A Case Of Endometriosis and Secondary Infertility

This is a 32 years old woman who is married and works as a kindergarten teacher.

Chief complaint: endometriosis (Homeopathy for Endometriosis) and secondary infertility with male factor

Clinical
• She had a miscarriage in 2012 in 8th week of pregnancy
• In 2013 she had been diagnosed by ultrasound for the first time to be suffering from endometriosis (left ovary).
• The first laparoscopy in 2014: cyst on left ovary sized 60 x 56 mm
• The second laparoscopy in 2015: cyst on left ovary sized 79 x 76 mm
• In 2015 Chlamydia infection (Homeopathy Treatment for Chlamydia Infection)
• Many unsuccessful IVF attempts
• Therapy with hormonal contraceptives
She consulted me for the first time on 09 Oct. 2015

Menstrual Function:
• The cycles are irregular and shortened to 3 weeks or less
• Menses scanty lasts 3-5 days
• Lower back and ovarian pain before menses (1-2), amel. by warmth
• In the past watery and slightly bloody discharge during ovulation
• Menses difficult to wash off (1)
• Vaginal mycosis in the past
• Irritable before menses (3)
• Occasionally soft stool before menses (1)
• Desires for sweets during menses (1)
• Has sexual aversion to coition (3)
• Occasionally vaginal pain during coition (2)

The other symptoms:
• Thermal reaction: cold
• Head sensitive to cold air (2)
• Likes jogging and feels better after that (3)
• Likes music and sometime weeps while listening to it (2)
• Throat sensitive for cold drinks (2)
• Aversion to milk and milk products since childhood (3)
• Aversion to meat (1)
• Desires for sweets (2)
• Knotty stool sometimes

Sleep:
Good
Sleep position: on side

Past history:
• Jaundice
• Recurrent tonsillitis in childhood
• Sometimes eruption on the forearms and elbows (1)
• Sometimes pain on the left hip by motion (1)
• Dental granuloma (surgery)
• As a child warts on the fingers
• Ingrowing nails in the past

See also

High Fever, Severe Cough, Loose Bowels

Family history:
• Father alcoholic
• Mother ovarian cyst, early menopause
• Sister herpes zoster
• Grandfather (father’s side) cancer of throat and alcoholic

This is a smart and pretty young woman with mostly dark clothes. In our conversation she gave the impression of an outspoken person. She was the second of three children in the family. She never had a good relationship with her mother. The mother was emotionally unavailable and unreliable. There were difficulties in communication with her. ” I missed connection with my mother.” She had understanding for her mother because she had three kids, little money and no support.

Her father was emotionally absent. She married a “ very good man“. He took care of the household and cooked for them both. She is angry with men because of their power and she discussed that topic with her husband too. She told him, she didn’t want to cook for him. She is not interested in doing household work. She doesn’t want to live like her mother. She said she was prone to hate men and did not hide that from her husband. “ I don’t like men at all. I’m a feminist. “ Thus she doesn’t like men to notice her and avoids attractive clothes. She dislikes vulgar clothing. She feels humiliated while being watched by men. Although she likes red lipstick she would never use it. “Maybe I’m not ready yet to be a woman. “
She would like to live in the times of Victorian England (certainly not because of the situation of women in that époque, rather she prefers distant men with good manners). When I asked her what she would have changed about herself, she answered she would like to be more relaxed, flexible and more emotionally open.

See also

The Case of Merlin and the Red Onion

Analysis of the case

Concerning problems with infertility and endometriosis, I always pay attention to symptoms regarding the menstrual cycle.
• Dysmenorrhea, head pain during, before and after menses, depressive mood, fullness of breast before and during menses
• Duration of menses, color, smell and consistency
• Candidiasis, leucorrhoea, pruritus vulvae, painful coitus…

It is also important to eliminate the miasmatic layer. Endometriosis is a sycotic condition because of the nature of the disease, which involves the pelvic and sexual organs. This case belongs to the sycotic miasm also due to miscarriage, overgrowth of tissue, benign enlargements, infertility. I use the nosodes not only as anti-miasmatics, but also as constitutional remedies. But with some complaints, such as endometriosis and infertility I use the nosodes as intercurrent remedies. The response to the indicated constitutional remedy dramatically improves after the use of the anti-miasmatic remedy. When dealing with infertility it is important to treat not only the woman but also her man, even if he was not diagnosed with MFI (male factor infertility), as the constitutional remedy would boost his immunity also. In this case it was obvious to me that her husband must be treated (Oligoasthenoteratozoospermia) and I treated him with his constitutional remedy Calc-carb. (obesity as child and young man, kyphosis, profuse perspiration after slight exercise and other symptoms) and Luesinum as the intercurrent remedy because of the degenerative processes (kyphosis).

I picked the following rubrics (R. van Zandvoort) for this case:

Mind; Indolence, aversion to work; housework, aversion to her usual
• Mind; Irritability; menses; before
• Female; Coition; aversion to
• Female; Endometriosis
• Female; Enlarged; ovaries
• Female; Menses; early, too, frequent; scanty, and
• Female; Menses; short, too
• Female; Sexual, libido; desire; diminished
• Generalities; Food and drinks; milk, milk products; aversion
• Generalities; Motion, motions; amel.