Many women feel pain in their bodies as soon as they are over 50 years old, headaches, and foot pain, but the more they are treated, the more painful places there are.
Women are indeed naturally prone to body pain. What's wrong with the unclear body pain?
Perhaps, you can pay more attention to the physical and psychological changes.
Menopause, osteoporosis is painful
Xie Xinhui, chief physician of the Department of Orthopedics of Heilongjiang Jixi Chicken Mine Hospital, said that in the outpatient clinic, many women of this age have met a lot of pain, and there are two main reasons:
Age factor
Aging is a process that human beings must go through, when they are young, they are too hard, they are too tired, they have suffered some injuries, and with the accumulation of time, the problem begins to appear.
Hormonal changes
Women between the ages of 45 and 55 face menopause, and estrogen declines off a cliff.
Estrogen plays an important role in maintaining bone health and resisting the repair of inflammation and damage in the body, which is equivalent to a protective shield for women before menopause, and the protective cover after menopause is becoming more and more fragile, and the problem will appear.
Women during this period of menopause are very prone to bone loss due to a cliff-like decline in estrogen levels. With a 10% reduction in bone mass, significant pain occurs, and when the bone mass is reduced by more than 20%, there is a risk of fracture.
In life, the low back pain of women induced by osteoporosis is easy to ignore.
Stress is high, fibromyalgia signs are painful
Feng Zhiying, chief physician of the Pain Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, said that fibromyalgia syndrome is more common in adult women, and most patients have typical diffuse generalized pain that lasts for more than 3 months.
According to the American Rheumatological Association, fibromyalgia syndrome is the third most prevalent type of rheumatism after osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. The prevalence is much higher in women than in men, with an average age of 49 years.
The symptoms of fibromyalgia syndrome are dominated by multiple muscle pain throughout the body, often accompanied by skin tenderness, sometimes mild and sometimes severe.
More than half of patients will experience symptoms such as morning stiffness, insomnia, dreams, lack of energy, and severe fatigue.
Because blood tests, electromyography and other indicators in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome are generally normal, it is easy to miss diagnosis and misdiagnosis.
Total anxiety, depression and pain
Bao Feng, director of the geriatric ward of Beijing Anding Hospital, introduced that unlike young people, more than 80% of the elderly depressed patients in the clinic are mainly physical manifestations. Women are relatively sensitive and more likely to be anxious and depressed.
Some elderly people feel that there is a lot of discomfort in the body, which is often a headache at first, and then gradually develops into back pain, general pain, palpitations, anorexia, bloating, sweating, hot and cold all over the body, etc., but objective examination cannot find the corresponding organic diseases. If there is such a problem, it is actually a manifestation of depression.
The root of treating this pain is, first of all, to treat depression, and as the depression gets better, the pain will gradually disappear.
With children, too tired and painful
63-year-old Ms. Li, every year to her son and daughter's home for half a year, take turns to bring them children, the first few years feel no problem, the past two years feel that the body is a bit unbearable, waist pain and back pain, afraid of children worried about the has been endured, until recently flashed waist to go to the hospital.
Zhu Yuqi, chief physician of the Department of Orthopedics of the Eye Hospital of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, introduced that waist and leg pain caused by taking children are not uncommon in outpatient clinics.
In families with small children, adults' waists are often the most vulnerable, and many patients with low back pain are caused by improper posture with children.
Especially in the elderly, most of the waist and legs have problems, and the strength of the wrists and legs is not large enough, and they can only hold the child up by turning the waist. As a result, it is particularly prone to sprains of muscle ligaments, herniated discs and soft tissue injuries.
● The correct posture for holding a child should be for adults to first squat on one knee, hold the child, and then stand up straight. You can also buy a special operator station at the baby and toddler products store to avoid bending over.
In addition to physical exhaustion, the psychological problems of the elderly with children should also be concerned, and many of the depression caused by the elderly with children is hidden.
This kind of hidden symptoms of depression are not very obvious, and the bad mood is not visible, but instead it is constant fatigue, unprovoked weight loss, sleep rhythm disorders, poor appetite, headaches, decreased attention and memory, waist and leg pain, etc.
Therefore, when many elderly people go to the doctor, they only emphasize that they feel tired, emaciated, poor sleep and other discomforts, and deny that they have suffered from depression.
These patients have somatization disorders that are more obvious, masking the symptoms of emotional and volitional activities of patients, so many people have gone to various departments of major hospitals and done various examinations, but the results have shown that there is no disease.
Source: Yangzi Famous Medical Group