Does constipation affect menstruation?

Constipation usually does not affect menstruation. Irregular menstruation may be related to life factors, mental factors, endocrine system and reproductive system disease factors.
1. Lifestyle factors: If the patient is stimulated by cold, irregular diet, long-term strenuous exercise, overwork, smoking and drinking, etc., it may lead to abnormal menstruation.
2. Mental factors: If the patient is chronically depressed, nervous, worried or traumatized, it may affect the function of the hypothalamus, pituitary gland and other parts of the body, leading to dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea and other menstrual abnormalities.
3. Disease factors: If the patient’s thyroid gland, adrenal gland and other functional disorders, it will lead to endocrine function abnormality, affecting normal menstruation, and at the same time, inflammation of the uterus, ovaries, vagina and other parts of the tumor and developmental abnormalities, etc., will also lead to menstrual irregularities.
It is recommended that patients go to the hospital in time, under the diagnosis of the doctor, according to the patient’s specific condition, to take targeted treatment.