’t want to go on the pill, they can’t make you, but it does make the flow lighter and the pain a little less.
For my pain, they gave me another NSAID, since Ibruprofen wouldn’t work. I get random onset of pain all the time, and up to a week before I’m due. With the painkillers, I take them as and when needed and they are a mircale cure. Ask the doctors what other options you have. Try hot baths and hot water bottles.
Having said all this, if you suspect you have PCOS and so does your doctor, you will need to have a scan and blood tests to confirm this. I think your best bet is going to the doctors and explaining the situation!
Good luck!
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I wonder the same thing. I’ve been having pains for the last 7 months now and I have no idea. It’s like it came out of nowhere. My mom used to think I had endo when i was a teen bc I’d get cramps so bad I’d pass out. I haven’t had them that bad since I was a teen. But they are pretty bad sometimes. Sometimes so bad that I’m on the toilet all day bc of cramps! I’ve been almost convinced that chocolate and coffee irritate the cysts also, bc every time i drink coffee, or have chocolate, it seems to make the pains come back. I’m not a doctor and I really don’t know. What I do know about caffeine is that it’s a diuretic and it does strain the adrenal glands. And it’s not good for the kidneys, however I love coffee and I love chocolate, but I’d be willing to chill on them for awhile also to get my sense of well-being back. Or at least just have it 2-3 times a month.
I’ve been to the ER in the last 2 months in which they told me there was alot of fluid surrounding my ovary which led him to believe that a cyst had just ruptured. So is that what’s been causing all this pain? Or do I have an ongoing cyst? Or I don’t know. I do know I feel bloated alot. And the pains in my ovary seem to transfer down into my hip, crease, pelvic bone, and my leg even sometimes. I’m so frustrated!