Why does my stomach hurt a week before my period?

Before menstruation, we will experience various conditions, and these conditions are all symptomatic conditions. Some people will experience abdominal pain a week before menstruation. What causes it? Let us now understand why there is abdominal pain a week before menstruation.

Due to the sudden decrease of sex hormones in the body before menstruation, it will affect the whole body system and cause certain reactions. These reactions usually occur 7-14 days before menstruation, worsen 2-3 days before menstruation, and gradually ease and disappear after menstruation. In medicine, these obvious changes are called premenstrual syndrome.

Generally manifested as:

⑴ Mainly mental symptoms: common symptoms include nervous sensitivity, irritability, general fatigue, and sometimes headaches, insomnia, and lack of concentration.

⑵ Mainly physical symptoms: common symptoms include swelling of hands, feet and face, abdominal bloating, abdominal distension in some people, constipation in most girls, lower abdominal pain and breast pain, etc.

Generally, abdominal pain will occur during menstruation. In your case, it is important to consider mental factors. It is recommended that you should not be too nervous. You need to relax before or during menstruation, think about something else or find something else to divert your attention. It is also beneficial to eat a light diet and avoid irritating and spicy foods. It is recommended to drink more soups that promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis.

If you only have abdominal pain before your period or during intercourse, it is usually due to blood stasis in your body. If you experience abdominal pain outside of your menstrual period, it is probably due to gynecological inflammation.

The above is a detailed explanation of the layer more than a week before menstruation. Abdominal pain during menstruation is relatively normal. It means that we are about to have menstruation. This is a physiological manifestation. However, if the abdominal pain persists, it is pathological. It is caused by gynecological inflammation. You need to go to the hospital for examination in time to confirm what kind of condition you have.