What Is Adenomyosis and How To Treat It Naturally

What Is Adenomyosis?

Adenomyosis is endometriosis of the uterus. It occurs when the endometrial glands grow into the myometrium in addition to being in the endometrium.

Adenomyosis is a type of chronic pelvic pain.

Who Gets Adenomyosis

People used to think that only women in their 40s and 50s who had already had a baby were at risk of adenomyosis.

Now, with the wide-spread use of ultrasound, gynecologists are checking the uterus for younger women with painful periods and noticing the uterus looks thicker and more globular like the adenomyosis uterus.

About 50% of women with adenomyosis also have fibroids.

What Are the Symptoms of Adenomyosis

1/3 women asymptomatic
Heavy menstrual bleeding
Irregular bleeding
Pelvic pain with period
Pain with sex
Infertility

Cause of Adenomyosis

Injury from cesarean, D&C, or pregnancy
Altered lymph and venous drainage
Abnormal initial development of the layers of the uterus

Hormones and Adenomyosis

Adenomyosis presents as an estrogen-dominant condition. However, generally women do not have higher levels of estrogen.

The issue is that there are more estrogen receptors, and the estrogen receptors are more sensitive, so the same amount of estrogen has a bigger effect.

There are also problems with estrogen metabolism so you have recirculation of estrogen.

Additionally, there is an excess of inflammatory prostaglandins with adenomyosis. This leads to painful periods and heavy bleeding.

How To Diagnose Adenomyosis