What causes lower abdominal pain in men?

Lower abdominal pain is a very common symptom of physical illness, but the causes of lower abdominal pain are very complicated, including many digestive system diseases and reproductive system diseases, which can easily lead to abdominal pain. So, if a man has lower abdominal pain, what is the main reason? The editor has summarized several main reasons for you.

1. Normal phenomenon

After a lot of exercise, male friends may experience dull pain on the right side of the abdomen. This pain is not a disease, but a normal phenomenon. It will gradually recover after proper rest. So don't worry. At the same time, experts also remind male friends to exercise in moderation.

2. Appendicitis

The most common disease causing right lower abdominal pain in men is appendicitis.

①Acute appendicitis

Typical acute appendicitis has pain in the upper middle abdomen or around the umbilical cord at the beginning, and after a few hours the pain moves and becomes fixed in the right lower abdomen. When the inflammation affects the serous layer and parietal peritoneum, the pain becomes fixed in the right lower abdomen, and the original upper middle abdomen or around the umbilical cord pain is reduced or disappears. Therefore, the absence of a typical history of migratory right lower abdominal pain cannot exclude acute appendicitis.

Simple appendicitis often presents with paroxysmal or persistent bloating and blunt pain. Persistent severe pain often indicates suppurative or gangrenous appendicitis. Persistent severe pain affecting the middle and lower abdomen or both sides of the lower abdomen is often a sign of appendicitis gangrene perforation.

②Chronic appendicitis

Abdominal pain is pain in the right lower abdomen, characterized by intermittent dull pain or bloating, sometimes severe and sometimes mild, and in a relatively fixed location. Most patients experience abdominal pain after a full meal, exercise, fatigue, cold, and long-term standing.

Patients often experience varying degrees of indigestion and loss of appetite. Patients with a longer course of illness may become emaciated and lose weight. Generally, there is no nausea, vomiting, or abdominal distension, but elderly patients may have constipation.

3. Caused by prostate disease

It has been clinically confirmed that dull pain in the right abdomen caused by prostatitis is very common in clinical practice. Patients should receive targeted treatment according to their condition. If the following conditions occur, it is basically prostate disease.

① Abnormal urination, initially there is discomfort during urination, a feeling of incomplete urination, or a burning sensation, frequent urination, urgency, pain, and itching. A small number of patients find that there is secretion sticking to the urethra in the early morning, and the residual urine after urination soaks the clothes and pants.

② Local or systemic pain, often bloating and cramping, radiating to the glans penis and perineum, can cause pain in the lumbar sacral region, hip, perineum, suprapubic region and abdomen, and sometimes radiating to the testicles and groin.

The above contents are the main reasons why men experience lower abdominal pain. In fact, there are more than the above contents. It also includes gastrointestinal ulcers leading to perforation, acute cholecystitis, acute pancreatitis, and intestinal obstruction, which can also cause severe pain. It is recommended that you must first find out the cause and then prescribe the right medicine, otherwise it is easy to backfire.