Feels like period cramps?

Byrn09

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Joined : Mar 2015

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Posted 4/11/2015 11:32 PM (GMT 0)

Have had crohns for 1.5 years now and have been on 100mg/day imuran. Everything is fine except I've noticed the last month or so that whenever I feel like I'm going to have a BM I get these almost uncomfortable period cramps it feels like in my lower stomach/uterus area. As soon as I go I feel better though. Thoughts or concerns?

scifigal2k

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Posted 4/12/2015 2:50 AM (GMT 0)

Has your period or ovulation changed any, or are your BMs more firm? When I'm on my period or ovulating, my ovaries swell a little bit because of dominant follicles. So when I'm in remission and have more solid BMs, it just gets a little cramped down there with so much going on, and there's that same kind of pressure. Not hurting badly, just kind of pressure/achey/crampy.

Or it could be a little bit of inflammation. The hard thing with the intestines is they go everywhere and behind of/in front of everything! When mine aches up, my side/back ache a bit where my kidneys are.....it's really just the intestines, though.

pb4

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Posted 4/12/2015 2:51 PM (GMT 0)

I get the same feeling and my cramping will even travel down further into the rectum and vagina so it makes it impossible to push out a BM when the cramping is happening and it's quite painful...for me though, my crohn's is in remission so I have to chalk it up to being my IBS-C alternating.

I haven't found any ideas of how to make it stop or what to do when it happens, it doesn't happen all the time, just on occasion and not necessarily near or during my periods, it's happened this morning so all I could finally get out so far was some more pee cuz the cramping "down there" is what makes it hard to pass even pee through.

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