What is adenomyosis? Is it serious?

Adenomyosis refers to the interstitial tissue and glandular ducts of the uterine wall entering the patient's uterine myometrium, and then under the effect of the regular fluctuations of uterine and ovarian female hormones, entering the interstitial tissue and glandular ducts of the uterine myometrium, resulting in regular proliferation, shedding and bleeding. However, the exfoliated and bleeding uterine wall and blood cannot be cleared from the body. They accumulate in the patient's uterine muscle layer, are encapsulated and absorbed, and such repeated stimulation causes the patient's entire uterus to expand.

And accompanied by dysmenorrhea, usually with lower abdominal pain, sexual intercourse pain and secondary infertility and other clinical manifestations. Adenomyosis is an idiopathic exacerbation disease that can cause serious harm. It may cause patients to experience unbearable menstrual pain or secondary infertility, which will have an impact on the patient's physical and mental health and fertility. In some cases, patients with adenomyosis may not have severe menstrual pain or may not affect women's fertility, but this situation is relatively rare.

Adenomyosis is a type of endometriosis. Under normal circumstances, the uterine wall is located in the uterus, and it will be accompanied by the regular growth, metabolism, and shedding of the uterus and ovaries, resulting in menstruation. However, there is a theory of implantation in the uterine wall. The normal uterine wall has no uterine wall location. It runs to the myometrium of the uterus, where it is also affected by the metabolic function of the uterus and ovaries, and it proliferates, metabolizes, and falls off regularly. However, in the case of the myometrium, it has no way to fall off, so it continues to grow and implant in the myometrium, causing the uterus to enlarge symmetrically and causing the disease adenomyosis.

This is a type of endometriosis, which is not easy to treat and is a relatively difficult disease to treat medically. The characteristic of adenomyosis is menstrual pain, which tends to gradually worsen. Treatment is usually hormone therapy, causing menopause, or surgical removal.