Challenges of being a mother after a diagnosis of endometriosis

Every month, the female body creates internal tissue in the uterus called endometriumwhich, as it need not contain an embryo, is expelled and expelled through menstruation.

However, sometimes this endometrial tissue grows in places outside the uterus and produces endometriosisgynecological disease that affects 10% of women in fertile time and the symptoms it produces dramatically affect the Quality of life these patients.

Typically, women with endometriosis suffer from menstruation with severe cramps and pain during sexual relationsbut they are not aware of this disease and also ignore that between 30% and 50% of those who have this disease diagnosis could express sterilityaccording to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.

According to Dr. Maya Morgan, a specialist in reproductive medicine at the Valencia Infertility Institute in Panama, “a couple has approximately a 20% month-to-month chance of achieving a spontaneous pregnancy even in cases of women suffering from severe endometriosis without treatment “This percentage falls to 8% annually.”

However, “the good news is that it can be treated with pharmacological and surgical options, although if the latter is required, it is recommended patients fertility preservation with glazing of their eggs,” explains the specialist.

How to get pregnant?

Surgery for the treatment of endometriosis is performed to relieve the pain caused by the disease and to prevent it injuries eye organs vital ones such as ovaries, ureters or intestines where endometrial tissue often grows; but not to avoid infertility resulting from involvement ovarian function and the decrease in quantity i egg quality.

According to Morgan, 70% of women with mild to moderate endometriosis can become pregnant without treatment, but fertility preservation will always be recommended if not considered pregnancy in the short term.

“In this way, the patient will have a greater chance of becoming a mother with her own eggs and will be able to achieve better results.” pregnancy in the future,” says Dr. Morgan,” she added.

Egg vitrification is one of IVI Panama’s fertility preservation techniques, it allows you to delay maternity with the same possibilities as when oocytes are vitrified. With vitrification, women can undergo endometrial surgery and increase your ability to achieve pregnancy later.

This technique, in addition to offering the possibility of delaying motherhood to all women who want it, can also help those who have already undergone endometriosis treatments. It consists of freezing the eggs from the first moment of making a decision or receiving a diagnosis so that they remain in the best fertile conditions until the moment when the woman decides to seek pregnancy.

For this reason, as soon as a woman has any of the listed symptoms of endometriosis, she should immediately go to her family doctor for advice and a referral to a specialist in reproductive medicine.

Study

A recent study conducted by IVI showed the importance of preserving fertility before endometriosis intervention, as it confirmed that patients Under the age of 35 with diagnosed endometriosis who vitrified 20 oocytes, achieved a subsequent success rate of 95%.

While women older than that age had a pregnancy rate close to 80%, it is therefore the main recommendation of experts.