Is abdominal pain normal after abortion?

It is normal to experience abdominal pain after an abortion, especially when the abortion has just ended. This pain is more obvious. We know that abortion is divided into different forms. If it is a medical abortion, the pregnant woman will feel pain when the gestational sac is discharged. If a painless abortion is used, the pain is relatively not obvious. During normal conditioning, if pain occurs, you must be vigilant, as it may be caused by intrauterine residues and other reasons.

4 reasons for abnormal abdominal pain after abortion

1. Uterine blood

It usually occurs a few hours after the operation. The abdominal pain is unbearable, like a knife cut, and a small amount of blood and water will flow out of the vagina. During a gynecological examination, the uterus will be significantly enlarged and tender.

What to do: Immediate curettage is required to remove the blood in the uterine cavity, and oxytocin and antibiotics are required for treatment.

2. Incomplete abortion

Abortion surgery may fail. If the villi and decidual tissue in the uterine cavity are not completely cleaned during the operation, in order to remove the remaining embryonic tissue from the uterus after the operation, abdominal pain will occur. It is usually paroxysmal contraction abdominal pain, which is unbearable and accompanied by vaginal bleeding, which is heavy, bright red, and has large blood clots and occurs frequently.

What to do: Seek medical attention in time. Those with incomplete abortion usually need to undergo curettage to scrape out the tissue remaining in the uterine cavity, which can cause great damage to the uterus.

3. Postoperative infection

This is the most common complication after abortion, usually occurring within 2 weeks after the operation. It may be caused by non-standard surgical manipulation and lack of attention to hygiene after the operation.

It can induce acute pelvic inflammatory disease, which can cause severe, continuous abdominal pain, or it can manifest as paroxysmal abdominal pain, which worsens and is accompanied by fever, chills, vaginal bleeding, fishy odor, and yellow exudate. Chronic pelvic inflammatory disease is mostly manifested as dull abdominal pain, a small amount of vaginal bleeding, odor, and yellow exudate.

What to do: Seek medical treatment in time. Generally speaking, chronic pelvic inflammatory disease is more difficult to treat.

4. Uterine perforation

This is a very serious postoperative complication. Patients will have sudden onset of severe abdominal pain. A few patients have no obvious pain. Most of them have persistent abdominal pain and a small amount of vaginal bleeding. If there is internal bleeding, there will also be pressure pain, rebound pain, etc.

Abdominal pain after abortion can be normal or abnormal, and we should all understand it. Generally speaking, we need to know that abortion is very harmful, and we must take good care of our bodies afterwards. Abdominal pain occurs and we cannot stop it. What we can do is try to relieve the symptoms of abdominal pain so that we can feel better.