Whichever abortion, surgical or medicamentous, is, in any case, it is a great stress for the female body. In addition, depending on the period at which the abortion occurred and the specialist's qualifications, the consequences and their symptoms are the most unpredictable. Most often, women complain that after abortion it hurts or pulls the lower abdomen. Let us consider in more detail what this phenomenon is connected with, and in what cases abdominal pain after abortion testifies to a real threat to health, and sometimes the life of the patient.
Why does the abdomen hurt after an abortion?
The norm and abnormalities in the appearance of abdominal pain after abortion largely depend on the way the procedure is performed. If the termination of pregnancy was by surgical intervention or vacuum aspiration, then the following symptoms are considered normal limits:
- Appearance of a moderate aching or cramping pain in the lower abdomen, which stops 5 days after the abortion. This phenomenon is due to the reduction of the uterus to normal size.
- As a rule, during this time the woman notes blood spots of varying intensity caused by damage to the walls and cervix of the uterus.
It is worth paying attention and immediately see a doctor if the stomach hurts after a surgical abortion is strong enough, with no secretions or bleeding is very abundant. Sometimes the clinical picture is supplemented by a rise in temperature, unpleasant discharge from the vagina, chills, general weakness, etc.
With such symptoms, the causes of pain can be:
- inflammatory process of the wound surface, or endometritis - inflammation and infection of the uterus;
- severe damage or breakthrough of the uterine wall;
- getting blood into the abdominal cavity;
- in the absence of secretions, possibly, their accumulation in the uterine cavity, which is a particular danger.
How much the abdomen hurts after an abortion is also an important factor in determining the nature of pain.
Abdominal pain after medical abortion
A slightly different nature and cause of pain during drug interruption. After taking a special drug for abortion, the lower abdomen begins to ache after a few hours. This is due to the direct action of the medication, which provokes the death of the fetus and stimulates the contraction of the myometrium. The stomach after medical abortion continues to ache for 3-5 days, if the pain does not stop after this period and become intense, it is necessary to seek medical help.