It’s time for a new take on endometriosis and for us women to take our power back from this awful disease. It all starts with healthcare practitioners moving away from focusing only on issuing the pill to ‘treat’ this disease and instead, empowering women to better understand the drivers of this complex disease whilst presenting all the evidence-based treatment and support options. As it may not be able to cure endometriosis but it is totally possible to thrive with endometriosis and enjoy a good quality of life.
Endometriosis Treatment Options
I can tell you now there are so many options out there for evidence-based support if you are living with endometriosis, however, one huge problem is your doctor isn’t talking about them!
As a woman in remission with endometriosis, and as a female healthcare practitioner who helps support other women with this condition in a functional medicine nutritional therapy setting – I am frustrated by how long it takes a woman to get diagnosed with endometriosis and how few treatment options are presented once diagnosed.
We Women Deserve Better Endometriosis Care
The main “treatment” option usually offered is the contraceptive pill. FYI – this does not treat or cure endometriosis, it suppresses it.
There are so many evidence-based support and treatment options out there for endometriosis and all healthcare professionals need to take the time to research them to better help their patients! Failing to do so is malpractice.
So, I take my frustration about the above situation that I too once lived in and instead I use it to help motivate me to help women thrive with endometriosis in my clinic, and to educate all the women I come into contact with on all the evidence-based options within their reach so they can make the right choice for them. It first starts by becoming fully informed, and currently, doctors are not generally doing this with their female patients living with endometriosis.
