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Re: Painless stage 4 but wanting treatment for recurring excessive growth
From: Eric Daiter, MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat Apr 28 17:02:27 2007

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In reply to: anonymous: "Painless stage 4 but wanting treatment for recurring excessive growth"

Treatment of endometriosis is generally directed at treating the symptoms (pain or infertility). I have a number of patients with extensive endometriosis and no pain (just infertility). If you have neither pain nor infertility, then the need for treatment is questionable. Medical management will shrink implants, but staying on long term lupron or provera has known and significant potential risks. A risk benefit discussion should take place with you and your RE, so that you can know what your risks of "unchecked" endometrioisis growth is and look out for early warning signs of problems.
Good Luck
At Tue, 24 Apr 2007, anonymous wrote: >
>I haven't come across any asymptomatic patients so I have a question. I
>have stage 4 EM with stage 3 recurrence recently treated with a second
>laparoscopy/hysteroscopy. I was diagnosed at stage 4 since I had no
>pain. However, the EM is obviously persistent and I'm not cool with
>unchecked tissue growth around my bowel, uterus, bladder and intestines.
>Is there treatment, besides surgery, aimed at preventing growth vs.
>treating pain?

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