Endometriosis pain

        If there is a moment when a distinction must be made between what people call a disease and what they refer to as a condition, it is in the case of endometriosis. See, most sufferers would not care about said distinction, but it is an important one. After all, a disease has, usually, a sort of determined cause, be it more or less specific. On the other hand, a condition is more of a mystery to the medical world, its cause and most of its symptoms remaining yet to be discovered.

        When talking about endometriosis, one of the scariest and, unfortunately, common conditions in the world, there are only two things that any medical scientist is able to tell you without any sort of doubt:

• Endometriosis is incurable. Why is that? Well, when one does not have even the slightest clue as to what causes something, one cannot devise a counterattack.
• Endometriosis pain is not something to take lightly. Known as one of the most intense types of pain that a non - cancer patient can experience, it ranks only slightly below the pain caused by a kidney stone moving through the body of a sufferer. On a pain scale, from one being the least intense to ten being the pain experience by a final stage cancer patient, people have ranked kidney pain at about nine, giving birth at around seven and endometriosis pain got a proud eight.

        Although the first thing that any women notices are the endometriosis symptoms, it might be interesting to figure out what this condition actually is. Basically, you might want to know what causes so much pain and irregular bleeding. Well, medical textbooks all over the world offer a variety of definitions. However, in order to understand them, one must be aware of certain anatomical aspects of the female body. The lining of the uterus is called endometrium. This very particular type of tissue has specific functions, but one stands out from all the rest: the endometrium helps the uterus to capture the fertilized egg. How does it do that? The answer is pretty simple: it modifies its shape, making it egg - friendly. So, what happens when an egg is not caught by the uterus? The upper part of the endometrium starts to break off and it is eliminated at the end of a menstrual cycle.

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        After this entire introduction, the definition of endometriosis will seem a lot clearer. Basically, the endometrium is supposed to exist only on the inner part of the uterus. When a woman suffers from endometriosis, this tissue starts growing in other places of the body, as well. Thus, in such a case, a physician can find endometrium cells in the ovaries, the fallopian tubes, the vagina, the peritoneum and the intestine. What makes it so painful? Well, the answer to that one is a bit tricky. On the one hand, there are women that live with this condition for years, without manifesting any sort of endometriosis pain. On the other hand, there are other women that suffer from intense pain from the very first moment that these rogue cells have appeared anywhere else but where they are supposed to be.

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       Basically, the politically correct answer is that the intensity and the apparition of endometriosis pain is directly related to individual variability, but the real answer is that scientists do not really know why this symptom appears in some women almost immediately and in others after years of suffering from this condition.

        There are many types of endometriosis pain, making it the main symptom of this disease. For example, the earliest signs of this condition can manifest themselves as extreme menstrual cramps, leaving the woman in dire need of some pain management medication. Unfortunately, this particular brand of pain, caused by endometriosis, is hard to spot, since women go through some sort of menstrual pain anyway, even without the abnormal growths. However, here are a few tips that might point an observant lady in the right direction: usually, common menstrual cramps are accompanied by radiating pain to the kidney area and the lower back. Also, nausea, vomiting, vertigo, mood swings and the sudden modification of body temperature are on the list that describes a normal pre - menstrual - syndrome. The moment that the pain starts feeling sharp and becomes located in a certain area that should not be connected to this period of the month, that should become a red flag for the sufferer.

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       When talking about types of endometriosis pain, there is one that is very common and extremely hard to ignore: the pain that appears during sexual contact. If your sexual life has been pleasant and satisfying so far, there is no reason that it should not continue to be so, especially if you have not changed your partner. When the pain shows up, it is usually crippling and destroys the sexual appetite completely. Unfortunately, it is triggered by the act itself and by the exciting of the nerves that are located at the level of the sexual organs, thus is cannot be avoided by changing sexual positions, like in the case of other types of pains related to this area of the body.

       If the endometrium cells appear in the lower intestinal tract, even the slightest bowel movements become a very painful event, something that no digestive medication can fix. Unfortunately, it usually takes quite a while for someone to figure out that the condition might be endometriosis and not chronic constipation. In some cases, a cancer diagnosis has been given before the physicians managed to identify that the rogue cells were not cancerous, but simple endometrium cells.

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       The real question is another one, though. What is the treatment for endometriosis pain? The answer is not exactly the one you might expect. While there is no cure for the disease itself, that does not mean it cannot be treated like the flu. If you cannot cure it, then there better be some way to ameliorate the symptoms. Thus, a woman suffering from intense endometriosis pain will be prescribed, by her attending physician, some sort of pain management medication. Also, anti - inflammatory medication is strongly recommended for the reduction of the swelling in the genital area. Contraceptive pills are used in endometriosis treatment schemes for assuring the regularity of the menstrual cycles, thus the correct elimination of the endometrium. Unfortunately, even the most extreme of endometriosis treatment methods will not help the most terrible of the complications of this condition: infertility. Even if a surgeon removes the extra tissue from where it has appeared, the fertility coefficient will not increase.

        A holistic protocol based on over two decades of endometriosis research is known as the Violet protocol and it is officially reported to help 1000's of women completely resolve their endometriosis. Learn more about the revolutionary protocol by visiting the official web presentation of the Violet protocol.