Why do I feel a little stomach pain just after having an abortion?

Unexpected pregnancy not only hurts women psychologically, but also causes great harm to their bodies. Although new technologies such as painless abortion have emerged, any abortion will cause trauma to a woman's body. She may develop infection or gynecological diseases after the operation, and may even become unable to get pregnant. So, why do women feel pain in their abdomen after having an abortion?

1. If a woman experiences abdominal pain after surgery, it may also be due to postoperative infection. Postoperative infection often occurs within two weeks after surgery. It can be caused directly by the surgical operation or by the patient's failure to pay attention to hygiene after surgery, such as having sexual intercourse, swimming, etc. It usually leads to acute pelvic inflammatory disease, with severe abdominal pain that is persistent and may worsen in paroxysmal forms, accompanied by fever, chills, and vaginal bleeding that is bright red, fishy, ​​or mixed with yellow discharge. During physical examination, there is abdominal pain that is resistant to pressure, tenderness, and rebound tenderness. Gynecological examination shows cervical motion tenderness, uterine body tenderness, and both adnexa may have flake-like or cord-like thickening with obvious tenderness.

2. Uterine perforation is a common complication after painless abortion. The abdominal pain after painless abortion is very severe, but a small number of people may not feel any obvious pain. The abdominal pain caused by uterine perforation is continuous, with a small amount of vaginal bleeding. If combined with internal bleeding, it may cause peritoneal irritation signs: abdominal pain that is resistant to pressure, tenderness, and rebound pain. Uterine perforation is rare, but it is more likely to occur in women who have an excessively tilted uterus or who become pregnant again within one year of a caesarean section, or who have undergone multiple abortions.

3. Paroxysmal attacks of pain in the back of the abdomen, which are extremely painful and accompanied by increased vaginal bleeding, which is bright red in color and contains large blood clots. The pain is relieved after the blood clots are discharged, and the pain recurs repeatedly. When an incomplete miscarriage occurs, a curettage is usually required to scrape out the remaining embryonic tissue in the uterine cavity, and the abdominal pain will disappear naturally. Abdominal pain after painless abortion surgery may be caused by incomplete abortion. Painless abortion surgery sometimes fails. Incomplete abortion means that the chorionic and decidual tissue in the uterine cavity cannot be completely removed during surgery. After the operation, the uterus undergoes paroxysmal contractions in order to expel the remaining embryonic tissue from the uterus.