Re: Miserable & Desperate!
From: Amy (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu Oct 30 11:35:07 2003
Rachel,
Hang in there hon! We are all here for you and will lend our ears and
shoulders! Isn't endo great? Makes you constantly question your sanity,
causes constant pain and fatigue and ruins our quality of life and sex
drive. I just love it! (ha ha-feeling a little sarcastic today!) I just
wanted to respond to let you know I can relate and will keep you in my
thoughts and prayers. The emotional toll is the worst part. At least I
can take a pill for the pain or lay on a heating pad, but the emotional
strain is there constantly. It's so hard to live with endo and try to
stay upbeat. I just try to live the good days to their fullest and
muddle through the bad ones as best I can. Hang in there! Tomorrow will
be a better day! Feel free to email me direct if you want to just vent
or talk. I could not survive without all my friends on the forum.
--
Amy Meyer
At Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Rachel wrote:
>
>Hi everyone. I haven't really posted in a while, except for a few
>replies here and there. But, I really need help.
>
>I've had to laparoscopies. The last one was November of last year where
>extensive adhesions were removed from my right ovary, appendix, and
>intestines (which were flattened with adhesions). I have been in so
>much pain for weeks, chronic constipation even when living on fruit and
>vegetables and taking benefiber twice a day. Yesterday and the day
>before, stuff finally loosened up, and I had bowel movements several
>times both days. This morning, I woke up very bloated, but not gassy,
>and I can't have a bm. My lower abdomen is as hard as a rock! I'm
>having deep twinges of pain on both sides, not just at my right ovary
>where all my problems have been. I've been in contact with my doctor's
>office for weeks, and they don't seem to give a damn. (Mind you, this
>is NOT my doctor who performed both of my surgeries...I now live 800
>miles away from him.) The doctor's office told me to just keep taking my
>benefiber and wait it out. I'm on continuous bcp (but I have a period
>every 4 months...not due for another until December), and I asked in
>August to be switched to a lower dose of estrogen and different
>progestin because my head was so fuzzy all of the time. Well, I'm not
>having any breakthrough bleeding, but my pain has increased, even though
>my emotions are more leveled out and my head isn't as cloudy. I swear,
>I'm going to lose my mind! I know I have more adhesions in the same
>places as they were removed last November. It just intuition, I guess.
>Before my last lap, my doc didn't really believe I had adhesions, but I
>knew I did...he got in there and found an absolute mess. Girls, I don't
>know what to do. I've about had it! I want to be drunk all the time,
>because at least then I'd have fun. I'm getting so sad.
>
>--
>Rachel
>
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