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The Difference Between Adenomyosis and Endometriosis

When a woman experiences painful periods, heavy bleeding, and chronic pain in the pelvic region, this constellation of symptoms could suggest endometriosis, a condition in which endometrial tissue spreads and implants beyond the uterus. During every menstrual period, this misplaced endometrial tissue can shed blood into the pelvic region and beyond, causing cysts, scar tissue, and adhesions to form over time.

But if the endometrial tissue burrows deep into the muscle of the uterus, and not outside the uterus, the diagnosis is actually adenomyosis, a condition that is related to endometriosis but has a few key differences.

In endometriosis, the endometrial tissue escapes from the uterus and might implant on the surface of the bladder, bowels, or other organs throughout the body. In adenomyosis, the endometrial tissue gets pushed into the myometrium muscle of the uterus, which is located between the inner and outer layers of the uterus organ. Once embedded in the muscle, this endometrial tissue sheds when the rest of the endometrium sheds during a period, which causes extra bleeding, pain, and cramping.

Adenomyosis vs. endometriosis symptoms

Both diseases can cause pain, Sanjay Agarwal, MD, director for the Center for Endometriosis Research and Treatment at the University of California, San Diego, tells Health. But women with adenomyosis generally tend to have pain related to their periods, while women with endometriosis might also feel pain with bowel movements and at other times in the cycle.

“With adenomyosis, the main impact on quality of life is a painful period,” Dr. Agarwal says. “Perhaps this is because endometriosis goes further afield.”

These two conditions don’t cause symptoms for everyone, however. It’s estimated that about one-third of women with adenomyosis experience no symptoms at all. And when it comes to asymptomatic endometriosis, it’s estimated that as many as 43% of women who end up undergoing sterilization for other reasons also show signs of mild endometriosis and were completely unaware of it.

Diagnosing adenomyosis vs. endometriosis

While more doctors are beginning to treat endometriosis based on symptoms like pelvic pain and painful periods, the most definitive diagnosis is made during a surgery called a laparoscopy, which is when doctors insert a thin tube with a light and camera into a small incision in the abdomen. With the tube, they can see endometrial lesions, cysts, and adhesions that make up endometriosis.

Diagnosing adenomyosis is much less invasive. Magnetic resonance imaging can help doctors see whether the myometrium is thicker than normal—one sign of the condition. MRIs and transvaginal ultrasounds can also help doctors identify cysts in the walls of the uterus, as well as myometrium with an abnormal texture. If the growths are limited to just a few cysts, the adenomyosis is classified as focal, while abnormal myometrium throughout the uterus is called diffuse adenomyosis.

Infertility in adenomyosis and endometriosis

Both conditions can also raise the risk for impaired fertility, or the inability to either conceive or carry a pregnancy to term.

When it comes to adenomyosis specifically, embryos can struggle to implant in the enlarged and “hard” uterus. Pregnancy losses are also more common. One study showed that women with adenomyosis undergoing in vitro fertilization had double the rate of miscarriages compared to women with both adenomyosis and endometriosis.

Adenomyosis also puts women and their babies at a higher risk of preterm birth and the premature rupture of the amniotic sac, as well as intrauterine growth restriction, pregnancy-related hypertension, and uterine infection.

If IVF doesn’t work, doctors might suggest a drug protocol called a gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist, which suppresses the production of reproductive hormones like progesterone and estrogen in order to reduce the size of the uterine growths. Doctors may also attempt a surgery to remove the growths, known as adenomyomas, and reconstruct the uterus. These two alternative treatments have been shown to increase the chances of spontaneous pregnancy among women with adenomyosis, while the drug protocol may also help make IVF more successful.

However, depending on the size and spread of the condition, women with extensive adenomyosis might end up needing a surrogate to carry their pregnancy, Dr. Agarwal says.

Adenomyosis vs. endometriosis treatment

Treatment options for both conditions are similar and escalate in intensity from birth control pills to suppress the release of reproductive hormones to surgery to remove endometrial cysts, scar tissue or implants, adenomyomas, or even the entire uterus.

In between those two ends of the spectrum, women can try other hormonal medications to drive down the production of estrogen, a hormone that makes both adenomyosis and endometriosis worse. These drugs, delivered through injections, hormonal IUDs, or pills, have been shown to reduce menstrual cramping, pain during sex, and chronic pelvic pain in both conditions.

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What Is Bowel Endometriosis? Symptoms and Treatments for the Condition

Heather Guidone was in her early teens when her symptoms first started. She felt sick to her stomach all the time. Excruciating cramps left her bent over with pain, even when she wasn't on her period. She was frequently nauseous, bloated, and had urgent diarrhea. Sometimes, the pain was so severe that she couldn't get out of bed. "It literally, with no exaggeration, ruled my life," she tells Health.

Although she wouldn't know it for several years, Guidone was suffering from bowel endometriosis.

Endometriosis in general is a relatively common condition. It affects between 10 to 12% of people born with a uterus once they reach reproductive age, according to a paper in the International Journal of Women's Health. Bowel endometriosis—a manifestation of endometriosis that occurs on or around the bowels, is less common, affecting anywhere between five and 12 percent of people who have the disease.

What is bowel endometriosis?

To understand how bowel endometriosis happens, you first have to understand how organs fit together in a human pelvis, Murray Orbuch, MD, assistant professor of gastroenterology at Mount Sinai, tells Health. All of the organs in the pelvic cavity — the bladder, the colon, the rectum, and reproductive organs like the uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries — are very tightly packed in.

When someone has endometriosis tissue very similar to the tissue that normally lines the inside of their uterus grows outside the uterus. Most of the time, that endometrial-like tissue starts growing around the ovaries, the Fallopian tubes, and the tissue that lines the pelvis. And it acts just like endometrial tissue is supposed to — it swells, breaks down, and bleeds roughly every 28 days. But because the tissue has nowhere to go, it gets trapped inside the body and causes scar tissue and adhesions.

Bowel endometriosis happens when the endometrial-like tissue grows deeper into the pelvic cavity and forms adhesions on or around the bowel. It's very unlikely that the tissue will grow on the bowel alone, however, so bowel endometriosis is considered "deeply infiltrative endometriosis," Ken Sinervo, MD, Medical Director of the Center for Endometriosis Care. This means that the invading tissue grows not only on reproductive organs, but also on other organs in the pelvic cavity.

When tissue grows on the bowel, the adhesions act a bit like glue and "can tether bits of intestine to itself or other organs and cause a mess," Dr. Orbuch says.

What are the symptoms of bowel endometriosis?

The symptoms Guidone experienced are pretty typical of bowel endometriosis. The most common symptoms, Dr. Sinervo says, are: bloating (aka " endo belly"), abdominal cramping and pain, constipation, diarrhea, painful bowel movements, and nausea and/or vomiting. Some patients also complain of rectal bleeding.

These symptoms can sound a lot like gastrointestinal disorders like irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), or even appendicitis, which is one reason bowel endometriosis often takes a long time to diagnose. "But when we see them accompanied by pelvic pain, painful periods, backache, infertility, painful intercourse, ovulation pain, or leg pain, it's much more likely that the symptoms are the result of endometriosis and not a GI disorder," Dr. Sinervo says.

How is bowel endometriosis diagnosed?

Bowel endometriosis is "tricky to diagnose and tricky to treat," Dr. Orbuch says. Guidone considers herself "lucky" that it took only a few years and a few doctors to get an endometriosis diagnosis in the 1980s. She was living with near-constant pain for all of her teenage years, and had no reason why, but still she's one of the lucky ones.

Even now, she would be considered lucky. Many people with bowel endometriosis wait an average of seven to eight years and go from doctor to doctor, sometimes seeing four to five gynecologists before getting a diagnosis, Dr. Orbuch says.

The struggle to get a diagnosis is, again, partially because symptoms can look like several GI conditions, but also because the medical community is still learning about endometriosis as a disease. Although knowledge is creeping up, Dr. Orbuch says it needs to "creep faster" since living with bowel endometriosis "can wreck someone's life."

"There needs to be better recognition among gynecologists, gastroenterologists, and even pediatricians," he says. "You can't call it IBS and forget it." Red flags should go up if the bowel symptoms seem to get worse on a cyclical pattern corresponding to the patient's period or if the patient is struggling to get pregnant. "I've had more than a few women in their 30s come in with GI symptoms and also infertility and no one ever recognized that they had endometriosis," Dr. Orbuch says.

Once those red flags go off and endometriosis is added to the list of possibilities, doctors might try to get a peek inside your body with imaging technology like an MRI or a transvaginal sonography — a procedure during which an ultrasound probe is placed inside the vagina to take images of reproductive organs from within. However, your doctor might skip the imaging and suggest an exploratory surgery instead. Laparoscopic surgery with a biopsy for confirmation is considered the "gold standard" in diagnosing endometriosis, Dr. Sinervo says. It's a faster, more accurate diagnosis and tells the doctor exactly how much scar tissue and endometrial-like tissue they're dealing with.

Guidone was diagnosed with "old school" laparotomy surgery in the 1980s, but the procedure is less invasive now. During a laparoscopy, "the surgeon will create small incisions around the belly button and put a camera in to visualize the abdominal cavity," Dr. Orbuch says.

How is bowel endometriosis treated and managed?

Sometimes, bowel endometriosis can be controlled with birth control, Dr. Orbuch says. Hormonal birth control like the pill or IUDs override your brain's signal to release the hormones that trigger a period. So doctors might suggest a hormonal birth control option to tamp down your endometriosis symptoms (if your endometrial lining doesn't build, then it doesn't swell, shed, and bleed). Doctors may tell endometriosis patients on the pill to skip the placebo week in order to not trigger hormones.

Much of the time, especially for people whose endometriosis greatly impacts their lives, doctors will suggest surgery. A laparoscopic surgery, similar to the one used to diagnose endometriosis, is used to cut out the invasive tissue and the scar tissue it creates. "The serosal, or outer layer of the bowel, can often be 'peeled off' leaving the muscularis or muscular portion of the bowel undamaged," Dr. Sinervo says.

While words like "peeled off" may sound scary, the surgery can virtually erase endometriosis symptoms or make them much easier to manage. "My excision surgery changed my life," Guidone says. "I'm not in perfect health and will never be; but I'm free of endometriosis symptoms and the remaining issues I have are wholly manageable."

Some ways people manage endometriosis symptoms are with SSRIs — a class of antidepressants that can actually alter your pain threshold — and pelvic floor therapy, Dr. Orbuch says.

Now, Guidone works as the surgical program director at Dr. Sinervo's office to help others recognize and get treatment for their endometriosis, and she's particularly qualified to spread the word about bowel endometriosis. She says, "No one should be missing work, afraid to leave their home, not being able to be out with their family or friends, have their careers or school goals derailed, have to validate their pain and symptoms to others who don't understand or appreciate them, and feel utterly hopeless because of a disease that is actually treatable."

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