How do u know if you have pelvic inflammatory disease. what are the symptoms?

Answer 1

I was diagnosed with Pelvic Inflammatory Disease a few years ago so feel qualified to answer this one!

My main symptoms were heavy, irregular bleeding with bad cramping along with a fever. During one particularly horrendous 'flare up' I had horrendous cramping (labour pains were nothing compared to that) and extremely heavy bleeding, so bad that I was having to change my sanitary protection a couple of times an hour.

PID is most commonly associated with chlamydia and gonorreah, but even though I had a million PAP smears, blood tests etc nothing was ever found, just majorly high levels of infection-it got so bad I was almost hospitalised for intravenous antibiotics.

If there's any chance you have this then please get to your Doc asap-left unchecked it can be very nasty, and even though I was treated quickly I still have bad internal scarring which has no doubt decreased my fertility (fortunately we don't want anymore kids though), and I suffer horribly from menstrual cramping, which I never had before.

Answer 2

Pelvic Inflammatory Disease is an infection in a females reproductive organs.S/S are:
abdominal pain
back pain
abnormal bleeding
painful urination
heavy or unusual discharge
foul discharge
painful sex
nausea
vomiting
fever

If you suspect PID then you need to get checked ASAP b/c this could affect pregnancy.If the infection is let go too long it could cause septicemia-infection in the blood.

Answer 3

fever and abdominal pain in pelvic area.