Algomenorrhea - a morbid menses, frequent frustration of menstrual function at girls and young women. Frequency of an algomenorrhea, on various data, changes from 8 up to 80 %, thus often statistically consider only those its cases which are accompanied by deterioration of the general condition of the woman, reduce a normal level of its activity or demand the certain medical intervention. The algomenorrhea represents cyclic pathological process: in days of a menses there are expressed pains in a bottom of a stomach which can be accompanied by sharp general delicacy, a nausea, a vomiting, a headache, a giddiness, absence of appetite, a fervescence up to 37-38 degrees with a cold fit, dryness in a mouth or a hypersalivation, an abdominal distention, sensation of "wadded" legs, syncopes both other emotional and vegetative frustration. Sometimes a leading sign can be one of the listed complaints disturbing the patient more, than a pain.

Strong pains exhaust nervous system, promote development of an asthenic condition, reduce memory and working capacity. The signs accompanying a morbid menses, it is possible to part all on is emotional -mental, vegetative, vegetovascular and metabolic endocrine. To is emotional-mental disturbances carry irritability, an anorexia, depression, a sleepiness, a sleeplessness, a bulimia, an intolerance of smells, the food faddism, etc. Vegetative frustration are usually shown by a nausea, an eructation, a hiccup, a chilling, sensation of fever, a sweating, a hyperthermia, dryness in a mouth, a frequent emiction, an abdominal distention, etc. Vegetovascular signs are more often expressed by syncopes, headaches, giddinesses, a tachycardia or a bradycardia, pains in heart, a cold snap and feeling of a numbness of arms and legs, edemas of blepharons, faces, etc. Metabolic endocrine signs meet in the form of a vomiting, sensation of "wadded" legs, sharp delicacy, an itch of a skin, joint pains, edemas, a polyuria, etc. the Algomenorrhea it is accepted to section on primary and secondary.

At a primary algomenorrhea women, as a rule, do not have pathological changes of genitals. At a secondary algomenorrhea occurrence hurt in the bottom of a stomach during a menses it is bound with various, more often gynecologic diseases. The secondary algomenorrhea is characteristic for such diseases, as an endometriosis, inflammatory diseases of organs of a small basin, anomaly of development of internal genitals, a varicose phlebectasia of a basin, etc.

Among all reasons of absence of girls this frustration of menstrual function wins first place in school. In the first years of disease of a pain during a menses usually happen, tolerant, short-term and do not influence working capacity. Eventually can be observed intensifying be ill, augmentation of their duration, occurrence of the new signs accompanying a pain. Pains, as a rule, begin 12 hours prior to or in the first day of a menstrual cycle and proceed during the first 2-42 hours, less often during all menses. At the compensated form of disease the expression and character of pathological process in days of a menses eventually do not change. At not compensated form intensity hurt every year accrues.