All women at least once felt such an unpleasant symptom as pain in the chest and lower abdomen. Many diverse ailments cannot be detected and determined without the help of doctors. These sensations can cause a lot of discomfort and be signs of more dangerous phenomena. The causes of such pain are many. For example, if breastfeeding pains in the lower abdomen occur infrequently, then this may be due to a change in hormonal levels.
Normal body condition
Everyone knows that menstruation occurs monthly in women, they can appear up to a specific age. If a woman has a normal menstrual cycle, this helps her to conceive a child, if she wants to become a mother in the future. In some women, critical days pass with soreness. This is due to the fact that they eat a lot of cold foods, don’t dress according to the weather, or they caught a cold in the ovaries, being cold, and for other reasons.
Discomfort during ovulation
This is normal when a woman’s breasts become larger, as if swollen, and a slight soreness appears. Along with this, a pulling pain appears in the lower abdomen, which indicates that the uterus is in tension and is preparing for hormonal restructuring in connection with future menstruation. During the ovulation period, soreness and a pulling sensation in the lower abdomen can be felt, pain radiates to the chest when the egg is ripening, the follicle bursts and the egg is released.
Menstruation pain
Mild pain during menstruation does not require any intervention, but it would be better to protect yourself from possible troubles. What should a woman do if she has a chest pain all the time and heaviness in her lower abdomen? In this case, there is already reason to think. One of the reasons may be genital endometriosis. With this ailment, a woman is constantly disturbed by aching pains in the chest and lower abdomen, and they have no connection with critical days.
Only the help of a specialist and a thorough diagnosis will make it possible to clearly and timely determine why the disease occurs. In addition to the previously indicated reasons why the chest and lower abdomen can hurt, this sensation can occur if the woman is pregnant. She still may not know about this right away, since the first period of bearing a child goes the same way as menstruation, when she comes into tension and her chest swells, the lower abdomen hurts.
This lasts for several weeks until an embryo is attached to the uterus. Pain in the lower abdomen can occur due to malfunctions of the digestive tract, starting with the most common ailments (for example, poisoning or indigestion) and ending with very significant problems (such as tumor formations).
Symptoms
Most often, the main signs of a woman’s health problems are as follows:
- Malfunctions in the menstrual cycle (it can be either critical days that have arrived earlier than the deadline, or delayed menstruation).
- Pain in the chest (it swells or hurts).
- Pain of any strength in the lower abdomen and in the lumbar region, which may or may not be associated with the menstrual cycle.
The multiplicity of symptoms may be different, but the first thing the doctor asks for a consultation: "When did the last critical days come?" The exact separation of all symptoms into those that are normal and deviations from the norm is of great importance: if the chest hurts and pulls in the lower abdomen due to the absence of critical days, then this is a completely normal situation associated with the possible presence of a desired pregnancy.
Disease causing pain
Manifestations of a pathological condition after menstruation are characteristic of diseases of the chest and genital organs. If the critical days are over, and the chest and lower abdomen are noticeably sore, then you need to see a doctor. Based on the results of the diagnosis, such diseases and phenomena can be identified:
- mastopathy
- breast fibroadenoma;
- various options for benign neoplasms in the chest;
- a combination of uterine tumors and breast diseases;
- mastalgia;
- undiagnosed pregnancy.
If you experience pain in the abdomen and mammary glands, which are felt after menstruation, it is necessary to consult a doctor. Ideally, after critical days, there is no pain in the chest and should not occur, which is why it is extremely necessary to get the advice of a doctor: most often, all manifestations in the mammary glands and pelvic organs can mean the presence of female health abnormalities.
Pregnancy
The female body has an acute and rapid impact on various pathological changes. A normal situation is pregnancy, the first signs of which are changes in the chest (swelling and pain), digestive tract problems (nausea, reluctance to eat, loss of appetite, acute dislike of smells). If there is pain in the chest and lower abdomen, it is necessary to carry out diagnostic tests determined by a specialist to exclude gynecological pathology. Therefore, if a woman has swollen breasts and pains in the lower abdomen from time to time, she should think about an interesting situation.
Pain during sex
Often such unpleasant sensations as pain in the chest and lower abdomen appear during intercourse. The pressure of the genital organ on the uterus is quite significant if the speed of the sexual act is rapid. Along with this, pressure is placed on the gastrointestinal system. If in these organs there are deviations from the norm or chronic diseases, spasmodic phenomena and pain sensations invariably accompany lovemaking.
If sex itself can be the cause of the appearance of various pain sensations, then it is necessary to determine other ailments in the woman's health. In such a situation, the chest and lower abdomen hurts, pain puts secondarily the pleasure of having sex with a beloved man. In almost all cases, specialists determine the unpleasant disease “endometriosis”. To get rid of it, various therapeutic procedures are used - physical exercises, the right psychological attitude, relaxation, non-steroidal drugs that protect against inflammation, and in addition, paracetamol.
After intercourse
Another reasonably well-known and trivial reason why pain is felt and aching in the lower abdomen after intercourse can be a special biological structure given to a woman simply by nature. In this situation, pain does not appear in all cases, but when a man and a woman take a specific position in sex. Then it is quite possible to eliminate these symptoms, it is only necessary to find for yourself special situations that will not cause the woman painful sensations.
Treatment
If the chest hurts, pulls in the lower abdomen tolerantly, without causing severe discomfort, nothing needs to be done. Usually the first day is considered the most unpleasant, then the discomfort decreases. But sometimes girls and women have pains so felt that they do not allow them to live ordinary everyday lives. In this case, it is necessary to drink an anesthetic antispasmodic (for example, “No-Shpu”) in order to reduce pain and stabilize the condition. Critical days are accompanied by soreness for various reasons. In most cases, this is fatigue, a lost sleep regimen, nervous overload, negative emotions.
Thus, in order to understand how and what causes pains in the lower abdomen and chest, it is necessary to carefully listen to your own body and determine whether this condition is supplemented by side symptoms. For other suspicious signs, it is urgent to consult a specialist in order to avoid the occurrence of adverse effects. And the sooner this is done, the better for a woman's health.