Ovary Pain:
Do you know the signs & symptoms, or why you are feeling pain?

Ovary Pain can be caused by a number of different things from having an ectopic pregnancy, or cancer in your ovaries, through to having cysts causing extra pain in your breasts.
Did you know though that there are certain food types that can be eaten to reduce ovarian pain? Likewise there are meals that can exacerbate the problem.

Food to ease ovary pain:

- green foods like broccoli and spinach, or kale, silver-beet, bok-choy and basil.
Pictured Right: spinach is not only good for relieving ovarian pain, but a great fertility food too!

Foods that can promote further ovary pain are:

- garlic, onion, blueberries, coffee and even watermelon.
It can be a very confusing road, especially if you are trying to get pregnant because one of the biggest foods to help with conception are berries, so what you need to do is see how you feel for a day or two after consuming certain food types, if you are experiencing cramping, perhaps you know to avoid that type of food.
Not everyone reacts to the same types of food and for instance, blueberries might be okay for you to digest without any ovarian problems. Really you need to do some experimenting yourself to see what could be triggering your pain in your ovaries.

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The best thing you can do if you are really worrying though is visit your doctor.

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This is a short video about ovarian cysts which can often be contributed to pain in the ovaries:

Ovarian pain can be quite normal if you ovulated and are into the second half of your cycle, known as the luteal phase, so try not to worry yourself to much by sharp or dull pains.
If the pain is severe though, you should make a visit to your doctor because something might not be right.
Your ovaries are responsible for a couple of important things within your body, the first being the production of essential balancing hormones, and the second is to prepare an egg for hopeful fertilization.
If you are experiencing pain, it can be anywhere from dull and subtle, to sharp, acute and very frequent. Pain can last for a few months, increasing each month or you may just experience acute pain here and there that spans anywhere between a few minutes to a few days.
You normally feel pain because it will either be your body preparing you for a period (in which your uterus lining will shed), or preparing you for pregnancy (in which your uterus lining will thicken, your progesterone hormone levels will increase, and the egg will burrow into the side of your uterus - usually the cause of some of the cramping at this time of the cycle).