Are rectal cramping and sharp pelvic pain normal symptoms?

[Pcos1990]

Hi everyone, I am new here and I have been searching for answers for 5 months about my ovarian cyst pain. I am 26 and was diagnosed about 5 years ago with PCOS but never treated it with birth control or anything. About 5 times since then I had experienced excruciating pain in my abdomen, pelvis, and rectum stemming from intercourse, but the pain usually went away in a couple of hours with painkillers, so I never really thought anything of it until this past April. It happened once again but this time, the pain lasted for about 6 hours and I just laid in bed crying trying to get to sleep. I felt like urinating or passing gas helped relieve some pressure but when the gas would move I would get these earth-shattering rectal cramps that felt like I had a knife being shoved up there! So I finally got in to see a gyno about a month later and they found a 4.5 cm ovarian cyst, and I had a laparoscopy to remove it the next day. After the surgery, things progressively got a little better, but I still noticed some pain when I finished urinating, or pressure if I didn't go #2 every single day. Now, fast forward 10 weeks post op, I was having sex and to my dismay, had another horrible episode of cramping and severe pain. I have been in pain every single day now for about a month, it hurts to walk, and it seems like when gas moves low in my bowels, it causes sharp pelvic and rectal pain. I'm not constipated, I take probiotis to help me go every day since I have to take tramadol or percocet just to deal with the pain (which doesn't really help much btw). My gyno thinks it could be gastro relayed of course and it took 3 weeks just for my referral to go through and now I'm to wait 2 more weeks just to be seen. I did have another ultrasound and will see my gyno in a few days for results. It does seem like my bowels and bladder are being affected here but I just have a feeling it's another cyst that grew really fast after surgery. Oh, also she said she did not see any endo when my laparoscopy was performed, but I feel like all my symptoms are pretty parallel to endometriosis, is it possible she missed it on my rectum or something?! I just want to know if any of this is relatable to anyone else out there because I now haven't had sex with my fiance in a month again because I'm in pain every day, ive missed so much work, and some days I feel like taking my life because I just don't know how to live with this awful pain anymore! Help!

[Ariesali]

Go to a general practitioner. You might have a herniated disc.they will send you for MRI. Try ginger and Tumeric. Local. Natural form . Pound , boil make tea. Drink with no sugar. Use hot baths. Massage with natural coconut oil. Had similar problem.

[Ariesali]

Go to a general practitioner. You might have a herniated disc.they will send you for MRI. Try ginger and Tumeric. Local. Natural form . Pound , boil make tea. Drink with no sugar. Use hot baths. Massage with natural coconut oil. Had similar problem.

[Pcos1990]

Is there really no one else who can help me? I've been suffering for 8 months in pain all day every day, routine tests, CT scan, transvaginal ultrasound all coming up normal! It now hurts really bad to go poo, in my lower pelvic region and high up in rectum

[old_before_my_time]

Have you seen a gastroenterologist? A colonoscopy may be helpful in case you haven't had one.

[Beckibrighton]

Hiya

For me that sounds exactly like my symptoms for cyst and endometriosis. We will never know exactly what causes which pain but the pressure on the bladder for me was the ovarian cyst and the pain before and during pooping was endometriosis scarring on my bowels. Trouble walking was caused by a nice 7cm cyst which was pushing a good range of nerves including one the ran down my leg. Plenty of sharp pelvic pain, to the point of cold sweats and not being able to move off the floor. The hot knives in the rectum also endometriosis leading/ scarring and is a special operation separate to a laparoscopy I think. Probably a camera up the bum? All this effected my bowel and bladder movements significantly, which is normal when you think of the knotted organs and adhesions. The feeling of needing to have a good fart or poop never quite escaped me, I'm not sure the cause of this but I know it's cyst related because I had surgery two weeks ago and I don't have these problems anymore. Clearly I've had pain since surgery but that was a very different type.
The pain during sex also screams endo. Very frustrating if she's told you you don't have any signs of endo! Is she a specialist or a general surgeon? You'd be horrified at the lack of education out there even amongst general surgeons. For a start, even small amounts of visible endo can cause pain, there is no real correlation between pain symptoms and amounts of Endo.
Second opinion from a specialist maybe?

[Pcos1990]

Thank you so much for your reply! The doctor who did my laparoscopy is an OBGYN and I have tried searching for endometriosis specialists in Las Vegas where I live and I haven't really had any luck finding anyone like that. She sent me to a gastro because she insists my pain is unrelated and my last ulta sound showed an involuting cyst only 1.8 cm, she even said my bloodwork came back normal, showing my pcos had "gone away"? So I went to the gastro 2 days ago and she told me to take miralax every day and see her in 3 weeks to see if my pain is because of constipation. I just don't see how constipation could be causing this sharp pelvic and rectal pain every single day? Perhaps though.... I'd like to be re evaluated for endo on my bowels, but my periods have never been heavy, the rectal cramping does get worse on my period though. I'm becoming so depressed looking for answers and it's really sad not being able to be intimate with my fiance for over a month now because I'm always in pain :(