Most women experience pelvic pain at some time during their lives. Many times pelvic pain is just the normal functioning of the reproductive or other organs. Other times pelvic pain may indicate a serious problem that needs urgent treatment. Here we look at the causes of pelvic pain, and how the cause of pelvic pain is determined.
Many organs live in the pelvis, including the uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes.
The bladder and intestine, and appendix also live next to the reproductive organs, and sensations from these organs can feel like pain from the uterus or ovaries. To further confuse things, pain from the kidney and pain from muscles and from the abdominal wall can also seem to come from the pelvis. Pelvic pain that indicates a serious problem and that needs urgent surgery or hospitalization . Examples of this type of pelvic pain would be a ruptured tubal pregnancy or appendicitis. Pelvic pain that indicates a problem that may need treatment, but not on an urgent basis .