What should I do if my lower back hurts during menstruation?

Menstruation is a normal physiological phenomenon for women. Since everyone's physical fitness is different, the symptoms during menstruation are also different. Some women experience symptoms of lower back pain during menstruation. This symptom is actually a very common phenomenon. Most women have this symptom. In fact, lower back pain during menstruation may be caused by dysmenorrhea. Severe cases may affect women's physical health, so timely treatment is required.

Lower back pain during menstruation is primary dysmenorrhea. Also called functional dysmenorrhea. It refers to dysmenorrhea that occurs without any reproductive system disease. It often occurs in a period of time after the first menstruation in young girls, and is more common in unmarried or married women who are not pregnant. Dysmenorrhea will be alleviated or disappear after childbirth. During menstruation, the body's resistance decreases and emotions are prone to fluctuate. Some people may experience symptoms such as poor appetite, back pain, and fatigue. Due to menstrual blood loss, especially menorrhagia, the main components of blood such as plasma protein, potassium, iron, calcium, magnesium, etc. will be lost with each menstruation.

The clinical symptoms of primary dysmenorrhea are: 1-2 days before menstruation, you begin to feel back pain and lower abdominal pain, and when the pain is severe, it may extend to the perineum and anus. It is often accompanied by nausea, frequent urination, constipation or diarrhea. Abdominal pain can last for several hours, or 1-2 days, and the pain will gradually subside when menstrual blood flows smoothly. Reducing tension during menstruation and ensuring adequate sleep can help alleviate symptoms. Taking brown sugar ginger soup, motherwort powder and injecting vitamin K3 can relieve dysmenorrhea. Most girls with primary dysmenorrhea can heal themselves after marriage.

Treatment methods: Those who have abdominal distension and pain before or during menstruation, scanty and dark purple menstruation, blood clots, pain relief after blood clots are discharged, and breast swelling can take Motherwort Granules and Qi Zhi Weitong Granules for treatment; those who have cold pain in the lower abdomen before or during menstruation and are relieved by heat, and scanty and dark menstruation with clots can take Ai Fu Nuan Gong Pills and Wen Jing Pills for treatment; those who have dull pain in the lower abdomen before or during menstruation, like warmth and pressure, scanty menstruation, light-colored and thin menstruation, and dull complexion can take Ba Zhen Yi Mu Pills and Ren Shen Gui Pi Pills for treatment; those who have dull pain in the lower abdomen before or during menstruation, sore waist and weak knees, dizziness and fatigue, scanty menstruation, light-colored and thin menstruation can take Qiang Shen Tablets and He Che Da Zao Pills for treatment.

You can also use external application: take 10 grams each of raw aconite, radix polygoni aviculare, salvia miltiorrhiza, fennel, evodia rutaecarpa, zanthoxylum bungeanum, costus root, and cinnamon, grind them into fine powder, add 10 grams of borneol, mix well, put into a bottle and seal it. When using, take 10 grams of the powder, mix it into a paste with white wine, disinfect the liver navel with alcohol, apply the medicine, cover it with gauze, fix it with adhesive tape, and change it once every 3 days. The effect of oral administration combined with external application is excellent.