Re: 16 yrs old and i need help or advice or something
From: Tawnia (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun May 8 16:06:03 2005
Your right Eileen Thanks for sharing.
I am now a 23yr old single mom of a 3 yr old(miracle baby), I've had
these problems since I was 12 (started my cycle) I experienced the same
thing when i was 16 but instead of removing my appendix they kept me in
a bed with only being able to drink water for 5 days. My crisis though
started at school oneday. The best thing is once you've had your lap
you'll find out what stage your at and the dr will be able to hopefully
put you on some type of treatment. Just please remember there's no cure
for this, I'm still seeking treatment and even though I live in Canada I
may have to wait over a yr now just for a lap. I have been currently
waiting over 4 months just for an ultrasound. Things will get better
and you will learn how to deal a bit better too. I found that when i
feel the wave of pain coming I put on heat patches on my abdomin and
back while takin some advil. Breathing deeply to focusing on other
things too will help in the meantime. If you ever need to talk, during
the day i check the following email: snoops6015@yahoo.com
And in the evening at snoopy6015@hotmail.com
Your not alone we all have these issues of chronic pain, but hopefully
oneday there will be some more answers.
At Fri, 6 May 2005, anonymous wrote:
>
>My name Eileen and I'm 16 yrs old. I have had extreme ovarian pain ever
>since I can remember, like ever since I started my cycles. When I was
>younger and when I had my cycles I was just stay in bed all day curled
>up in a ball cause of all the pain I was in. I would have major cramps
>and pain and would get chills and sometimes fevers. My face would
>always be really pale and when I told my mom she told me it was normal
>cause she always had really bad pains too. Knowing this I never really
>did anything about. Being so young, I was afraid and embaressed about
>this problem that I never saw anyone for it. I never told my doctor
>about my pain cause my mom always told me it was normal. I would take
>advil and in few days my cycle would be over and I would be able to go
>back to my regular schedules until the next cycle. Then over the yrs I
>experienced more pain. I would experience pain before and after my
>cycles but as usual I thought it was normal and never said anything.
>
>In February of this yr my pain got really bad and after my cycle was
>gone I still experienced the pain. Everday I woke up to pain, hoping it
>would go away in a day or two like it usually did, but the pain never
>went away! Thats when I realized it was definately time to see a doctor
>about the pain. So around Feb 8 I went to my regular family doctor
>about my pain and he told me to go get an ultrasound done because he
>thought it might have been a cyst. So i went and got the ultrasound
>done. Then after reading the results he told me that I did have one and
>to go to a obgyn. So when I was there he told me I was having too many
>pain for it just to be a cyst so he told me to go to a surgen to check
>to see if i had appendicist also. So I went to the surgen and he told
>me to get a catscan done. When I had the catscan done, it showed that
>my appendix looked fine but my cyst had recently errupted. I thought
>okay thats great. But then my pain continued and I had the doctors in
>complete puzzlement and they didnt know what to do for me or what was
>causeing it. So then I went back to the surgen in a week and he told me
>they were have me have surgen so they could find out what was going on.
>So I had a laparoscopy done on March 8 and they checked out my appendix
>just to be sure it my appendix was ok and they found out my appendix was
>inflamed. So they removed my appendix and they thought they took care
>of my problem. 2 weeks later go by and Im still in pain. So I called
>up my obgyn and he told me to go to the ER to have another ultrasound
>done. When I went there I had one done and they told me it looked like
>I had another cyst and it recently errupted. After the results of that
>one I went to a follow up with my obgyn, but I was still having pains.
>He tried to do an examination but doesn't have much luck because it was
>a very painful experience for me. He couldn't get the instrument in me
>because I was very tender because I havent had sex and therefore my wall
>hadnt been broken. Anyways he wasnt able to find out what was wrong and
>he didnt think it was ovarian....I was like WHAT!?! He told me he
>thought it was gas pains so he sent me back to me back to my family
>doctor because my family doctor also specializes with gas pains. So I
>went back to my family doctor and he told me that he didnt understand
>what the obgyn was talkin about and he knew it was definately ovarian.
>So my family doc put me on birthcontrol about the beginning of april
>saying lets just shut the ovaries down for awhile and see if that helps.
>He told me it woulkd take about 3 months to wokr though. Since then I
>was in extreme pain everyday (and still am now) so he prescribed me an
>anti-imflammitory pill to see if it helped. It helped for only the
>first day then I experienced pain again. So I went back to the doc and
>he told me he really didnt want to change my birthcontrol to stronger
>unless it was possitively neccessary because of the side effects, so he
>advised me to take tylenol with the other pills. So a week goes by and
>Im still in pain so he told me to get another ultra sound done. In
>between the time of getting my ultra sound I decided to look up
>somethings on the web hoping maybe I could find something related to my
>pains. Thats when I read about Endometriosis and realized I have every
>symptom of it. So lastnight I went and had my ultrasound done and the
>lady told me that I had another cyst that errupted. But she told me to
>go home and look up Endometriosis. I told her it was a weird
>conisidence that I was thinking about that and that I had every symptom
>of it. She told me in her opinion she thinks I definately have it and
>that I should research some more and decuss with my doctor about having
>a laparoscopy done to be sure that I have it. So thats where I am now.
>
>Im in the middle of having the surgery scheduled and I thought I would
>share my story to see if it was similar with anyone else who actually
>has endometriosis ....welll someone please reply and let me know...i
>need some advice...thanks
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