Over the past 3 months I have been experiencing severe lower abdominal pains during my monthly cycle. These pains usually gets extremely worse when I need to have a bowel movement and/or there is gas present (more so when gas is present). The first two months I experienced this pain it went away as soon as my monthly cycle was finished. The third month (January 2009) the pain was even more extreme than the first 2 months and I am still experiencing a mild degree of pain even though my cycle have been finished for almost 2 weeks. It would only get worse when I seem to have gas. I really thought this pain was due to the two fibroids that I have had since 2003. These fibroids grow at a very slow rate but started giving me discomfort (pains, bleeding between cycle) only 3 years now and they have been very mild. Before these fibroids I had 2 cycts which my doctoc got rid of by using medications (birth control). The last time I checked my fibroids was in October 2008 and they were the size of those big marbles, and the doctor said I should not be worried about them. These pains that I am experiencing now gets so bad that I could barely walk when I experience it. Can you please let me know what you think, I am getting very concerned and my doctor don't seem as troubled as I am about it.