Thread: uncomfortable bowel movments, but only during my period?

OK, I've have experianced for as long as I can remember slight dicomfort with bowel movements while I'm on my period, but it's been getting gradually worse lately. It's bad gas pain's in my lower abdomen and whenever I attempt to 'go' it's is very uncomfortable. My cramps increase like 5X when I try to push and it's almost to the point where I just don't want to try. it's really uncomfortable. Anybody experiance anything like this? Is this common?