Implantation - are pain and weird discharge symptoms?

[Sami]

I've looked through all the threads but can't find the answer to what I need, so sorry for starting another thread on implantation. But...I'm kinda confused.

Got my period Jan. 5. I ovulated exactly 14 days later, on Jan. 19. My period is due Feb. 3.

Yesterday and today, though, I have had a very bad cramping feeling in my left side. It's a very sharp feeling, similar to the feeling of when I ovulate, but it's CD 22/23, and I already O'd CD 14! Also, this is really TMI, so feel free to skip.....yesterday I went to the bathroom and had a very dried white discharge. Then I remembered the day before, I did have EWCM, which I thought was strange to get twice in the same month! Another weird thing is that I broke out in three zits on my chin, my boobs are super swollen, and I just feel bloated and gross like my period is due to start in the next few days. The only thing MISSING is the back pain and cramps...weird, it's like my normal cramps moved from my back to the front and is centered near my left belly.

So could it be some kind of implantation pain?! I looked through the other threads and everyone seems to get some bleeding, but no bleeding for me. Could that come next, like tomorrow? Any ideas?

[Jess71903]

I don't know about the discharge, but I had what I would call implantation, or maybe post-implantation pains. Thing is, I didn't have them until a few days before AF was due anyway, so they wouldn't have been a clue for me. I probably could have gotten a + test if I had been willing to test then. I didn't have any spotting either, and at 7 weeks, still haven't. Now, mine was not at all sharp. It felt like very dull, mild AF cramps. I called it a "stretchy uterus" feeling.

A sharp pain like that may be something else. Keep an eye on it. Are you charting so you know you O'd or are you just going by O pain and CM? If the latter, maybe you geared up to O on CD 14, but didn't for some reason. Good luck and keep us updated!

[Rico'sAlice]

While implantation spotting is "normal" only a minority of women actually experience this. So not having it doesn't mean you are not pregnant.

It's so difficult that so many pregnancy symptoms could be something else.

[Scooter]

Symptoms can be so misleading, you can just never know if they're a sign or not. Once you start paying close attention everything new (or that you haven't noticed before!) can get your hopes up.

Implantation would be happening in the uterus, which would be in the center, and not out on the sides near your ovaries. It could be from something else, for example sharp pains on the sides after ovulation can be caused by a corpus luteum cyst, which is formed after an egg is released from the follicle on the ovary.

edited for clarity

[Sami]

Sharp pains ion the sides after ovulation can be caused by the corpus luteum cyst, which is formed when an egg is released from the follicle on the ovary.

Huh? I am confused. :confused: Does this mean when the egg is released (typically CD 14) or does it mean I produced another egg later in the cycle? What is a corpus luteum cyst? I am very used to getting the CD 14-ish pain -- it's very regular. Just never had pain after that this late in my cycle. Thanks for your advice.

[Scooter]

Huh? I am confused. :confused: Does this mean when the egg is released (typically CD 14) or does it mean I produced another egg later in the cycle? What is a corpus luteum cyst? I am very used to getting the CD 14-ish pain -- it's very regular. Just never had pain after that this late in my cycle. Thanks for your advice.
Sorry if I confused you! I should go fix that post so it's more clear. You can't ovulate a 2nd egg days later. Let me back up a bit. I'm talking about when the egg is released at ovulation (cd14). The egg is released from an ovarian follicle. A follicle is basically a small, fluid filled sac (aka a cyst) on your ovary where the egg is maturing. When it's big enough, it bursts open and releases the egg & fluid out, which is ovulation. After it's released, that follicle becomes the "corpus luteum." The corpus luteum is what produces progesterone--which makes your temperature higher, gives you all the fake pregnancy symptoms, and holds your uterine lining in place so you don't start AF too early. Sometimes the corpus luteum can fill with a bit a fluid, and that's a corpus luteum cyst. From what I know, they are pretty common, but often resolve themselves by the next cycle or during the next cycle. I've had them many times. That was just the first obvious thing that came to mind when I read your post, so I'm definitely not trying to diagnose you, just say it sounds like something other than implantation & here's an example of what else it could be. ;)

My point is just that if you're feeling the pain on the side after ovulation, it may be from something like that. You wouldn't be feeling any pain by your ovaries having to do with implantation.

[Sami]

Ahhhh, thanks!! I appreciate you explaining that for me. Maybe that is what happened this month. Off to resarch more. :D