The Endometriosis and Fertility Clinic
"Let food be your medicine and medicine
be your food"
Hippocrates (460 BC)
Welcome to the Endometriosis HELP Pages
Endometriosis can be a distressing disease affecting women's health. It can cause the most excruciating pain and in some women it appears to trigger fertility or infertility problems. Whether all the symptoms are caused by endometriosis or they originate from a dreadfully ill body, trying to stay well, surviving the symptoms, becomes a task in itself. Your body wants to be well as that is its natural state. Every body system depends upon the nutrients getting into each cell of the body in order for them to work efficiently. Endometriosis is systemic; it affects every part of the body not just the gynaecolgical organs,though period pain is a common symptom allong with irregular periods. You feel ill all over, dreadful fatigue can rule life and the digestive system involvement can trigger bloating, boats of constipation or diarrohea, abdominal pain and bladder problems. This is indicative of a disease which is affecting the whole body, not just the reproductive organs. The main symptoms of endometriosis can be painful periods (dysmenorrhea), painful intercourse (dyspareunia), painful ovulation, heavy periods often lasting for many days, PMS, there is an increased risk of infertility or as I prefer to call it sub-fertility.
We hope that you will find information in these pages useful. Please travel through these pages to find ideas which may work for you.
The President of the Endometriosis SHE Trust, Chris Mann is on the move again. This time he will don a wetsuit and swim a mile across Lake Windermere, as part of the Great North Swim on September 12th. This event is a particular personal challenge for Chris as he only learnt to swim last year. Again, he is looking to raise much needed funds for us, so please dig deep as every little helps.
You can sponsor Chris by visiting http://www.justgiving.com/chrismannswim/ .
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