What causes lower abdominal pain in men?

Lower abdominal pain is a symptom that is very common in women. In comparison, it is rarely seen in men. But in fact, there are many factors that can cause lower abdominal pain in men, such as men's diseases such as prostatitis, or inflammation of the male urinary system, etc. In short, men should take this symptom seriously. The common reasons are as follows.

1. Lower abdominal pain after sexual intercourse

Lower abdominal pain after sex is usually caused by urogenital inflammatory infection, such as chronic prostatitis, epididymitis, orchitis, and varicocele. It is recommended to go to the reproductive infection department for treatment according to the situation, and conduct relevant examinations under the guidance of the doctor to make a clear diagnosis and targeted treatment. This symptom is more common in patients with chronic prostatitis, so a detailed prostate examination can be performed. In addition, pay attention to a regular life.

2. Prostate pain

In recent years, doctors have found that some patients with chronic prostatitis are very difficult to diagnose and treat. No bacteria can be found in their urine and prostatic fluid culture, and no pus cells and white blood cells can be found in the prostatic fluid under a microscope, but they have varying degrees of frequent urination, urgency and difficulty urinating, especially pain in the perineum and scrotum, and some people even feel pain when sitting down.

After careful examination and research on these patients, some doctors found that these patients did not actually suffer from prostatitis, but rather had discomfort similar to chronic prostatitis caused by spasmodic pain in the urethral muscles, prostate muscles, or muscles in the perineum and pelvic floor. When performing anal digital examination on these patients, the prostate was normal and tender, but there was obvious tenderness in the levator ani muscles on both sides of the anus. Therefore, clinicians named this disease prostatitis.

Prostatitis is difficult to treat. First of all, it is difficult to diagnose. It often takes several microscopic examinations and cultures of prostatic fluid without finding any abnormalities before a diagnosis can be made. Therefore, in general, patients are often treated for ordinary prostatitis due to symptoms similar to chronic prostatitis, and the effect is naturally not good.

3. Acute abdominal pain

It refers to the sudden abdominal pain that the patient feels, which is often caused by diseases of the organs inside or outside the abdominal cavity. The former is called visceral abdominal pain, which is often paroxysmal and accompanied by a series of related symptoms such as nausea, vomiting and sweating. The abdominal pain is transmitted by the visceral nerves; while the latter abdominal pain is transmitted by the somatic nerves, so it is called somatic abdominal pain, which is often persistent and is not often accompanied by nausea and vomiting.

4. Urinary system stones

In addition to typical lumbar and abdominal cramps and nausea and vomiting, most patients with urinary stones may have symptoms such as difficulty urinating and urinary pain. The pain often reflects from the waist to the ipsilateral inguinal groove or perineum, which is more common in male patients. It is worth noting that right ureteral stones are sometimes difficult to distinguish from acute appendicitis, because the former can also present with persistent right lower abdominal pain, local tenderness and rebound pain, but usually no fever. In addition to lumbar and abdominal bloating, patients often have fever and chills, tenderness in the hypochondrium and lower abdomen, and the tenderness is deeper, with less rebound pain. Usually there are urinary tract irritation symptoms, and urine routine often has abscesses.