Amy speaks with Dr. Abdala Karame about: —if endometriomas can be distinguished from cysts in an ultrasound. —how to treat endometriomas and the evidence available on hormonal suppression and endometrioma recurrence. —if endometriomas always grow or not. 🎤WHO IS DR. ABDALA KARAME?🎤 Dr. Abdala Karame is a gynecologist obstetrician and specialists in assistive reproductive technology…
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Today Amy speaks with Dr. Ana Sierra about: —how neuronavigation and neuromodulation can help patients in pain —how nerve involvement may play a role in bladder symptoms and leg pain —what nerve sparing surgery is and why is it important 🎤WHO IS DR. ANA SIERRA?🎤 Graduated from the Autonomous University of Querétaro, she began her…
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People with endo have a range of pain from none to mild to moderate to severe. Amy and Brittany talk about pain associated with endometriosis, such when and where we can have it. We give a quick and general overview of multiple reasons for endo-associated pain, such as inflammation, sensitization, and lesion location. This episode…
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Amy speaks with Dr. David Redwine about: —“Sins of the endometriosis literature.” —The recent research that came out with Horvath’s pan-tissue clock and the origin of endometriosis. —Claims on the Lupron website is that it’s “used for the reduction of endometriotic lesions.” —Microscopic endometriosis. —The ESHRE updated endometriosis guidelines around diagnosis of endo. 🎤WHO IS…
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Amy speaks with Dr. John Dulemba about: —how for the past 20 years, he’s been testing the hormone receptors of endometriosis lesions. —his findings and thoughts on endometriosis and hormones. 🎤WHO IS DR. DULEMBA?🎤 Dr Dulemba is an excision surgeon who has been in private practice in Denton, Texas, since 1986. 🔗RESOURCES🔗 For clickable links…
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Amy speaks with Dr. John Dulemba about: —all things adhesions, such as what they are, how they form, and who gets them —his rationale behind the second look surgery for adhesions that he does just a few days after his original excision surgery. 🎤WHO IS DR. DULEMBA?🎤 Dr. Dulemba is an excision surgeon who has…
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Updated 9/2023. Amy and Brittany talk about: —how the color of endometriosis is one of the most important factors to identify it but many doctors haven’t been trained to recognize all the visual appearances of endo —how an untrained gynecologist could miss endo during surgery, leading to misdiagnosis or leaving endo behind during surgery —the…
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Amy speaks with Wendy Bingham DPT about thoracic endometriosis: —the symptoms and how it’s diagnosed —treatment —Wendy also tells us her vision for the future of endo treatment 🎤WHO IS WENDY BINGHAM DPT?🎤 Wendy is the founder of the non-profit ExtraPelvic Not Rare, which is dedicated to starting conversation about extrapelvic endometriosis, while providing correct,…
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Amy talks to Dr. David Redwine about —endometriosis treatments —excision surgery —endometriosis recurrence 🎤WHO IS DR. DAVID REDWINE?🎤 Until his retirement in 2012, Dr. David Redwine headed the world-renowned and award-winning Oregon Institute of Endometriosis at St. Charles Medical Center, Bend, Oregon, treating thousands of people with endometriosis via excision surgery from all across the…
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Amy speaks with Dr. David Redwine about —why he considers Sampson’s theory of retrograde menstruation the most dangerous theory in the history of medicine —what endo does in the body —obstacles to endometriosis treatment 🎤WHO IS DR. DAVID REDWINE?🎤 Until his retirement in 2012, Dr. David Redwine headed the world-renowned and award-winning Oregon Institute of…
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