from period pain to daily pain

[pinkie25]

I have had severe period pain for years and take naproxen 500mg every month which stops it getting severe. I then got period pain the week before my period, a couple days occasionally after my period, then occasionally it would happen randomly throughout the month and now for about 2 weeks it’s been hurting at some point every day, it’s not constant though and worse in the morning. I’ve been on the patch since Tuesday. I’m not diagnosed with endometriosis, I had an ultrasound that was normal. It’s like my period pain has just spread across the whole month. I haven’t changed anything in my diet.

[painhater88]

I get pains throughout the month but mainly when i ovulate (if thats spelt right) thats 12-16 days before cyce but feels like second cycle.

[BloomingMarvellous]

Pain with or throughout your cycle is not normal. The fact you are on a higher level pain killer doesn’t obviate the requirement for a diagnosis by your GP. It maybe endo or even adenomyosis or both or could even be bowel related. Insist on getting a proper diagnosis asap.

There are things you can do for yourself nutrition wise.

[HT267]

Hi pinkie25, Sorry to hear you are going through this. What your describing is exactly what happened to me. I always had horrible period pain then it just started getting longer and longer then was week before until suddenly it was all month and no pain killer would inprove it. I had multiple scans that came back normal aside from a small cyst but then saw a gynae who said a laproscopy would see what's causing the pain so i agreed as at this point i was desperate and it turned out both my ovaries, my ureter and my uterosacral ligaments were covered in endo, I has a deep inplant and lots of adhesions none of which you can see on a scan. Keep pushing for answers 💪 and more tests. Good luck with your next stepsxx