Patient's question:
Patient: Female, 35 years old. Recently diagnosed with endometriosis during a check-up. Could you please ask the doctor what are the common treatments for endometriosis?Doctor's answer:
Endometriosis has two Western medical treatment methods: surgery and medication.1. Medication treatment: This primarily involves oral hormones, such as pseudopregnancy and pseudomenopause therapy, which artificially induce amenorrhea and menopause. This can lead to many side effects, including damage to liver and kidney function. Additionally, the recurrence rate is very high once the medication is stopped, and stopping the medication can also cause a rebound effect.
2. Surgical treatment: This includes aggressive treatment, semi-radical treatment, and radical treatment. Aggressive treatment preserves fertility by only removing the lesions and nodules of endometriosis, restoring its normal anatomical and physiological functions to enable the patient to conceive.