WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for April, 2009: Re: ENDOMETRIOSIS: Sampson's Theory

Re: ENDOMETRIOSIS: Sampson's Theory

From: Scarlett (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:37:19 -0500 (CDT)

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In reply to: dr.narayan patel: "Re: ENDOMETRIOSIS: Sampson's Theory"

Thank you for your reply, but for a disease that affects so many women, girls and a few men, one would think endometriosis research to definitively answer the theories would be a much higher priority than what they are. My question wasn't regarding the fact that there are many theories regarding the etiology of endometriosis, it was regarding why the majority of doctors continue to hold on to their beloved theory even in the face of basic logic and many studies proving otherwise.

The need to sleep for regeneration and the short term pain of labour that can be easily treated with medications are not even remotely on the same priority level as the necessity for doctors to understand more, and forget their multiple misconceptions regarding endometriosis. Try living in end stage labour every day of your life from the age of 13, being chronically dismissed, ignored and brushed off by doctors, having our pain minimized or believed to be psychosomatic, frequent surgeries,infertility... etc etc etc . The daily impact on our lives in enormous, and largely ignored.

Basically what I am getting at is that in my opinion and personal experience, most doctors don't care nearly enough about endometriosis. They don't care enough to inform themselves about the disease to accurately diagnose patients and to properly treat them. They don't care enough to learn how to recognize the many many physical manifestations of the disease and how to properly remove them. They don't care about nor believe the tremendous amount of pain we suffer on a daily basis, and I want to know why so few doctors actually care enough to really help us, not just preform multiple ineffective laser ablations or cautery that just cause adhesions, shoot us up with dangerous hormones with sometimes permanent side effects, or prescribe ineffective analgesics, or worse yet antidepressents for our "hypochondria and attention seeking behaviour".

I am so tired of being largely brushed off and ignored by the medical profession (and know so many other women are too), so I am voicing my concerns and hope that all the doctors will read this, respond, and adopt a new attitude and refresher course regarding endometriosis instead of making the loads of excuses most doctors always do. It is time for some serious changes in the way doctors treat their endo patients, because where it stands today with most medical professionals is appalling and inexcusable.

At Tue, 28 Apr 2009, dr.narayan patel wrote: >

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>Endomeriosis is still and un understtod subject.When there are many theories
>about a disease,it means it is still not fully understoo by medical science
>We sleep almost 1/3 of our life-- 8 hours a day but even to day, we do not know why
>we sleep.
>Still we do not know why labour pains starts.
>Willium book on obstrerics after writing many pages
>about why labour pains start,writes at the end that" ONE THING IS CERTAIN YHAT WHEN
>FRUIT GETS RIPE IT FALLS"
>Medical science 20 years back told that Asprin is injurous to health,same medical
>scince now says that low dose asprin preven heart attack.
>When there are more theories about a disease it means the subject is still ill
>understoon. Endometriosis is one of such disease. out of many.
>Dr.Narayan M. Patel M.D. D.G.O. FICS
>Ahmedabad-380014 INDIA
>

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