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Re: ConfusedFrom: anonymous@obgyn.netThu Feb 21 17:04:12 2002
At Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Trish wrote: > >At Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Jenna wrote: >> >>Hello everyone... >>You may remember me from many of my previous posts. I have another >>question: How common is it for a woman with endo to have a flare-up of >>pain in the middle of her cycle, like right around ovulation - >>especially if, as in my case, I have never had any bad flare-up of pain >>right around the time of my period? >>Here's why I ask: I have not had a diagnostic laparoscopy yet but I've >>been told by 3 separate ob/gyns - including Women's Surgery Group's Dr. >>Alan Johns of Fort Worth, Texas - that there is a fairly decent >>possibility that I have endo. One doctor thought she found a dermoid >>cyst on my left ovary during an ultrasound, which might possibly explain >>the discomfort I've had in the area of my left ovary for 2 months now. >>However, Dr. Johns today said he found nothing wrong with either of my >>ovaries or my uterus during his ultrasound. As with all the other >>doctors, Dr. Johns' examination was very uncomfortable (though not >>excruciating), however, he said he could feel no nodules. >>The only time I have ever felt excruciating pain was back in January. >>That pain wasn't even right around my period...it was actually in the >>middle of my cycle. Since then I have felt occasional discomfort but >>never the agony I felt before. So now I have to decide whether or not >>to have the laparoscopy and I am confused. I'd hate to be absent from >>work for a week only to be told it's not really endo. At the same time >>I'd hate to risk having a bad flare up again during the months of April > >If you have endo, i believe you will always have it, right now i am >going back and forth due to meds after surgery. I can say that after 2 >previous surgeries i did feel some relief from endo, but after the 3 >surgery i am the worst i have ever been in my entire life. >>and May when it's really busy here at work. I'd kind of just like to >>know whether it's endo or not. But before I decide to have surgery, I >>want to know if it is possible for a woman with endo to have a flare up >>in the middle of her cycle but not around her period, as was the case >>with me. >>Thanks again. >> >>-- >>Jenna
>>I used to have the worst pain at times of ovulation because I had adhesions on my left ovary and tube. At first there weren't any nodules, but laparoscopy showed total occlusion of the left tube from adhesions. I had hem removed and was problem free for 8 years.
-- Carolyn
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