The Endo Girls Blog – Kate and Laura
We keep up to date on the latest endometriosis education topics. We will help you learn how to fight for better care. If you are fighting for better care, we can help you. If you feel hopeless and helpless, we can help you. There is so much to learn about the disease and it is easy to get wrapped up in misinformation. Without proper endometriosis education, you can spend years of your life being wasted on failed treatments. It is necessary to understand that there are no medical treatment options for endometriosis.
Birth control and other hormone therapies can relieve pain for some, but it will not remove or cure the disease. Ablation surgery is what is commonly practiced by OBGYNs and it does nothing more than remove the surface of the disease. In order to completely remove the disease, excision surgery has to be done. The hard part is finding a specialist who can do the surgery because it requires much more training.
More often than not it is persistence (it persists because it was not completely cut out) This happens because it was inadequately treated – either ablated (typically burnt) or not completely excised (tissue around the lesion was left behind, it wasn’t cut out deep enough, etc.) …
When we talk about Endometriosis not showing up on imaging, we don’t always clarify that we are referring to Endometriosis lesions, and someone inevitably says their Endometriosis was seen on an MRI or Ultrasound. Then…
These hormonal therapies do not treat Endometriosis, but can assist in treating Endometriosis related pain. Combined Oral Contraceptives: Pills: Ortho Tri-Cyclen – Ethinyl Estradiol and norgestimate Yaz and Yasmin – Ethinyl Estradiol and Drospirenone Loestrin…
Hormone suppression (combined pill, progestin-only pill, IUD, etc) can absolutely help the pain associated with Endometriosis in some individuals. This is not to be confused with the suppression of the actual disease. Estrogen is produced…
The Hypothalamic Pituitary Gonadal Axis: This is a quick 4 minute video I made describing the process in which ovaries are instructed to produce Estrogen and Progesterone. This process provides a better understanding to how…
I have included the discussion and list of questions here…
I’m not going to lie, before I went to my first pelvic physical therapy session, I was skeptical that it would really help the post-surgery pain I was feeling. I had been told three different…
One of the most frustrating aspects of Endometriosis is finding a competent surgeon to treat Endometriosis properly. We go years, an average of 7-10, looking for a diagnosis. When we finally get an answer to…
On January 15, 2018, I had my last surgery. Exactly one year ago I was back in Atlanta having more body parts removed, but maybe even more importantly, one year ago today I was able…
There are a lot of Endometriosis websites and blogs out there, but we see a need for an additional blog that addresses the actual process of researching and accessing proper care: how to navigate what…