Okay so I am bored with blogging about endometriosis which
means if I am bored other people were bored yesterday! So today I am wrapping
it up in a pretty bow.
Both my OBGYN and Fertility doctor say that the very best
treatment is pregnancy. If a woman does not want to be pregnant a lot of times
doctors will put patients of meds to simulate pregnancy. Meds such as birth control
or injections and hormones like progesterone and estrogen.
Because endometriosis causes scarring with each period it is
common for doctors to have patients skip periods for extended time. For example
be on birth control for 6 months then have a period and go back on for another
6 months. Doctors can also prescribe a
drug that has a weird name, but the abbreviation is GnRH and it suppress estrogen
production and stops the secretion of other hormones thus mimicking menopause
and a woman’s menstration stops. Seriously
who would want menopausal symptoms in their 20’s? just asking…
There are several surgical options as well. Laparoscopy is
done using a laser to remove scarring. I have had laparoscopy surgery done. There is some pretty cool technology out there today. Mine was done using a robotic laparoscopy. Some people even go the extremes of
having their ovaries and uterus removed to stop the pain. When I was first
diagnosed I was reading online and found a 27 year old woman who had done that.
The bad thing with endometriosis is if you do not get all of it removed you
will stay have pain. This is what happened to that 27 year old. She still
experiences the pain of endometriosis because not all of it was taken out.
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| robotic laparoscopy. |
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