Pelvic congestion syndrome (PCS) is often an unseen cause of chronic pain in women.
However, this is often wrong for other situations.
It is important to identify the symptoms quickly for effective treatment.
Pelvic Pain Clinic at the Whitley Clinic, Advisory Gynecologist Dr. Sophie Strong says, PCS (also known as pelvic venous insufficiency) is grown by defective blood flow in pelvic veins.
“The easiest way to think about it. They are essentially varicose veins inside the pelvis,” she says.
These veins become similar to varicose veins, thin and relaxed in the feet, causing persistent pain or dragging sensation.
Because these veins are internal, experts are essential for scan diagnosis.
More common in women, PC can also affect men. Whitely clinic emphasizes the importance of raising awareness about this situation to ensure timely diagnosis and proper management.
what causes it?
“When you have a varicose vein, that valve is not functioning properly, so what happens that pulls all types of blood and it fills and spreads the vein, and it makes heaviness, tenderness and pressure,” Dr. Strong explains.
Varicose veins run in families, but are other risk factors including pregnancy.
If you are between the ages of 20 and 45 and according to the Cleveland Clinic, then you have more likely to be PC and they have given birth more than once.
“The pregnancy can put a great pressure on the vein system, and is because your body is carrying too much blood around, and you have a very large mass that is filling your pelvis, which affects the way that the valves and veins work with the heart returning from the heart,” Dr. Strong explains.
What are the most common symptoms of PC?
Symptoms that people experience depend on the location of the defective veins, but the hallmark sign is chronic pelvic pain.
“If people around the womb and uterus are not working properly and become very heavy and baggy, it can give a real sensation to chronic pelvic pain,” Dr. Strong says.
“It can make periods painful, and we see people with pain with pain, or even after sex, because you are essentially contacting an area that is sore throat and hurt and is competing for space.”
The Cleveland Clinic website also suggests that other common symptoms include persistent matches of diarrhea and constipation (irritable bowel), accidentally urinating from laughter, cough or other movements that put your bladder (stress (stress)) and / or pain in stress when you urinate (dysuria).
And, for some, varicose veins are very visible around Wagina and Valva.
“Sometimes they look like a small blue color for black grape-looking structures,” Dr. Strong says.
Why is it important to diagnose?
“Unfortunately, varicose veins are not better than themselves, so they will only be worse until they are picked up, diagnosed and treated,” Dr. Strong says.
“What we see is as soon as possible that you find out these veins that they are not working properly, so as soon as you can first treat them to prevent them from being so bad.”
GPS is usually the first point of the call, and then you can be sent to a specialist.
“Generally (in our clinic) a patient will come and make an appointment with a consultant who will take a full history from them and examine them, and then they will have an expert scan called duplex ultrasound scan,” Dr. Strong explains.
“We use a transvaginal duplex ultrasound scan, an internal vaginal scan, where we measure blood flow through each different veins within the pelvis, which are not working properly, and then you can tell which veins need to be treated.”
Can it be treated?
The most common treatment for a PC is the symbol of the pelvic vein.
“This is a walk-in-walk-out process that consists of carefully keeping small coils, thinner than human hair, under the damaged veins under X-ray guidance,” Dr. Strong says.
“The coil causes a local reaction inside the veins over time, so that it shuts down itself. So it blocks the path that was not working and allows other healthy veins inside the body to refund blood to your heart in a more streamlined manner.
“Normal veins act very efficiently and do not cause pain because they have no reflexes.”
