What causes pain on the right side of a woman’s lower abdomen?

Many women have experienced lower abdominal pain, but most of them don’t take it seriously, thinking it’s just a minor problem. Experts from Chongqing Metropolitan Beauty Hospital would like to remind female friends not to ignore abdominal pain easily. Many infertile female friends have experienced long-term abdominal pain to varying degrees. So, what causes lower abdominal pain in women?

What causes lower abdominal pain in women? The editor analyzes several unique reasons for women's lower abdominal pain:

1. Pregnancy: Women who are overdue for menstruation or known to be pregnant may suddenly experience contraction-like pain in the middle of the lower abdomen or vaginal bleeding, which is often a sign of miscarriage. Lower abdominal pain caused by ectopic pregnancy is usually severe. Due to intra-abdominal bleeding, the patient will feel anal prolapse, frequent urge to defecate, pale face, dizziness and weakness, and may even go into shock, and immediate surgery is required.

2. Menstruation: Lower abdominal pain and general discomfort experienced by women during menstruation are mostly physiological phenomena. If the pain is severe, it is dysmenorrhea. Most cases of dysmenorrhea during adolescence are primary dysmenorrhea, which can heal itself; however, dysmenorrhea that occurs after menstruation is mostly caused by certain diseases, so you should seek medical attention early and do not use painkillers to solve the problem.

3. Certain gynecological diseases: such as endometriosis, which often forms lumps near the ovaries, uterus, and rectum, can aggravate abdominal pain before and during menstruation. Pain during sexual intercourse is also one of its characteristics. For example, pelvic bleeding or blood stasis can lead to pelvic pain, which often manifests itself in the base of one thigh.

4. Ovulation: During the ovulation period, there will be a feeling of distension and pain in the lower abdomen, which is caused by the rupture of the follicle. Generally speaking, this pain does not affect health and has no adverse consequences. However, in a very small number of people, due to large rupture of the ovarian follicle during ovulation, damage to small blood vessels causes ovarian rupture and intra-abdominal bleeding, resulting in gynecological emergencies and requiring hospital treatment.

Generally speaking, endometritis, endometriosis, etc. can cause lower abdominal pain to varying degrees, which is also one of the main causes of infertility. Therefore, once lower abdominal pain occurs, it is most important to go to the hospital for examination in time to find the real cause and receive timely treatment.

The above is an introduction to what to do if you have lower abdominal pain. If you have lower abdominal pain, you should first determine the cause of the pain and then treat it symptomatically. Do not treat it blindly to avoid side effects that may make the pain worse.