What are the symptoms of chronic cervicitis?

Chronic cervicitis is a common gynecological disease among women, mainly due to bacterial infection in the uterus. In severe cases, it may cause infertility. However, some women still know little about the disease and may not pay attention to it when they experience discomfort. Next, the editor will summarize all the symptoms and reactions together, and female friends can take a look at them in detail.

1. Increased vaginal discharge: Sometimes it is the only symptom of cervicitis. It is usually thick mucus or purulent mucus. Sometimes the early symptoms of chronic cervicitis are manifested as blood streaks or a small amount of blood in the secretions, and there may also be contact bleeding. Vulvar itching may be caused by irritation from leucorrhea.

2. Bladder and intestinal symptoms: Chronic cervicitis can spread through the lymphatic channels or directly spread to the bladder triangle or the connective tissue around the bladder. As a result, as soon as there is urine in the bladder, there will be an urge to defecate, and symptoms of frequent urination or difficulty urinating will appear, but the urine is clear and the routine urine test is normal.

3. Vaginal bleeding: mainly manifested as contact bleeding, prolonged menstrual period, shortened cycle, increased menstrual volume, etc. There is also increased vaginal discharge, which is white or bloody, sometimes thin like water or rice soup, and has a fishy smell. In the late stage, due to the rupture of cancerous tissue, tissue necrosis, secondary infection, etc., a large amount of purulent or rice-soup-like foul-smelling leucorrhea will appear.

4. Lower abdominal pain: Pain often occurs in the lower abdomen or lumbosacral area. Sometimes the pain may occur in the upper abdomen, thighs and hip joints. It worsens during menstruation, bowel movements or sexual intercourse. Especially when the inflammation extends backward along the uterosacral ligament or spreads along the bottom of the broad ligament, forming chronic parauterine connective tissue inflammation, the pain is even worse when the cardinal ligament of the cervix thickens. Whenever the cervix is ​​touched, it immediately causes pain in the iliac fossa and lumbosacral region. Some patients may even experience nausea, affecting their sexual life.

To sum up, chronic cervical inflammation can cause many uncomfortable symptoms, so when women find that they have one or several similar symptoms, they must be vigilant and go for a gynecological examination as soon as possible. After the diagnosis is confirmed, they should actively use drug treatment to control the further development of inflammation in time.