What causes dull pain in the left lower abdomen when menstruation is delayed?

Menstruation is a very important physiological behavior for women. It is a manifestation of women's reproductive ability. Therefore, most women are very concerned about menstruation and will become very panicked once there is a problem. For example, in modern life, many women often experience menstrual abnormalities. Among them, what is the cause of delayed menstruation and dull pain in the left lower abdomen? Let’s take a look at the explanation below.

Causes of delayed menstrual period and lower abdominal pain

1. When a woman is pregnant and her menstruation is due, she often does not come and she may experience increased urination, changes in appetite, vomiting, nausea, etc. Such situations all occur after sexual intercourse. Early pregnancy test strips, serum tests, and B-ultrasound tests can quickly confirm that the pregnancy test is positive.

2. Delayed menstruation caused by surgery, such as abortion or surgery for other cervical diseases, which causes cervical adhesion and menstrual blood stasis, thus delaying menstruation.

3. Delayed menstruation caused by mental reasons: If you suddenly experience excessive mental stress, grief, sadness, anger, heartbreak and other abnormal emotions, it will often lead to delayed menstruation. In such cases, the patient often suffers from breast pain, irritability, depression and discomfort. Such situations generally do not require treatment, but sometimes if menstruation is delayed, Chinese medicine can be taken for syndrome differentiation and conditioning.

4. Delayed menstruation caused by taking certain medications. Some medications have side effects and often cause delayed menstruation. For example, long-term use of birth control pills, taking emergency contraceptive pills, etc. Its characteristic is that the menstrual cycle is often normal before taking these drugs, but delayed after taking them. If the taking time is very short, it often returns to normal after stopping taking them. If the taking time is too long, drug regulation is often required.

5. Chronic diseases lead to delayed menstruation. Some chronic wasting diseases often lead to delayed menstruation due to nutritional deficiencies. Common ones include chronic hepatitis, tuberculosis, tumors, hypothyroidism, severe iron deficiency anemia, aplastic anemia, etc., which often cause delayed menstruation. The above diseases often have obvious symptoms, abnormalities can usually be detected, and they are not easily misdiagnosed. Once the above diseases occur, the primary disease should be treated as soon as possible, and menstruation will resume naturally after the primary disease is cured.