Painful Menstruation

Symptoms

Painful mentruation, pelvic pain. Irritability, breast tenderness, dizziness, fainting, weakness, nervous tension, depression, headache.

 

Causes

  • Relative immaturity of ovarian hormonal function in adolescents
  • Uterine malformations
  • Fibroid (myoma) of the uterus
  • Endometriosis
  • Pelvic inflammations

Check up

  • Gynecologic examination
  • Measurement of hormone levels in blood
  • Transabdominal or vaginal ultrasound

Treatment

Appropriate medication, sometimes surgical treatment recommended by the
gynecologist.