What are the common symptoms before menstruation?

For women, menstruation can be regarded as a loyal friend that comes as scheduled every month. Generally speaking, when the menstrual period is about to come, the secretion of estrogen and other hormones in women's bodies will change, which will cause a series of obvious reactions in the body. So what are the common ones? Let me tell you the specific answer in detail below.

1. Mental symptoms: including changes in emotions, cognition and behavior. Initially, you feel general fatigue, easy fatigue, drowsiness, and lethargy. There are two completely different types of emotional changes: one is mental tension, physical and mental uneasiness, and emotional impulses can be caused by trivial matters; the other is becoming listless, depressed, anxious, unwilling to interact with others and participate in social activities, and unable to concentrate.

2. Edema of the hands, feet, and eyelids: This is relatively common. A small number of patients experience significant weight gain, and clothes that usually fit them become tight and uncomfortable. Some people have a feeling of abdominal distension, which may be accompanied by gastrointestinal dysfunction such as nausea and vomiting, and occasionally intestinal cramps. Clinically, diarrhea and frequent urination may occur during menstruation. Due to edema and congestion of pelvic tissues, symptoms such as pelvic distension and lumbar pain may occur.

3. Premenstrual headache: It is a common complaint, mostly bilateral, but can also be unilateral. The pain site is not fixed, usually in the temporal or occipital region, accompanied by nausea and vomiting. It may occur a few days before menstruation and reach its peak when menstrual blood appears. The headache is persistent or unprovoked, and comes and goes. It may be related to intermittent intracranial edema and is easily confused with menstrual migraine, which is often unilateral, with prodromal symptoms such as dizziness and nausea appearing a few minutes or hours before the onset.

The symptoms introduced in the article are all common symptoms before menstruation, so female friends can make judgments based on this and make preparations and care for menstruation in advance. In addition, the editor would like to remind you that if the reaction is more serious, it may be caused by pathological factors, and you should go for a check-up in time.