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Infertile patients cannot afford to wait for treatment while their eggs get older.

Dr. Sherman Silber, Infertility Center of St. Louis, is offering video consultations for patients who need to plan now for their treatment while stay-at-home orders are in place. He is talking to and evaluating patients in their home to comply with social distancing measures.

Dr. Silber is discovering that patients actually prefer this method of telemedicine consultation over the conventional office visit. Patients have conveyed that “it is so much more convenient and less stressful” to have a telemedicine personal consultation than to take a day off from work to travel to the doctor’s office and sit with other nervous patients in the waiting room.

The COVID-19 pandemic is thus changing much of the way we will do things in the future, and for the better. “Our patients are surprisingly much happier with this approach. Of course, at some point we need to perform hands on treatment. But with this new manner of seeing patients, we can come to the right diagnosis and treatment plan for most patients more efficiently, quickly, and painlessly, with no loss of personal one-on-one communication.” This is a very welcome new era of telemedicine that has been forced on us by the current difficult times.

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Endometriosis Relief Without Hysterectomy: A Patient’s Story at Infertility Center of St. Louis

In this powerful patient testimonial from the Infertility Center of St. Louis, a woman describes her journey from near-despair to renewed hope after facing severe endometriosis. Prior physicians had uniformly recommended a total hysterectomy—an irreversible procedure that would have cured her pelvic pain at the cost of permanent infertility. Desperate for an alternative, she sought a second opinion from world-renowned reproductive surgeon Dr. Sherman J. Silber.

Dr. Silber proposed a markedly different plan: meticulous, uterus-sparing excision of endometrial lesions combined with targeted adhesiolysis. During consultation, he outlined how advanced microsurgical techniques could eradicate pain-causing implants while preserving uterine integrity, ovarian reserve and Fallopian-tube patency. He also explained the importance of high-magnification optics, ultra-fine sutures and a no-touch handling protocol to minimize post-operative scarring—key factors in maintaining future fertility.

The patient recalls feeling immediate emotional relief at the prospect of keeping her reproductive options intact. Surgery proceeded in a specialized operating suite where Dr. Silber’s team employed precise laser and micro-scissor dissection to remove deep infiltrating endometriosis. Post-operative recovery was swift; within weeks her chronic pain had subsided, yet menstrual function remained normal.

Follow-up imaging confirmed a clear pelvis, and laboratory markers of ovarian reserve were unchanged—a testament to the surgery’s gentle approach. The patient now speaks of restored confidence and the renewed possibility of conceiving naturally or via IVF. She emphasizes how personalized care and surgical expertise provided an outcome neither she nor her previous doctors thought possible.

For viewers wrestling with the dual challenges of endometriosis pain and fertility concerns, her story illustrates that radical organ removal is not the only path. With a surgeon skilled in fertility-conserving techniques, patients can often achieve both pain relief and preserved reproductive potential.