Comment by twodave

Not sure if the article mentioned it (writing style was getting on my nerves about half way through), but endometriosis is also highly hereditary. My wife’s mother has 2 sisters. One sister had endometriosis and the other two had daughters (including my wife) who had it.

It has also been known to degrade egg quality, resulting in total infertility in some (including my wife and her aunt—jury is still out on the cousin).

I don’t think most reproductive surgeons think of endometriosis as untreatable. 1% rate of having some kind of complication from the surgery doesn’t sound crazy high to me. The recurrence rate I think depends pretty heavily on how pervasive the case was and how soon it was caught.

My wife was in her late 20s when she had surgery to have it cut out via laparoscopy, and it wasn’t really a big deal. She had a hysterectomy this year for other reasons, over 15 years later and had no signs of recurrence.