Often, with the approach of PMS, a woman experiences various kinds of discomfort, for example, breast swelling, muscle pain, general loss of strength, aversion to food, swelling of the abdomen, etc. But among the many problems, frequent urination stands out, it can indicate both for various diseases and for natural causes. Can there be frequent urination before menstruation and why does this happen? The answer to this question is further.
Why is this happening?
The causes of frequent urge to urinate before menstruation without disturbing symptoms are most often the individual characteristics of the body of the woman herself. Before critical days, there is a lack of progesterone. Progesterone is a special hormone that is closely related to the reproductive function of the female body. A change in the amount of this hormone leads to irritation of the intestines, wheregas collects, and all this puts pressure on the bladder. And the muscles of the vagina, subject to all this process, can swell. The kidneys begin to work hard to remove the fluid.
Doctors say that such frequent urination happens before menstruation and during menstrual days is useful, as the body removes many harmful substances from itself and rids the body of excess fluid. By the way, along with frequent urination, diarrhea is possible, but it also does not carry anything bad, it cleanses the body.
Reasons
The reasons for frequent urination before menstruation in women can be not only a disease, but also physiology, as well as such a non-trivial reason as pregnancy. The woman's body is very sensitive to the emergence of the embryo and hormonal changes, uterine edema occurs, the bladder is irritated, and the level of progesterone increases. Often, women on this basis can suspect an unexpected pregnancy and go to the doctor to confirm their assumptions. In addition, the stomach may swell, the sense of smell becomes aggravated and irritation with nausea or vomiting appears, a change in food preferences.
Another reason for frequent urination can be frequent smoking, drinking alcohol, in particular beer, and other bad habits.
Other factors
Well, don't forget about reasons like:
- Taking diuretics.
- Drinking plenty of water or herbal tinctures, frequent tea drinking.
- Prolonged stress.
- Hypocooling of the groin, cold.
- Features of nutrition, a diet that involves a lot of fluids.
- The occurrence of menopause.
When the urinary system works poorly, the following happens:
- Pain during sex, discomfort, decreased libido.
- Dryness in an intimate place, burning of the skin when urinating.
- Unusual highlights.
- Sharp, foul-smelling urine.
When there are disorders in the hormonal, endocrine system, the following happens:
- Constant desire to drink, thirst that is hard to quench.
- Sudden weight loss or, conversely, its increase for no apparent reason in a short time.
- Persistent dry mouth.
- Frequent urination.
If the hormonal balance is disturbed, these signs may not only be before menstrual days. In case of disruption of the endocrine system, complications are possible, at the slightest suspicion, you should consult a doctor.
On average, women need to go to the toilet three to nine times a day during normal functioning of the body.
Pathological causes of frequent urination
If frequent urination is associated with diseases, before critical days and during them, the number of trips to the toilet increases even more. Let's take a look at what are the most commondiseases.
Cystitis
During this disease, inflammation of the bladder mucosa occurs after urination has occurred. There is a feeling that the bubble is still full. Urine becomes cloudy, there are pains in the lower abdomen.
Urethritis
Inflammation in the walls of the channel, which performs the functions of removing urine from the body. This disease is characteristic, as a rule, for the representatives of the stronger sex, however, women also have urethritis, and the inflammation passes to the bladder.
Pyelonephritis
This ailment is characterized by inflammation in the kidney area, signs may be frequent urination, blood and pus in the urine. The woman's temperature rises, her lower back hurts.
Urolithiasis
May cause pain, blood in the urine, frequent urination.
Also, frequent urination can be a sign of a female genital disease, such as prolapse of the uterus.
Other reasons:
- Incorrect use of tampons, or if they are not suitable for a particular body.
- Sexually transmitted diseases.
- Infections.
- Irritation of the mucosa.
- Diabetes mellitus.
- Heart and cold problems.
- Kidney problems and kidney disease.
Worrying symptoms
Usually he althy (but frequent) urination during PMS and during the critical days themselves is accompanied by nothing but relief. But there are severalwarning signs to see a doctor for:
- Burning or sharp/aching pain during urination.
- The color of menstrual blood has changed to brown or black.
- The duration of the period of critical days has decreased or, on the contrary, has increased markedly.
- Very profuse discharge of blood, nausea, dizziness, severe weakness.
- Headache, groin pain.
Typical symptoms (normal)
- Total number of trips to the toilet does not exceed ten times.
- There are no shades of dark colors, blood or pus in the urine.
- Urination is completely normal, no pain.
At the end of menstruation, frequent urination and other signs should slowly subside. If the critical days have passed, and the woman continues to go to the toilet just as often, you need to see a doctor.
The structure of female organs
Female organs are located in the pelvic area, which itself differs from the male in its size.
Women's pelvis is flatter and wider for easier childbearing. Female organs are divided into external and internal.
External include:
Puboc. Together with pubic hair, it provides protection for the internal female genital organs
Labia large and small. There are pink or darker shades. Sensitive
Clit. Something like a smaller version of the penis, located in the junction of the femalelabia, has many nerve endings
Pee hole
The internal genital organs of a woman
The internal genital organs consist of:
- Vagina, very elastic and long, about 12 centimeters, connected to the cervix. Its walls consist of three layers of fabric.
- The uterus, which is about the size of a fist and shaped like a pear. It consists of three sections: neck, body and isthmus. A special canal passes through the cervix, the cervical one, which contains mucus that protects the organ from bacteria.
- The appendages of the uterus are the fallopian tubes, it is through them that the egg enters the uterine cavity.
- The ovaries are a paired organ. Here eggs grow and develop, and female sex hormones are also produced here. Namely estrogen and progesterone.
Reviews of gynecologists about this problem
Most often, on numerous sites, gynecologists and urologists advise women to do an ultrasound when asked about frequent urination. The cause is either hormonal imbalance after pregnancy, prolonged stress, bladder stones, possible tumors. It is almost impossible to conduct a full consultation via the Internet, there are no certain signs, having learned which, one can say, for example, that this is definitely cystitis.
There are too many diseases, and doctors usually advise you to visit the hospital, make an appointment for a paid or free appointment. Gynecologists also recommend doing several tests, going to an endocrinologist and checkinghormonal background, take into account the nutrition and bad habits of a woman, the presence of operations, pregnancies and heredity.
Among the studies to be done with frequent urination before menstruation, there are procedures such as:
- Checking the size of the ovaries, the presence of inflammation.
- Passing a general urine test and according to Nechiporenko (makes it possible to analyze the condition of the kidneys and identify urolithiasis).
- Checking for the presence of s alts in the body.
- Ultrasound of the kidneys (reveals pathologies).
- Colposcopy.
- Submission of smears for analysis (for microflora research).
- Biochemical blood test (reveals diabetes and other diseases).
- Complete blood count (allows you to detect foci of inflammation, infection).
- Urodynamic study of the bladder (checks the dynamics and functioning of the urinary system and kidneys, easily finds pathologies, according to the results it is easy for doctors to choose medicines, since the study is quite complete).
When a problem is identified, the doctor prescribes treatment, as a rule, it does not take much time. Antibiotics are often prescribed. If tumors are found in the patient, then surgery is usually performed, after which they try to normalize the hormonal background.
It can be concluded that there are many reasons for frequent urination before menstruation: either pregnancy, or diseases, or stress, etc. Only a doctor can help figure it out, so you should not postpone a visit to a gynecologist.
