False pregnancy symptoms and their causes
The medical name for the rare disease is pseudocyesis. The woman is absolutely sure that she is pregnant, and characteristic changes are actually occurring in her body.
Symptoms of a false pregnancy will reveal a UZIFoto: Getty The first signs resemble the classic beginning of pregnancy. It:
- Delay of menstruation. The condition sometimes arises because of stress.
- Breast Augmentation. The situation provokes problems with the menstrual cycle, obesity or just unusual food.
- Nausea in the morning. It leads to nervous tension caused by thoughts about future motherhood.
With these ailments, a malfunction occurshormones caused by psychological factors. The reasons for pseudo-regulation are not known until the end. A strong desire to become pregnant or, conversely, fear of future motherhood is perceived by the brain as a reality. As a result, the hormonal background changes. The infertility is also caused by infertility, habitual miscarriages, depressive disorders. Scientists have noticed that pseudocyesis occurs more often in women from poor families with a low level of education. The disease is typical for victims of abuse or sexual abuse in childhood.
Secondary symptoms of false pregnancy in women
It is very difficult to distinguish real symptoms from imaginary ones. The further the disease develops, the more manifestations there are. Among them:
- Increase of abdomen. It gradually grows, as if a fetus forms in it. In fact, it is a fatty tissue or a cluster of gases and feces.
- Movement of the child. 60% of women with an imaginary pregnancy claim to feel like a child is pushed from the inside. This is pure auto-suggestion.
- Soreness and pigmentation of the breast, secretion of a substance similar to milk.
- Weight gain.
- Inverted navel.
- Increased appetite.
- Expansion of the uterus and softening of its cervix.
- Pain in the abdomen, similar to contractions.
These phenomena are observed, as a rule, in women inthe age of 25-33 years. But there are examples where pseudocyesis arose in patients 6 and 79 years old. The external symptoms of false pregnancy are misleading even doctors. It is necessary to make a blood test and ultrasound of the uterus. Studies will show the absence of fetus and help determine the methods of therapy.
