I am so crampy!

[TTCaPRINCE]

I started cramping late Thursday night of last week which was ovulation coming. I haven't stopped. This cramping isn't as noticeable as my ovulation cramping but it is throughout the day on and off and very faint. I have read on here somewhere that they can mean your egg is just making it's way down but I don't really feel like the spot where I feel the cramping is changing. By the way this cramping I am talking about is on the left side of my body. Occasionally I will also feel a sliiiiight cramp on my right side. Which is something I have never experienced before. I normally only cramp on one side at a time during my cycles. But I have never cramped this long before. Anyone else experience this? What are some things it could mean? If my period wasn't due for another 2 1/2 weeks I would say it feels like I am getting ready to start.

[3littleladies]

Could you be pregnant?
I felt crampy in the very early days when I was pregnant!

[aidansmum]

Are you on any sups, like Vitex, for example? Vitex makes me cramp very badly for days before I ovulate and also for a few days after.

[aidansmum]

Sorry, just read you are swaying blue, so obviously no Vitex, but it could also be a sup that you are taking for your blue sway.

[Becca.lms]

I'm the EXACT same way you're describing.

[atomic sagebrush]

ARe you 110% sure there is no way you could have ovulated earlier than you thought you did??? My suspicion would be that you Oed earlier than you thought, got pg, and this sickness and crampiness is early pg. That's what it sounds like. But some supps can cause stronger and longer lasting O cramps too.

The side you cramp on means nothing whatsoever. you can't tell anything about baby's gender from that or what side your egg came from.

[a&jmummy]

Don't want to freak you out but sometimes your body gears up to O but then doesn't for many reasons ...then gears up again and has a sucessful O .
Just a thought but maybe you are Oing now it just somehow got delayed?
Are u temping?
I have very painful O , my tummy and lower back stay tender for days after O!

[TTCaPRINCE]

Could you be pregnant?
I felt crampy in the very early days when I was pregnant!

That is what I am thinking but I don't want to get my hopes up! I will be 10DPO on Wednesday so I am going to test then.

[TTCaPRINCE]

Sorry, just read you are swaying blue, so obviously no Vitex, but it could also be a sup that you are taking for your blue sway.

I am not taking anything out of the ordinary... and I haven't been taking anything new that I haven't been taking for atleast the past 6 months .. I have never experienced this much cramping in one month.

[TTCaPRINCE]

I'm the EXACT same way you're describing.

Did you TTC this month?

[TTCaPRINCE]

ARe you 110% sure there is no way you could have ovulated earlier than you thought you did??? My suspicion would be that you Oed earlier than you thought, got pg, and this sickness and crampiness is early pg. That's what it sounds like. But some supps can cause stronger and longer lasting O cramps too.

The side you cramp on means nothing whatsoever. you can't tell anything about baby's gender from that or what side your egg came from.

I know you can't tell what gender the baby is from what side it came from. I was actually midly concerned that I was feeling cramping randomly from my right side because I was thinking "My God what if I dropped two eggs!" Which I hope I wouldn't be able to feel and I hope I didn't do. Because twins or something crazy sounds awful to me. (No offense to anyone with twins) I mean anything is possible I could have Oed early but the things is is that I didn't let him release in me until last friday. And I was tracking my O since CD6 which is the only reason I caught O because I normally O on CD 15 or 16 and got a positive on CD either 11 or 12 (I dont have my phone me me to check). I thought I could possibly be Oing again for some odd reason but I felt my cervix and it was low and hard so I didn't bother wasting a test. I have had EWCM since I Oed though .. I dried up for about one day and then got more and it hasn't gone away which has also never happened. I don't want to get my hopes up but I am thinking that MAYBE I was so sick because my egg did get fertilized and the hormones from the fertilization nauseated me. I don't see why that could be impossible. My body reacts to things so easily. I could be wayyyy off. But if that wasn't the case I think it was a bad bout of allergies. The weather over here on the east coast has been changing dramatically from day to day.

[TTCaPRINCE]

Don't want to freak you out but sometimes your body gears up to O but then doesn't for many reasons ...then gears up again and has a sucessful O .
Just a thought but maybe you are Oing now it just somehow got delayed?
Are u temping?
I have very painful O , my tummy and lower back stay tender for days after O!

I am not tempting (my numbers were always all over the place) but I do check cervial position. And when I got my first +OPK my cervix was super high and the opening was a big slit. Now it is hard and closed. And if I did O early I don't think I would have gotten pg because DH was pulling out until the night before my +OPK. And I was checking everyday from CD6. So I have no idea. I just wish it was 10DPO already so I could test and find out what is going on inside of my body!!!!

[Becca.lms]

Yes. I'm 10dpo right now.
And weird pains out of my norm. Like you I don't want to get my hopes up.

[atomic sagebrush]

It IS impossible because the egg is not connected to your body till it implants and it doesn't affect your body until then. It is a miniscule ball of cells that isn't doing anything but dividing - when it implants, it sends a signal to your body and then it's your body that makes the hormones that make you experience pg symptoms. If your body hasn't gotten that signal yet, then it won't start making the hormones and will not experience any symptoms. Until that point (implantation), things are no different than if an unfertilized egg was passing thru.

It is totally normal to experience cramping on both sides, it's the tubes trying to move the egg down into the uterus and your uterus itself can feel heavy and achy when it's got a good lining. your body doesn't know what side you ovulated on, so both tubes cramp.

Sometimes, people get sick from germs. :)

[atomic sagebrush]

Don't want to freak you out but sometimes your body gears up to O but then doesn't for many reasons ...then gears up again and has a sucessful O .
Just a thought but maybe you are Oing now it just somehow got delayed?
Are u temping?
I have very painful O , my tummy and lower back stay tender for days after O!

This is definitely also possible and I have wickedly painful ovulations too.

Even your CP can change back and forth with a fake O

[TTCaPRINCE]

It IS impossible because the egg is not connected to your body till it implants and it doesn't affect your body until then. It is a miniscule ball of cells that isn't doing anything but dividing - when it implants, it sends a signal to your body and then it's your body that makes the hormones that make you experience pg symptoms. If your body hasn't gotten that signal yet, then it won't start making the hormones and will not experience any symptoms. Until that point (implantation), things are no different than if an unfertilized egg was passing thru.

It is totally normal to experience cramping on both sides, it's the tubes trying to move the egg down into the uterus and your uterus itself can feel heavy and achy when it's got a good lining. your body doesn't know what side you ovulated on, so both tubes cramp.

Sometimes, people get sick from germs. :)

Did not know that both tubes cramp. I thought it was just one or the other so that is refreshing! I know I could be sick from germs lol. I was just asking if it was possible. I am like 99% sure I was ill from allergies. My ears started itching like crazy as well. And then as soon as the weather changed back I was a new person literally over night. I have been known the get loose bowels and nausea from allergies because they hit me so hard. And I had also been walking DD to the bus stop which I am sure the extra exposure to the outdoors didn't help.

[TTCaPRINCE]

This is definitely also possible and I have wickedly painful ovulations too.

Even your CP can change back and forth with a fake O

While I am sure this is extremely possible I am sure as I can be without a u/s as proof that I was ovulating. BUT with the slight chance that I was wrong I did BD 3 days later when my phone was predicting me to O. So either way I should have hopefully caught some egg somewhere at some time. But my cervix was high and closed a few days ago ... so I am highly doubting I Oed late. BUT who knows I could be wrong. I don't have a U/S machine and I am not a gyno.

[atomic sagebrush]

I understand, just trying to put out info for everyone because for everyone who asks, there are 10 others who may be wondering the same thing and they may not know the things that you do or may speak English as a second language. My posts are intended for the larger audience and it is not my intent to upset anyone, I just have to offer the most basic explanations and cover as much ground as I can.

[TTCaPRINCE]

I understand, just trying to put out info for everyone because for everyone who asks, there are 10 others who may be wondering the same thing and they may not know the things that you do or may speak English as a second language. My posts are intended for the larger audience and it is not my intent to upset anyone, I just have to offer the most basic explanations and cover as much ground as I can.

I understand. Sometimes I think we all can forget that others use our posts to answer their own questions and you are just covering all of the bases. I know I personally have used others posts to answer my own questions. I guess I forget others might use mine the same way. :) Still getting used to all this forum stuff. :think: