Can chocolate cysts be completely cured?

Chocolate cyst is a type of endometriosis, also known as "exogenous endometriosis". Chocolate cyst is a lesion that occurs when endometriosis spreads to the ovaries. This disease recurs repeatedly and seriously affects the patient's normal life. Therefore, endometriosis has the title of "immortal cancer" in the medical community.

About the cure of chocolate cyst:

1. Western medicine surgery and hormone therapy; Western medicine believes that chocolate cysts are a hormone-dependent disease, and usually use surgery combined with hormones to treat it. Hormone therapy is also called "pseudo-pregnancy therapy", which mainly allows patients to have pseudo-amenorrhea, imitating the pregnancy period, using hormones to maintain menstruation and relieve some symptoms. Hormones only relieve symptoms to a certain extent and cannot achieve the purpose of cure. Surgical treatment includes cyst removal and organ resection. After the removal surgery, chocolate cysts will still recur. The recurrence rate of organ resection is relatively low. This surgery mainly removes the ovaries or the entire uterus, which can achieve the purpose of cure, but the trauma is relatively large and has a greater impact on the patient in the future.

2. Conservative treatment of traditional Chinese medicine: There is no clear record of chocolate cyst in traditional Chinese medicine, but it can be included in the scope of "mass", "dysmenorrhea", "infertility" and "menstrual disorders" according to its symptoms. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the formation of chocolate cysts is mostly related to the dysfunction of the patient's internal organs. According to the principle of syndrome differentiation and treatment in traditional Chinese medicine, with the foothold of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, softening and dispersing nodules, and dredging meridians, the focus is on syndrome differentiation of deficiency and excess, cold and heat, and unblocking and blocking, and regulating the function of internal organs from the inside, it can treat both the symptoms and the root cause, cure chocolate cysts, and the recurrence rate is low after cure.

3. Choose according to your needs: Traditional Chinese medicine conservative treatment and Western medicine treatment are two methods for different groups of people. Generally, for young patients who have fertility requirements, do not want surgery, or have recurrence after surgery, traditional Chinese medicine conservative treatment is recommended. Although traditional Chinese medicine conservative treatment is relatively slow, the treatment generally does not produce other derivatives, and the patient can become pregnant normally after recovery. Surgical treatment is relatively fast, and hormone drugs have great side effects. Generally, the trauma of surgery is also relatively large, mainly due to pelvic adhesions produced after surgery, which can cause permanent infertility. Severe cases require whole organ removal. Because everyone's physique is very different and has different needs, you need to choose a treatment method that suits you according to your actual situation.

It is generally recommended that patients with chocolate cysts smaller than 8cm use conservative treatment with traditional Chinese medicine. Unmarried and childless patients and patients with recurrence after surgery can choose conservative treatment with traditional Chinese medicine. Patients with cysts larger than 8cm that put pressure on surrounding organs (compression on the kidneys and bladder causing frequent urination) use surgical treatment. Patients who have no fertility requirements and are approaching menopause can use surgical treatment.