Women’s Health: Pelvic pain and causes

Pelvic pain makes a start within a short period of time and can stay up to a period of very few minutes to some period of days. In general case, this kind of acute pelvic pain is basically a warning kind of sign that exposes that the body is undergoing something which is not right and there should be proper evaluation within a short period or on immediate basis.

The cause of pelvic pain can be a case of inflammation or an infection also.  Even the pace of infection doesn’t require affecting on the reproductive systems for causing pelvic pain. A pelvic pain region can get affected with the induction of pain by the bowel, bladder or the appendix. The issue causes cases like irritable bowel syndrome, bladder stones, strains, muscle spasms and these are the cases of the non reproductive causes of the lower abdominal pain. Other type of pelvic pain involves PID (Pelvic Inflammatory Disease), STD (Sexually Transmitted Diseases) and other infections caused in the vagina (vaginal infections).

A timely health care visit helps in providing good control and precautionary measures during the period of pain. The quality diagnostic level testing is also involved during the physical examination process that is under the medical history. Women who are suffering from the ovarian cysts might experience certain amount of sharp pain. The pain can be due to bleeding in little amount or due to the cyst leakage involving fluids or at times, the sharp pain when there are large cysts twists. In majority of the cases, the smaller cysts actually dissolve without any intervention of medical intervention post two or three menstrual cycles. But this is not the case of large cysts and it doesn’t rectify itself even after some months and actually will require the surgery for removal of cysts.

A case of ectopic pregnancy is among those that start externally to the uterus and usually it can be the fallopian tubes. The pain that is caused by the ectopic case of pregnancy basically starts with pain on either of the side of abdomen immediately after one missing the period and it may also involve vaginal bleeding or spotting. The ectopic pregnancies involve a case of life threatening issue if there is no involvement of proper medical check or intervention.  It is highly essential for one to seek medical solution as if left with no treatment, there are high chances that the fallopian tubes can burst out and might cause abdominal bleeding.

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