If you had to face uterine bleeding of varying intensity that occurred between menstruation for no reason, then you are most likely dealing with metrorrhagia.
Metrorrhagia: causes
The reasons for sudden bleeding can be very high. Depending on the etiology of this diagnosis, there are several types of metrorrhagia.
- Metrorrhagia in premenopause . Most women in the premenopausal period complain of bleeding acyclic nature. The causes may be the influence of hormonal drugs, various extragenital diseases, endometrial pathologies and myometrium, pathologies of the cervix or ovaries. Most often, the emergence of metrorrhagia in the premenopausal polyps of the endometrium, which make themselves felt at the age of 45-55 years.
- Anovulatory metrorrhagia . In this case, we are dealing with morphological changes in the ovaries. As a result, a woman lacks ovulation and does not form a yellow body. The reasons may be a short or long persistence of the follicle, atresia of the immature follicle. Acyclic uterine bleeding begins against the background of a delay in menstruation. The delay can last from one month to six months. The causes of reproductive metrorrhagia may include diseases of the endocrine glands, emotional or mental stress, obesity, intoxication or infection.
- Dysfunctional metrorrhagia . This type of bleeding is typical for women of a certain character trait: constantly experiencing, susceptible to others, with constant introspection and low self-esteem. As a result, the body accumulates stress. This leads to activation of the adrenal function, they begin to develop stress hormones, which leads to a disruption of the function of the ovaries. Thus, against the backdrop of insufficient progesterone production, delays begin first, followed by acyclic bleeding.
Metrorrhagia: Symptoms
Regardless of the causes of this disease, a woman experiences approximately the same symptoms. You need to contact a specialist if you noticed:
- constant weakness;
- headache;
- severe fatigue or irritability;
- tachycardia and lowering of blood pressure;
- pallor and rapid weight loss;
- decrease or increase in menstrual blood loss;
- severe menstrual pain in the abdomen;
- irregular cycle.
Metrorrhagia: treatment
For the purpose of treatment, the first thing the doctor needs to establish is the true causes of the onset of the disease. The woman collects anamnesis data, finds out the presence of tumors or inflammatory diseases in the past. Further on the examination the doctor determines the condition of the uterus, its size and shape, mobility.
Treatment of metrorrhagia begins with the treatment of a disease that provoked blood loss. If it is a question of pre-menopause, then first stop the bleeding. With pathologies inside the uterus, scraping and further research are performed. If organic causes
If this is dysfunction of the ovaries, then work starts with the emotional state of the woman. Next, after adjusting the work of the adrenal glands and the cortex, begin work on nutrition. The doctor appoints a diet to restore the macro- and microelement deficits after blood loss, recovery of body weight. Well, of course vitamin therapy in combination with exercise therapy.
For the treatment of the anovulatory form, the woman is first made to scrape to determine the cause. Further, a treatment is prescribed, aimed at strengthening the walls of blood vessels, increasing blood coagulability, reducing hemoglobin. In some cases, the appointment of hormonal hemostasis.