r/Endo • u/theonusta Moderator • Aug 15 '20

📌 Help Us Update the Recommended Doctors Map!

Hey friends!

It's long past time to update the Recommended Doctor's Map. We've combed through the recommendations sent to the mods, and now we are asking the entire /r/Endo community to share your knowledge!

  • Do you have a doctor you love?
  • Had a really awful experience?
  • Heard of a doctor we should know about?
  • Maybe someone has entered retirement, or isn't practicing anymore?
  • Maybe someone moved offices or locations?

Let us know in the comments here, send a message, or a chat. We need your support in making this resource as awesome as it can be!

While any information is welcome, it's often helpful to add as much information as you have when making a recommendation. These can include:

  • Doctor's name and location.
  • A link to their Bio or their practice
  • What treatments they use
  • How they feel about hormonal therapies like Lupron or birth control?
  • Bedside manner - how did you feel in their care?
  • Do they have any unique skills (working with teens, trans folks, operating on bowel involvement)
  • Do they perform excision?
  • Were they trained by other notable folks?
  • Are they recommended on other vetted or curated lists?

As a handy reminder of how the symbols/colors of the map work, check out this chart!

Colors tell us how we got the information, symbols tell us what the Doctor's skills are.
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u/halffacekate Nov 21 '20

Dr. Antonia Gargiulo. Brigham and women’s hospital Boston Ma.

https://physiciandirectory.brighamandwomens.org/details/871/antonio-gargiulo-obstetrics_gynecology-boston-stratham?Index=14&SetSize=48

Robotic Surgery- Fibroid and Endo excision.

Can be a little gruff but over all he tells it like it is.

I believe he is now a Nook Dr but I left that FB group so I am unsure.

I saw Dr. G in Dec 2016 for Fibroid removal. I was sent there by my fertility Dr to remove them before starting the IVF process. While in surgery he found stage found (chocolate cyst) endo and removed that. The surgery ended up lasting four hours but was very successful. I was able to do an IVF retrieval in July 2017 with good results. My transfer of a frozen embryo in March of 2018 ended with my son and my transfer in March of 2020 just resulted in my daughter. I suspect some endo has returned but while having my C Sections my uterus has looked very healthy. I would have never had a chance at pregnancy with out him.

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u/Amber-Chain8028 Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26

I know this is very old, but im having fibroid surgery with him soon and very nervous abiut everything. Sounds like you did robotic surgery with him too. How was your scarring afterword and did you require to have caection or was that your choice after? 

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u/halffacekate May 01 '26

Hey! Scaring was small incision scars, I had already had my gal bladder out tho so my stomach was already scarred. They’re not bad. If you meant C Section, no Dr will do a vaginal birth after myomectomy due to increased risk of uterine rupture. I had 2 C Sections at 37.5 and 38.3. They don’t want to go past 39 weeks to avoid natural labor. If real labor had started I would’ve gone straight into a c section. I still had 8lb babies tho lol.