Can ovarian cysts cause back pain?

Can ovarian cysts cause back and leg pain?

Women often experience low back pain due to their physiological characteristics such as menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding. Menstrual disorders, leucorrhea, pregnancy disorders, gynecological diseases, and post-abortion can also cause low back pain. Common causes of clinical manifestations include:

1. Abnormal uterine position: Low back pain is caused by anteversion, retroflexion, prolapse of the uterus, etc. There is no special treatment for this type of low back pain, but correcting uterine prolapse and changing body position can relieve the symptoms.

2. Pelvic inflammatory disease Patients with chronic adnexitis, pelvic inflammatory disease, and pelvic connective tissue inflammation may experience low back pain due to inflammation. As the primary disease improves or heals, the low back pain symptoms may gradually become lighter and disappear.

3. Patients with pelvic tumors such as uterine fibroids, cervical cancer, and ovarian cysts may experience low back pain due to tumor compression of nerves or cancer cells infiltrating pelvic connective tissue. Such patients often experience widespread pain in the entire abdomen when they have low back pain, and drug treatment is often ineffective.

4. Sacrospinous ligament relaxation After pregnancy, the fetus grows larger and the waist support increases, which leads to sacrospinous ligament relaxation, compressing the pelvic nerves and blood vessels and causing low back pain. This type of low back pain generally disappears gradually as the waist muscle strength recovers after delivery.

5. Lumbar muscle strain Excessive fatigue, abnormal standing and sitting postures, and too tight waistbands can all lead to lumbar muscle strain and cause lumbago. Such patients should pay attention to combining work and rest, and move their waists frequently to stretch their waist muscles.