Ladies,
Do you feel any cramps during ovulation? How do they feel?
Please don’t confuse these with menstruation cramps.
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Just read the ovulation cramps part 
jumped the gun
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feels like a sharp abdominal pain. almost like a menstrual cramp, but it comes and goes and stays for just a day. usually more so on the right side
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Some women do get cramps and its normal. Ovulation can cause cramps and sometimes pain at the pelvic side. But if you get this cramp even during periods , there might be some problem and will need check up.
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drinking a glass of milk and having a lie down helps me sometimes.
usually i try not to take painkillers or anything. but when they attack me at work i just have to take painkillers. i don't know if there is anything you can do about it.
feels like a sharp abdominal pain. almost like a menstrual cramp, but it comes and goes and stays for just a day. usually more so on the right side
Any good reason for why they are on the right side, more often?
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^Sometimes one ovary is more active than the other.
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I get ovarian pain too around ovulation time. Its pretty common esp if you have ovarian cysts. This may be why you get the pain on the one side. Around ovulation time, hormones kick in and the ovaries swell with ripened egg(s). If there are any cysts, they tend to get larger from the hormone surge too and this can cause crampy like pain. Once the egg is released, the swelling goes down and the pain goes away.
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I think I noticed something this time around. Obviously, once is not enough to be sure that it IS ovarian cramping. It could also be psychological. I was documenting my cycle a day before I got it.
I was wondering if it has anything to do with being more in-sync with your body, which is my goal. Or if you get them mostly in the presence of cysts, because then I don't want my body telling me when I ovulate :p.
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I didnt mean to make you worry, CL!! Ovarian cysts are typically really harmless. they fill up at ovulation time and drain out once ovulation is done. And they can make one more aware of ovulation time. But one can still feel ovulation pain without any cysts at all. It could well be that you're just more in-tune with your cycle. You have a big hormone surge and ovarian swelling going on - cysts or not - so slight cramping would be normal.
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it's normal to feel the little cramp. some people notice it, some don't. most of the time i disregard it as something else, only to realize it later on what it actually was. and you don't have to have cysts to feel the cramp :p as for right side, i don't remember the exact reason right now, but it is more common to have it more on one side than the other
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Maybe these are signals to ask hubby to do the deed if they both want a child! "curious"
@ Diwana
Didn’t you read the first word of the thread “LADIES!” It’s addressed to ladies 
What are you doing in this thread 
I didnt mean to make you worry, CL!! Ovarian cysts are typically really harmless. they fill up at ovulation time and drain out once ovulation is done. And they can make one more aware of ovulation time. But one can still feel ovulation pain without any cysts at all. It could well be that you're just more in-tune with your cycle. You have a big hormone surge and ovarian swelling going on - cysts or not - so slight cramping would be normal.
i have a really small fibroid which showed up on an ultra scan. i too get horrible pains at my sides. this month it was on my right side. month before was on my left!!
do you know if these small cysts and firboids can interfere with conceiving?!