Gold Standard

[discobec]

On many occasions I have heard excision surgery referred to as the 'Gold Standard' of endometriosis treatment.

I'm in North Wales and there isn't a hospital here that does excision surgery. I'm going to ask for a referral to a BSGE accredited hospital in England. This will mean securing cross - border funding which is notoriously difficult.

I'd like to go to my next appointment with my consultant armed with the facts regarding excision and the NHS view on it. Can anyone point me in the direction of an article/journal about excision as the 'Gold Standard' of treatment.

Thanks

[Clairecarebear]

Hi I am having surgery with Mr Trehan on 2 July to have endo completely removed without removing any organs! Look on his site he has pioneer this and it will explain everything. Good luck

[Clairecarebear]

Sorry only trying to help after the misery I have faced from NHS failures. I appreciate that this does cost and I just wanted endo suffers to know because it took me such a long time to find. When I read people comments a lot of us, like I are employed or have a career ahead of us and I wasn't prepare to lose my job or life to this illness therefore I felt this was my priority. Sorry if I've offended anyone.

[discobec]

I'm in a similar position although I'm TTC which at the moment is my priority. I have only had a diagnostic laparoscopy to date but i'm not prepared to go through diathermy time after time with the long term impact it has (adhesions, scar tissue etc).

I may end up going privately too for surgery. This would mostly wipe out our savings and leave us with very little for IVF should we need it later on.

It's a dilemma!

Are you in Wales too Clairecarebear?

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