Re: Back Pain
From: Wendy (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat Jan 17 15:53:13 2004
What is an IVP? They did some blood tests on me when I went to my
regular doctor - would that be included in those tests?
My brother-in-law is currently in the hospital having surgery on some
stones - yuck.
Thank you for your story - I will try to get other things tested.
At Sat, 17 Jan 2004, anonymous wrote:
>
>Wendy,
>
>This might not be the case for you, but I began having those same kind
>of "kill me now" back pains about two years ago. I had always had
>severe back pain from the endo, but never anything so bad that I had to
>do breathing exercises to cope with the pain. Anyways, I went to my gp,
>who told me that I had a kidney infection, though it didn't show up in a
>urine test. He put me on antibiotics. It didn't help, so I went back.
>He said the infection had come back and put me on antibiotics again.
>Then he said it was probably my endo and I needed to see my obgyn. When
>the pain came back the next time, and I knew it wasn't my endo, which
>has a very specific kind of pain, I went back to him. He said that it
>was my endo, that there was nothing he could do about it and to stop
>coming to him. Two weeks after my wedding in May, I was in the ER from
>pain so bad and so constant that I could do nothing but cry and sweat.
>It turns out that it was a kidney stone that had gotten stuck in my
>ureter. I had emergency surgery to remove it before my left kidney died
>from being so stopped up. It took the dye 9 hours to show up in my left
>kidney! To give you an idea of how long that it, the dye was in and out
>of my right kidney and into my bladder making me have to pee within 20
>minutes!! I would ask for an IVP. Had I known that I could have saved
>myself a lot of pain and agony. And besides, I have had endo for a long
>time and I have never heard of anyone having endo in or on their back!?
>Endo can cause "referred" pain, where the endo in one location causes
>pain in a variety of other locations. Anyways, I wish you luck in
>solving this mystery. Don't give up and don't give in to the doctors
>when they tell you "it's just your endo." That is the easy way out and a
>response you will probably hear out of a lot of doctors for a long time
>to come.
>
>>At Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Wendy wrote:
>>>
>>>I had a lap back in October that diagnosed and removed endo on my
>>>uterus, overies, and cul-de-sac. They also removed some adhesions. This
>>>month I started to have cramps early - I still had 2 weeks to go on my
>>>Birth Control Pill, but the cramps were so bad that I decided to stop
>>>taking the BCP and have my period just to get it over with. The cramps
>>>were normal cramps - nothing close to the pain I felt when I would have
>>>endo flare-ups. The weird thing is my lower back started aching. Then
>>>the ache turned into an "Oh my god - kill me now" constant pain. I
>>>didn't injure my back (I am not very active) so I figured that I must be
>>>getting a bladder infection or a kidney infection or stone or something.
>>>I went to my GP who told me that it was endometriosis in my back. She
>>>said that a lot of times the surgery, while removes some of it - it can
>>>also spread it to weird places. Well - I am going to see my ObGyn
>>>Tuesday - but I wondered if anyone else had this in their back - (by the
>>>way, she put me on Vioxx and it is a pretty good pain pill)
>>>
>>>Also - I think that I am going to give up on the pill. Obviously it
>>>does NOTHING to stop or help the spread of endo. The doctors tell me
>>>that it does, but my body does not like the synthetic horomones, and I
>>>have no concreate evidence that it does anything, Has anyone else had
>>>sucess going off the pill?
>>>
>>>Thanks -
>>>
>>>--
>>>Wendy in Austin
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