ENDO Messages for April, 2004: Re: how is endo staged?

Re: how is endo staged?

From: Jas (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu Apr 29 00:15:20 2004

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At Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Lisa wrote: >
>Hi all,
>Some of you have stated that you have stage 3 or 4 and so on. How do
>you know what stage you are? What are the stages and how are they
>determined? Just very curious.
>Best wishes to all,
>LisaK

Hi Lisa. I feel like I've read so many books and looked at so many websites. The book I have at the moment is "Endometriosis: A key to Healing Through Nutrition" by Dian Shepperson Mills & Michael Vernon. >From this book comes the following:
"To help physicians determine the relative severity of the disease, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) has developed a classification system for endometriosis that has been used worldwide. This classification is based upon a scoring system that reflects the size, number and location of the endometriotic implants. Dependent upon the final score, the severity of a patient's disease is classified into one of four stages: Stage I or minimal disease Stage II or mild disease Stage III or moderate disease Stage IV or severe disease"

Another thing that I have been told by my Gyn is that the pain is not necessarily related to the level of the disease i.e. someone can have Stage I but be in sever pain.

I hope this helps. Personally I have Stage IV with lots and lots of adhesions.

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Best wishes
Jas

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