Advice on shrinking endometrioma

[SB0910]

Hi, I've been recently diagnosed with endo and have a large endometrioma on my ovary. I've been advised the only way to get rid of it is with surgery. However I'm weighing up whether surgery is worth it due to A) the risks of other organs being damaged and potentially losing my ovary and B) it still doesn't solve the problem as endo could still come back. As I have the mirena coil I don't have a period or any pain other than the occasional dull ache.

Does anyone have any experience of following a certain diet, taking certain supplements or doing any alternative therapies which have actually shrunk cysts or reduced sites of endo?

Any advice is appreciated

[Chicken37]

Hi! I have recently been looking into leading an anti inflammatory lifestyle and using “heal endo” a book by Katie Edmonds as a guide. She explains all the various things from small to large steps of what can help to reduce endo symptoms and possibly reduce endo lesions mass or in some cases existence. It isn’t a be all and end all but it has certainly helped guide me. It has thinks such as diet, exercise, day to day things that may influence the endo, toxins in foods and environment, and most importantly things to help combat them. It is definitely worth looking at if you want a more natural way to take control first and then consider surgery. I want to clarify this isn’t a fix and surgery will ultimately with a specialist surgeon help give you a clean plate however, the steps and information in the book here helps provide support naturally in all areas of life. I hope that helps 💛

[SB0910 in reply to Chicken37]

Thank you so much for your help and advice I'm going to follow the anti-inflammatory diet for 6 months and see if it makes any difference to my lesions. Will report back if it does when I have an MRI