Lower abdomen pain when sleeping at night

Women are not likely to catch a cold in their daily lives. Sometimes they may feel a heavy pain in their lower abdomen if they are not careful. This feeling is not very painful, but it is very uncomfortable. Some women do not know the reason for this and usually do not care much about it. Today we will find out what causes lower abdominal pain when sleeping?

What is the pain in the lower abdomen?

Lower abdominal pain is one of the medical symptoms, which is called lower abdominal pain in medicine. It refers to a feeling of heaviness and pain in the area below the belly button. Well, gynecologists emphasize that there are many reasons why women experience lower abdominal pain. It may be due to menstrual pain, or it may be caused by gynecological diseases or uterine diseases. So, let's actually understand the reasons for lower abdominal pain.

1. Non-inflammatory lower abdominal pain is generally caused by ectopic pregnancy, ovarian cyst pedicle torsion and rupture: ectopic pregnancy causes rupture of abdominal capillaries. The pain symptoms vary with the amount and rate of bleeding; ovarian cyst pedicle torsion. When the ovarian cyst pedicle twists, pain suddenly occurs on one side of the lower abdomen. It is continuous and severe pain, often accompanied by nausea, vomiting and vomiting. In addition, ovarian cysts may also rupture, and the contents after rupture may irritate the retroperitoneum and cause pain.

2. Tumor pain When gynecological malignant tumors progress to the terminal stage, unbearable recurrent pain may occur. Lower abdominal distension and pain are often accompanied by lumbar pain, and the pain often radiates to the lower limbs.

3. Chronic lower abdominal pain has many causes and is often accompanied by lumbar pain and excessive leucorrhea. It is more common in male genital inflammation, endometriosis, adenomyosis, pelvic congestion and psychological pelvic pain.

4. Inflammation of sexual organs: Women suffer from long-term lumbar pain and lower abdominal pain, which is aggravated after sex and during the menstrual cycle. Long-term leucorrhea is often caused by cervicitis. If you experience long-term lower abdominal pain, pain, and lumbar pain, which worsens when you are tired, after sex, or before and after the menstrual cycle, and are accompanied by an imbalanced menstrual cycle and fatigue, it is often caused by chronic pelvic inflammation.

5. Menstrual pain can be divided into two types: primary and secondary. Primary dysmenorrhea is more common in adolescent girls, and the cause is unclear. It usually heals with age or after marriage and childbearing. The common causes of secondary dysmenorrhea are endometriosis and adenomyosis.

6. Subacute lower abdominal pain caused by other reasons. Subacute lower abdominal distension and pain may occur when abortion or IUD causes uterine perforation. Uterine and ovarian endometrial cysts (chocolate cysts) can rupture when the cysts grow during the menstrual cycle. The contents of the cysts irritate the retroperitoneum and cause severe abdominal pain.

When there is a pain in the lower abdomen, female friends don’t know what to do for a while, which makes many women feel caught off guard and the pain comes in waves. So, let’s find out below, what should we do if there is a pain in the lower abdomen? If you want to know this kind of female friends, then read on!

What to do if you have abdominal pain

1. Heat therapy

There are various ways to apply heat, and you can choose according to your own convenience, such as putting a hand warmer on your abdomen, or using a cup of hot water to apply heat; or lying in bed with a heating blanket under your crotch; hand warmers and hot blankets are the most common ways to apply heat, and now there are also some menstrual pain patches, which also have very good effects. It is effective after 12 hours of use, which is conducive to promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, warming the uterus, promoting abdominal blood circulation, and has a very good effect on relieving dysmenorrhea.

2. Diet therapy

(1) Egg and ginger soup: prepare an egg, appropriate amount of angelica, ginger, jujube (peeled), Poria cocos, and fermented glutinous rice. Boil the angelica, ginger, and Poria cocos in water for 30 minutes, then remove the residue. Then beat the egg, fermented glutinous rice, and jujube into the soup, and boil it until the jujube is rotten. Then it can be taken. Love medicine is suitable for use during the menstrual period or after menstruation. It is mainly used to treat dysmenorrhea, abdominal pain and qi and blood deficiency. It should be noted that those with excessive heat and bleeding should not take Danghui, and those with yin deficiency, excessive fire, blood heat and delirium should not take Paojiang.

(2) Hawthorn berry, cinnamon twig and brown sugar soup. Prepare appropriate amount of hawthorn pulp, cinnamon twig and brown sugar in advance. Add 2 bowls of purified water to hawthorn pulp and cinnamon twig. When 1 bowl of water remains on low heat, add brown sugar, mix well and bring to a boil. This medicine is suitable for people with cold menstrual pain, abdominal pain and pale complexion. It has the effects of warming the meridians, dredge blood vessels, promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis and relieve pain.