what are the signs of endometriouis?

Question

has any one had it and what are the signs and how do u get it?and how do u get rid of it

Answer 1

What are the symptoms?
While some women with endometriosis never have symptoms, others develop mild, moderate, or severe pain. Depending on where the endometriosis is growing, pain can be in the lower belly or in the rectum or vagina. Pain can happen only before and during the menstrual period or on a constant basis. For some women, pain is most noticeable during sex, a bowel movement, or ovulation. Abnormal vaginal or rectal bleeding can be a sign of endometriosis.

Endometriosis can sometimes make it difficult to get pregnant. Some women never know that they have endometriosis until they see a doctor because they are not able to get pregnant (infertility).

If you have endometriosis, it is likely to be different for you than for another woman who has it. If you have symptoms, they may stay the same, improve, or suddenly get worse. They are likely to improve during pregnancy. For almost all women, endometriosis shrinks away and stops causing symptoms after menopause.

How is it treated?
There is no cure for endometriosis. However, you do have options for treating pain and infertility. These include slowing, stopping, or removing endometriosis implants and scar tissue. Your treatment choices depend on whether you plan to get pregnant in the future. You may need to try several different treatments to find one that works best for you.

Pain. For endometriosis that causes only mild symptoms, you may get enough relief with home treatment such using as a heating pad and taking pain medicine that you can buy without a prescription.

When pain medicine is not enough, many women get relief by controlling their menstrual cycles with birth control pills. The advantage of birth control pills is that they are the only hormone therapy that most women can take for years with few or no side effects.

If birth control pills do not help, you may try other hormone therapies that work by lowering the body's estrogen levels. This can cause difficult side effects, however. All hormone therapies relieve endometriosis pain by shrinking endometriosis implants. Overall, they all work well to relieve pain for most women. 2 However, pain often returns several months after treatment ends.

Removing implants or scar tissue with surgery relieves pain for most women. However, pain usually returns a year or two after surgery. Taking hormone medicine after surgery may help you stay pain-free longer. 3, 4

As a last resort for pain treatment, some women have the uterus and ovaries removed (hysterectomy and oophorectomy). Having your ovaries removed drops your estrogen levels and starts early menopause. This relieves symptoms in most cases, but up to 15% of women have pain return. 5 Also, removing your uterus and ovaries is a major surgery that has its own risks. It also makes you permanently unable to become pregnant. For more information, see the topic Hysterectomy.

Infertility. Depending on your age (fertility naturally declines after age 35) and how severe your endometriosis is, you have different options. You can improve your chances of pregnancy by having laparoscopic surgery to remove moderate to severe endometriosis, using intrauterine insemination and fertility drugs such as clomiphene (Clomid, for example), and/or having in vitro fertilization (IVF).

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Symptoms of endometriosis vary from person to person. In some cases there are no symptoms.

However, the most common symptoms include:

painful periods,
heavy periods,
pelvic pain,
pain during sexual intercourse,
bleeding in between periods,
subfertility (difficulty in becoming pregnant) or infertility, and
low backache.

The exact cause of endometriosis is not known, but there are a number of theories:

Retrograde menstruation:

This is the process of the womb lining (endometrium) flowing backwards through the fallopian tubes and into the abdomen, instead of leaving the body as menstrual blood. This tissue then embeds itself on to the organs of the pelvis and grows, becoming endometriosis. It is believed that this happens to most women but that most are able to clear the tissue naturally without it becoming a problem.

Genetic disposition:

Endometriosis is sometimes believed to be hereditary, being passed down through the genes of family members. It is rare in women of Afro-Caribbean origin and more common in Asian women than in white (Caucasian) women. This suggests that genetics may be involved.

Spreading through the bloodstream or lymphatic system:

Although it is not known how, endometriosis cells are believed to get into the bloodstream or lymphatic system (a network of tubes, glands and organs that is part of the body's defence against infection). In very rare cases, endometriosis cells are found in remote places such as the eyes or brain; this theory could explain how they get there.

Immune dysfunction:

It is believed that some women are not able to effectively fight off endometriosis. Many women with the condition are said to have lower immunity to other conditions.

Metaplasia:

This is the name given to the process of one type of cell changing into another. It is this development which allows the human body to grow as a natural process in the womb before birth. It has been suggested that endometriosis can develop when the baby's womb is first forming, or, that the womb can retain the ability to transform cells.

IF YOU THINK YOU MIGHT HAVE THIS GO AND SEE YOUR DOCTOR

Answer 4

What are the Symptoms of Endometriosis?

Pain before and during periods
Pain with sex
Infertility
Fatigue
Painful urination during periods
Painful bowel movements during periods
Other Gastrointestinal upsets such as diarrhea, constipation, nausea.

In addition, many women with endometriosis suffer from:

Allergies
Chemical sensitivities
Frequent yeast infections
Diagnosis is considered uncertain until proven by laparoscopy, a minor surgical procedure done under anesthesia. A laparoscopy usually shows the location, size, and extent of the growths. This helps the doctor and patient make better treatment choices.

Answer 5

Endometriouis is bleeding of the ovarys internally and it is VERY painful. you will have heavy periods and generally intense cramping more often then just your period time a month. best overall is to check with you doc, to make sure that you do or do not before you worry to much.. good luck and look into all options but if you feel ANYTHING unusual about your time of the month, your doctor if the best person to ask ALWAYS! ;-)

Answer 6

Endometrious is very hard to diagnose.

If you are having very clotted periods, excessive cramping or experiencing pain duing intercourse then you may want to speak with a talented gynecologist.

the treatment for endometrious ranges from birth control bills to a D and C's.

Answer 7

Go to:
http://www.womenshealthmatters.ca
Click on A-Z Health
A-Z index
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Endometriosis

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Hay, Jess. I can't even pronounce it.
So. I must not have it. <}:-})

Answer 10

http://www.sidedirectory.com/Kids_and_Teens/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Endometriosis.aspx

try here for detailed answers