When is hysterectomy is a women's only option for treating endometrioses?

Endometriosis

Endometriosis is a condition in which the tissue that is present in the pelvic cavity out grows into the ovaries, the fallopian tubes, bladder and bowel. The endometriosis pain, which is felt in the lower abdomen, is immense and chronic. In addition endometriosis causes low back pain, thigh and leg pain, ovulation pain, nausea and lethargy, bowel symptoms, pain during sex and difficulty conceiving.

Treatments that might fail and give rise to the option of hysterectomy.

The methods of diagnosing endometriosis are by laparoscopes, ultrasounds and colonoscopy. The treatment is by drug therapy like Anti-inflammatory medications, Pain killers (Mersyndol), Hormonal treatments, GnRH agonists (Zoladex, Synarel), androgenic steroids (Danazol, Dimetriose), Progestogens (Provera, Duphaston, Primolut) and the oral contraceptive pill. If medication does not help then surgery is recommended, the surgeries include Laparoscopic, Laparotomy and hysterectomy. Hysterectomy is the removal of the uterus. It is an option only when all other treatments fail. Hysterectomy is not the correct path for women suffering from endometriosis. It does not remove the symptoms and is not a guaranteed cure from endometriosis. Many women who have gone through hysterectomy have had the disease again.

Hysterectomy is not a guarantee for removing endometriosis

Many doctors' advice women to go in for a hysterectomy if the endometriosis becomes serious. These women are in the hope of getting cured completely as the disease symptoms are removed completely but this is not true as even after this the disease has chances of coming back. The disease is spread in the entire pelvic cavity hence removing the uterus and ovaries would leave back symptoms of the disease. As these are microscopic implants they are difficult to be totally removed. A doctor would ask the patient to wait as there are chances of endometriosis to get cured by menopause or pregnancy but if still suffer this the disease is not cured then the disease is cut out. Many cases where women have had total hysterectomy are given hormone replacement therapy. But this further allows the disease to grow up again because the implants are replaced with estrogen, and endometriosis feeds on estrogen.