So I am a pretty regular in my "female" cycle. I track my TOM and can usually figure out the days I am ovulating. The thing that I have realized is that I have incredible, um, gas/bloating during both my TOM and ovulation. Now, I understand it happening during TOM but I have never heard of it during ovulation. Plus, I get a "pressure" on my right hand side. It freaked me out but the x-rays/tests didn't show anything abnormal and I've started to realize that it happens on a monthly basis around ovulation.

Does anyone else have negative (to weight-loss and life in general) symptoms during ovulation? I kinda feel like an odd-ball

I cramp, have lower back ache, and am usually hormonal during ovulation.

Fun stuff.

Well... lets see... I bleed like crazy and so can only wear those nighttime pads, I get very angry and moody, I bloat, I have very sharp pains in my abdomen (more than just cramps), and have diahrrea.

Umm... nope. I don't think I know what you're talking about. No negative symptoms at all.


It certainly is lovely being a woman.

hahaha :]

Whoops... just now realized she meant ovulation... not TOM... Oh well... even still.

HAHAHAHA! I was so confused! But I am glad that you don't have to go through that TWICE a month. I would turn in my woman card

Haha... that would be HORRID. Once a month is bad enough.

I don't track mine (I actually generally forget even to track my TOM)... so I have no clue... but yeah.

I usually have a day or two where I eat the fridge and bloat a little. I used to have the right-side pain but not so much since my second child.

I get diarrhea around my ToM. I get it before, during, and/or immediately after ToM. Last month I got a cyst that went away after my cycle, but I have PCOS.

I've noticed I can inhale all forms of chocolate, which isn't the worst thing ever.

Ovulation - sometimes. This month I'm experiencing cramping and moodiness... which normally translates to a rough period

Period - my period is never normal. Last month I had 2 weeks, one week extremely light, the second week it was really heavy. so heavy that I was waking up at 3am because it was just so yuck. but I had no weight gain... unlike 2 months prior when I had ovulation pain and put on 5 pounds and then lost it all the day after my period stopped.

I also get the pressure on one side thing to, but I've always associated that with anxiety.