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What to Do When the Doctor Says It's Endometriosis by: Thomas Lyons, M.D. and Cheryl Kimball
What is Endometriosis? What Causes It and What Does It Do to My Body?
For women with endometriosis, the answer to "what is it?" is simple: Endometriosis is what's keeping you from living your life to the fullest. Because endometriosis causes pain, as well as other symptoms, this problem keeps some women in bed for several days each month. Other women have chronic low-level pain that just hangs on day after day with little relief. And some have menstrual flow so heavy that they can't stray too far from a bathroom and a supply of feminine products.
You can't plan a weekend away because you just don't know if you will be up for the trip. Since your teenage years, you were the family "sick kid". No reunion, family picnic, or holiday gathering went by without you either feeling too ill to attend or ending up curled up in your aunt's bedroom unable to participate in the fun.
Endometriosis impacts a woman's ability to develop a relationship or to maintain an intimate relationship. Sex is often painful. And to top it off, endometriosis often compromises fertility, making it difficult to conceive.
Does this sound familiar?
Despite the fact that endometriosis affects approximately six million women in the United States alone, very few people understand the disease or how much it can change a woman's life. Other people can't see anything wrong with you, which makes it hard for them to figure out why you miss work unexpectedly several days a month. Or why you simply don't feel like going to the mall or the movies. Not everyone can understand that just chatting over a cup of coffee seems like too much to deal with for someone in pain.
If these problems sound like yours, this book will show you how to seize the day and develop a whole new attitude. After years of practice and helping women with endometriosis, I know that you and your doctors can turn the tide, so that endometriosis does not control you, you control it.
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Center for Women's Care &
Reproductive SurgeryŠ 2006 |
What To Do When the Doctor Says It's Endometriosis
"Everything you need to know to stop the pain and heal your fertility."
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