Endometriosis specialists:
Why you should find one near you
When people have heart issues, they go to see a cardiologist. When they have issues with their ears, they go to an ENT- the same should apply to endometriosis. You need a specialist.
Being a "sketchy" disease in terms of diagnosis, having a wide range of symptoms between patients and stages of it - unfortunately, although some of the main symptoms relate directly to OB/GYN, many gynecologists can't recognize the symptoms nor address them properly.
Worse: some of them will feel bad for you and offer an exploratory lap to check why you're in pain, but being unskilled and untrained for this delicate job, they often will be looking right at it without recognizing it.
Today's Golden Standard treatment for endometriosis is excision surgery.
While this surgery is done laparoscopically, so you'll end up with only a few small incisions, the required skill to perform such surgery far suppresses what you see on the outside.
Excision surgery is closer to neurosurgery in terms of precision and the needed extra-delicate hand skills.
Not every surgeon can perform such duties.
If your expected surgeon is your beloved gynecologist who usually sees patients in-office only, that's probably not the right person for this job.
Find an endometriosis specialist near you
Some of the reasons you should seek an endometriosis specialist:
Endometriosis comes in all colors: from blue, black and purple, trough red and yellow, to white and even translucent (!)
Endometriosis specialists will be able to recognize all those forms, hopefully, and remove them successfully.
Endometriosis lesions can be as tiny as 0.5 mm, but as sticky as a tick! In short, endometriosis lesions create their own supply of nerves and blood vessels around the lesion. To prevent re-growth, every lesions must be removed with its entire "supply system".
"Laparoscopic surgery" is just a general practice of HOW doctors are getting in to do the job.
A doctor with experience doing laps to remove or drain cysts, for example, might sound convincing; But laparoscopic excision of endometriosis takes a completely different skill, special training, and lots of practice to be able to locate and remove lesions properly.
Endometriosis specialists handle endometriosis cases very often and see a wide variety. Some of them treat endometriosis all day, every day.
They join conferences about endo and keep tabs on current research.
This is very different than a doctor who's dividing their focus between other OB/GYN issues.
