ENDO Messages for March, 2001: Re: lupron vs. surgery

Re: lupron vs. surgery

From: melisa (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri Mar 30 15:09:44 2001

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At Wed, 02 Jun 1999, Allan wrote: >
>I'm going for my thord lupron shot tomorrow. My first was about six
>weeks after my lap, during which endo and adhesions were removed. I had
>a period of a few weeks after my lap with little pain and it
>progressively got worse, it was like I never had the lap. I still had a
>lot of pain after my first needle, thought much less after the second.
>The lupron seems to be working for me, and the negative side effects are
>definitely worth the decreased pain - I was off work for four months,
>could barely walk, it hurt to cough and laugh, etc etc. Guess
>everything works differently for different people, but the lupron seems
>to be helping much more than the lap, and, I had post surgery
>complications as well. I'm sure you'll get lots of different opinions
>on this :)
>Amy
>
>nesaby wrote:
>>
>> I have had many of the endometriosis symptoms for ten years. Only
>> recently has the pain gotten so bad I can not walk, my stomach is
>> bloated out three inches and it hurts very badly to go to the bathroom.
>> I have gotten two opinions. My one doctor is more into removing as much
>> of the adhesions as possible and then putting me on depo provera ( which
>> is very hard for me to tolerate.)
>> The second doctor is more into doing a diagnostic laparoscopy and only
>> removing what he absoulutely has to remove. He wants to put me on
>> Lupron too, (I guess to break the rest of it up) since I can hardly
>> tolerate the birth control methods (progesterone).
>>
>> I read postings and see people have had horrible experiences after being
>> on lupron, but I have also read posting where people are not much better
>> after the surgeries either. Is there any consensus on this?
>>

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Hi Amy
Thanks for sharing your story. I hope you are feeling much better. I recently
had a laparoscopy on which the doctor found a large fibroid together with other
smaller ones.  He suggested I take a lupron shot for 3 months to reduce the
size of my large fibroid so that the surgery is less invasive.
So far I havent had any bad side effects , however, my bleeding hasn't stoppped
in fact it's gotten pretty heavy.  Is that the way it went with you? I read
on the pamphlet that comes with the injections that your clinical symptoms
might get worst during the first days. Did your bleeding stop?
Thanks!!!
Melisa

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