It can also be a contributor to chronic lower back pain and can make it harder to get pregnant.
The exact cause of endometriosis isn’t known, and there’s also no cure for endometriosis, perNIH.
But there are ways to treat the symptoms of the condition, including a hysterectomy.
The symptoms of endometriosis may be mistaken as having other causes.
Telling your doctor about a family history of endometriosis could help get a diagnosis.
But once they stop taking the pills, the pain may return, as reported by theNIH.
That’s the case with other hormone therapies; pain can recur after the hormone treatment stops.
And for those actively trying to get pregnant, birth control isn’t really an option for managing endometriosis.
A hysterectomy, broadly speaking, is surgery to remove your uterus, and it is irreversible.
However, there are different types of hysterectomy surgery, and the differences are important.
A supracervical hysterectomy leaves the cervix and ovaries, but not the uterus.
A total hysterectomy is the removal of the uterus and cervix, but not the ovaries.
A total hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy removes the fallopian tubes and ovaries along with the uterus and cervix.
But with the latter two procedures, menopause will begin immediately, aka surgical menopause.
Even without hormone replacement therapy, it may return along with pain symptoms and bleeding.
It’s not an easy decision to get a hysterectomy to treat endometriosis.
