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Severe!!!!! pains in the middle of the night (long)From: aireeca (anonymous@obgyn.net)Wed Nov 3 19:45:26 2004
Hi there, I'm new to this board and I sure wish, probably like everyone else, that I didn't have to be here, but here goes... My last Depo shot was at the beginning of the year. I had been on it for about 18 months, and I just couldn't handle the persistent depression any longer. My doc put me on Seasonale, the three months "on," one week "off" pill. It seemed to be working until the first week of May. I woke up in the middle of the night with a pulse, pulse, CLENCH pain near my left ovary that dropped me to my knees. Now, I'm a veteran fainter from those "teenage" periods I was supposed to outgrow. (Hah.) Usually, in my experience of fainting, your vision gets silvery and your hearing starts to mute, like you're in a tunnel and then you wake up on the floor. What happened that night in May was so far beyond that. I got the vision and hearing symptoms and then my speech started to slur, but I never fainted. I ended up riding the whole episode through sans painkiller and was sitting in ice cold shower water when the paramedics arrived. They did an ultrasound at the hospital, couldn't find anything and told me it might have been a cyst that exploded. (Of course, my doc told me later the meds I have been on shouldn't have allowed cyst growth.) Here's the thing, when I first started having endo pains every morning back in fall 2000, they would wake me up every morning around 4:30. But those were more like cramps - painful but not panic causing after I feel into the pattern and before my first lap. All summer, the pains struck randomly. I got to know the niggling pain that signaled an attack was on the way and I've set some land-speed records in reaching a glass of water and the painkillers. But repeat visits to two different gyns yielded few answers. Then came last Wednesday morning. I must have been so exhausted that I slept through the warning signs. The pain was in full force when I woke up and 15 minutes after I gulped my painkillers, I was standing in the cold shower trying to feel normal again. Ever since that attack, my left ovary region has been sore to the point where walking and bending over is uncomfortable. Does this kind of attack sound familiar to anyone? (Half of me hopes not, because I wouldn't wish this kind of pain and panic on anyone.) I've pursued the kidney stone track, but the Xrays came back negative. I just had an ultrasound done this morning. The doc said the left ovary looked OK, but even during a quick exam, she could feel endo around the cervix. If you've made it this far, thanks for reading. I'm really, really disheartened by this whole ordeal. I feel like my body is just rebeling against me. All the doctors have been really nice but I really need answers about this. It's hell to wake up in the middle of the night wondering if that niggling in my abdomen is going to turn violent. Erica.
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