Just wondering if anyone else has pain on either side while stimminng with ivf? We had a cycle in July and there were issues seeing my left ovary. They were poking and proding and I have a feeling hitting my pouch (which is probably what was causing my soreness). Unfortunattely we had a BFN and likewise with our Sept FET (the soreness also returned). I'm now even suffering from pouchitis and have the same pain on the left side. Don't know what's going on.

I get an ache, not a sharp pain, in my lower back on the right when I have a regular menstrual cycle. I'm on stim day 4 of my second fresh IVF cycle (first fresh IVF resulted in my ds who is now 21 months old, May FET resulted in miscarriage) and that ache has started already. Last time it was only on the right, this time on the left as well.

Remember, you are asking your body to produce a lot more eggs than normal. The swelling in the ovaries is bound to create some issues in normal people and certainly for us. That said, if the pain is severe, call the dr to be sure you don't have the early signs of OHSS. Maybe call the dr anyway to be sure...

How many days of stims have you done?

Hi Jill,

Thanks for your response. I'm so sorry to hear about your miscarriage. I've seen some of your posts and it just breaks my heart. (We've had 4 negative cycles this year so am familiar with the ups and downs of infertility).

Interesting that you're getting an ache at a different spot. I'm actually not stimming now. We did a cycle in July and will be trying again in the new year. But having said that, I have pouchitis now and have the same feeling. Strange.

Wishing you all the best. Hope you get that BFP

Oh Lu, I'm sorry for your negative cycles. I hope your cycle in the new year is successful.

While the miscarriage was hard, since we knew it wasn't a good pregnancy from the first test, it was a little different than if we had lost a healthy pregnancy (like my girlfriend who went for her 12 week ultrasound and found out she miscarried at 7 weeks). The worst was waiting for my body to miscarry on its own...6 weeks of torture before I asked for the D&C.

I just finished my fourth stim shot last night and the bloating and light crampy feeling is starting. I'm hopeful this cycle will work as I won't be doing an other fresh cycle. We'll use whatever embryos we get from this cycle until we conceive a second child or have no embryos. If we end up with Alex as an only child we are still the luckiest people on earth.

As for the pouchitis, when I had it, I always had the lower back pain. I always assumed it was related to the pouchitis, but now I have no pouch and still get it so I now think it is more related to my reproductive cycle. Or maybe some surgical adhesions somewhere that get pressure during a certain time in the cycle.

I'll keep my fingers crossed for you in the new year!

If you are having the pain while not stimming, could you have a cyst? I had the same type of pain and it ended up being a cyst (from using clomid) Funny thing is, when I used injections, I didn't get a cyst at all.
I hope you figure it out and feel better soon!

Thanks for your responses.

Jill, I wish you all the best and really hope this works for you. We have a son too so like you, feel so blessed to have him. Know the feeling too of wanting another. I'll be praying for you that this cycle works. Poor you..the D&C must have been awful.

missa, don't think it's a cycst as I"m on the pill now (inbetween cycles) and that tends to get rid of the cysts. Also, I was using injections while stimming. They always had issues seeing my left ovary (I'm assuming my pouch was in the way) so they were poking and proding. Strange though how it came back now with the pouchitis.