How to treat endometriosis

With the increasing incidence of endometriosis and the increasingly serious harm in recent years, it has attracted widespread attention. I believe that most people, especially female friends, have a certain understanding of endometriosis. Therefore, how to treat the disease has become the most important thing people want to know. Only by choosing the right treatment can you recover your health as soon as possible. So let's take a look at the treatment methods for endometriosis.

Drug treatment:

Drug treatment can promote the softening of the endometrium in advance, which is conducive to the smooth progress of the later surgery. The purpose of surgical treatment of endometriosis is to relieve the patient's pain, remove or reduce the lesions, improve reproductive function, restore the pelvic anatomical relationship as much as possible, and restore the normal function of the reproductive system.

When treating endometriosis with drugs, sex hormone therapy is the main approach. Sex hormones can inhibit estrogen synthesis, causing the ectopic endometrium to shrink and soften, making it easier to break down pelvic tissue adhesions, which is beneficial for smoother surgery in the later stages. At the same time, drug therapy can also block the endocrine function of the hypothalamus-pituitary-ovarian axis and inhibit estrogen synthesis, follicle development, and ovulation, resulting in amenorrhea and causing the ectopic endometrium to shrink, effectively achieving the purpose of adjuvant therapy.

Surgical treatment:

Surgery can be divided into three types: conservative, radical, and semi-conservative:

① Conservative surgery: mainly involves removing the affected ovary or excising the ovarian endometriosis cyst, separating pelvic adhesions, removing pelvic lesions, and preserving fertility. This type of surgery is mostly used for young patients who want to have children.

② Radical surgery: including the removal of the whole uterus, bilateral adnexa and pelvic lesions. It is mainly used for older patients near menopause. Semi-conservative surgery is to remove the uterus or uterine lesions, remove pelvic lesions, and retain one or both ovaries. Because conservative or semi-conservative surgery retains the ovaries, the lesions may recur and even require another surgery. These patients usually need to use sex hormones for a period of time after conservative surgery.