33.Symptoms of endometriosis – Infertility Niche Business

As with most disorder and health conditions, you can experience varying degrees of severity from mild to severe. The truth is some women have endometriosis and experience absolutely no symptoms. Some of these women have discovered they have the condition only when they undergo an unrelated operation.

During that procedure the surgeon may discover bits of endometrial tissue outside of the uterus.

Other women experience a few or all of the symptoms of endometrius. They include the following:

Painful periods, known in medical terms as dysmenorrhea.

Now, I can hear you saying something like, "It's my period, it's just supposed to be painful." But that's not necessarily so. If you have pain even before your period begins and it extends several days past the ending of it, you may be experiencing endometriosis symptoms.

And how badly it hurts -- or the severity of the pain -- isn't necessarily a telltale sign of the full extent of the condition either as you might guess.

Some women with a mild version of endometriosis have very painful periods. Others with little or no pain may have severe scarring.
Pelvic pain.

If you experience pain in the pelvic area at times other than your period, you may also be experiencing endometriosis. Pelvic pain may flare up during ovulation, or you may experience pelvic pain during intercourse. Some women say they also get pains during bowel movement or urination.

Excessive bleeding.

Heavy periods -- called by medical personnel menorrhagia or even bleeding between periods (known as menometrorrhagia) can also be a sign of endometriosis.

Infertility.

It's true. Some women never knew they have endometriosis until they try to conceive. Only after the doctor performs all the tests and tells them do they know about the condition.

And in fact, the major complication of endometriosis is reduced fertility. Between one third to one half of those women who have this condition also have difficulty conceiving.

Remember those adhesions we just recently talked about in connection with endometriosis? They can trap the egg near the ovary. Or if the presence of the lining outside the uterus may inhibit the mobility of the fallopian tube. This means it may impair its natural ability to obtain the egg and push it along its way.

Many women with endometriosis, on the other hand, experience no fertility problems at all. If you have been told that you have this condition don't automatically assume that you are infertile, because you very well could conceive.

Many physicians tell their patients who do have this condition that if they are considering having children, then do so with all deliberate speed. Endometriosis, in many cases, worsens the longer a woman has it. So you may still be able to conceive.

But if you wait three or four years, your chances of getting pregnant are likely to worsen.