Pain on lower right abdomen: Constipation or endometriosis?
So, hi, I'm a 19F. I had to go to the ER about two weeks ago because of pain in my lower right abdomen, radiating to my lower ans upper righr back. The doctors suspected appendicitis so they kept me in the hospital. I git my period during the whole thing, though it was ten days too early and EXTREMELY clumpy and the blood only came out when I sat on the toilet (I've had the clumps before so that wasn't worrying as there's a reason behind it). They monitor me and give me pain meds and some laxatives which help. The pain subsides after about two days, but just to make sure they check if I may have some ovarian cysts. Ultrasound goes well, no cysts. I get laxatices and paracetamol prescribed and go home. Some weird stuff that isn't relevant happens and I finally get my supplemements from my doctor, as I've founs out I'm Vitamin B12, Vitamim D and Iron deficient. The laxatives work, I chamge to something more natural (daily linseeds and greek yoghurt). Skip to about a week ago: My breasts swell up like usual but WAY worse. Like in a painful and too swelly way. And they stay like that for about five days, not the usual one or two.
Then my period comes.
Usually I don't feel any pain on the first day, just swelling. On the second I get some pain, nothing too bad though. The rest is smooth sailing. This time it was quite bad on the first day and awful on the second. I had to work on the second das and the pain made me have to stop and take breathing breaks and overall I couldn't walk well. The pain radiated to my back and my constipation got worse again. It also sometimes shot to my groin and felt a bit burn-like. Ibu 400mg helped, but after a nap and about four hours the pain was back.
The thing is: I've had painful periods before. They're not normal, but they've happened before. In september I had a very painful second day and once during my first ever peeiod at about 11.
My periods have also always been heavy. I often bled through clothes after waking up when I was younger. Overall I've had some pain radiating to my leg too and the pain is especially on the right side. Like, right lower abdomen, right above my vulva or a bit more right, im the centre of hhe dip between hip bone and my vulva. It's weird.
The thing is, it could be my bowel beint weird as I've been havinr reflux too. So worse constipation during my period would work out. It coule also just be because of my deficiencies.
I'm making an appointment with my gynecologist tomorrow and will be sharinr everything with her. Hopefully I'll soon find out what exactly the problem is.