Pelvic Pain
Pelvic pain Is common in women and can be caused by a wide variety of conditions or diseases most of which are benign but some do require urgent medical attention.
Pelvic pain is usually differentiated as acute or chronic.
Acute – usually comes on suddenly and is severe, this often results in an admission to hospital as an emergency.
Chronic – lasts for months and maybe constant or intermittent pain
Causes of Pelvic Pain
In women who are not pregnant, there are several common causes of acute pelvic pain, which include:
- Ovarian Cysts.
- Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID).
- Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)
- Constipation and Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS).
- Appendicitis
There are several common causes of pelvic chronic pain including:
- Endometriosis
- Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Recurrent ovarian cysts
- Recurrent UTIs
- Pain of the lower back · Fibroids
- Womb prolapse
- Adenomyosis · Chronic Interstitial Cystitis
- Inflammatory bowel disease.
- A hernia
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