What is endometriosis?

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What is endometriosis

Answer 1

it's do to with the womb lining. i think its where parts of your womb lining break away causing heavy periods and cramping. i believe it can also affect your fertility too.

Answer 2

It is a medical condition in which the endometrium, the lining of the uterus, grows outside the uterus. Endometriosis can cause severe, debilitating pain.

Answer 3

Basically it's when the tissue that lines the uterus somehow gets attached to organs outside of the uterus.  Doctors don't know how this happens. It is very painful.  It can lead to infertility and painful sexual intercourse.  The tissue can be removed with a laser but because it's not known how it gets there in the first place, it can come back.  The most common treatment outside of surgery is taking birth control continuously without having a period.  Complete diagnosis for endometriosis occurs only after surgery.  Before then it's speculated that it's what you have.

Answer 4

It's when small parts of the lining of the uterus grow on other parts of the body, such as the nose.  For example, I have uterine lining in my bowel, which causes me to bleed rectally during my period.

Answer 5

its painful. google it and you'll find out more information on it.  

Answer 6

Endometriosis is a painful, chronic disease that affects 5 1/2 million women and girls in the USA and Canada, and millions more worldwide. It occurs when tissue like that which lines the uterus (tissue called the endometrium) is found outside the uterus -- usually in the abdomen on the ovaries, fallopian tubes, and ligaments that support the uterus; the area between the v****a and r****m; the outer surface of the uterus; and the lining of the pelvic cavity. Other sites for these endometrial growths may include the bladder, bowel, v****a, cervix, v***a, and in abdominal surgical scars. Less commonly they are found in the lung, arm, thigh, and other locations.

This misplaced tissue develops into growths or lesions which respond to the menstrual cycle in the same way that the tissue of the uterine lining does: each month the tissue builds up, breaks down, and sheds. Menstrual blood flows from the uterus and out of the body through the v****a, but the blood and tissue shed from endometrial growths has no way of leaving the body. This results in internal bleeding, breakdown of the blood and tissue from the lesions, and inflammation -- and can cause pain, infertility, scar tissue formation, adhesions, and bowel problems.

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.

What are the Symptoms of Endometriosis?

~Pain before and during periods

~Pain with s*x

~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