What Causes Pelvic Pain in Women?

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Platforms are important. There’s thousands of examples in life where it’s essential to have something big and wide underneath to provide support. There would be no working bridge decks without abutments for example, and when it comes to the human body you wouldn’t want the weight of your torso coming straight down onto leg bones. The pelvis is pretty important as a platform in your body, and being able to swivel those hips comes in plenty handy all the time. Pelvic pain is sometimes caused by pelvic inflammatory disease, but how about the all of what causes pelvic pain in women?

We need to start by thinking about your pelvis as more of an area rather than seeing it as just the hip bones structure. The pelvis is defined as below your belly button to the lowest point between your hips. PID has nothing to do with bones at all, and it’s actually an infection and inflammation of internal organs located in the pelvic area. Now not to sound preachy here, but it’s important to say that the most common causes of PID are sexually transmitted diseases and so it’s important to be smart about sex for starters.

If you’re a young woman that starts and ends with always making sure you’re practicing birth control, but it also really pushes the importance of using protection. Pelvic pain in women is not always caused by PID though, and it can also be caused by musculoskeletal issues like fibromyalgia, endometriosis, or irritable bowel syndrome. Fibroids may be non-cancerous growths in the pelvic region but they can also be the cause of pelvic pain in women.

There are other causes too, and we’ll look at them all here plus talk about some of the pelvic pain medications that work well for people who suffer with this for whatever reason. Often times pelvic pain becomes chronic pain in the pelvis and there becomes a need to make that pain and the whole condition manageable.

That Time of Month

Another cause of pelvic pain in women is their menstrual cycle, with the hormonal changes creating pain in the pelvis. In these instances birth control medications work well to relieve pelvic pain during period, but of course that won’t be practical if you and your partner are trying to conceive. The pain could also be caused by an infection and in those instances your doctor will likely prescribe an effective antibiotic like Cipro that has the ability to find bacterial infections anywhere in the body and eliminate them quickly and entirely.

There is also another potential cause of pelvic pain in women and that is something called pelvic congestion syndrome. The word congestion is going to be immediately associated with traffic if you’re someone who lives in a city, and the whole too many of something in one place applies here too with this syndrome. There’s no automobiles inside the bottom of your midsection, but there are plenty of veins and when many of them become varicose veins then that cause be the cause of chronic pelvis pain for women too. It’s more common for women who have had children.

Psychosomatic influences can actually make pelvic pain in women worse, and that’s why certain medications like Cymbalta and Effexor that are primarily designed for mental health support and treating depression can also limiting neurotransmitter uptakes can lessen chronic pelvic pain. Not to get you ahead of yourself, but if you have low-grade depression and pelvic pain these medications may have a real dual-fix appeal.

Needle’s Not So Bad

Some people have a genuine fear of needles, and many are okay with an injection as long as the look away. Bad pelvic pain in women sometimes need different rehabilitation methods, and one of them is trigger point injection for pain. These are usually anaesthetic medications that have long-lasting effects. They won’t get rid of your pain in the pelvis permanently, but they will provide a long stretch of relief from it and you may find you quickly become a lot more okay with needles.

A less common approach for treating pelvic pain in women is to use spinal cord stimulation. The reason it is less common is that involves invasive surgery with implanting a device in the body that blocks nerve pathways. This is often reserved for people who have severe pelvic and hip region pain that isn’t relieved with common pain relief medications and / or physical therapy practices.


IMPORTANT NOTE: The above information is intended to increase awareness of health information and does not suggest treatment or diagnosis. This information is not a substitute for individual medical attention and should not be construed to indicate that use of the drug is safe, appropriate, or effective for you. See your health care professional for medical advice and treatment.


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