Causes of Under Stomach Feeling Pain

Women often experience pain on one side of the abdomen. Generally, this pain comes every month especially before menstruation.

Technically, it describes the sharp ovulatory pain on one side of the lower abdomen that occurs once a month, around the time your ovaries release the egg into the fallopian tube. According to the Mayo Clinic as reported by Womenshealthmag.com, some women can feel when they release an egg.

If your pain does not occur within two weeks before menstruation or lasts for more than three days, consult a doctor immediately.

Eggs in women can be tricky. Women have about two million eggs that are immature and are called follicles.

Unlike the man who continues to create sperm throughout his life, the egg has limitations. Although every woman is different, 95 percent of women will have less than 12 percent of their eggs left behind by the age of 30.

At the age of 40, that number will drop to three percent. This means you will lose about 8000 eggs per month. When all the eggs are gone, a woman will be said to be infertile again.

During your fertile period, one egg matures in one of the ovaries and every two weeks before the menstruation begins, the ovaries send signals to your brain that it is time to remove the eggs.

Eggs will be released from follicles or cysts that develop in the ovaries. But, since there are no openings in the ovary, the egg actually breaks through it.

Some women may not feel this condition, but some feel sharp and brief pain, sometimes accompanied by prolonged pain at the side where the egg is released.

How to handle it?
Because ovulation pain is usually short and light, you do not need to do anything. But, if it is very disturbing activity, try to ease it using ibuprofen.

Keep in mind that not all abdominal pain in mid-menstrual cycle is ovulation pain. Things like ovarian cysts, fibroids, scar tissue, cancer, and life-threatening ectopic pregnancy can sometimes cause similar pain at first.

If your pain is not present at two weeks before menstruation or lasts for more than three days, this may not be related to ovulation. Immediately consult a doctor if you experience it.

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