A deeper look

 

I have been thinking a lot about these past earthquakes in which I had felt pain in the moments before and instant relief once they happened. I just recalled another incident in July 2014. I had started my period that morning(This was a few years before the endo got really bad). I was feeling some pain in my left side and a heaviness in my abdomen. Then a magnitude 4.6 struck near Running Springs. In retrospect, I did not think about the uterine pressure. I would very much just focus on the pain in my side. I believe I feel that during menstruation because as my uterus would contract in the process, the stress from an external force would add additional pressure on that organ therefor causing more discomfort. I'm also just now studying the relationship between size and distance and the duration of the pain. I remember it being around 10 or 15 minutes before the July 2014 event closer to where I lived. I lived in Crestline which is just a town over from where I live now. The magnitude 5.3 of last year was much farther and was much larger and the pain lasted about 30 minutes before the earthquake - Same as before the magnitude 6.4 foreshock near Ridgecrest on July 4, 2019. The only difference is that before the mag. 6.4, I was feeling sharp pains. I was feeling a dull, aching type of pain before last year's mag. 5.3. Before the mag. 7.1 mainshock, I was feeling pain and dizziness all day leading up to that event. I remember being very sore and disoriented. In recent months, I would brace up every time I was feeling a lot of pain during menstruation. I realized that the pain from an impending earthquake during that time is distinguishable from the usual cramping and endometriosis pain. It feels as though a long needle has gone deep in my left side, pointing downward into my pelvis. It feels like something squeezing me inside, trying to pop something in there. In those split moments, it feels like my heartrate has skyrocketed and I feel hot and practically sweat - Then instant relief with the onset of seismic waves. When it is at a different time of the month, I typically just feel flank pain. The times where it fell around my period were rare. When I experienced those peculiar symptoms, as I can recall, an earthquake always followed. I don't remember feeling that before where there was not anything. It seemed like it would come to a point of no return with a certain area that needed to release some energy. I will continue to pay thorough attention to what I feel at other times of the month and document it.