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Life Sciences => Physiology & Medicine => Topic started by: Brsp26 on 29/04/2010 19:59:47
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Can your reproductive organs actually melt with having Pelvic Inflammatory Disease for a year???
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Scar rather thsn "melt" ...
Prompt and appropriate treatment can help prevent complications of PID. Without treatment, PID can cause permanent damage to the female reproductive organs. Infection-causing bacteria can silently invade the fallopian tubes, causing normal tissue to turn into scar tissue. This scar tissue blocks or interrupts the normal movement of eggs into the uterus. If the fallopian tubes are totally blocked by scar tissue, sperm cannot fertilize an egg, and the woman becomes infertile. Infertility also can occur if the fallopian tubes are partially blocked or even slightly damaged. About one in ten women with PID becomes infertile, and if a woman has multiple episodes of PID, her chances of becoming infertile increase.
http://www.cdc.gov/std/PID/STDFact-PID.htm#complications
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Hello, I often had inflammations at the age of 15. I'm very tired of treating these problems. When I got married and there were no children, I realized what grief had come. This is the consequence of the inflammatory process. I was diagnosed with infertility. I cried for a long time. The husband found the clinic's contacts on the forums. Her very often wrote good reviews and we left for Ukraine.
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For many women, the first appointment is a short meeting with your counselor. They can ask you to tell them about your medical history / fertility and discuss the results of any tests that you already have. Then they can organize further tests, which will be performed later. In other words, no physical examination is carried out (and you can feel that you do not have it yet).
However, when I was sent to the clinic, I was on the table with an internal ultrasound scan in less than 5 minutes after meeting with my new consultant!
As for viewing the tubes - there are two ways to do this: hycosy / HSG - which does not require surgical intervention. They inject your tubes with contrast material and an X-ray (to verify that they are both connected and not blocked). This is a relatively common procedure, since it is not associated with anesthesia, so it is not a high risk and, apparently, a fairly cheap test.
The second way to do this - laparoscopy - is the operation with key holes, performed under general anesthesia, often as a day. Several small holes are made in your stomach, a visible dye is passed through your tubes, and the camera is used to confirm the passage of the dye. (The camera can also be used to check the condition of other reproductive organs).
Fortunately, none of these procedures will take place on the first day. And although they probably seem terrible, in practice they are not so bad.