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Endometriosis Symptom and Treatment.

About 5.5 million women suffer from endometriosis, a condition that can cause intense pain and reproductive difficulties. Medical experts are divide on the cause of endometriosis and no conventional cure exists.

Mainstream endometriosis treatment options include hormone treatment and/or surgery. Conventional endometriosis treatment is difficult and often not very successful. Many women use complementary endometriosis treatment methods, like the use of progesterone cream, as a safe and effective alternative to conventional endometriosis treatments.

Diosgenin cream ingredients | Benefits diosgenin cream | How to use diosgenin cream.  |  Return to Eden Diosgenin (nicknamed Progesterone) Cream. Do you remember our newsletter last year detailing how Wyeth Pharmaceuticals was attempting to stop compounding pharmacists from prescribing natural progesterone (diosgenin) after their profits fell by more than 57%  from $2.07 billion in 2003 to $800 million in 2004 (after the WHI study had to be stopped)? Well, now they have gone after centers like ours making complaints to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).  The FTC's position backed by the big pharmaceutical companies is that Dr. John Lee, M.D.'s studies were not scientific and did not rise to the standard of FDA and National Institutes of Health studies, and that our claims about natural progesterone are false, unfair, deceptive, misleading advertising in violation of the law..  (Please read what Dr. Helen Pensanti M.D. has to say about this. Read on to how the study was conducted.)   This is an attempt to force women into taking unsafe proven cancer causing synthetic hormones using your tax dollar to harass natural hormone suppliers. We here at the Women's Menopause Health Center refuse to take away your choice of a healthy alternative to Premarin, Prempro and the other dangerous drugs. We are taking a stand against this heavy handed attempt to destroy competition. We are going to fight for your choice of a healthy way to get through menopause comfortably and safely. (Ed. note: This was from our newsletter last year. The continued harassment by the FTC has caused us to discontinue our wonderful product.  Do not be forced into taking something that can kill you. You may purchase safe progesterone cream at your local health food store, or find it a lot less expensively on line at places like ebay and yahoo stores. Do not let these heavy handed tactics destroy your health!)

Endometriosis is a condition where tissue from the uterine lining is found in locations outside the uterus. During healthy menstruation, women shed their endometrial lining each month as part of the monthly menstruation. With endometriosis, tissue from the uterine lining have migrated to other parts of the body. Most often this tissue is found within the pelvic area, on the bowel, bladder, ovaries and the outside of the uterus.

This misplaced tissue develops into growths that respond to the menstrual cycle in the same way the lining of the uterus does. Triggered by hormonal signals, the tissue builds up and sheds each month.

While menstrual blood flows out of the body through the cervix and vagina, endometriosis tissue and the cells it sheds have no way of leaving the body. Trapped between layers of tissue, they cause inflammation, scar tissue, adhesions and bowel problems.

Endometriosis symptoms can cause problems any time between your first period and your last period. Symptoms of endometriosis include:
_ Excessively painful periods.
_ Painful intercourse.
_ Chronic pain in the uterus, lower back, and organs in the pelvic cavity.
_ Pain before and during periods.
_ Excessive bleeding, including the passing of large clots during menstruation.
_ Infertility.
_ Fatigue.
_ Cramping at any time of the menstrual cycle.
_ Painful bowel movements.
_ Painful urination.
_ Nausea, vomiting, and constipation during menstruation.

A standard endometriosis treatment involves taking synthetic hormones, such as the birth control pill, to stop menstruation. By stopping menstruation, the buildup of blood and endomentrial tissue outside the uterus is stopped. Be well informed about the side effects of synthetic hormones before you and your doctor decide on this endometriosis treatment.

Surgery is the other endometriosis treatment often used by doctors. The different types of surgery include operative laparoscopy and hysterectomy. With operative laparoscopy, a slender tube is inserted into the abdominal cavity via a small incision. Endometrial implants, cysts and adhesions are then removed. A more radical approach to endometriosis treatment is by hysterectomy - removal of the uterus, along with endometrial implants, cysts and adhesions. Unfortunately, surgical attempts at removing endometriosis is only temporarily successful, if successful at all.

The late Dr. John Lee, author of “What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause,” treated a number of patients with endometriosis with considerable success.