What are the symptoms of endometriosis?
Endometriosis is a chronic disorder that affects the pelvic organs; symptoms include painful menstruation, painful urination and bowel movements, and more. Jessica Shepherd, MD, explains the symptoms of this common condition.
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Symptoms that you can have with endometriosis include very painful menses. You can have painful urination.
You can actually have painful bowel movements, and that's when endometriosis affects the bowel system. [MUSIC PLAYING]
Endometriosis. This is quite a common phenomenon that you'll find in women, maybe up to 25% of women, who have endometriosis.
Endometriosis is a chronic disease that affects the pelvic organs, and what it's caused by is glands that should be in your uterus that now have gone
outside of the uterus and deposited themselves within the pelvic cavity. So that may mean that it may be on your ovaries.
It may be on your pelvic organs. It may be even on your bowel and even on your bladder.
And those are some of the reasons why you might have a pelvic pain syndrome. So if there are things that are outside of a normal period that
may cause you to have very, very discomforting pelvic pain, you need to consult your physician about this. Endometriosis is a chronic pelvic disorder.
It is caused by deposits of the endometrial lining elsewhere in the pelvic cavity. Symptoms that you can have with endometriosis
include very painful menses. You can have painful urination. You can actually have painful bowel movements,
and that's when endometriosis affects the bowel system. And you can also have very large cysts on your ovaries,
and that can cause pelvic discomfort. And that's something that we might pick up on an ultrasound. [AUDIO LOGO]
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