Ultrasound of the small pelvis when to do: before or after?

Often, the fairer sex has to visit the ultrasound diagnosis room. Such a study allows you to discover the available pathologies in time and begin the correct treatment. If you are wondering about the time of the pelvic ultrasound, when to do (on which day) it, the article will tell you.

Visit the doctor

Ultrasound of the small pelvis when necessary? The manipulation is usually appointed by a gynecologist. The prerequisites for research can be the following situations:

• Menstrual cycle or long bleeding;
• Pain in the lower abdomen;
• Discharge with an unpleasant odor;
• Neoplasms in the cavity of the small pelvis;
• Pregnancy or suspicion of it;
• Poor smear test result;
• An increase in organs (ovaries and uterus), found during palpation;
• Inflammatory processes of the small pelvis and so on.

When it is better to do ultrasound of the small pelvis (before or after the month), the gynecologist will tell. Much depends on the situation itself (symptoms, the patient's condition, her age, and so on). Let's consider some variants of carrying out of diagnostic manipulation.

General examination

If you are advised to use a small pelvic ultrasound, when to do research? With standard manipulation, it is recommended that you assign the procedure to the first half of the cycle. Gynecologists are advised to go to a specialist immediately after the end of the bleeding. Earlier, to conduct ultrasound simply does not make sense. During menstruation, the uterus is filled with blood. Diagnosis can not give reliable information.

It is also not recommended to conduct a pre-monthly study. The fact is that in the second phase of the cycle progesterone is actively allocated. This hormone promotes thickening of the endometrium. If you at this time visit the ultrasound room, the specialist may simply not see minor defects in the mucous membrane of the genital organ. These can be polyps or fibroids.

The first half of the cycle is the best time for the pelvic ultrasound. When to do the procedure? With a normal cycle, this is the 5th-7th day. If menstruation is short, and the cycle is short, it will be 3-5 days. At a long female period it is possible to carry out diagnostics from the 5th to the 10th day.

Folliculometry

If you are planning a pregnancy, then you will see a pelvic ultrasound. When to do better to track ovulation? In this situation, doctors usually recommend a mid-cycle study. But much depends on the individual characteristics of women. If the standard duration of the second phase is 10-14 days, then by simple calculations you can set an approximate day of ovulation. Diagnosis begins to do a few days before.

Folliculometry begins after menstruation, and ends before another bleeding. The final stage of the procedure involves the detection of the yellow body and confirmation of the ovulation that has taken place. This can be done already in the second half of the cycle.

Definition of pregnancy

If you have a suspicion of pregnancy, then to get reliable data you need to have a pelvic ultrasound. When to do it in this case? This diagnosis involves the detection of a fetal egg in the uterine cavity. See the set of cells the ultrasound machine can only two weeks after the supposed day of the month. Some devices have a more modern approach. They find pregnancy a few days after the delay.

The fact of pregnancy is always found in the second phase of the cycle. Diagnosis is prescribed in the absence of menstruation for more than five days.

After abortion or childbirth

When is it better to do ultrasound of the small pelvis - after the menstrual cycle or before? If it is a question of a perfect abortion, then the diagnosis should be done about 5-7 days after scraping. These days, women are bleeding, which doctors do not refer to menstruation. The recovery of the same cycle will occur gradually over several months. Ultrasound diagnosis after abortion involves examining the uterine cavity for the remains of the fetal egg. If they are found, the woman needs additional medical manipulation.

After the birth of a child, all women must undergo an ultrasound examination. It is usually carried out even in the maternity hospital on the 5th day after childbirth. In this case, the menstrual cycle will be restored soon enough (provided breastfeeding). It turns out that after the birth of ultrasound should be carried out before menstruation (during the allocation of lochia).

In the climacteric period

Women after 40 years of age are prescribed regular ultrasound of the small pelvis. When is it better to do it? At this age, most of the women have menopause, which is replaced by a permanent menopause. In these periods, patients have irregular breakthrough bleeding. Women themselves call them another menstruation. It is worth noting that the period from one to another bleeding may be several months. Therefore, in this case, ultrasound is carried out before the start of menstruation (without waiting for it).

Summarize

You learned about the time at which it is better to do ultrasound examination of the pelvic organs. In many ways, the chosen cycle days depend on the reasons for the diagnosis. If the study involves examining the cavity of the genital organ, then it is recommended to select the first days of the cycle (after the menstrual period). When the purpose of diagnosis is the ovaries, the advantage is given to the middle of the menstrual cycle.

If you are in doubt about when to do a pelvic ultrasound, contact your gynecologist. Prepare to inform the doctor about the nature of your menstrual cycle (its duration, intensity of bleeding and regularity). After that, the specialist will set the dates that are appropriate in your case. All the best to you, do not be ill!