Why do I feel a dull pain in my stomach 5 days after abortion?

Some women are not prepared for childbirth and usually choose abortion in case of accidents. However, there are many ways of abortion, including medical abortion and surgery, but most of them recommend painless abortion. However, some people will experience abdominal pain after surgery, and sometimes there will be a small amount of bleeding. In fact, this may be because the surgery was not cleaned thoroughly, causing infection. So what should we do in this situation?

4 reasons for abnormal abdominal pain after abortion

1. Uterine blood

It usually occurs a few hours after the operation. The abdominal pain is unbearable, like a knife cut, and a small amount of blood and water will flow out of the vagina. During a gynecological examination, the uterus will be significantly enlarged and tender.

What to do: Immediate curettage is required to remove the blood in the uterine cavity, and oxytocin and antibiotics are required for treatment.

2. Incomplete abortion

Abortion surgery may fail. If the villi and decidual tissue in the uterine cavity are not completely cleaned during the operation, in order to remove the remaining embryonic tissue from the uterus after the operation, abdominal pain will occur. It is usually paroxysmal contraction abdominal pain, which is unbearable and accompanied by vaginal bleeding, which is heavy, bright red, and has large blood clots and occurs frequently.

What to do: Seek medical attention in time. Those with incomplete abortion usually need to undergo curettage to scrape out the tissue remaining in the uterine cavity, which can cause great damage to the uterus.

3. Postoperative infection

This is the most common complication after abortion, usually occurring within 2 weeks after the operation. It may be caused by non-standard surgical manipulation and lack of attention to hygiene after the operation.

It can induce acute pelvic inflammatory disease, which can cause severe, continuous abdominal pain, or it can manifest as paroxysmal abdominal pain, which worsens and is accompanied by fever, chills, vaginal bleeding, fishy odor, and yellow exudate. Chronic pelvic inflammatory disease is mostly manifested as dull abdominal pain, a small amount of vaginal bleeding, odor, and yellow exudate.

What to do: Seek medical treatment in time. Generally speaking, chronic pelvic inflammatory disease is more difficult to treat.

4. Uterine perforation

This is a very serious postoperative complication. Patients will have sudden onset of severe abdominal pain. A few patients have no obvious pain. Most of them have persistent abdominal pain and a small amount of vaginal bleeding. If there is internal bleeding, there will also be pressure pain, rebound pain, etc.

Abdominal pain after abortion can be normal or abnormal, and we should all understand it. Generally speaking, we need to know that abortion is very harmful, and we must take good care of our bodies afterwards. Abdominal pain occurs and we cannot stop it. What we can do is try to relieve the symptoms of abdominal pain so that we can feel better.