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Re: ERC-also external endo
From: Allan (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu Jul 29 19:17:53 1999
Hi Lisa
Is this newsletter something you got via email? If so, could you
forward it to me? It sounds all quite fascinating - and, I posted a few
weeks ago about the obgyn thinking the "cyst" (or whatever it was) on my
labia was in fact endo. Thanks and hope all is well with you.
luv, Amy
anonymous@obgyn.net wrote:
>
> Do any of you receive the newsletters from ERC? I got some contact info from
> them in the mail yesterday and was just a little surprised at some of it. I
> was not surprised at the theory of genetic causes, but never heard about an
> estrogen-synthesizing enzyme called aromatase being expressed in the
> endometrial tissue of women with the disease, which not only allows the
> wayward tissues to implant themselves but is also induced by large amounts of
> prostaglandins in the area, making its own estrogen, thus promoting its own
> growth??? Any input there? While I have not been diagnosed with endo on the
> ovary, though suspected, I have been baffled by the endo in the c-section
> scar which just keeps growing, and supposedly is not affected by our estrogen.
> Also, in reponse to an earlier post about external endo, there is information
> in this packet about skin endo, which I had never heard of. According to the
> info, it presents as painful skin nodules, often invisible to the naked eye,
> at the skin's surface. They can bleed during menses and/or appear blue upon
> inspection. Amazing.
> Lisa B.
>
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