ENDO Messages for October, 2003: Re: What is wrong with me???

Re: What is wrong with me???

From: Chris (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed Oct 29 16:27:43 2003

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Hi Kris, Two years ago I had two fibroids removed. Before that my symptoms were the same as yours, all of the sudden my periods started getting heavier and heavier. I ignored it and eventually they were lasting for three weeks out of the month. I also passed the blood clots, like you. They didn't even see them on the sonogram or anything. Finally, they saw I had a cyst on my ovary and that's why I ended up having surgery. During that surgery is when they found that I had the fibroids and endo etc. I'm not saying you have endo, but your symptoms do sound like possibly fibroids and if you have a family history of them, it very well could be. I think they do tend to leave them alone until they get to bothersom because they could go away. The good news is that they don't do hysterectomies for fibroids nearly as much now as they used to (like in your mother's or your grandmother's time). Anyway, I think fibroids and cysts occur more often in women with endo, so the decision has to be left to you on whether you want to try to find out. Are the symptoms getting hard to live with. If they are I would suggest asking your doctor (or switching to a new one) and asking for a lap to find out since this is the only way to diagnose endo. To me, at least knowing what is wrong makes it easier to live with. I hope I have helped some. If you want to you can e-mail me in private. Chris

At Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Kris wrote: >
>I started my period when i was 13, and it wasnt until last year when i
>was 20 for them to start getting irregular. Each month they got heavier
>and heavier, when they were normal and five days before this started
>happening. They stretch to six or seven now. After six months, I was
>not only heavier, but passing clots, along with severe pain. They
>switched me to another birth control pill, and told me i may have the
>beginnings of endometriosis, and to moniter it...the periods then went
>to one day in length, extremely light, which was great at the time. five
>months later, here i am back to having extremely heavy flow, breast
>tenderness that ive never had before, more than normal pain, bowel
>problems, etc...it seems as if there is something new every month. two
>months ago i started spotting four or five days before my periods. i
>know i am not pregnant, and i suspect that i have endo. I know my
>mother had fibroids though, and had to have a hysterectomy pretty young,
>as did my paternal grandmother and her daughter. All three have also
>had ovarian cysts. I also have sharp pains between ovulation and
>starting my period. what do you think i have? every time i go to the
>ob/gyn, they say its not a big deal and to just moniter it.
>kris

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