About a year ago, Dr. Obama received a letter from an Oklahoma woman who cold an odd tale of pain and suffering due to endometriosis. To his surprise, Mrs. Petersen’s account was not about her daughter, her sister, mother; aunt, or a friend. Rather, the unsuspecting victim of this insidious disease was her husband, George.
“How [...]
Warts are small, hard swellings which sometimes appear on the skin and the mucous membranes. There are many different types of warts, all of them caused by the Papova virus; there is the common wart, usually on the fingers, and most unsightly; the plane or flat wart, often on the back of the hand or [...]
An increase in dietary fibre will occur as fat-containing foods are replaced by food containing more carbohydrate. Methods for Increasing dietary fibre:
- Use wholegrain bread and cereals such as brown rice, wholemeal spaghetti and other pasta, wholegrain breakfast cereal, wholegrain crispbread, oatmeal or wheatmeal biscuits, wholemeal flour and other wholegrain cereal foods.
- Eat at least [...]
My endometriosis was diagnosed in January 1986 when I was 33 years old. I had sought medical attention when I had been unsuccessful in conceiving after 18 months. Apart from painful periods (always), which were getting heavier and a few odd aches and pains that I’d attributed to heavy lifting at work (nursing), I didn’t [...]
A laparoscopy is a relatively safe and simple minor operation, performed under a general anaesthetic, in which a telescope-like instrument known as a laparoscope is inserted into a small cut near the navel.
Nowadays, laparoscopy is a fairly common operation which is used to diagnose a range of gynaecological conditions, including endometriosis and pelvic inflammatory disease. [...]