Living with Endometriosis by Samantha Bowick

Author:Samantha Bowick [Samantha Bowick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-57826-746-0
Publisher: Hatherleigh Press
Published: 2018-07-21T16:00:00+00:00

Other Herbal Treatment Options. The following is a list of some other herbal treatment options that may benefit women who suffer with endometriosis in helping treat their symptoms:

Motherwort

Chamomile

Flaxseeds

Burdock

Milk thistle

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How to Find the Right Doctor

My experience trying to find the right doctor has been equal parts exhausting, frustrating, and demoralizing. What I’ve found is that many doctors simply do not listen to their patients. They are too concerned with statistics: how many patients they can fit into one day to make the most money. It’s a revolving door mentality, an assembly line approach to medicine. If they did care about their patients—if they felt their role was to determine the best care plan for each one—they’d likely take more than ten minutes per visit.

All the same, finding the right doctor is invaluable in your pursuit of relief from endometriosis. The majority of effective treatments, both current and experimental, will depend in part on you having a doctor who is knowledgeable, communicative, and devoted to your care. In this chapter, we’ll be exploring some of the ways to locate the best fit doctor for you and your needs—and how to know when it’s time to quit your current doctor.

WHAT DOCTORS DO I NEED?

There are several types of doctors that are beneficial in receiving the best healthcare possible. In my personal health journey, I’ve found it valuable to consult with endometriosis specialists, family practitioners/internists, gynecologists, gastroenterologists, urologists, endocrinologists, rheumatologists, pulmonologists, and cardiologists, as well as a pelvic floor physical therapist, counselor, and pain management doctor. Quite a laundry list, but endometriosis has been found to have comorbidities, which means that there are other diseases associated with women who have endometriosis.

That’s why it is important to know what each of these doctors practice to know if you might benefit from seeing any of them.

Endometriosis Specialist

When suffering with endometriosis, one of the best things a patient can do is to seek out an endometriosis specialist. This is a medical doctor who knows the ins and outs of the disease and specializes in its treatments. They usually do not use birth controls, Lupron, or other medications; instead, they use the approach of excising the disease, getting rid of the culprit in hopes of the patient living a pain-free life.

They may perform an ultrasound to determine how the uterus and ovaries look and to come up with a plan to treat the disease. Surgeons utilizing excision in their treatment plans report rates of long-term relief in 75–85 percent of their patients, while non-excisional surgery reports a 40–60 percent recurrence rate in as little as one to two years post-surgery.4

Samantha’s Experience

In my experience, excision surgery has proved to be the most beneficial method for decreasing my endometriosis pain. I still have concerns about the disease coming back, because it seems like it has always reared its ugly head at the most unexpected times in

my life. Since having excision surgery by an endometriosis specialist, I have had one surgery to remove my gallbladder and scar tissue, and have gone a year and a half without any surgery for endometriosis concerns.

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