Re: Back too soon!!!!!!!
From: Anonymo (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue Jan 21 16:24:17 2003
Libby --
I would be frustrated too if I were you.
I'm sorry that you're having such a tough time, especially at your age.
Unfortunately, it is all too common.
Since you have had surgery with an endo specialist, and tried the bc
pills,
may I suggest that you look into trying natural progesterone cream?
I have not tried this personally, since as I said, surgery + bc pills
worked
for me, but I have been reading on several forums that it has helped a
lot
of women with endo. Many of these are women for whom nothing else
worked
-- even some who'd had a hysterectomy and still endo came back.
You could find out more about this and other natural ways of treating
endo
on the EndoNatural group on Yahoo:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EndoNatural/
Another thing which I think helps me a lot is that I eat no red meat,
and avoid sugar, grease, caffeine, and alcohol as much as possible.
I hope this helps you.
At Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Libby wrote:
>
>I have an endo specialist who is in the top 10 in the country and he put
>me on a 7 week bcp cycle after danazol after the first surgery and a 10
>week cycle of bcp after the second surgey. I hope all is well with
>everyone else. thos just bothers me so much because I am only 19 years
>old. thanks for your responses.
>
>--
>Libby
>
>At Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Anonymo wrote:
>>
>>Mine has not come back and it has been two years.
>>
>>I think it depends a lot on how good your surgeon is -- how experienced
>>he or she is at removing endo.
>>
>>I would suggest seeing an endo specialist, or an experienced
>>laparoscopic
>>surgeon. Endo really should not and does not need to come back that
>>soon.
>>
>>Oh, also, I followed my surgery with a 3 month course of continuous
>>birth control pills. So that may also be an important factor.
>>Did you take birth control pills after either of your sugeries?
>>
>>Oh, and one more thought. A lot of time women think endo has returned
>>when it is actually adhesions or scar tissue formed from the surgery.
>>This, again, has a lot to do with how good your surgeon is, and can also
>>be prevented many times by using an adhesion barrier.
>>
>>At Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Libby wrote:
>>>
>>>In the year and a half since I have been diadnosed with endo I have had
>>>2 surgerys a year apart. The first Aug. 16 2001 and the second Aug.
>>>6th 2002. After my first surgery it was not until may or june that my
>>>symptoms really started to reappear. Now in January I am haveing really
>>>bad symptoms again. I had surgery 5 or 6 months ago. This is too soon
>>>for this to bee this bad again!!!!!!!! I was wondering what some of your
>>>reoccurence rates were. I am just curios because this is too soon for
>>>me. Thank you for all the responses I will get. Please feel free to
>>>email me also @ SLibbyLou@aol.com. Put endo in the subject.
>>>
>>>Thank you,
>>>
>>>--
>>>Libby
>>>
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