Re: Back too soon!!!!!!!
From: Leslie (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed Jan 22 04:56:09 2003
Hang in there. I had my first surgery and the doc got as much as he
could in Feb. 2001. I chose the pregnancy route and got pregnant in
May of 2001. My son was born in Dec. 01 and it wasn't 2 months I was
in terrible pain again. I think it would have come back sooner spite
the pregnancy. I could always tell while I was pregnant about the time
I should have been on my period.
I had my 2nd surgery a week ago and I am hurting like normal today, some
things are slightly different, but my doc did not lazer out anything
this time around, he and i both feel that is only something that may get
you by temp, espically since mine came back.
I had a LUNA done, I can tell a little difference, and I have another
type of pain every time I empty my bladder, so I don't know whether its
going to be successful for me, but hey, didn't hurt to try and it didn't
take any longer.
I do hope you get your pain under control. I know it is frustrating to
go through all of that and expect pain relief for some time and not get
it.
Good Luck
At Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Anonymo wrote:
>
>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
>>>>
--
Leslie
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