Menstrual pain refers to dysmenorrhea, and the ways to relieve dysmenorrhea include general measures, medication and surgery.
1. General measures: When you have dysmenorrhea, you need to rest in bed, use hot towels or warm pads to apply localized warm compresses on the abdomen, or eat hot soups and porridges, such as chicken soup, millet porridge, red date porridge, etc., and pay attention to keeping warm and adding clothes.
2. Drug treatment: for primary dysmenorrhea, you can take ibuprofen, diclofenac and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs as prescribed by the doctor, if the pain relief effect is not good, you need to follow the doctor’s advice to take contraceptives such as cotrimoxazole tablets, cotrimoxazole tablets and other contraceptives. If the effect is still not good, you need to follow the doctor’s instructions to apply atropine, scopolamine and other antispasmodic agents, the use of specific drugs need to follow the doctor’s instructions.
3. Surgery: If the above treatments are ineffective, patients with primary dysmenorrhea need to consider surgical treatments such as partial hysterectomy and presacral ganglionectomy. For secondary dysmenorrhea, if it is caused by cervical stenosis, cervical dilatation should be adopted; if it is caused by endometriosis, lesion excision can be chosen.
In addition, if you have dysmenorrhea every time you have your period, you need to go to the hospital in time to get a clear picture of the cause of the problem and cooperate with your doctor for active treatment.