I think when you look at the treatment options as far as pelvic pain goes, you look at the fact that you want to treat it kind of as fluidity in regards to the woman's reproductive life. And it depends where they are in that reproductive life, as far as what you're going to do. But for endometriosis, it could be treated medically. And initially, you could try to treat it medically from that perspective. If that's not efficient, or controls her pain from that perspective, then you can look at surgical options.
For the painful periods or dysmenorrhea, you would treat that with medications. You can try over-the-counter, non-steroidal medications like Motrin and Advil or Aleve. And then if that doesn't work, you can try other prescriptive medications from that perspective.
And then when you look at pelvic inflammatory disease, you're really trying to treat the infection. And by treating the infection, you're trying to prevent the adhesion formation inside the pelvis. Because once the patient forms adhesions, there's nothing to really treat that, short of surgical intervention.
