Can fluid in the abdomen cause pain?

Abdominal fluid accumulation is divided into physiological causes and pathological causes, and whether it causes pain or not should be analyzed with the patient’s condition.
1. Physiological reasons: women enter the ovulation period and other physiological periods, which may lead to the emergence of temporary abdominal fluid. In this case, the patient will not experience abdominal pain.
2. Pathological causes: related to trauma, infectious lesions inside the abdominal cavity (cholecystitis, appendicitis, pancreatitis, etc.), perforation of the digestive tract, tumor lesions in the abdominal cavity (gastric cancer, hepatocellular cancer, intestinal cancer, pancreatic cancer, etc.), and other factors, in either case, the patient will usually experience abdominal pain symptoms.
However, in the case of ascites due to cirrhosis or cardiogenic ascites, as well as other causes of such aseptic ascites, there are usually no specific pain symptoms other than abdominal distension.
Patients need to go to the hospital as early as possible to confirm the diagnosis of the disease and then actively drug conservative treatment or surgical treatment. When the patient’s condition gradually recovers, the abdominal pain will also slowly ease and subside.