Symptoms of false pregnancy in women. For what reasons there is a false pregnancy

False pregnancy in women: truth or fiction?

Doctors are still puzzling over the phenomenon of false pregnancy in women and its intricacies, so this phenomenon has not yet been fully studied. False pregnancy in women is extremely rare, but is characterized by rather complex mental disorders.

With false pregnancy syndrome, a woman displays all the signs that expectant mothers experience. This is the absence of a menstrual cycle, and hormonal disruption, and nausea, and toxicosis, and abdominal growth, but in fact there is no trace of pregnancy.

Today, modern equipment allows you to quickly recognize a false pregnancy, in contrast to the old days, when women were hospitalized “with contractions.”

The risk of false pregnancy is most often exposed to young women who have not given birth under 35 years of age. But this does not exclude cases when a false pregnancy is manifested in women in adulthood and have repeatedly given birth.

False pregnancy symptoms

False pregnancy is called this because the symptoms of a real pregnancy and its “analogue” are very, very similar. Therefore, it will be very difficult for an inexperienced woman to confuse the symptoms, although before the first visit to the gynecologist, who will quickly dispel all illusions about this.

The most typical symptoms of false pregnancy in women are:

• little or no discharge during the menstrual cycle (and the menstrual cycle itself will not recover until doctors intervene);

• women often have breast enlargement, morning sickness and even vomiting;

• with a false pregnancy, as well as with a real one, the woman’s weight begins to increase, the belly grows and a typical curvature of the spine, called lordosis, appears;

• with a false pregnancy, as well as with a real one, the woman’s weight begins to increase, the belly grows and a typical curvature of the spine, called lordosis, appears;

• in rare cases, a woman with a false pregnancy feels the movements of the fetus;

• a woman’s mood often changes, she begins to be capricious and gets tired quickly.

It is worth noting the fact that with a false pregnancy, a woman does not deceive anyone, because she really considers herself “in position.” Her false pregnancy can even be confirmed by a pregnancy test.

Despite the fact that false pregnancy is more of a mental disorder, do not forget about the physical component. It is necessary, together with a gynecologist, to study each particular case, identify the cause of the phenomenon of an imaginary pregnancy and jointly begin treatment. But in this case, the difficulty lies in the fact that a woman in this state is very difficult to disbelieve that she has no pregnancy. Here, a consultation with a psychotherapist is already needed.

Causes of False Pregnancy

The main risk group for false pregnancy is suspicious and susceptible women who have experienced severe mental and emotional distress. Also, such women may have a very sensual attitude to the very thought of pregnancy, they either think too emotionally in a positive sense about the possible bearing of a child, or, on the contrary, this thought causes a storm of indignation in them.

Such emotional leaps are prone to women over the age of 35, who for a long time cannot conceive a child in any way, and there are several reasons for a false pregnancy for this:

• the woman desperately wants to have a child, but all her attempts turn out to be nothing;

• the reasons for a false pregnancy in a woman may lie in miscarriages that have occurred in the past or the death of an already born child;

• a woman wants to get pregnant in order to save a relationship with her husband;

• in her environment, a friend or several at once could become pregnant, which emotionally very strongly shocked her;

• the reasons for a false pregnancy in a woman may lie in the approaching menopause, before which she wants to become a mother at all costs;

• rarely, but there is such a phenomenon as a terrible unwillingness to have children, fear of bearing a child and subsequent troubles with him;

• among the reasons for a false pregnancy can be exclusively physical abnormalities. So, diseases of the endocrine system or the development of a tumor in the ovaries can be mistaken for a false pregnancy.

False pregnancy also occurs in animals; in women, this phenomenon is observed quite rarely, but regularly. If you notice that some of your friends or relatives have symptoms of false pregnancy, contact her first to a gynecologist, and then to a psychotherapist.