Treatment of Endometriosis with the GnRHa Deslorelin and Add-Back Estradiol and Supplementary Testosterone

Table 1

D with add-back reduced endometriosis symptoms. Values are means (SEM); indicates a statistically significant difference relative to baseline values, .

	Baseline	3 months	6 months
Number of days out of 28 with bleeding greater than spotting	5.2 (0.3)	0.8 (0.5)	2.5 (1.4)
Overall pain rating, out of 28	58.1 (8.2)	17.5 (4.9)	19.6 (5.6)
Pain rating on bleeding days	23.6 (3.2); out of 52	0.0 (0.0); out of 8	2.6 (1.3); out of 25
Number of days out of 28 on which pain medication was used	6.4 (1.0)	0.7 (0.4)	1.1 (0.5)
CPSSS total	7.4 (0.4)	2.5 (0.5)	3.4 (0.7)
NMPP	1.6 (0.1)	0.6 (0.1)	0.8 (0.2)
Dysmenorrhea	2.1 (0.2)	0.3 (0.1)	0.5 (0.2)
Dyspareunia	1.2 (0.2)	0.5 (0.2)	0.8 (0.2)
Pelvic tenderness	1.5 (0.1)	0.8 (0.2)	0.9 (0.2)
Pelvic induration	1.2 (0.1)	0.4 (0.1)	0.6 (0.2)