What are the symptoms of uterine tumors in women?

There are many physical discomforts after uterine tumors. This requires observing the female body first, such as abdominal pain, menstruation, leucorrhea, etc. There will also be obvious changes, but these symptoms cannot accurately judge the disease. The patient must go to the hospital for examination. Only after the examination can the disease be accurately judged. However, understanding the symptoms can help patients discover physical abnormalities as early as possible. So what are the symptoms of female uterine tumors? The symptoms of the disease are mainly:

1. Menstrual changes: The most common symptom is shortened menstrual cycle, increased menstrual flow, prolonged menstrual period, irregular vaginal bleeding, etc.

2. Abdominal mass: The abdomen is swollen, and a mass can be felt in the lower abdomen, accompanied by a feeling of falling.

3. Increased leucorrhea: Increased leucorrhea, sometimes with a large amount of purulent and bloody discharge and necrotic tissue discharge with a foul odor.

4. Pain: Generally, patients do not have abdominal pain, but often have lower abdominal distension, back pain, etc. When the pedicle of the subserosal fibroid is twisted, acute abdominal pain may occur. When the fibroid turns red, the abdominal pain is severe and accompanied by fever, which can usually be relieved with the traditional Chinese medicine Shijie Gao.

5. Compression symptoms: The fibroids grow forward or backward and may compress the bladder, urethra or rectum, causing frequent urination, difficulty urinating, urinary retention or constipation. When the fibroids grow to both sides, broad ligament fibroids are formed. When they compress the ureter, they can cause hydroureteral or renal pelvis; if they compress the pelvic blood vessels and lymphatic vessels, they can cause lower limb edema.

6. Infertility: Fibroids compress the fallopian tubes, causing them to twist, or deform the uterine cavity.

7. Secondary anemia: If the patient has excessive menstruation for a long time, it may lead to secondary anemia, with symptoms such as general fatigue, pale complexion, shortness of breath, and palpitations.

8. Hypoglycemia: Hypoglycemia associated with uterine fibroids is also rare. The main symptoms are low fasting blood sugar, loss of consciousness and even shock. The symptoms can completely disappear after glucose injection. The symptoms of hypoglycemia disappeared completely after tumor resection.

According to clinical symptoms, TCM can be divided into the following syndromes:

1. Qi stagnation and blood stasis syndrome: In mild cases, menstruation is normal; in severe cases, there is metrorrhagia or continuous bleeding, breast pain, abdominal distension or dull pain, a feeling of falling in the anus, a dark red tongue with purple spots on the edges, and a deep, stringy or fine pulse.

2. Yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire syndrome: early menstruation, hemorrhage or continuous leakage during menstruation, burning sensation in the chest, or heat in the lower abdomen, itchy or tingling nipples, or distending pain in the breasts extending to the armpits, red or white vaginal discharge after menstruation, or a mixture of yellow and white, red tongue, dry or thin yellow tongue coating, and stringy or fine pulse.

Uterine tumors should be viewed from two aspects: the patient's usual physical symptoms and the symptoms from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine. It is worth affirming that as long as a woman's leucorrhea and menstruation change, and she has abdominal pain and other discomforts, she should be cautious and go to the hospital for examination. This disease is an internal disease of the body and can only be accurately diagnosed through instrument examination. Therefore, patients should go to the hospital for a physical examination immediately. The main examinations include B-ultrasound, laparoscopy, etc.