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Anyone with Uterine Cramping during excercise?

sheleen302
sheleen302 Posts: 266 Member
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For me this started with doing even cardio, then only hit me when I had very demanding work outs during weight lifting. It is not related to my time of the month. Today was the worst, During deadlifts 135lbs it began and really did not abate until the entire workout was over.

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  • sheleen302
    sheleen302 Posts: 266 Member
    Wow..never thought I was that unique....should I play the lottery?
  • heartsherps
    heartsherps Posts: 57 Member
    Maybe try posting this in the exercise forum, more traffic there. Also, if you win the lottery you should share since I got the first reply here. =p
  • sheleen302
    sheleen302 Posts: 266 Member
    Thanks, I might try, was hoping for a group of women audience, since I am female and also doing 5x5 stronglifts--thought we'd have more of a common ground. As the cramping feeling is increasing with all excerise, not just stonglifts now, maybe it's time. If I do win the lottery, I'll share.
  • 2hobbit1
    2hobbit1 Posts: 820 Member
    Just a couple of thoughts. If your uterus is sagging/tilting then you can get some cramping from intraabdominal pressure changes when you lift and from the impact/shock if your a runner. This can happen after pregnancy. Remember those Kegels? Do you feel sometimes that the tip of your cervix is protruding - do you need to push it back in place - especially when you need to push to poo? then you may be working on a uterine prolapse. It may not be apparent to the GYN during an exam when your laying down since it tends to return to place but becomes more apparent on standing.

    If that is the case then you need to talk to you GYN as there are things that you can do to fix this before it gets worse.

    Or you could be pregnant?
  • sheleen302
    sheleen302 Posts: 266 Member
    Thanks for the info, I definitely have a tilt in the uterus. Not feeling any signs of prolapse I will build kegels into my day, and hope that helps. Today I lifted with no issues at all. Last week it was everytime. No on pregnancy. Today's work out, even though weight was increased over last week, I was able to complete with no uterine cramps. I have felt my overal strength/endurance increase a lot over the last week....I can see it in work outs and see the read out in my HRM, not needing as long to come back to neutral before I do the next set.
  • nexangelus
    nexangelus Posts: 2,080 Member
    I have this same "problem" when I train heavily. It goes away after a while though. When I first started running a few years ago I had really bad between period "period like" pains. I was worried for a bit, but once my body was used to the training regime they went away.

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