What are the early symptoms of ovarian inflammation?

Patient's question:

What are the early symptoms of ovarian inflammation? How can you determine if it is ovarian inflammation? Recently, I've been experiencing lower abdominal pain, discomfort in the lower abdomen, increased vaginal discharge, yellow vaginal discharge, vaginal odor, and menstrual irregularities. These symptoms keep appearing.

Doctor's answer:

Non-specific ovarian inflammation includes acute and chronic orchitis. Acute orchitis is more common, while chronic orchitis is less common. Ovarian inflammation is often included in pelvic inflammatory disease, so clinically, the following signs and symptoms are commonly observed:
1. Acute orchitis may present with fever, abdominal pain (dull pain, without radiation to other areas), lumbosacral pain, and a sense of rectal fullness or pressure.
2. Chronic orchitis symptoms are usually included in chronic pelvic inflammatory disease, such as lumbosacral discomfort or aching pain, rectal fullness or pressure, poor appetite, generalized fatigue and weakness, poor mental state, menstrual changes (most commonly increased menstrual flow), or even lower abdominal masses.
Gynecological examination: In acute cases, there may be lower abdominal tenderness and guarding, rebound tenderness, cervical motion tenderness, a full posterior fornix, and sometimes palpable, poorly defined, soft masses in the adnexal region. In chronic cases, there may be lower abdominal tenderness, adnexal thickening, or even masses.

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