Labor symptoms- false or real?

Carlene • First Time Mommy of a Baby Girl 💞 May 19.

38w tomorrow & im having Braxton-Hicks (or what i think are BH) every 3-5 minutes- they are very consistent. My stomach was tightening to begin with & getting hard. Now my stomach is getting hard but with pain. Like a piercing pain in my back and then cramping. It’s like the feeling you’d when your period is about to start and feels like i have to have to have a bowel movement.

Has anyone had this feeling before and gone into labor?