#i knew the medical industry was/is shit wrt this genre of health problem

[theemperorsfeather]

ETA: A really regrettable number of transphobes have got hold of this, and are using it to spread transphobic shit, so, a) to anyone coming to this who isn't a hateful person, be aware of that and b) that's why reblogs are turned off.

According to The Guardian, there is a growing medical consensus supporting the idea that there are three different types of endometriosis, which up until recently had all been treated the same. Though all forms of endometriosis involve tissue similar to that found inside uterine walls growing in other parts of the body, this “errant tissue,” as doctors call it, is not always the primary cause of the pain they experience.

For those with the type of endometriosis that causes painful ovarian cysts, surgery is often the best option. However, new research has found that 80 percent of those who suffer from the disease actually have the superficial form—known as peritoneal endometriosis—and their pain is caused by the ways that nerve endings interact with the tissue, rather than the tissue itself.

Because surgery involves doctors slicing through nerve endings in order to cut out that tissue, it’s likely to cause patients more pain in the long run. Often, doctors attempt these surgeries multiple times.

Scientists have known about the different categories of endometriosis for a decade, but they have only received funding for further research in the past five years. And it is only recently that endometriosis has been taken more seriously: Historically, many doctors have not believed patients who report their pain, despite nearly 40 percent of people with endometriosis reporting pain so severe it has resulted in an emergency room visit, according to a 2020 U.K. study...

#psa trans women are women trans men are men and terfs suck - fuck off and go make your own post #wow #health #medicine #endometriosis #i just. #...... #i had several hours of surgery for endo in 2007 and - crossing fingers - i have no recurrence of pain #er - i still have bad cramps at times but the specific pain that sent me to the dr is gone #lost an ovary; it was 'glued' to other organs by cysts and etc #surgeon also used a somewhat uncommon technique that supposedly caused less tissue damage but #i thikn it's going to take me a while for me to figure out what i'm even feeling about this #like #i knew the medical industry was/is shit wrt this genre of health problem #but it is always somehow WORSE than i even imagined #and there's nothing i can just go BURN THE FUCK DOWN to fix it :)