Treatment:
Treatment depends on the following factors:
Treatment 1: Hormone treatment may involve stopping the menstrual cycle and creating a state resembling pregnancy. This is called pseudopregnancy. It can help prevent the disease from getting worse. It's done using birth control pills containing estrogen and progesterone.
Women with severe symptoms or disease who do not want children in the future may surgery to remove the uterus ( hysterectomy), both ovaries, both fallopian tubes, and any remaining scar tissue or implants. Hormonal replacement therapy may be needed after removal of the ovaries.
Treatment 3: "Act Naturally" and reverse the process. This solution has been tested by a few known sufferers and has provided some really great results successfully eliminating their endometriosis after 4 years of living a consistent natual life. The idea is to get your mind, body and spirit back to healthy by getting rid of all of the things that may have contributed to your pain.
"Act Naturally" by selecting naturally grown foods, understanding what supplements you need, products with all natural items, finding the balance in your routine, regular fitness training, massage, accupuncture, chiropractic, water, colon cleanse, enemas, detox programs, clean out your life to simplify stressors, meditation, reading, working at a job that gives back to you, and identifying what relationships are helping you and hurting you. With this treatment it will vary with each person, and is generally formulated by your own intuitions. You want to dig deep and discover YOU. What you truly want from life. Your mind, body and spirit always knows what will be good for you, trust your instincts. More information on how to explore this can be found under "Act Naturally".
- Age
- Severity of symptoms
- Severity of disease
- Whether you want children in the future
Treatment 1: Hormone treatment may involve stopping the menstrual cycle and creating a state resembling pregnancy. This is called pseudopregnancy. It can help prevent the disease from getting worse. It's done using birth control pills containing estrogen and progesterone.
- Take the medicine continuously for 6 to 9 months before stopping the medicine for a week to have a period.
- This does not prevent scarring from the disease.
- It also does not reverse any physical changes that have already occurred.
- Side effects include spotting of blood, breast tenderness, nausea, and other hormonal side effects.
- Side effects may be bothersome and include depression, weight gain, and spotting of blood.
- Some women may be prescribed medicines that stop the ovaries from producing estrogen. These medicines are called gonadotropin agonist drugs and include nafarelin acetate (Synarel) and Depo Lupron.
- Potential side effects include menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes, vaginal dryness, mood changes, and early loss of calcium from the bones.
- Because of the bone density loss, this type of treatment is usually limited to 6 months. In some cases, it may be extended up to 1 year if small doses of estrogen and progesterone are slowly given to reduce the bone weakening side effects.
Women with severe symptoms or disease who do not want children in the future may surgery to remove the uterus ( hysterectomy), both ovaries, both fallopian tubes, and any remaining scar tissue or implants. Hormonal replacement therapy may be needed after removal of the ovaries.
Treatment 3: "Act Naturally" and reverse the process. This solution has been tested by a few known sufferers and has provided some really great results successfully eliminating their endometriosis after 4 years of living a consistent natual life. The idea is to get your mind, body and spirit back to healthy by getting rid of all of the things that may have contributed to your pain.
"Act Naturally" by selecting naturally grown foods, understanding what supplements you need, products with all natural items, finding the balance in your routine, regular fitness training, massage, accupuncture, chiropractic, water, colon cleanse, enemas, detox programs, clean out your life to simplify stressors, meditation, reading, working at a job that gives back to you, and identifying what relationships are helping you and hurting you. With this treatment it will vary with each person, and is generally formulated by your own intuitions. You want to dig deep and discover YOU. What you truly want from life. Your mind, body and spirit always knows what will be good for you, trust your instincts. More information on how to explore this can be found under "Act Naturally".
Prevention:
It is unknown what the exact cause is and therefore hard to say what will help, here are some options:
- Hormone treatments may help to prevent or slow down the development of the disease.
- Removing the endometriosis may offer temporary relief, however, the cells can still develop if you decide to keep your ovaries or ovary.
- Act Naturally...change the environment your body is currently living in, from the inside out.
- Identify what calms you... (meditation, yoga, journaling, running, swimming, working out, hobbies, etc)
- How much of your day do you give back to yourself?
- How much of your day goes to the service of others?
- Simplify
- Clean out your closet
- Put your files in order
- Take inventory of the foods you eat, supplements and other products that you use as a topical on your skin.
- Play with children and animals, remember what it was like to be a child
- Laugh, laugh, laugh
- Recycle your energy - how does what we consume effect everyone in the process of it's creation, what does it take from the Earth?
- What can we do to give back to it? How can we learn to become self sufficient?
- Journal your thoughts, your conversations can be the most fulfilling
