How to cope with the pain during menstruation
Educational Program Health / / December 19, 2019
Why have to constantly fret about whether to drink tablets, and is it true that everything goes if to give birth.
Why hurt during menstruation?
Most often, painful menstruation - is the primary dysmenorrhea, that is unpleasant sensations arise not from disease, but by themselves. If you're healthy, but you hurt, the blame for the malaise prostaglandins - mediators is to increase the sensitivity of pain receptors. They are produced in the lining of the uterus during menstruation. Because of them, the uterus contracts to quickly withdraw blood and endometrium.
When prostaglandins are many and the uterus contracts strongly, there is pain in the abdomen that resembles cramping.
Sometimes these feelings is added back pain. Prostaglandins also affect the smooth muscle in the gastrointestinal tract organs, so that these substances are responsible for nausea and diarrhea during menstruation.
What other reasons cause pain?
If the pain starts suddenly, it is necessary to examine the genitourinary system and organs, which are located nearby. Perhaps the real reason of unpleasant sensations - the disease, such as:
- Endometriosis.
- Bladder inflammation (cystitis).
- Fibroids, fibroids and other tumors.
- Inflammatory diseases of the pelvic organs.
- bowel disease.
When painful menstruation any of these diseases may join to increased production of prostaglandins. Therefore, if the pain is stronger than ever, lasts longer than three days, breaking the cycle appeared unusual discharge or pain during sexContact with these symptoms to the doctor.
What analyzes to hand over, to understand that this is not a dangerous disease?
Need examination by a gynecologist (a doctor at the same time can take smears, including hidden STI), As well as ultrasound examination of the pelvic organs.
This is enough to draw conclusions about the health and treat any disease or dysmenorrhoea.
If the doctor does not find anything during the inspection, and during menstruation pain will be strong, will not go along with the bleeding, and treatment prescribed will not help, it will take an exploratory surgery to find or exclude endometriosis.
Why it hurts me and a friend brings menstruation without any problems?
You were unlucky. No one can say for sure why some women's menstrual flow is heavier than the other. This feature of the body with which to cope.
What pills can save themselves?
First aid - a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, NSAIDs. This is a fairly safe painkillers are sold without a prescription and in various combinations.
Anti-inflammatory drugs are not just kills the pain. They reduce the production of prostaglandins, the very ones who to blame.
There is no point just throwing the funds with a complex composition. Perhaps you will help ordinary ibuprofen. There are also more powerful drugs - indomethacin, ketoprofen. All drugs have contraindications. Especially careful to be women who have diseases of the stomach. To take NSAIDs in these cases, you need to consult a doctor, who will pick up the drug.
But antispasmodics help with dysmenorrhea worse (if not help), because it does not act on the cause of the pain.
Does the pill help?
hormonal oral contraceptives create an artificial menstrual cycle with its hormonal. In this case, the endometrium becomes thinner, to him could not attach the fertilized egg. And since this layer is thinner and the prostaglandins in it less. So often the contraceptive pill is prescribed for painful menstruationPainful menstrual periods.
If your doctor advises pills, try to choose modern drugs with minimal side effects, and check whether you have contraindications.
Therapy is not limited to tablets: hormonal spiral or injection perform the same task.
The treatment, in addition to tablets?
There are methods that help easier to bear the pain during menstruation. Unfortunately, just to say that they will help, it is impossible: everyone has their own reaction. Try everything on the line, guided by their own state and listen to the sensations.
- Warmly. The best option - to crawl under a blanket and sit down with a mug of hot tea, you can even attach a heating pad to the lower abdomen, but it is not always possible. If you need to leave the house and do chores, dress warmly. Choose clothing that does not create discomfort in the abdomen: Hard jeans and belts, cutting into the body, wait for a few days. Warm shower also works.
- Sport. Play sports need for prevention, and when it becomes difficult - to perform light exercises relaxation muscles and stretching.
- Acupuncture. There is no evidence that this alternative medicine works. But at least, procedures distract from pain.
- Relaxing massage. Distracts from the discomfort and generally good for the body and mind, which is also necessary sometimes to rest. Spend abdominal massage, stroking it in a clockwise direction in the area where the pain is felt.
- comfortable position. If you can lie down, try to raise the feet up or lie on your side with your knees bent.
- To give up smoking. It is necessary to throw for ever, and not just on those days when you feel pain.
- Vitamins and minerals. It is also not completely reliable method, but it is possible that you will help supplementation with vitamins B6, B1, E, magnesium and calciumMenstrual cramps: Lifestyle and home remedies.
Is it possible to get rid of the pain once and for all?
It is unlikely that, as you have a month. Although there surgeryPatient education: Painful menstrual periods (dysmenorrhea)That destroy the nerves in the uterus. The effectiveness of such treatment is low, but the risk is there.
After birth, the pain will decrease?
There is no guarantee that after the painful birth periods will take place, despite the fact that many doctors advise somehow generations as a remedy for many gynecological problems.
Some women notice that the pain decreases with age and after childbirth, but not everyone can count on it. Perhaps the pain will stay with you until the menopause.
This is dangerous?
If the pain during menstruation is not caused by a disease, it is not. But that is no reason to suffer. Talk to your doctor and pick up painkillers that will suit you.