What is causing the pain in the left lower abdomen?

Due to their special physiological structure, women often have symptoms of lower abdominal pain. If you experience pain in the lower left abdomen every time your menstruation comes, you don't need to worry too much. This is a physiological pain that will heal or ease after childbirth or conditioning. Here I would like to remind everyone to be alert to pathological left lower abdominal pain, as it may be caused by gynecological diseases.

1. Dysmenorrhea

Lower abdominal pain, mental tension, depression, fear, emotional instability

Whether there is vomiting or fainting during menstruation, whether you can continue to work and whether you need to rest in bed.

2. Ovulation abdominal pain

Some girls always experience abdominal pain half a month after their menstruation ends. It usually manifests as dull pain or bloating, sometimes on the left and sometimes on the right, and lasts for a short time.

3. Endometriosis

Symptoms include dysmenorrhea, menstrual disorders, infertility, fever, dyspareunia and acute abdominal pain. The pain caused by endometriosis is mostly located in the lower abdomen and lumbosacral region, and can radiate to the vagina, perineum, anus or thighs.

4. Ectopic pregnancy

Tearing pain on one side of the lower abdomen accompanied by nausea, the urge to defecate, and a feeling of falling; manifested by sudden abdominal pain, and a history of 6-8 weeks of amenorrhea and irregular vaginal bleeding.

5. Acute pelvic inflammatory disease

There are lower abdominal pain, fever, increased vaginal discharge and even chills, high fever, headache, loss of appetite, etc. The main manifestations are abdominal pain. If an abscess is formed, there may be a lower abdominal mass and local compression and irritation symptoms, such as bladder irritation symptoms and rectal irritation symptoms, which are persistent.