First period after loss

Hi all! I am curious as to how your first period after loss felt physically?

I am someone who has always had a relatively easy period. Light cramping, light to medium bleeding, and really only three days of active bleeding. In fact, going on birth control, I had worse breakthrough bleeding and cramping than I ever had with my natural period. Usually it’s the opposite.

I am currently on my first period post miscarriage. The day before and first day of active bleeding the cramps were almost unbearable at times. Like someone had grabbed my uterus and just kept yanking unbearable. At one point I thought maybe something had ruptured and almost called 911 but it went away quickly. That was the only time I experienced that level of pain. But I have been having more back pain and sciatic pain than I ever have during a period. I never have sciatic pain during a period actually. Of course any time I look up a period symptom such as sciatic nerve pain it pops up with endometriosis. I have never had endometriosis symptoms so I can’t imagine I would just develop it.

I’m going to make an appointment with my OB to make sure everything is okay…but have any of you experienced such a rough period right after loss? My miscarriage wasn’t anywhere close to this level of pain and discomfort.