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Pain in the ovaries

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Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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If a person has pain in the lower abdomen, pain in the ovaries, what does it say? In the case when the pain occurs in a woman, it is customary to differentiate the disorders by gender. This means that the pain caused by organs common to men and women should be eliminated.

The human body has a unique ability of introspection. In the event of a malfunction or malfunction in any system, a pain signal is sent to our brain from the injured organ. If the pain signal comes from any part of the body that we can see or feel, then we can independently estimate this pain signal for the degree of danger of the disorder, we can assume the depth of the disruption of the work or the degree of damage. However, often the pain signal comes from internal organs and systems, plunging our consciousness into a panic. Human consciousness with great difficulty can cope with the assessment of the degree of organ damage without seeing the most damaged organ or having vague ideas about it, as well as subjective perception of the strength of the pain signal does not provide an opportunity to objectively assess the danger of a system failure. 

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What causes pain in the ovaries?

Ovary - paired female organs of the reproductive system. This body during the hormonal cycle with a certain individual duration produces eggs and a whole complex of hormones, which is responsible for changing the hormonal background of the female body. In the event of pain in the ovaries, the possibility of an ectopic pregnancy should be excluded, since a developing egg can break through the fallopian tube and lead to the death of the patient. Diagnosis of cases of ectopic pregnancy is carried out using ultrasound and is available almost everywhere. The help in case of an ectopic pregnancy, as a rule, operative.

Further on the frequency of prevalence are sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), which lead to the onset of pain syndrome. So, the pain in the ovarian region, which was caused by infection, leads to the development of ovarian inflammation, or adnexitis. With adnexitis, pain in the ovaries region is paroxysmal, sharp, less aching, may radiate (spread) all over the abdomen, lead to frequent urination, and have polymorphic symptoms. Self-medication leads to a change in the disease from acute to chronic, delaying the process of the disease ends with the development of the adhesion process in the tissues of the ovaries, in the fallopian tubes, with the development of extensive inflammation, it is possible to affect the entire genitourinary system. Adnexitis is diagnosed by laboratory methods and treated in accordance with the main diagnosed diseases.

Symptomatic pain in the ovary region may indicate oofaritis, an inflammatory process in the ovaries. Since the ovaries are mainly the site of hormone production, the cause of inflammation in the appendages can be an overload of the body (mental, emotional or physical), long-term diseases that led to a decrease in immunity, a constant malfunction in the alternation of the sleep-wake cycle. Diagnosis of this type of violations is also practically impossible without the involvement of the knowledge and experience of specialists.

When there are abnormalities in the ovaries associated with the egg production cycle, one should remember about various cystoses. Ovarian cysts, as a rule, are benign. Accumulation of cystic tissue occurs cyclically. During ovulation, the cyst usually bursts, which causes painful syndrome associated with the release of the ovum. In some women, each ovulation is accompanied by unpleasant sensations, which is not the norm, but indicates a hormonal disorder that requires correction. Normally, the size of the cavity in which the egg ripens is not large, after the egg leaves the cavity (follicle) is filled with the yellow body, which, in the absence of pregnancy, is self-absorbing. Accumulation of cysts during the maturation of the egg, during the formation of the yellow body or during its resorption is a hormonal failure. Pain syndromes with cystoses are different and can have the character of persistent aching pains, giving pain to the lumbosacral department. In the case of a ruptured cyst, the pain in the ovarian region, respectively, becomes acute.

Urgent help (emergency care) in case of pain shock and suspicion of internal bleeding is performed by surgical methods. When a probe is pierced, the surgeon examines the fluid of the abdominal cavity for the presence of red blood cells in it, in case of signs of blood, the patient is operated to eliminate internal bleeding. However, such complicated conditions are not common. Any ovarian cystosis requires attentive treatment from the patients. It should also be mentioned that cysts are of various types: endometriosis cyst, dermoid cyst, follicular. Diagnosis of cysts is carried out only by gynecologists-endocrinologists and self-diagnosis is impossible.

In addition to the reasons described above, pain in the ovary can occur in adolescence as a consequence of the manifestation of various somatic pathologies (congenital features) that manifest themselves during the maturation of the sexual system of the body. The twisted legs of the cysts, the absence of natural openings for the outflow of menstrual blood, the cystic bezvulyatornye proliferation of ovarian tissue - that's not a complete list of disorders that can be identified in the process of growth and development of the young body.

It should be noted that pain in the ovary can occur with various hormone therapy, which was appointed by specialists for the treatment of various life-threatening diseases. This therapy often takes into account the development of the pain syndrome as a side effect, but you should always focus your doctor's attention on the appearance of pain in the lower abdomen.

To date, pain in the ovary can occur both from the above reasons, and as a consequence of the development of various tumor processes, which you can exclude with pleasure in any diagnostic center. Be attentive to the signals of your body.

How to recognize the pain in the ovaries?

Each of us as collided, at least, with the description of pains with inflammation of the appendix, some survived appendectomy. To distinguish the pain that comes from the appendix, from pains originating from, for example, the ovaries, only a specialist can! It should be remembered that appendicitis is acute and subacute, therefore, subacute appendicitis inflames periodically, gives enough tolerable pain and often leads to the getting used to periodically arising exacerbations, which, in turn, ends with peritonitis. The arrangement of organs in the human body can have individual characteristics and "atypical appendicitis" is subject to diagnostics only to an experienced, well-trained specialist.

If the pain that occurs in the female body is unequivocally unrelated to intestinal dysfunction and not caused by an inflammation of the appendix, with a high probability of taking into account their localization it should be asserted that they come from the ovaries.

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