Serious Menstrual Cramps May Be the Herald of Chocolate Cyst Disease

Chocolate cyst is a problem frequently seen in women of reproductive age. In women who have severe menstrual cramps in particular, the rate at which chocolate cyst is seen is as high as 60%.

For this reason women need to keep track of their menstrual periods and, if they experience a situation that is out of the ordinary, definitely to go to a specialist.

Although it is known that approximately 2 million women in Turkey have the problem of chocolate cyst, women’s awareness about this matter is unfortunately not at an adequate level.

It is very important, particularly for young girls, to become aware about this matter and to have check-ups carried out regularly so that they do not experience problems such as infertility in the long term.

Women who have an intense menstrual period accept this situation. Pain in the groin and the lower abdominal region and excessive bleeding may in fact be a symptom of chocolate cyst.

However, in our country there is a situation in which menstrual cramps are accepted as a habit passed from mothers to their daughters. Women need to be more careful particularly in conditions such as myomas and chocolate cyst where the likelihood of their being related to family history and genetic factors is high.

If there are women in the person’s family who cannot become pregnant or who have repeated miscarriages, chocolate cyst or myoma formations should be looked for behind this problem.

Although it is thought that women’s diseases appear with advancing age, when it comes to chocolate cyst every woman between the ages of 15 and 50 is within the risk group.

Chocolate cyst, which is seen, even if rarely, before the adolescent period and after entering the menopause, appears much more frequently after the age of 25.

While under normal conditions, that is to say in women of childbearing age between 15 and 50, the rate at which endometriosis is seen is 10%, this rate becomes 60% in women who have severe menstrual cramps and 70% in women whose mother or sister has the problem of endometriosis.

For this reason it is very important for young girls both to talk to the women in their family and not to overlook severe menstrual cramps. As well as being able to cause problems that lower the person’s quality of life, advancing endometriosis can also bring with it problems such as infertility or miscarriage.