Does dysmenorrhea make it difficult to get pregnant?

The number of patients suffering from dysmenorrhea is increasing. Most people suffer from dysmenorrhea due to bad living habits. However, for those who usually have severe dysmenorrhea, they need to actively regulate their body when they have dysmenorrhea. Otherwise, long-term dysmenorrhea will cause other complications in the body, which is very harmful to physical health. Especially if dysmenorrhea affects fertility, it is fatal to women.

Is it difficult to get pregnant due to dysmenorrhea?

Generally speaking, physiological dysmenorrhea will not affect pregnancy, but pathological dysmenorrhea is hard to say. Pathological dysmenorrhea often causes endometriosis, pelvic inflammatory disease, etc. If you suffer from these, it will be difficult to get pregnant.

Pelvic inflammatory disease requires the elimination of inflammation for a successful pregnancy. The cause of pain is pelvic congestion that induces inflammation. We can diagnose ourselves and find that there is persistent pain in the bilateral upper abdomen, which can radiate to the lumbosacral region. Medication can be used to eliminate inflammation. Because the female pelvic cavity contains organs and tissues such as the uterus, fallopian tubes, ovaries, and pelvic peritoneum, inflammation can be limited to one part or occur in several parts at the same time, so the dysmenorrhea caused by chronic pelvic inflammatory disease covers a wide range.

During menstruation, pelvic congestion causes active inflammation, which in turn causes abdominal pain. If the inflammation affects the fallopian tubes, causing the lumen to be blocked and affecting the ovaries, it may cause infertility.

The main cause of infertility caused by endometriosis is retrograde menstruation. If you experience abdominal pain and pain during sexual intercourse before and after menstruation, you should consider whether it is endometriosis. The solution can be laparoscopic surgery and Chinese medicine treatment.

To put it simply, endometriosis is the phenomenon of menstrual backflow, that is, menstrual blood and endometrium flow into the pelvic cavity. With each menstrual period, a capsule is formed locally, which continues to grow and rupture. When it grows to a certain size, it will affect the fallopian tubes, ovaries and other parts, causing women to be unable to conceive normally.

Of course, the most important thing is that no matter what the cause of dysmenorrhea is, you cannot endure it and not treat it. If you experience symptoms of dysmenorrhea, go to the hospital for a check-up as soon as possible so that some gynecological diseases can be discovered in time, especially some reproductive organ diseases that may have no symptoms or mild symptoms in the early stages. Early detection can avoid the regret of lifelong infertility. In addition, some people may have some symptoms but are embarrassed to go for a check-up, which may delay treatment and make the condition worse.

How to treat uterine cold dysmenorrhea

1. Diet

The uterus must always be warm. According to traditional Chinese medicine, women are of the yin element and should not be greedy for cold. After eating too much cold and raw food, it will consume the yang energy when entering the body, causing the internal generation of cold evil and damaging the uterus. Therefore, even in the hot summer, do not eat too much cold drinks or other cold foods. It is best to leave the food in the refrigerator for a while before eating. If you have both cold and hot food to eat, eat the hot food first and then the cold one. There are many foods that are cold in nature even though they can be eaten at room temperature, such as watermelon, pears, mung beans, cabbage, white radish, bitter melon, etc. They should be eaten in moderation.

Develop the habit of drinking soup before meals. Some soups with warm properties, such as hot and sour soup, spicy soup, etc., can slowly help accumulate heat in the body. You should also eat more foods that replenish qi and warm the body, such as walnuts, dates, peanuts, yam, wolfberry, longan, etc. If you catch a cold in your daily life, such as being caught in the rain or catching a cold, you must make amends afterwards and make yourself a bowl of cold-repelling soup: boil 5 slices of ginger in water for 10 minutes, add 2 spoons of brown sugar to drive away the cold.

2. Sports

“Movement generates yang.” People with cold constitutions particularly need to improve their constitution through exercise. Brisk walking is the easiest way to do it, and you can do it at any time, before or after get off work. It is even better if you walk on the cobblestone road, which can stimulate the meridians and acupoints on the soles of the feet, dredge the meridians, regulate Qi and blood, improve blood circulation, and warm the whole body. Jogging and skipping rope are both good options. If you want to swim, it’s best to swim in a hot spring.