ENDO Messages for May, 2002: Re: For those for whom birth control pills failed to help your endo...

Re: For those for whom birth control pills failed to help your endo...

From: amy (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue May 7 18:51:36 2002

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I don't know what pill you are on - but MAKE SURE it does not have estrogen in it. I was on ortho-cyclen and it made my pain so unbelievably dreadful that I couldn't function... they kept saying "give it another month. at the 5th month I said this is insane and they finally did an ultrasound to find that an endometioma had grown to 8cc on my right ovary. The doctor suspects it was the estrogen from the pill. I went off the pill 3 months ago and each month have been in less pain. Unfortunately the cyst has not decreased in size and I have had to schedule surgery for next month... I note this because I have seen lots of research that indicates it might be the hormones that cause the pain rather than the actual size etc. of the endo... this rings true for me because my pain has diminished DRAMATICALLY while my cyst has stayed the same size. Good luck! amy

>>>----- Original Message -----
>
>From:
>To: Multiple
>recipients of list ENDO
>
>Sent: 5/3/2002 1:18:10 PM
>
>Subject: For those for whom birth control
>pills failed to help your endo...
>
>I'm just wondering at what point you decided that they weren't
>working
>
>for you and when to ask your doctor for something else. I am
>completing
>
>month two of my second type of birth control pill. Everything I
>see and
>
>read says to try the pill for three months. I just don't know if
>I can
>
>stand to go another month. I am miserable, in constant pain, and
>I am
>
>beginning to doubt that things are going to improve drastically after
>
>the third month of being on this pill. It seems more like things
>are
>
>getting worse each month.
>
>Should I hold on for another month or at this point, is it pretty much
>a
>
>conclusion that this pill isn't working for me? I would just like to
>
>hear from some others who have been through this. Thanks.

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