Decreased incidence of primary dysmenorrhea, ovulation pain, and functional ovarian cysts.

Examples include abdominal pain and heaviness, back pain, breast tenderness and mittelschmerz (ovulation pains).

Mittelschmerz (German: "middle pain") is a medical term for "ovulation pain" or "midcycle pain".

Other signs may also be observed: these include breast tenderness and mittelschmerz (ovulation pains), urine analysis strips known as ovulation predictor kits (OPKs), and microscopic examination of saliva or cervical fluid.

Women may notice other physical symptoms associated with their mittelschmerz, or near ovulation.

About 20% of women experience mittelschmerz, some every cycle, some intermittently.

This is called mittelschmerz from the German words for "middle" and "pain," because it occurs mid-cycle.

Normal ovulation, which can cause brief ovary pain, or "mittelschmerz."

Preventing ovulation, which can be done with birth control pills, is the only way to effectively prevent mittelschmerz.

This sharp pain (sometimes called mittelschmerz) occurs in the middle of the menstrual cycle, during ovulation.

In some women, the mittelschmerz is localized enough so that they can tell which of their two ovaries provided the egg in a given month.

This pain is called mittelschmerz.

Diagnosis of mittelschmerz is generally made if a woman is mid-cycle and a pelvic examination shows no abnormalities.

Women charting with some form of fertility awareness may find mittelschmerz to be a helpful secondary sign in detecting ovulation.

Ovulation generally occurs about midway between menstrual cycles hence the term mittelschmerz, which comes from the German words for "middle" and "pain."

Ovulation usually occurs about two weeks after the first day of each menstrual cycle, so the timing of the pain makes mittelschmerz easy to recognize.

Some women experience acute mid-cycle abdominal pain around the time of ovulation (sometimes referred to by the German term for this phenomenon, mittelschmerz).

Ovulatory periods are often accompanied by midcycle symptoms such as mittelschmerz or premenstrual symptoms.

Examples include abdominal pain and heaviness, back pain, breast tenderness and mittelschmerz (ovulation pains).

Mittelschmerz (German: "middle pain") is a medical term for "ovulation pain" or "midcycle pain".

Because follicles develop on both sides, this theory explains mittelschmerz that occurs simultaneously on both sides of the abdomen.

Rupture of the follicle can result in abdominal pain (mittelschmerz) and is to be considered in the differential diagnosis in women of childbearing age.

While the exact cause of mittelschmerz is unknown, it is believed that the fluid or blood may irritate the lining of the abdominal cavity, causing pain.

Over-the-counter pain medicines - such as Aleve (naproxen) or Motrin (ibuprofen) - generally are effective in relieving mittelschmerz.

The pain of mittelschmerz is sometimes mistaken for appendicitis and is one of the differential diagnoses for appendicitis in women of child-bearing age.

Other signs may also be observed: these include breast tenderness and mittelschmerz (ovulation pains), urine analysis strips known as ovulation predictor kits (OPKs), and microscopic examination of saliva or cervical fluid.