Dr Charlotte Elder
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275 appearances
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first heard Sep 2019
last heard Mar 2021
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basically where um some cells or some tissue that should live inside the uterus lives outside the uterus so most commonly in other places in the pelvis but there's um
Every now and again, they'll be in some really other kind of funky spots in the body, up close towards the chest or in some other spots.
We know that people who bleed more are more likely to have endometriosis spots, so people who have heavier periods or more periods.
or longer periods and we know that people who don't have periods at all it's very unlikely to get very very unlikely and we know that some people runs in families a bit so maybe some people maybe they're just their bodies are a bit stickier inside their belly so it can kind of stick onto their pelvis or maybe they're just not as good at clearing it up because we do know that people some people are really good at clearing endometriosis up so some people can heal their own endometriosis
So it's a really interesting, and we don't know if maybe there's like three or four different diseases that right now we just call them all endometriosis, but actually they're all separate things.
interesting thing because for some people,
It causes all sorts of trouble.
And for other people, it causes no problems whatsoever.
So some people have it and don't feel anything.
They're just normal, just cruising around, doing their normal thing, no biggie.
Other people have a lot of pain, and that can be pain that happens when you're bleeding.
So with your period, it can be pain that happens when you're having sex.
It can be pain that happens just because and no particular reason.
And interestingly enough, you can have a whole bunch of endometriosis and no pain, and you can have no endometriosis and really kind of what we'd call typical endometriosis type pain.
So the amount of endometriosis doesn't match the pain.
And that's one of the things that's really suggested to us that we need to look into it more.
Unfortunately, I think there's heaps that we don't know about it, which is really frustrating.
it really needs to be personalised and it depends what's going on in that person's life as to what the right treatment is.
Medication treatment often works very well and in part because we know that if someone has fewer periods or no periods or no bleeding, then sometimes their body can fix the endometriosis by themselves.
And I think
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