The Endo Girls Blog – Kate and Laura
Finding the right surgeon for your endometriosis surgery is the only way to make sure the disease is getting removed. Many of the doctors doing endometriosis surgeries are OBGYNs who have not had any additional training to be a proper surgeon. For a surgeon to be able to identify and remove endometriosis they have to go through additional training and practice. The properly training surgeon will know where to look, what to look for, and how to safely remove from any part of the body. These surgeons will have a team they work with for patients who have endometriosis is areas that require another specialist. Because the disease is so complex, it requires a high skill set to do the surgery. We will provide resources for how to find the right doctor for you and where they are located.
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.) …
I have included the discussion and list of questions here…
March was Endometriosis awareness month, and April is Adenomyosis (add-en-o-my-OH-sis) awareness month! These two diseases are often described as “sister” conditions because they can often show up in the same woman and their symptoms overlap.…