What are the symptoms of cervical hypertrophy in women?

Cervical hypertrophy is a very common gynecological disease among women, but in most cases, patients will take it lightly in the early stages of the disease, thinking that the abnormal reactions are not serious. In fact, the clinical symptoms caused by this disease are not very specific. Therefore, the editor today mainly wants to make a detailed description of this issue, hoping to give women a reminder.

The surface of the enlarged cervix may also experience erosion due to damage or inflammatory stimulation, such as shedding of squamous epithelium and hyperplasia of columnar epithelium. Its main clinical symptom is increased leucorrhea. In addition, patients often complain of lumbar pain or a feeling of heaviness in the perineum, which are two more prominent symptoms of cervical hypertrophy.

1. Increased vaginal discharge: The typical symptom of patients with cervical hypertrophy is increased vaginal discharge. In acute cervicitis, the leucorrhea is purulent, accompanied by pain in the lower abdomen and lumbosacral area, or bladder irritation symptoms such as frequent urination, urgency, and pain when urinating. The leucorrhea of ​​chronic cervicitis is milky white mucus or light yellow pus.

2. Cervical congestion and edema: Acute inflammation may cause cervical congestion, edema or erosion, with purulent secretions discharged from the cervical canal, and pain may occur when the cervix is ​​touched. Chronic cervicitis may show varying degrees of erosion, hypertrophy, polyps, glandular cysts, and ectropion of the cervix, or purulent secretions at the cervical opening and a hard cervix upon palpation. If it is cervical erosion or polyp, there may be contact bleeding.

3. Bleeding during sexual intercourse: In case of severe cervical erosion or cervical polyps, bleeding after sexual intercourse may occur in the form of bloody leucorrhea. In mild cases, there may be no systemic symptoms. When the inflammation spreads along the uterosacral ligament to the pelvic cavity, there may be pain in the lumbar region, a feeling of heaviness in the lower abdomen, and dysmenorrhea, which worsens during bowel movements and sexual intercourse.

All the symptoms mentioned above will occur in patients with cervical hypertrophy, and are generally very serious. In order to avoid the continued deterioration of the lesions, the editor here would like to remind all female friends to go for regular gynecological examinations, especially when similar reactions occur, they should seek treatment as soon as possible.