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Amy Romano, MSN, CNM
Digital Pharma East
October 19, 2010
Do c-sections cause endometriosis?
...Those of us active in ICAN (International Cesarean Awareness Network) have known about incisional endometriosis for years….many of us suffer from it to varying degrees...Even though my knowledge is “anecdotal” (and thus suspect) that this is a problem that doesn’t seem very unusual or rare at all.
Gretchen Humphries
Advocacy Director, ICAN
advocacy@ican-online.org
http://ican-online.org
(referring to a friend who had a c-section for intrapartum abruption)
But the really sad thing was that when she was ready to conceive baby #2 (and then #3), well of course she had to go off the birth control. And have sex when she was in intense pain. She said that it was hard for her husband to even do his part…because its not like having your wife fighting back tears is particularly “arousing.”
"Over the next 2 years the pain increased during my cycle to having extreme pain on slightly bumping my abdomen, bending, stretching, shooting/pinching pain…really just any use of my abdomen during my cycle...
"Wow I was just sitting here thinking “I wonder if my c-section could have caused my endo” and so I googled it, and there was this discussion"
"i’m glad i stumbled upon this website. i’m convinced now i need to make an appointment with a general surgeon and plead my case..."
"I have 6 studies that looked at recurrence rates. All together, they comprise 101 cases of surgically treated post-cesarean endometriosis, and 5 women had a recurrence (5%)...."
(from a nurse about to undergo surgery to confirm and treat cesarean scar endometriosis)
"Even as a nurse, I had no idea what “late effects” these c-sections could have on me. I DEFINATELY think more research should be done. It would not surprize me at all if the incidence of scar endometrioma increases as more and more women today undergo c-sections as compared to many years ago."