My advice is that any time you have a new symptom that is both persistent and troubling, you need to inform your doctor about it. It could be nothing; just an adhesion that is pulling when your uterus is swelling from the growing lining before your period. Or it could be endometriosis, fibroids, any number of things that need attention. The fact that this is relatively new and recurrent/persistent, means you need to get to the bottom of it.

Jan

I agree with Jan...if it is before every period then something is brewing in there...and your period is aggravating it...I am going to ask a stupid question...is it worse during love-making? One of the signs of fibroids and cysts was that sex was horrific...it felt like a knife in there...I avoided relations for quite a while due to the pain and ended up calling the GYN after about 6 months (I am an optimist...kept hoping that it would just go away...it didn't)...so I found out that I had ovarian cysts that got worse around my period (they swell)...put me on progesterone to shrink them...but anything abnormal and sudden or reccurent should be looked at. (the advantage of menopause was that they went away for good!)
Sharon

Thank you for your response.

I have now scheduled a time with my gynecologist. Sharon, I also tend to be an optimist in that exact way
I am glad to say, that it does not hurt, when I make love, but something is up. Now I am getting constipation-symptoms again - also "normal" when I now have my periods.