Endometriosis Management: Find out how to best manage endometriosis

Endometriosis management can be quite challenging.
Sadly, the only way you can tell for certain if you have endometriosis is to have a laparoscopy performed (where a lighted scoped is inserted through a small incision in the abdomen).

You may be lucky enough that a physician who treats the condition frequently might be able to make a preliminary diagnosis through a pelvic exam that allows them to feel endometriosis nodules, or they can even make a diagnosis based on your history of symptoms combined with these findings. With endometriosis management, when treating this condition, it's different for each individual depending on how bad your symptoms are, or what your goals are.
For instance, perhaps you want to have a baby so you wish to do something to increase your odds of being able to conceive, or in other circumstances, you may just wish to control the pain or severity of symptoms you are experiencing.
Treatment therefore differs, one of the options being drug medication. Bare in mind, if you are trying to conceive a baby you will want to be careful with what you take because some of the drugs can send a woman in chemical menopause, or even stop ovulation.

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Conservative surgery is one treatment option that may be more suited for a woman trying to improve and rectify fertility problems. As always, it's best for you to discuss things with a health practitioner. You can't always assume surgery will be the only way of fixing a solution for you, all options must be explored.

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In some rare instances, when the pain is debilitating and over-riding your daily way of life, radical surgery may need to happen, this may include the removal of the uterus and ovaries - it's a tough choice to make, but again, this is rare, and often a last resort measure.
Of course, there is always the easier option of over the counter painkillers, or prescription painkillers. And some have even reported acupuncture as being of great benefit too. Don't forget to explore herbal remedies, and other non-traditional means to help alleviate your symptoms - eating healthy, taking vitamin supplements, exercising or doing relaxation techniques, even managing your allergies and some immuno-therapy might help relieve your symptoms.