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Ladies we need to DO something

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I have recently joined this website and it is breaking my heart to read the endless posts of women who are in agonising pain, unable to work, sometimes even unable to stand up with the pain they are in. Are you depressed, losing heart or feel unable to cope due to your endo ?

Worst of all is that many of these woman have had repeated surgeries which have not helped and sometimes even made their condition worse. Enough is enough we need regulation of the doctors in this field,especially in private practice. Their success rates must be recorded and monitored to see who is doing a good job and who isn't.

We also need much more research to see which treatments work and which don't.Several "star doctors" have special procedures they say make their interventions more effective. For example using die to highlight all the endo before they cut it out, using special substances other doctors don't use to reduce risk of adhesions, using a "second look " procudure to reduce adhesions, using a special rolling technique to tackle bowel endometriosis, using robotic surgery to visualise more endo and carry out operations more quickly.

But we have no actual proof from studies of the efficacy of these procedures. In addition many surgeons patent their new developments so that others cannot use them. We should be assessing their effectivness in studies and fidning out which steps improve success rates and outcomes. I thought median was meant to be sciene based. If someone has a procedure which results in better outcomes it should be being adopted as best practice and shared.

The oonly way I think we can achieve this is if we put pressure on our politicians. I know you may have poor opinions of them, but it is worth a try. If we all write to our MPs and bomabard them with pressure to demnad better endo treatment and more endo research it will happen. 1 in 10 women have this illness.......some researchers suggest it's actually more like 3 in 10. Why should we suffer with dismissive doctors, lack of research and no monitoring of surgeons success rates which means any medical interventions are a gamble.

So please don't just stay home and feel sad, venting on social media. Contact your MP make this a political issue. Write them a letter telling them how you are suffering and push the government to do something to help us all.

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EndoSuckss

There is a debate in Westminster scheduled for 1 November 2021 on this ❤️ Which is amazing news - it's about time it was discussed and, hopefully, it leads to increased funding and research

endometriosis-uk.org/news/e...

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LouiseC83 in reply toEndoSuckss

This is great news!!!

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Avourneen in reply toEndoSuckss

That is great news endo sucks.

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LouiseC83

Couldn't agree more. Since my lap I've been wondering how to step up and make this more of an issue. Both me and my mum have been diagnosed within months of one another. The issue of women's health needs a much bigger push in every arena. There needs to be far more awareness in all fields of medicine to ensure appropriate checks are being carried out and we're not dismissed as quickly as we are when nothing else makes sense.

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EndoJaz

I have previously sent an email to my MP who suggests that when I find another better way of diagnosing endometriosis to let him know!

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Avourneen in reply toEndoJaz

You could tell him that perhaps doctors actually listening to patients and taking them seriously might help ?

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Noodle31 in reply toAvourneen

It took about 15 years for me to be diagnosed, despite seeing doctors from my mid-teens about very obvious endometriosis symptoms.

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Avourneen in reply toNoodle31

Yes it's the same for me but it took over thirty years to get my diagnosis. That's hey we need to get MPs to push for better awarenwss and traetment paths.

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LouiseC83 in reply toEndoJaz

How is that your responsibility? Perhaps they need to educate the system so there is more awareness on how this disease affects other functions. How bloody rude of him. I bet that wouldn't be his response if he suffered with it

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EndoJaz

Oh I did tell him my awful experiences along the way but that’s the response

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