Endometriosis is a disease in which the tissue that forms the lining of your uterus (which is called as endometrium) grows in other sites outside the uterine cavity. Such tissues are called endometrial implants (or ectopic endometrium).
Endometriosis most commonly involves your ovaries, bowel or the tissue lining your pelvis. Very rarely, endometrial tissue may grow beyond your pelvic region. These tissues undergo hormonal changes of the menstrual cycle as it happens into the endometrium of uterus.
The disease can go through the stages minimal, mild, moderate and severe according to the spread of the endometrium in different parts. The severity of the disease depends upon the many factors like location, number, size and depth of the endometrial implants. Laparoscopy can help in diagnosis.
Symptoms
The most common symptom of endometriosis is pain that occurs prior to, during, or after menstruation.
Increased menstrual flow due to congestion in the pelvis.
Pain can occur during sexual intercourse, during urination, or during bowel movements. Some women have severe, disabling pain.
Chronic pain in the low back or pelvis.
With each menstrual cycle, the implants go through the same growing, breaking down, and bleeding that the uterine lining (endometrium) goes through. This is why endometriosis pain may start as mild discomfort a few days before the menstrual period and then usually is gone by the time the period ends. But if an implant grows in a sensitive area, it can cause constant pain or pain during certain activities, such as sex, exercise, or bowel movements. Some women have no symptoms or problems. Others have mild to severe symptoms or infertility. There is no way to predict whether endometriosis will get worse, will improve, or will stay the same until menopause.
The severity of the disease depends upon the many factors like location, number, size and depth of the endometrial implants.
Infertility problems:
Between 20% and 40% of women who are infertile have endometriosis (some have more than one possible cause of infertility). Experts don’t fully understand how endometriosis causes infertility. It could be that.
Scar tissue (adhesions) may form at the sites of implants and change the shape or function of the ovaries, fallopian tubes, or uterus.
The endometrial implants may change the chemical and hormonal makeup in the fluid that surrounds the organs in the abdominal cavity (peritoneal fluid). This may change the menstrual cycle or prevent a pregnancy.
HOMOEOPATHIC APPROACH
Homoeopathy, with its holistic approach can bring cure for the condition. Homoeopathy has time tested medicines for the treatment of Endometriosis. but it will be wrong if one says that there is a panacea in Homoeopathy that can be used for every case of Endometritis. Homoeopathy deals each case of Endometritis differently; because each case is different. The peculiarities of the individual who suffers the disease is of topmost important. It removes the abnormal tendencies of the system. Abnormal growth of endometrial tissue in sites where it should not be present normally, gradually regresses. Regular intake of medicines as prescribed by the physician brings up the normal periods without debilitating suffering. Endometriosis can no longer remain as a cause of infertility if Homoeopathic medicines are taken in time.