Don’t take tylenol or another tylenol containing product before reading this article. It might save your liver! I know the feeling: the pain has suddenly come on intensely, a sharp, jabbing, thrusting pain and you feel a pit in your stomach. Perhaps, the endo is back. Perhaps, the pain has increased. If this isn’t the first time you have experienced this symptoms, you probably have...
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Endometriosis: There are many theories about how one ends up with endometriosis. Hormones made by your ovaries: estrogen, progesterone, LH and FSH can control the growth of the lesions and where they end up in your body. Usually, it is an imbalance between the hormones that causes the lesions to grow. For example, high estradiol levels (a type of estrogen) and low progesterone levels, causing...
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endometriosis The short answer is: you don’t know, unless you have a laparoscopy or other surgical procedure to either visually confirm the presence of endometriosis or to test the tissue with the lesion. That is how my diagnosis was performed. If you do have surgery and your doctor finds endometriosis, the medical community will classify it based on a system developed by the American Society...
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The normal standard of care (a fancy medical phrase for what is considered the normal practice) uses the following methods to treat your endometriosis: ~ Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (often referred to as NSAIDs): including Advil, Motrin, Aleve, Anaprox and Naproxyn. Challenges: you cannot take them for a long time as they can destroy your GI tract. NSAIDS end up causing holes in your GI tract...
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