No matter a woman’s age, having a hysterectomy can be an emotional experience. For many, it can bring up feelings of loss and fear. Loss of femininity, no longer being able to bear children, fear of diminished attractiveness. And it can bring up concerns about having sex: Will it be painful? Will I be able to enjoy it? Will I feel different to my partner? Will I even be interested in sex again?
March is Endometriosis Awareness month. Women who suffer with severe menstrual pain are encouraged to get diagnosed early by a CIGC GYN specialist.
This is a disease that can cause severe pain, and for now, has no cure. For many women, choosing the right specialist who fully understands the disease, and how seemingly unrelated symptoms are connected due to the unpredictable nature of endometriosis. The inflammation it causes can result in scarring within the pelvic cavity, so that organs stick together. Women have reported extreme pain, heavy bleeding, bloody diarrhea, pain urinating and other symptoms that could also be misdiagnosed as digestive problems.
Learn more about endometriosis treatment and choosing a specialist.
Surgical Volume Matters For Better Patient Outcomes High volume laparoscopic surgeons provide better outcomes for GYN surgical patients. Of the hundreds of thousands of hysterectomies performed each year in the United States, a large percentage of women are still only offered open procedures. Patients often don’t know that they can choose a laparoscopic specialist to …
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Adenomyosis is a painful and complex gynecological condition that is not well understood, can be difficult to detect, and can only be cured by hysterectomy. Its primary indication is painful periods. What Is Adenomyosis? Adenomyosis develops when cells from the endometrial lining of the uterus grow into the muscle of the uterus. These cells behave …
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March is Endometriosis Awareness month. Women who suffer with severe menstrual pain are encouraged to get diagnosed early by a CIGC GYN specialist.
This is a disease that can cause severe pain, and for now, has no cure. For many women, choosing the right specialist who fully understands the disease, and how seemingly unrelated symptoms are connected due to the unpredictable nature of endometriosis. The inflammation it causes can result in scarring within the pelvic cavity, so that organs stick together. Women have reported extreme pain, heavy bleeding, bloody diarrhea, pain urinating and other symptoms that could also be misdiagnosed as digestive problems.
Learn more about endometriosis treatment and choosing a specialist.
There are many conflicting studies about what to eat and what not to eat if you have fibroids. The fibroids diet may help control fibroids from growing in the first place, but once they are in the uterus and are showing signs of growing, changes to the diet either do not work or are short-lived.
Fibroid growth is unpredictable, and they can get very large very fast in some women. Many times doctors will tell a patient to watch and wait, rather than perform surgery. Women who could have treated smaller fibroids early on can actually face distortion of the uterus causing problems with getting pregnant, carrying a child to term, or have increased risks of requiring a hysterectomy.
How can you determine if your surgeon has the best experience to perform the best hysterectomy procedure that will minimize your recovery time, overall pain and get you back to yourself faster? These are some basic questions you need to ask your surgeon before your hysterectomy, and the answers that should help set a threshold for what you will accept.
The most advanced laparoscopic procedures improve recovery, minimize blood loss & should have cosmetically friendly incisions help to avoid visible scars.
An estimated 500,000 hysterectomies will be performed in 2016, with many of them as higher risk procedures: invasive open hysterectomy, blind vaginal hysterectomy, or robotic hysterectomy procedures.
The advanced technique DualPortGYN was developed by the minimally invasive GYN specialists at CIGC to take advantage of specialized techniques that help to control blood loss and map the pelvic cavity. Hysterectomies can be performed using just 2 small incisions no larger than a paper cut.
