Mild symptoms - deep endometriosis: surgery?

[alauda81]

Hello everyone,

I'm writing to you to get some advice on whether I should have surgery for my deep/ severe endometriosis. I have a frozen pelvis and adhesions all over the place (even on my bowels).

The thing is my symptoms are mild.

I have long and painful periods, but fortunately birth control pills take care of that. On the other hand, I don't want to have children.

My doctor (an endometriosis expert and also a surgeon) thinks I should get operated on because he says that if I ever need urgent surgery in my pelvis (for example, for removing a cyst growing in my ovary) performed by a non specialist surgeon, the gyn surgeon would butcher me (since endometriosis is so difficult to operate and it needs to be done by an endometriosis pro). As I said, my adhesions are all over my pelvis and they "block" the way to my other organs... Of course, if I never need urgent surgery this won't be a problem! What a dilemma!

What do you think?

Thanks a lot!

Paula

P.S.: I'm sorry If I've made any mistakes in English.