So What is Endometriosis - Symptoms
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A major symptom of endometriosis is severe recurring pain. The amount of pain a woman feels is not necessarily related to the extent or stage of endometriosis. Some women will have little or no pain despite having extensive endometriosis affecting large areas or having endometriosis with scarring. On the other hand, women may have severe pain even though they have only a few small areas of endometriosis.
Symptoms of endometriosis can include (but are not limited to):
- (dysmenorrhea) - Painful, sometimes disabling menstrual cramps ; pain may get worse over time (progressive pain)
- Chronic pelvic pain - typically accompanied by lower back pain and possibly abdominal pain.
- dyspareunia - Painful sex
- dyschezia - Painful bowel movements
- Nausea, vomiting, and/or diarrhea.
- Urinary urgency, frequency, and sometimes painful voiding (dysuria)
- Infertility and subfertility. Endometriosis may lead to fallopian tube obstruction. Even without this, there may be difficulty conceiving. In some women, subfertility is the sole symptom, and the endometriosis is only discovered after fertility investigations.
- Some women may also suffer from Depression and fatigue.
In addition, women who are diagnosed with endometriosis may have gastrointestinal symptoms that may mimic irritable bowel syndrome.