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Endometriosis

Endometriosis can be a painful, chronic disease that results when the tissue that is normally inside the uterus (endometrial tissue) grows outside of the uterine cavity. Although it is estimated to affect over one million women in the U.S., the exact number is unknown, since many women with the condition have no symptoms.

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Endometriosis and Your Fertility

The EFI is a new way to determine your chances of getting pregnant each month.

by Rachel Lehmann-Haupt, Jan. 25, 2010

It took you years to figure out that your painful periods were the result of endometriosis, a disease that affects more than 7 million women worldwide, according to the Endomentriosis Association. Now all you want to know is how it will affect your chances of getting pregnant. An enigmatic disease that involves the abnormal growth outside the uterus of tissues found normally inside the uterus, sufferers generally experience severe pelvic pain, irregular bleeding, and infertility. Although there is no “cure” for endometriosis, treatment usually involves surgery, pain medication, and hormone therapy.

Now there is a way better to understand how you can manage the disease and your fertility. Doctors at Fertility Physicians of Northern California in Palo Alto, have developed a new system for determining the stage of the disease, the best course of treatment, and a better way to predicting your chances of getting pregnant in any given month.
Created by data collected from 801 patients diagnosed with the disease, the doctors developed the Endometriosis Fertility Index (EFI) using statistical analysis and mathematical modeling in order to create a common language for understanding how the disease affects individual women.

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Endometriosis and Your Fertility

An RE explains the condition and its diagnosis and treatment.

a blog by David Kreiner, M.D., F.A.C.O.G.

Endometriosis has made the news lately because Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi has stepped up to use her celebrity to shed light on this disease.

I don’t have to tell you that endometriosis can be a very painful illness and that it can cause infertility. It is often a reproductive lifelong struggle in which tissue that normally lines the uterus migrates or implants into other parts of the body, most often in the pelvic lining and ovaries. This leads to pain and swelling and often times difficulty conceiving.

If you have endometiosis, you are not alone. Five to ten percent of all women have it. Though many of these women are not infertile, among patients who have infertility, about 30 percent have endometriosis.

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Pregnant Padma had Endo

<b>How to treat <em>your</em> endometriosis.</b>

a blog by Beth and Tami of Pulling Down the Moon

It’s always interesting when Hollywood and the infertility world intersect. This week, Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi announced she is pregnant despite her long-term struggle with endometriosis.

While we do not know if Padma experienced infertility as a result of endo, it’s estimated that 30-40% of women with the condition do. Endometriosis can be marked by painful periods, spotting, low back pain, painful intercourse and painful bowel movements as scar tissue that normally lines the uterus grows in other areas of the body, especially in the pelvic region.

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