Chronic Pelvic Pain / Chronic Prostatitis
Chronic pelvic pain is defined as pain felt between the lower part of the belly button and the pelvis and lasting longer than 6 months. It is a common ailment in women, it usually occurs with chronic pain in the form of cramps and muscle contractions, these pains can spread to the back and hip area.
Chronic pelvic pain can be a pain that manifests itself from time to time, or it can manifest itself in cycles every month during menstrual periods. Some situations such as sexual intercourse, urination, eating can trigger pain. It can cause physical, mental and psychological wear on the person.
What Are the Causes of Chronic Pelvic Pain?
Chronic pelvic pain can be caused by many reasons. These causes may originate from the reproductive organs, urinary tract, intestines and even the nervous system, apart from the reproductive organs.
Some of the causes of pelvic pain, which are more common in women than in men, are:
- Digestive system, excretory system, nervous system, reproductive system
- Psychological factors
- Fibromyalgia
- Ovarian cysts
- Ectopic pregnancy
- Miscarriage in pregnancies
- Pelvic inflammatory disorders
- Severe menstrual pain
- Uterine thickening
- Pain during ovulation
- Ovarian cancer
- They can be listed as cysts in the uterus.
What Are the Symptoms of Chronic Pelvic Pain?
Chronic pelvic pain usually presents with pain that starts suddenly and lasts longer than 6 months in the hip, lower back and vaginal region. In addition to these symptoms, nausea, vomiting, fever may also show symptoms. Common symptoms of pelvic pain are as follows:
- Decreased appetite
- Constipation
- Dizziness
- Flow
- Back and hip pain
- Severe pain during menstruation
- Pain in the groin area
- Pain during or after intercourse
Chronic Pelvic Pain Diagnosis and Treatment
It is very important to describe the problem in detail in the diagnosis of pelvic pain. Then, methods such as gynecological examination, blood tests, ultrasonography, imaging instruments such as MRI are used for diagnosis.
If your doctor can identify the condition causing chronic pelvic pain, treatment will be directed towards the cause found. However, if the factor causing the pain cannot be found, the treatment will be aimed at relieving the pain. Therefore, it may not always be possible to completely treat pain. In such cases, treatment methods are applied to increase the quality of life of the individual. For example:
- Hormone therapy
- Antibiotic
- Painkiller
- antidepressant
- Antibiotic
- Birth control pill
- Physiotherapy
- Methods such as nutritional therapy can be applied.
- Surgical methods can be applied for pelvic pain that does not respond positively to these treatments.
