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Pain during ovulation
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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[Why does pain occur during ovulation?
The very appearance of pain is noted by many women, however, in many, the pain syndrome is so weak that it does not attract attention. If a woman does pay attention to pain, this means that when ovulating the follicle containing the egg has ruptured (this is a natural process) and a small amount of blood has entered the abdominal cavity, and the nerve endings reacted to the abdominal cavity. The follicle is responsible for the "maturing" of the egg and has a sufficiently developed system of vessels to feed the developing potential life. When the egg leaves the abdominal cavity, a certain amount of blood always enters. The organism independently cope with the appearance of a blood clot in the "wrong place" and this process is not dangerous for the life and functioning of the reproductive system. In extremely rare cases, pain during ovulation is constantly high intensity and requires drug correction. The origin of the pain syndrome in ovulation is the responsibility of the receptors of nerve endings, which assess the appearance of blood components outside the bloodstream as a serious threat to life and report a "breakdown" to the brain, i.e., the more clot, the stronger the signal and the more pain during ovulation . The amount of blood allocated for ovulation is individual, this feature can be inherited.
How does pain occur during ovulation?
Given the fact that in the female body ovulation occurs alternately in one of the ovaries, pain during ovulation is noted in the projection of the ovulating ovary alternately, from month to month, changing from right-sided to left-sided. If the monthly hormonal cycle has a duration of 28 days, then the appearance of unpleasant sensations in the lower abdomen on the right or left should be predicted on the 14th day from the onset of menstruation.
Painful sensations can be sharply expressed, but quickly passing, pain during ovulation is never a multi-day or intolerable. In case a woman is used to periodically arising pains during ovulation, but the expected sensations do not coincide with the really unfolding picture of the pain syndrome and various comorbid pains are added to the familiar sensations, and, for example, vomiting, GI disorder, it is necessary to consult a specialist, pain during ovulation masked a more serious disorder or there was an accidental coincidence of ovulation and disease.
Like any hormonal adjustment, long periods of taking hormonal contraceptives (as well as pregnancy) can change the body's response to ovulation, in other words, the pain during ovulation can be somewhat smoothed over the years, often the pain between menstruations will leave the woman forever.