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Other accompanying symptoms

The term “moderate pain” is often used as a generic term for various cycle-specific complaints.Thus, the term is not only used to describe lower abdominal pain, but also other symptoms such as headaches, chest tightness or subjective hot flashes. The cause is the female sex hormones, whereby the hormone estrogen in particular causes the complaints. However, other symptoms are also conceivable, although these are not the rule.

Thus, short-term water retention in the legs or even psychological changes such as irritability can be further accompanying symptoms.

  • Headaches occur because the hormone causes the blood vessels to dilate. As a result, the meninges are better supplied with blood, which in turn leads to headaches.
  • Pulling in the breast is triggered by the growth stimulus from the hormone on the breast, since the volume of the tissue simply causes the overlying structures to stretch due to this stimulus.
  • The hot flushes are caused on the one hand by the increased blood flow to the organs and on the other hand by a centrally induced regulation of the body temperature shortly before ovulation.

Back pain is a common accompanying symptom of moderate pain.

If the abdominal muscles tense up as a result of abdominal pain, the back muscles also tense up reflexively. This in turn leads to tension, which manifests itself as back pain. Often it is mainly the lower back that causes problems in cases of moderate pain.

This area contains a part of the uterus‘ supporting apparatus, which is also connected to the bones via ligaments. Heat applications or magnesium often bring relief here. Stomach pain has nothing to do with middle pain.

The influence of the female sex hormones in a normally regulated cycle on organs of the gastrointestinal tract is extremely small. Typical for stomach pain is an increased acid production in the stomach, which can be caused by stress or nicotine consumption, for example. However, the brief increase in sex hormones around ovulation has no significance for this.

If stomach pain persists, a general practitioner or gastroenterologist should be consulted. Also an inflated stomach has nothing to do with middle pain. However, there is a danger of confusion with increased water retention in the abdominal tissue, which can simulate an inflated stomach.

In both cases the abdominal girth increases. In the case of increased water retention, really female sex hormones can be the cause. They increase the water-binding capacity of tissues. However, it is not extreme and should only be limited to a few days.