Yesterday I woke up with a little tummy ache, nothing really special or different about it. I took a nap when I got out of class and felt fine when I woke up. I started walking outside and all of a sudden, totally out of the blue, I got this severe, excruciating pain in my lower abdominal/pelvic area. It hurt so badly that I could barely move and I felt as if I was about to pass out. I was also nauseous but never threw up. It went on for about ten minutes and finally eased off after I got in a hot bath. It still feels achy and tender in that area. I’m having a hard time passing gas but when I do it feels a bit better. I did some research and came across ruptured ovarian cysts. I was looking in the symptoms section and saw that irregular periods was a symptom. I am 20 years old and have had my period since I was 13. I have never, ever had an irregular period until last month. It was 1-2 weeks late and when it came it lasted a lot longer than usual. I’m not on my period now, though..I expect it in a couple weeks. I am also currently having breast tenderness. Sex is painful most of the time, it feels like my insides are being punctured or something. I had a pap smear about 2 months ago and I had some abnormal cell tissues but nothing came back about a cyst or anything. I don’t know if all of this has anything to do with the pain I experienced today but I figured I would ask for anyone who has had one rupture before. I have never felt pain that excruciating! Oh and I forgot to mention – I don’t have any bleeding or anything like that. It’s still sore down there, though. Do you think I had an ovarian cyst rupture or was it just something minor? Thanks sooo much to anyone who can help me with this..I get freaked out about these things.

Experiences?

okay so when i first got my period is was extremely irregular for about two years (i wouldn’t get it for up to 3 months sometimes). its regular now but whether it’s regular or not my period is HORRIBLE. yes i know it sucks for any girl but i get horrid cramps, its very heavy, i get extremely dizzy and light headed, and very fatigued. i have to take 4 ibuprofen to relieve the pain, and on the first day or two of my period i’ll bleed through a super size tampon every hour or two. also, i used to love running but i stopped and one of the reasons is because about 5-10 minutes after i stop running i get horrible cramps like my period is coming on and i have to lay down & i feel really sick. the cramps eventually subside without my period starting but i get horrible cramps. my boyfriend of 3 years and i have been sexual for about a year now and everything has been fine but today after we had intercourse i was in HORRIBLE pain for about half an hour afterwards. i had very bad pain in the pelvic region and i was nauseous. i’m fine now but every once in a while i feel a stabbing pain in my pelvic region. this has never happened before, and it scared me to death. I know i should see a doctor about this but my parents are extremely against premarital sex or anything and don’t believe i should see a gyno, so i really don’t want to tell them whats been going on. they’re against condoms, birth control, basically anything having to do with sex. Like my mom wouldn’t even let me get the cervical cancer vaccine because she believes i shouldn’t have to do anything to my reproductive organs and she doesn’t think even bringing that stuff up is appropriate. which by the way is stupid because when my mom was pregnant with my little brother she ended up having a tumor taken off of her ovary. shocker. so when i can eventually afford a doctor on my own i’d really like to go but for now i’d just like to know if anyone has any advice for me. thanks!

Okay, so from my other posts my husband and I have been trying to get pregnant and we finally thought that we had because we had a lot of the symptoms- such as no period and going to the restroom a lot and nausea, but we found out that it was just an ovarian cyst from a bad egg… So my question is can we still keep trying to get pregnant with me still having the cyst or do I have to wait for it to go away?

Symptoms/signs of an ovarian cyst? How do doctors know you’ve got one?

i have two ovarian cysts. one on each of my ovaries and i know they hurt worse around the timey our going to start your period;and i was wondering if they would hurt worse if you were pregnant?

Also, what were you told about the cause?

Every month the pain in my left ovary makes my whole left side throb, its very painful, I’ve tried tylenol, hot tea, heat pads, warm towel, anything you can think of that grandmas claim to work. Is there something else, or do I have to put up with this every month? I’m only 24, and I’ve already had a child.