Endometriosis

Sounds like an inflamed nerve in your upper back... A branch of the long thoracic nerve located is at the upper (& inner) edge of your shoulder blade (scapula). Have someone press in that area and see if it reproduces the symptoms. Id so, a lidocaine/steroid injection can solve the problem... An orthopedic doctor or neurologist can treat this (or a really good Family Practice doc)...

Endometrial tissue lines the uterus. Each month, in tune with the menstrual cycle, the endometrial tissue thickens and is shed during menstruation.

If you have endometriosis, it means that the same kind of tissue that lines your uterus is also growing in other parts of your body, usually in the abdomen. This can cause scar tissue to build up around your organs.

Endometriosis may cause severe pain and abnormal bleeding, usually around the time of your period. Pain during intercourse is another common symptom. However, it is possible to have endometriosis and not have any symptoms.

Endometriosis is a leading cause of infertility(inability to get pregnant). Often it is not diagnosed until a woman has trouble getting pregnant.

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Yes.

Having a child does not protect you from endometriosis.

While having endometriosis often makes becoming pregnant difficult for women, becoming pregnant will also reduce the symptoms of endometriosis.

So, being diagnosed with endometriosis after having a child makes it rather difficult for your doctor to determine whether you had endometriosis prior to the pregnancy or if it became an issue post-pregnancy - especially if you were positively diagnosed with endometriosis shortly after giving birth.

There are several things that have said to be the cause of endometriosis. Although endometriosis can occur at pretty much any time in a woman's reproductive life, the most common ages are from twenty five to twenty nine. Some studies show that it is thought to be a hereditary factor. When a woman is exposed to increased menstruation, her possibility of developing endometriosis is higher. Also, a woman who experienced long and heavy menstrual periods before having children might be more susceptible to endometriosis. Obesity is another factor that can affect the possibility of developing the disease

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Your description doesn't have enough detail for me to answer your question.

If it's mild and infrequent pain, don't worry about it.

More severe and/or persistent pain warrants a trip to the doctor.

If the woman is 65, she has had endometriosis for decades. At 65, she would be post menopausal. Endometriosis symptoms flare up with normal monthly cycles in women. If she no longer has normal cycles - and at 65 she shouldn't - why do anything at all? The time to treat endometriosis has passed by that age.

Not yet, But fingers crossed they get one soon!

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Birth control hormones are likely to keep endometriosis from getting worse. If you have severe symptoms or if birth control hormones and NSAIDs don't work, you might try a stronger hormone therapy.

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One should always consult a doctor before researching a medical condition online. Endomeetriosis treatment can be found online Clear Passage, Cleveland Clinic and WebMd.

To answer this question we first have to delve into the arcane world for latin (and medicine). Feel free to skip the next two bullet points, and get to the answer (I don't mind). * -osis. Noun. meaning, a growth. * -carcinoma. Noun. Meaning, a "bad" growth. The endometrium is periodically found in the female reproductive tract, and forms the nuturing, nutirient and blood-rich layer upon which a baby may attach (via the placenta). This layer is normally shed within a 28-day cycle (Menses) if fertilization and implantation of the ova (egg) have not occured. Endometriosis refers to the benign (yet maybe still painful and problematic) condition of "growth" of the endometrial cells. Normally these guys are supposed to live only in the uterus, and should only survive for about 4 weeks. Occasionally, a cell or two gets outside of the uterus, and will, "set up shop" wherever it lands. This could be on the ovary, the fallopian tube, the uterus, or anywhere else in the abdominal cavity. Since they're deprived of the normal signals the rest of the endometrium (living quietly within the uterus) receives, they may continue to grow. Generally, when this happens, however, they grow neatly, and orderly. Endometrial Carcinoma, in contrast, occurs when these cells loose the instruciton to die, or are otherwise genetically dammaged. They still can exist anywhere, but are more likely to wreak havoc on those cells surrounding them. A general search for "cancer" on this site will likely find an article I wrote awhile back about cancer...it's a disease of the DNA.

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It means that a type of tissue that lines your uterus is also growing outside your uterus. This does not always cause symptoms. And it usually isn't dangerous. But it can cause pain and other problems.

There are a number of treatments available. They include surgery to remove the endo, pain medications, drugs that affect the hormonal system, herbal medicine of Fuyan Pill, and hysterectomy.

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There are basically 3 ways to cure Endometriosis. They are: Pain Medication, Hormonal Therapy and Surgery. Lupron falls under Hormonal Therapy. There's no special cure for Endometriosis but, these are the methods to reduce and relieve the pain symptoms. Check out the below mentioned link for more information on Endometriosis Treatment. Hope i have answered your question.

As I understand it, and I am not a doctor, it is severe scarring from endometriosis that leads to a hole in the uterus. At least this is how it was explained to me when I was diagnosed with it.

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Not quite.

There is NO hole in your uterus.

In Allen-Masters, you have broken the tissue (think of it like skin) that stabilizes your uterus and holds it in one place in your pelvis. Without that tissue holding it in place, your lower uterus (and your cervix and vagina below the uterus) can wiggle around as you move while the rest of the uterus is fixed. This stretching and jolting of the cervix hurts!

See this drawing to get an idea of what your uterus looks like.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gray1161.png

See your uterus -- that big ball in the center that's sitting on the vagina (which looks like a tube)? Now see the "Broad ligament" on either side that looks like its taping the uterus in place? Well imagine a great big hole in that bottom part of that ligament. The uterus is no longer taped down and it moves.

Holes in the ligament usually come from surgical trauma or old wounds. You can easily break the ligament from delivery or, very rarely, from induced abortion (especially if incompetent/unskilled person filled the vagina with too much gauze after the procedure). A very similar set of symptoms can come from endometriosis.

So to even consider Allen-masters as a diagnosis, you need (1) an overly mobile cervix, (2) A uterus that has lost its support and is pointing the wrong direction, and it helps to have (3) a history of trauma to the pelvis -- by which I mean childbirth etc. Some people would say that the damage caused by endometriosis is close enough to lump it in as trauma to the pelvis.

Symptoms are:

1. Long-lasting pelvic pain

2. Menstrual changes of many kinds

3. Pain with sex

**Note that not EVERYONE with these symptoms has Allen-masters. These are VERY VERY COMMON symptoms in many diseases. This disease is rare.

You can try to treat it surgically. Its a difficult fix.

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