ENDO Messages for October, 2003: Re: I THINK I COULD HAVE ENDO

Re: I THINK I COULD HAVE ENDO

From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed Oct 22 19:32:29 2003

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Anon, The pain from endo is sometimes constant, sometimes not. Some women wdith endo don't even experience pain. IBS is only supposed to be diagnosed after ruling out all other possible causes. If you have these symptoms and your doctor refuses to listen to you, go to another doctor. You have the choice to take or leave a doctors opinion. I didn't know that when I was having pain. I called my doctor every week and had him tell me that I shouldn't be in pain. It wasn't until I bugged him enough that he finally took my pain seriously and suggested endo, which I had never even heard of at the time. He told me and my parents that he was sure I didn't have it. After the surgery he apologized over and over again because he was wrong and due to his delay in doing the lap, my damage was very extensive and he couldn't really do anything about it. You have to be proactive about your health care. Even in this day and age, most doctors dismiss complaints about pain. Don't let him get away with diagnosing you with IBS before he has ruled out all other possibilities. And if he refuses to listen, go to another doctor. But make sure to send him the results of your lap if you do infact have endo, so maybe he won't ignore another girl. Good luck to you! Jules

At Wed, 22 Oct 2003, anonymous wrote: >
>I've always had problems with periods and pains in my stomach.
>Ever since I have started my periods I have had a second bleed of old
>blood two weeks later.
>I went on the pill to try and regulate things but to no avail. I then
>went on the depo injection and things got worse. I started have
>crippling cramps in my lower stomach and had these pains around once a
>week, I even fainted a couple of times due to them.
>I am now on the Implant and they are getting more frequent, pretty much
>daily. I went to the docs, he gave me an internal and said he couldnt
>find anything and said I must have IBS.
>A month later the pain is still frequent and I bleed old blood everytime
>I have a really bad crippling pain. For the past three weeks I have
>bled this old blood. The bleeding only lasts a couple of days but after
>3 weeks I'm getting sick of it.
>I have many symptoms of Endo and I am 90% sure I have it but the doc
>doesn't listen and says I cant have it cos my pain isn't constant.
>
>Do I have Endo or am I being silly trying to diagnose myself?
>
>Thanks

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