Symptoms of lumbar disc herniation in women

Women are also a high-risk group for lumbar disc herniation. When women suffer from lumbar disc herniation, they will also experience pain in the lower back. Because of problems with the nerve tissue, it often causes radiating pain in the lower limbs, which can easily lead to numbness and abnormal sensation in the lower limbs. Especially for pregnant women, once lumbar disc herniation occurs, it will have a relatively large impact on the health of the body.

Symptoms of lumbar disc herniation in women

1. Waist pain:

Almost all patients with lumbar disc herniation have this symptom in the affected part. The symptoms of lumbar disc herniation are mainly manifested in aggravated low back pain after low back fatigue or aggravated low back pain when taking the same posture for a long time, but the pain can be relieved after resting or lying in bed. If most of the nucleus pulposus protrudes, it suddenly compresses the nerve roots, causing the blood vessels at the roots to be compressed at the same time and causing ischemic pain. The pain will suddenly occur, the muscles in the lower back and back will spasm, and the pain will be spasmodic and severe.

2. Radiating pain in lower limbs (sciatica):

The pain of patients with lumbar disc herniation mainly occurs along the buttocks, through the back of the thigh to the back of the calf or to the outer ankle and toes, starting as a dull pain and gradually increasing in severity. A small number of patients with lumbar disc herniation may experience radiating pain from bottom to top, first from the foot, calf, outer side, posterior and outer side of thigh to buttocks, mostly on one side, but may also be bilateral if it is a central herniation or multiple herniations. These are all early symptoms of lumbar disc herniation.

3. Numbness and paresthesia in the lower limbs:

Numbness of the lower limbs is usually accompanied by radiating pain in the lower limbs. Clinically, patients with lumbar disc herniation mainly have subjective numbness and objective numbness. Subjective numbness is that patients with lumbar disc herniation feel numbness in the legs and dorsum of the feet, as if thousands of insects are crawling, but acupuncture examination shows that the skin of other parts is exactly the same; objective ...

The above introduces some early symptoms of lumbar disc herniation. Friends, please refer to it and hope it can help you. If you have the above symptoms, don’t ignore it and think that it will pass if you endure it. This disease often becomes more serious as it is delayed. It will not work without correct treatment. You should go to the hospital for regular treatment to recover your health soon.