Adenomyosis: Symptoms, Causes and Treatment

The common form of endometriosis is adenomyosis. What are its features? What is adenomyosis? This disease is characterized by pathological proliferation in the walls of the uterus, its muscle layer.

In the old fashion, adenomyosis is often called uterine hyperplasia.

The mechanism of adenomyosis formation

If there is a malfunction in the immuno-hormonal systemregulation of the endometrial cell (mucous membrane of the uterus) with blood flow can penetrate into places outside their main localization and fix in this case in such tissues that in the normal state should not contain hormone-dependent cells. In response, a protective reaction to the invasion takes place in the muscle of the uterus. This is manifested by the thickening of the tissue bundles in the places where the endometrial cells have fallen. The muscle tries to limit the spread of the invasion and ingrowth process. In this case, it increases in size, and accordingly, and the uterus grows, acquiring a spherical shape. These processes cause adenomyosis, the symptoms of which are similar to chronic inflammation, edema and the progression of the pathological process in the body of the uterus.

Complaints of patients depend on the localization of these cells and are associated with the growth of the muscle layer, i.e. with hyperplasia.

Adenomyosis. Symptoms of the disease

Complaints for this pathology are typical for many diseases. Adenomyosis, the symptoms of which are nonspecific, usually manifests itself:

• pains in the lower abdomen before and after menstruation, as well as during menstruation;
• bloody dark secretions outside the menstrual period;
• heavy menstruation;
• disorders of the menstrual cycle;
• pain during sexual intercourse;
• an increase in the size of the uterus body;
• pronounced premenstrual syndrome.

One of the manifestations of the disease can be infertility. Symptoms of adenomyosis do not go unnoticed, and patients are often forced to consult a doctor.

Causes of the disease

It is suggested that most often the cause of the diseaseare immune and hormonal disorders, fetal developmental disorders, difficult opening of the cervix in young girls with menstruation, etc., but to this day the exact causes of adenomyosis have not been established.

Doctors-homeopaths believe that the appearance andthe progression of the disease is affected by the reduced immunity of patients. Those women who suffer from chronic infectious ENT diseases, as well as diseases of the digestive tract (gastroduodenitis, biliary dyskinesia, pancreatitis), this pathology is much more frequent and more severe.

Direct exposure to sunlight increases the risk of "adenomyosis", the symptoms of which are also enhanced by exposure to radiation.

The most prone to the disease are women who had previously undergone surgery on the uterus or other surgical interventions: scraping after miscarriage or abortion.

All these reasons can cause malfunctions in the hormonal system.

Diagnostics

Diagnosis of adenomyosis is carried out using ultrasound of the small pelvis. For a more thorough examination, hysteroscopy, laparoscopy and hysterography are used.

At the same time, experts determine the mostminor deviations of the hormonal and immune-allergic background of women, and also analyze the work and condition of the digestive tract, urinary and nervous systems. It is important to conduct a study of the vagina, oral cavity and intestines for the presence of dysbiosis.

Treatment of adenomyosis

For today in medicine it is appliedsurgical and conservative treatment of this disease. The main purpose of the operation is to eliminate the foci of adenomyosis and restore the shape and size of the uterus. With a conservative method, medications that normalize the activity of the immune and hormonal systems are used. The treatment takes two to three months.

Most often, women's attempts to cure adenomyosis alone lead to an even greater violation of the immune-allergic and hormonal background and only exacerbate the problem.