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Help! Can Depolupron destroy a once solid relationship??From: Greg (anonymous@obgyn.net)Fri Dec 21 13:43:08 2001
I am in college and have been with my girlfriend for just over 2 years now. I am 23 and she is 21. When the relationship first started, I noticed that she had extreme pains during her period. Before this time most of her family and doctor just dismissed her pains as normal or over exaggeration on her part! As I talked more to her, I found out that she has had these pains ever since her first period and has lived with it every month for the last 5-6 years. After a few months of watching her suffer with this, I told her that this cannot be normal and that she should see an ob/gyn. At first she only mentioned her problem to her family doctor whom then boosted her birth control pills again and again over the course of a year hoping to clear her pains and break through bleeding; but all this did was to make her condition worse. Finally, after pressuring her and her pressuring her parents, she went to an ob/gyn and they performed laproscopic surgery and found she had endo. At that time, they lasered the lesions and let her heal. However, a month later she was still spotting and having pain. So this past August her gyno started her on Depolupron, one shot a month for six months. Now, this semester I can see that she has changed drastically from the person I once knew. She has all the side effects of the depolupron; the hot flashes, depression, mood swings and no sexual energy. In addition, she now tells me that she does not feel the same way for me anymore, which I believe is stemming from the side effects of these shots. However, she does not make this connection and believes that the feelings she has been having, over the last few months, are her true feelings and not those caused by the depo. Her ob/gyn has also not enforced in her mind how bad the side effects of these shots can be and would be. Therefore, I am the only person telling her that these side effects would cause the problems we are now having, but she does not think to listen to me because no one else is telling her the same. My question then is, Am I in the right to believe that the depolupron is what is causing her to feel so differently towards the relationship? Is this something that usually happens when one is on these powerful shots? In addition, is there anything to do or anyone to talk to, to help us through this time?
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