PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE
How do you know if you have PID?
PID can cause a variety of symptoms, varying in severity from ‘barely noticeable’ to *in hospital, on a drip, feeling very sick’. For example, chlamydia, being the sneaky little germ that it is, rarely gives significant symptoms initially. Gonorrhoea, however, is more likely to make its presence felt early on. Symptoms can include:
• lower abdominal pain (mild, moderate or severe)
• vaginal discharge
• deep pain with intercourse
• period problems—bleeding between periods, heavy, or painful periods
• fever
• vomiting.
The other tricky thing about this condition is that it can also be ‘acute’ or ‘chronic’. Acute means that the onset is fairly recent. Acute PID may present within a week or two of the infection being transmitted. Chronic means that it has been there a while. Chronic PID may give symptoms intermittently over a period of months or, in some cases, even years.
With so many variables (the fact that it can give rise to any or all of these symptoms, which can be mild, moderate or severe, and acute or chronic), it is not difficult to see why people sometimes have trouble diagnosing PID. We should, however, all be thinking of it whenever something is wrong in the pelvis, and go looking for it.
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