does endometriosis mean spider webbing of femine organs?

Answer 1

No. Endometriosis is when the lining of the uterous builds up and the woman (or girl) has heavy, uncomfortable periods. Getting pregnant is nearly impossible and there's not much you can do about it. :(

Answer 2

The site is helpful, coming from someone who has it and has undergone several treatments and have studied it and is in the medical field i'll give you a brief rundown. Endometriosis, endometriosis is, when you have a period you build up lining inside the uterus, when you have a period, ones own body is supposed to expel all this tissue during a menstrual cycle out vaginally, but what happens with those who have endometriosis, the uterus contacts and expels parts of this uterine lining that contains lots of blood tissue up through the uterus and out through the fallopian tubes and out back through the tubes, ovaries, adnexal tissue, uterus, some even as far as the stomach, and some other organs! You can create spider webbing in more extreme cases. I had this, on my left side, creating it impossible for me to ovulate on my left because the webbing had cut off the flow of my left fallopian tube. The way to properly diagnose this is to have a laparoscopy. Not just a pelvic exam, or an ultrasound due to endometriosis being tissue and not masses.

A laparoscopy is a same day procedure. They make 2 incisions, one through the belly button and one about...5 inches lower. If they see endometriosis they cauterize it and remove it. This does leave scarring but does help with the pain that comes from the endometriosis. After the endometriosis is removed the next course of action may be to put you on Lupron Depot. This is HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!! Did I say horrible. Well it does work but you have horrible side effects. It is a 6 month course of medication that is injected. You have horrible mood swings, your body goes into menopause not producing estrogen because endometriosis feeds off of estrogen, just feel awful, you have memory loss. Just like a menopausal woman. I did this, had to. I was diagnosed with severe endometriosis about, 6 years ago when I was 24. It took about 4-5 years to finally get diagnosed with it. When you are on this medication you can do an add back therapy. Meaning, to decrease some of the side effects they can put you on a low dose estrogen, just to take the edge off the hormonalness!! Trust me its BAD... oh did I mention the HOT FLASHES!! Also if this medication is used after the surgery take calcium because it can reduce the bone mineral density! Trust me, I am suffering the consequences now.

Overall, endometriosis is not nice, it can damage your female organs making you infertile. Getting it taken care of and diagnosing it sooner is better.

If you have it... take care of it before it gets worse. Hope this helped some.

Answer 3

No. Endometriosis is the presence of implants similar to the endometrium (lining of the uterus that is shed during periods) located elsewhere in the body. Typically, Endometriosis is located throughout the pelvis, but it has been found as far as even the brain. Unlike normal endometrium that is shed from the body during the period, with Endometriosis, the aberrant implants have no way of exiting the body and hence invade the surrounding tissue, bleeding and shedding debris as normal endometrium would. The result can be pain, infertility, and a multitude of other symptoms. Endometriosis is incurable, though there are treatments that can relieve the symptoms. The disease is often multi-systemic, associated with other reproductive and/or immunological ailments. The "spider webbing" you are speaking of are likely adhesions that are present, particularly at higher stages of the disease. In some cases, the pelvic organs can literally become fused together. The gold standard of diagnosis and treatment is surgical laparoscopy; without a laparoscopy with confirming histology results, diagnosis is considered uncertain. Laparoscopy involves anywhere from 2-5 incisions in the pelvic region (and one though the belly button) in which small scopes, tools and cameras are introduced, allowing the surgeon to remove the disease. Unfortunately, many surgeons are not truly skilled enough to recognize all disease in all locations, and are unable to effectively remove it, so they put their patients on Lupron afterwards - a temporary hormonal suppressant with horrific side effects. Once the drug wears off, the symptoms return with a vengeance because the disease was never actually removed. See www.centerforendo.com on truly effective removal and see www.endocenter.org for help with education, coping and support. Both sites are free. Good luck to you.

Answer 4

I was 30 when I was first diagnosed with endometriosis, after the unbelievable heavy bleeding during the periods. I had my first diagnostic surgery in 1998 and they also removed some of the lesions and the cysts on that occasion. From that point on it was a crazy dance with my life revolving around my disease and the days of my life going by me as if I was just a spectator. I was on Lupron that offered some help but destroyed me financially.

My parents were basically living on the verge of poverty just so that they can help me pay for my Lupron. I had a partial hysterectomy in 2005 and I was a bit better for approximately a year. And after endometriosis and pain returned in 2006, I remember that I just gave up any hope that I will lead a normal life ever again.

I was never able to maintain a healthy relationship and I gave up on that, too. I found out about this eBook (http://tinyurl.com/EndometriosisB ) on the internet and the few clicks changed everything. I could not believe that I have been suffering needlessly for so long. I will not be able to have children because my fallopian tubes and ovaries are removed, but I am just thankful that I am again able to lead a healthy full life...

Answer 5

Endometriosis is when endometrial tissue occurs outside of the uterus. Endometrial tissue is found usually on the inside of the uterus and shed during the menstrual cycle.

A woman with endometriosis commonly has endometrial tissue outside of the uterus and in the abdominal cavity. Obviously there are more organs than the uterus there, and the tendency for this tissue to stick to the outer walls of these organs. These can stick organs together and during normal movement cause the organs to be constricted or stretched unnaturally. Part of this causes endometrial pain, but the cause of pain in general is not conclusive, and it is thought that more pain occurs than from the physical presence of the cells.

This could be like a spider web in a way, but mu understanding from my late wife that saw a few ablation surgeries, was that the amount of tissue was very tiny, in contrast to the pain she experienced when she had endometriosis pain.

Endometriosis funnily enough is not restricted to the abdominal cavity, and has be found in the brain in rare cases (one would hazard a guess that the tissue broke off and travelled in the blood stream and grew from its new location. Likewise strangely enough, endometriosis is not limited to women, although rare, some men have endometriosis.

hope this answers your question

Answer 6

Endometriosis can lead to adhesions in the abdomen when the endometrial tissue grown on surrounding organs. This sometimes looks like 'spider webbing'. This does not happen in all cases of endometriosis.

Answer 7

I am sceptical about no three, because I cannot see how it could be accurately measured, and it would be a rough approximation at best. The others are all correct; as far as I am aware.. Here's an amazing fact about spider silk: Silkworm silk is a continuous monofilament. Some spider silk, on the other hand, has to be 'springy', and to achieve this, the spider spins a number of little blobs along the thread. Under the microscope, these little blobs turn out to be complex coiled springs of silk, which if stretched out would make the thread many times longer.

Answer 8

No, endometriosis is the lining of the uterus that forms on the outside of the uterus. It can attach to other organs in the body, not just the other female organs.

Hope this helps.

Answer 9

endometriosis is a condition, usually resulting in pain and dysmenorrhea, that is characterized by the abnormal occurrence of functional endometrial tissue outside the uterus.

Answer 10

Here is all the info you could ever need about endometriosis:

http://www.endometriosisassn.org/