What causes period body aches?

Menstruation is a physiological period that every woman will experience. During menstruation, our female friends must take good care of their bodies, not eat irritating foods, not touch cold water, etc. There are many precautions that we should pay attention to during menstruation. So what is the reason why some women experience body aches during menstruation? Let’s take a look.

During menstruation, you may experience headaches, breast pain, fatigue, tension, general malaise, mental depression or irritability, restlessness, insomnia, pelvic heaviness, abdominal pain, diarrhea, dull back pain, nasal congestion, edema, etc. After menstruation, the symptoms will disappear naturally. If there are no other abnormal symptoms, no special treatment is required. Pay attention to rest during menstruation and do not eat raw, cold, irritating foods.

It is recommended to go to the local hospital's neurology department for relevant examinations. Menstrual headache: refers to symptoms that occur before, during or after menstruation and are accompanied by migraines, and often has a family history. It is a specific type of headache related to changes in the ovarian cycle and can account for more than 60% of migraine headaches in women. The main symptom is worsening headache during menstruation. The disease usually occurs during adolescence after menarche, and occurs once or more than once a month, during the menstrual period, 1 to 7 days before the menstrual period, or 1 to 2 days after the menstrual period.

The pain is throbbing, explosion-like, or knife-like in the temples or forehead. The headache lasts for 1 to 4 days and is accompanied by nausea, vomiting, dysmenorrhea, palpitations, etc. Studies have found that this type of headache is related to the sudden drop in estradiol levels before and after menstruation. It was also found that 70% of women who took oral contraceptives had worsening migraines and more frequent headaches, and their headaches improved when they stopped taking the pills; their headaches worsened in early pregnancy, disappeared in late pregnancy, and migraines began to ease during menopause. The treatment is mainly symptomatic treatment, such as indomethacin, aspirin, etc., and metoclopramide can also be added. You can take propranolol, nimodipine, etc. as a preventive measure before an attack. In your daily diet, you should avoid foods containing tyramine, such as bacon, sausage, citrus fruits, etc. Certain beverages containing alcohol, coffee, and chocolate should also be consumed less. In recent years, it has been found that acupoint implantation therapy has a good therapeutic effect on this disease.

It is recommended that you go to the hospital for a gynecological examination. If it is dysmenorrhea, dysmenorrhea refers to cramping pain in the lower abdomen before, during or after menstruation, and general discomfort, which seriously affects daily life. There are two types: primary and secondary. If no obvious abnormalities of the pelvic organs are found after a detailed gynecological clinical examination, it is called primary dysmenorrhea, also known as functional dysmenorrhea. Secondary dysmenorrhea refers to those with obvious lesions in the reproductive organs, such as endometriosis, pelvic inflammatory disease, tumors, etc. Functional dysmenorrhea generally does not require treatment and can be relieved by taking brown sugar water. It is recommended to go to the hospital for a detailed examination to determine the cause of the dysmenorrhea.

It turns out that there are quite a lot of reasons that cause our female friends to experience body aches during menstruation. So we must learn to regulate our bodies and take care of our bodies during menstruation. Don’t do strenuous exercise during this period. There are some precautions that we must follow. Only in this way can we have a safe and happy menstrual period.