What should I do if I have stomach pain due to endometriosis?

Speaking of endometriosis, I believe everyone is familiar with it, especially for women with habitual miscarriage or infertility, they are more familiar with it. Many people are unaware of it at first, but they are only diagnosed when they have secondary dysmenorrhea, abdominal pain or infertility. When women suffer from endometriosis, what can they do to relieve their pain? Let's take a look with the editor now!

1. Medication

(1) Pseudo-pregnancy therapy is the use of powerful progestin contraceptive drugs, which are taken continuously for a long time in larger doses to stop menstruation. The endometrium and ectopic endometrium undergo a pregnancy-like reaction under the action of the drugs, so it is also called pseudo-pregnancy therapy.

(2) Pseudomenopause therapy has been widely used abroad since the 1980s. A drug called goserelin can strongly suppress the function of the ovaries, making them almost completely ineffective, thereby achieving the purpose of treatment. Moreover, since this drug is a long-acting sustained-release preparation, it only needs to be injected subcutaneously once a month, which is very convenient. This type of drug can cause the endometrium to atrophy similar to that of menopausal women, so it is called pseudomenopause therapy.

2. Surgical treatment

It is generally believed that chocolate cysts occurring on the ovaries are often larger in size, or endometriotic nodules occurring in other parts of the body with a diameter of more than 2 cm are difficult to control with drugs and require surgical treatment; or if the condition does not improve after six months or even a year of drug treatment, surgical removal should also be considered. If the patient is young and has no children, surgery usually only removes the endometriosis, while preserving the uterus and normal ovarian tissue. It's called conservative surgery. This surgery preserves the possibility of fertility, but the chance of recurrence is greater.

The specific treatment for endometriosis depends on the patient's age and condition, and then symptomatic treatment can be given. However, with the development of medical technology, most clinical data on the treatment of endometriosis now only use laparoscopic surgery, and its use greatly reduces the harm to the female body during surgery.