According to my averages (I haven't started temping or using OPKs yet), I should have ovulated on 12/18. On Saturday at noon we were intimate, and then that very evening I started experiencing weird, almost pulsating cramps in the middle-to-left part of my uterus and left ovary. It felt different from menstrual cramps, not as painful but still kind of stingy. It got sharper a couple of times, but still not something I'd call painful. It just felt uncomfortable. On Sunday I continued to feel light cramping, though my uterus started feeling full/heavy. Monday it continued, and I even started feeling twinges on the left side and even in my left lower back. Tuesday there was little to no cramping but I felt a dull ache in my uterus that has been constant. Wednesday it was much lighter, pretty ignorable, but felt sore. And then last night it felt so sore and swollen on just my left side (left uterine wall, left ovary, and through to my lower back but only on the left) that I couldn't get comfortable in bed because of the pressure. Now, none of this has felt painful, so I haven't felt the need to make an appointment with the doc. Should I? Has anyone felt this and had it turn out to be a cyst or something?
Also, another thing that has made me feel that something odd is going on down there is I lost my sex drive entirely after Saturday, maybe due to the general discomfort? On Monday we tried getting intimate again but I felt like I was too full (he's the best lover I've ever had but he's not big enough to have ever caused discomfort before). My cervix kept getting bumped and it was making me cramp, so we didn't finish. When I went to feel, my cervix was lower than I'd ever felt it before. But when I asked him if he felt himself bumping it, he said no. We haven't tried again, as I told him I've been feeling kind of "blah" and needed a break. So we're skipping this cycle.
I've been breaking out, which typically doesn't happen until my period starts, but I have read that some women do get acne episodes during ovulation. I've been super tired and have tried going to sleep early but I can't seem to fall asleep until after midnight, which makes me even more tired the next day. I was hungry all of yesterday and woke up starving today. My BBs are only mildly sore, mostly the nipples--I don't notice it until he tries to touch them or until I take my bra off. No nausea. I have sinus issues so a stuffy nose and headaches are common for me. I've been crabby lately, but because I'm tired. And my CM was drying out sun-tues, but on wed I started getting wet spots on my panties, and today I feel like I keep leaking, sort of like I'm going to start my period, only I'm not expecting it until the 1st. Today the soreness is STILL there, but the lightest it's been since Saturday evening. My lower back hurts, but this office chair ***** so I don't know, haha.
Ever since I can remember, I start feeling PMS exactly a week before I start my period. This is a little earlier than I've had it, unless I'm just starting earlier than expected this cycle... Bodies can be so hard to read!
Any thoughts? Similar experiences? Was it ovulation, a cyst, something else I should look out for? Hormone imbalance, maybe? I would like to think pregnancy, but I honestly don't feel like I am at all. I just feel achey and worn out. ):