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Aw, I'm sorry, I really hope it's too soon to tell. My doctor might have me go in to check if I have endo with a laparoscopy. What are the symptoms?[/b]
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That's the great thing about endo, the symptoms vary greatly from woman to woman. The only realy consistent thing with endo is it's inconsistencies between women.
Some, like me, have a lot of pain that follows their cycle. Some only have the pain during AF, others, like me, have it for about 5 days during ovulation and then off and on until after AF is gone.
While endo is thought to be a reproductive disorder, you can actually have endometriosis tissue found anywhere in your body. Many women complain of leg pain during their period or ovulation, like I have, so it's suspected that I have endo in my leg as well. You can have bladder pain if you have some on or in your bladder, same thing with your bowels.
Then again, other women have absolutely no pain, yet they are just infertile because of all the scar tissue from it blocking the tubes and ovaries from even ovulating. Then there's also something that's similar to endo, but it's in the deep layers of the uterus causing scarring in the uterus which makes it hard for an egg to implant properly.
The endo tissue thrives on estrogen and actualy produces small quantities of estrogen itself. There is no cure. The best treatment option is to have a laparascopy done and have an endo specialist who knows what to look for (as some of the lesions are clear) and that knows how to do excision surgery(cut the lesions all the way out like they would do with cancer cells). Most doctors only know how to do laser ablation or in other words, cauterizing the lesions. While this can give some pain relief it does not get rid of the lesions, it just take care of it for a little bit, but it will come back. It's rare for it to come back if you have a skilled endo specialist, but there aren't too many of them who truly know what they are doing and most don't take insurance.
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