Symptoms Of Endometrosis Experienced By Barbara Palvin, A Disease Often Ignored By Women

Barbara Palvin (Instagram/@realbarbarapalvin)

JAKARTA - Barbara Palvin's supermodel appears confident again after four months of endometrosis surgery, a disease that causes tissue similar to the inner lining (endometrium) to grow outside the uterus.

On October 15, he successfully returned to the stage of the Viktoria's Secret Fashion Show, marking a big moment in his health recovery.

In an exclusive interview with E! News, Barbara revealed how much change was felt after surgery.

"I underwent surgery in June, and the difference is really like day and night," Barbara said.

"The change is extraordinary. Of course, this is still something that is not much researched," he continued.

Barbara explained that her surgery was not a total cure, but was very helpful in reducing the symptoms she had been feeling so far. During the recovery period, she was fully accompanied by her husband, Dylan Sprous, who has always been loyal to support her.

"Dylan is very supportive. He helped me through the whole recovery process," Barbara also shared her experience on Instagram last August.

He talks about the incredible pain that has been experienced for years every time he menstruated.

"Tiredness, great pain, heavy and irregular bleeding, sleepless nights on the bathroom floor. I think that's normal for me," he wrote.

However, after consultation with specialist doctors, Barbara just found out that the symptoms were caused by endometrosis, a condition that was not easily detected through general examinations.

"I think if I had endometrosis, it would have been detected. But it turns out that endometrosis cannot be diagnosed with just an ordinary examination," he explained.

Three months after meeting specialists, Barbara finally underwent surgery.

"Since then, I've had a much lighter menstrual period, and now I know the difference. If you feel you may have endometrosis, I suggest checking it," he added.

Reporting from the Mayo Clinic, endometrosis is a medical condition in which tissues resembling uterine layers (endometriums) grow outside the uterus. This tissue is usually found in a diovarianium (egg eggs), tuba falopi channel, or tissue around the pelvis. In rare cases, the tissue can grow outside the pelvic area.

The tissue still behaves like a uterine layer, which is thickening, decaying, and bleeding every time it menstruates. However, because it cannot get out of the body, it causes inflammation, severe pain, scar tissue, and cysts (endometriom). As a result, sufferers often experience disorders in the reproductive system and fertility.

Symptoms

As Barbara Palvin experienced, the main symptoms of endometrosis are the great menstrual pain. This pain often appears a few days before menstruation and can last a long time after. In addition, several other generalized symptoms include:

- Pain during menstruation (dismenore), often accompanied by lower back pain and stomach pain.

- Pain during sexual intercourse, both during and after.

- Pain when defecating or urinating, especially during menstruation.

- Excessive bleeding, both during and outside the menstrual cycle.

- Extremal fatigue, nausea, bloating, constipation, or diarrhea before menstruation.

- The fertility problem is often discovered after a medical examination.

Interestingly, the level of pain is not always proportional to the severity of the disease. Some patients with few endometrosis networks can feel tremendous pain, while those who have many tissues do not feel severe symptoms.

Cause

Until now, the exact cause of endometrosis has not been fully understood. However, experts suspect there are several factors that play a role, including:

- Menstruation retrograde is menstrual blood flowing back into the pelvic cavity through the tuba falopi channel and attaching to other organs.

- Peritoneal cell changes are hormones or the immune system can convert normal cells to endometrium tissue.

- Changes in embryonic cells, namely the hormone estrogen, are suspected of converting embryo cells into endometrium tissues during menstruation.

- The postoperative complications of endometrium tissue can stick to surgical wounds, such as after caesarean surgery.

- Spread through blood or lymph system is endometrium cells can move to other parts of the body.

- Immune system disorders are the body unable to destroy endometrosis tissues that grow outside the uterus.

Risk Factors

Some factors that can increase the risk of a person exposed to endometrosis include:

- Never gave birth.

- The first menstruation at too young.

- Menopaus at an older age.

- Short menstrual cycle (less than 27 days).

- Menstruation lasts a long time (more than 7 days).

- High estrogen hormone levels.

- Low weight (low weight BMI).

- Family history with endometrosis.

Symptoms of endometrosis can temporarily subside during pregnancy and tend to decrease after menopause, especially if it does not undergo estrogen hormone therapy.

Complications

- Fertility Disorder

Endometriosis is one of the causes of general infertility. This condition can hinder the meeting between eggs and sperm, or cause inflammation that interferes with the quality of the two. However, many sufferers with mild to moderate endometrosis can still be naturally pregnant.

- Cancer risk

Some studies suggest that endometrosis sufferers have slightly increased risk of ovarian cancer, although the risk is relatively small. In rare cases, endometrosis tissue can turn intoadenocarsinoma, namely the type of cancer that appears in former tissue endometriosis.