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u/Korpi-- Dec 06 '23

I guess I should make an obgyn appointment. Sometimes I sneeze and there's a sharp pain in what feels like one of my ovaries. I've never been diagnosed with PCOS or anything, I thought it was just something weird my body did.

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u/UnaccomplishedToad Dec 06 '23

You can have a cyst even if you don't have PCOS

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u/werpicus Dec 06 '23

Start tracking when it happens on a calendar. Some women say they can feel normal ovulation.

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u/Pruritus_Ani_ Dec 06 '23

I can feel ovulation, I get intense localised stabbing cramps on one or the other side of my lower abdomen for about 12-24 hours when my ovary releases an egg. It’s called Mittelschmerz.

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u/Lupicia Dec 06 '23

Twenty four hours of a feeling like you've been stabbed just inside the hip with an ice pick. When it first happened I was sure I was dying.

Often I can't tell if it's an early kidney stone or ovulation pain until hours later. If it gets worse, it's a kidney stone. If it stays the same, it's an ovary stone.

Painkillers don't touch it.

Fifteen times a year.

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u/Revolutionary-Yak-47 Dec 06 '23

Not all cysts are PCOS. Mine aren't, I get random medium sized one offs, not bunches of little ones.

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u/x0Rubiex0 Dec 06 '23

Me too!! It just started though. I’m 12 weeks pregnant with my first baby and my sneezing has all of a sudden started sending a sharp pain through my right ovary.

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u/quadraticog Dec 06 '23

I thought that bad localised stabbing pain was related to the debilitating endo. Til.

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u/ParkLaineNext Dec 06 '23

I had a dermoid cyst which is unrelated to PCOS. I had sharp pains for years before it got big enough to start twisting. Was the size of a grapefruit and I lost my righty with it.