Why do I feel tired when my period is coming?

In real life, women are prone to drowsiness and emotional fluctuations in the early stages of menstruation, such as irritability, anger, tension, etc. They may also easily experience back pain and lower abdominal pain, which is a normal phenomenon. It may also easily cause breast pain in women, which is a symptom caused by the increase of estrogen in women's bodies and needs to be adjusted in time.

What causes sleepiness before menstruation?

PMS refers to some of the main symptoms before menstruation. The physical changes include lower back pain, lower abdominal pain, dizziness, fatigue, pelvic heaviness or swelling, and emotional changes include mood swings such as irritability, depression, anxiety, restlessness, tension, decreased self-esteem and hostility. In fact, these are all normal phenomena and will disappear after the menstrual period.

Many girls experience breast pain before their period, and it’s so severe that they can’t even touch it. Generally speaking, breast pain three days before menstruation may be a sign that menstruation is about to come or that there is early pregnancy, which is normal. However, some people experience breast pain too early, such as breast pain after menstruation is over or after ovulation, and it hurts when they put on underwear or touch it. This phenomenon is pathological and needs to be treated as soon as possible.

As for the signs before women's menstruation, some women will experience increased number of awakenings and other sleep disorders, back pain and other symptoms before menstruation.

Female friends often ask this question. In fact, under normal circumstances, there will be more or less symptoms before menstruation, but the symptoms vary greatly depending on each person's physical condition.

Common symptoms before menstruation include: dizziness, emotional instability, headache, insomnia, fatigue, drowsiness, breast tenderness, facial edema, etc., among which emotional instability is the most prominent. In mild cases, the patient becomes silent and depressed; in severe cases, the patient becomes irritable and easily agitated, and becomes furious at the slightest dissatisfaction.

We must pay attention to our diet before menstruation, because a reasonable diet will not cause dysmenorrhea. Because symptoms of low back pain will appear at this time, you will often feel low back pain and lose your appetite during this period. At this time, you may wish to eat more appetizing and easily digestible foods, such as dates, noodles, barley porridge, etc. Spicy, raw and cold foods are irritating and can easily cause pelvic blood vessel constriction, resulting in too little menstrual blood flow or even sudden cessation of menstrual blood flow, so you should eat less of them.

At the same time, the skin and mouth are very sensitive before menstruation, and it is easy to get acne or oral ulcers. This requires you to pay attention to your diet, eat more fruits, avoid using overly nutritious or irritating skin care products, and keep your skin fresh and clean. At the same time, during menstruation, you should avoid excessive fatigue, maintain a happy spirit, and avoid eating raw or cold foods.

Causes of menstruation in women

Before puberty, the follicles are essentially non-functional. During puberty, under the action of gonadotropin from the anterior pituitary gland, immature follicles gradually develop and synthesize estrogen. When the follicle matures and ovulates, the follicle wall collapses, the cells become larger and yellower, and are called the corpus luteum. It synthesizes estrogen and produces progesterone.

As the ovaries change, the endometrium is also affected and undergoes corresponding cyclical changes. Estrogen causes the endometrium to thicken, the endometrial cells to increase in number and size, and the arterioles in the interstitium to become more tortuous and spiral, which is called the proliferative endometrium. After ovulation, due to the combined effects of estrogen and progesterone, the endometrium becomes edematous, the glands produce a large amount of mucus and glycogen, and the thickness of the endometrium increases from 1 mm to 6 mm, which is called the secretory endometrium.

Therefore, the length of the menstrual cycle depends on the length of the ovarian cycle, which is generally 21-30 days, but varies from person to person, and may be 23-45 days, or even 3 months or half a year as a cycle. As long as it is regular, it is generally considered normal menstruation.

The bleeding time is generally 3-7 days, and the total amount of bleeding each time is 30-50ml. Some people believe that menstrual volume exceeding 80ml is a pathological condition.