siangjiao: actually, how does cramp feels like? I've not have cramps during menses but sometimes, when I stand up straight from sitting down for too long, I will feel a bit of pain, feels like a sting and sometimes a stab of pain in the lower abdomen. For me, because my uterus had been pushed to the left due to the cyst on the right, the pain will sometimes be felt in the right and also the left.