Home And Family

With a couple of kids running in the yard, while mom and dad busied themselves preparing for a Sunday afternoon barbecue party with some neighborhood friends, this picture we’ve witnessed so often on TV ads, brochures and ideal home catalogues depicting the dream of every average couple in most parts of the world to be able live a blissful life. This ideal scenario begins to fall apart when endometriosis and infertility issues start to interfere with the couple’s daily lives.

Most women are experiencing cramps and some pain in their abdominal cavity or around the pelvic area of their bodies during the menstrual cycle. It is of common practice most women disregard and ignore such condition believing it is but natural for women to endure during one’s period. When a woman’s menstrual cycle loses its regularity and the cramps is punctured with severe pain in one’s lower back or a persisting pain during bowel movement or sexual intercourse, one could be suffering from endometriosis and infertility could just be around the corner.

According to medical research, endometriosis is a condition in which the endometrial tissue, a lining inside the uterus grows outside and attaches itself to other organs or parts of the abdominal cavity, particularly to ovaries and fallopian tubes. As the condition progresses, it results to bleeding, scarring and thickening of the tissue as it imitates the menstrual cycle and the blood discharges has nowhere else to go but result to form masses or cysts around the ovaries or the fallopian tubes. Thus, a blockade of the fallopian tubes resulting to non-ovulation of the egg will lead to infertility.

A thorough observation and charting of the condition supervised and monitored by one’s physician will help determine the medical treatment, medication and procedure required to address the problem. With the advancement of medical science and technology there are now options available to remedy and correct endometriosis and infertility.