Most women don't know the symptoms of enlarged ovaries

Enlarged ovaries can actually be called ovarian tumors, which is a common gynecological disease in women. Nowadays, women's pace of life and work pressure are getting higher and higher, and they pay less attention to their daily health. Over time, gynecological diseases may come knocking on their doors. Ovarian enlargement has symptoms. If you experience these symptoms, you should pay attention, because you might have an ovarian tumor!

1. Discomfort in the lower abdomen

This is the initial symptom before the patient feels a lower abdominal mass. Due to the weight of the tumor itself and the influence of intestinal peristalsis and changes in body position, the tumor moves in the pelvic cavity, pulling on its pedicle and pelvic funnel ligament, causing the patient to feel distended and falling in the lower abdomen or iliac fossa;

2. Increased abdominal circumference and abdominal mass

It is the most common phenomenon in the chief complaint. The patient feels that his clothes or belt seem too tight, and he has just noticed that his abdomen is enlarged, or he accidentally feels it in the morning and presses his abdomen to find that there is a mass in the abdomen, plus he feels bloated and uncomfortable;

3. Abdominal pain

If the tumor has no complications, there is very little pain. Therefore, if patients with ovarian tumors feel abdominal pain, especially if it occurs suddenly, it is mostly caused by torsion of the tumor pedicle, or rupture, bleeding or infection of the tumor. In addition, malignant cysts often cause abdominal pain and leg pain, and the pain often causes patients to seek emergency treatment;

4. Menstrual disorders

Generally, ovarian or even bilateral ovarian cysts do not cause menstrual disorders because they do not destroy all normal ovarian tissues. Some uterine bleeding is not endocrine or is caused by ovarian tumors that change the pelvic blood vessels and cause endometrial congestion; or it is caused by ovarian malignant tumors that directly metastasize to the endometrium. Menstrual disorders caused by endocrine tumors are often combined with other secretory effects.

5. Compression symptoms

Huge ovarian tumors can cause dyspnea and palpitations due to compression of the diaphragm. Ovarian tumors combined with a large amount of ascites can also cause these symptoms. However, the dyspnea of ​​some patients with ovarian tumors is caused by unilateral or bilateral pleural effusion, and is often combined with ascites to form the so-called Meigs syndrome. Huge benign ovarian cysts fill the entire abdominal cavity, increasing the intra-abdominal pressure and affecting the venous return of the lower limbs, which can lead to edema of the abdominal wall and bilateral lower limbs. Malignant ovarian cysts fixed in the pelvic cavity compress the iliac vein, often causing edema of one side of the lower limbs, and compression of the pelvic and abdominal organs, resulting in dysuria, urinary retention, urgency or constipation.