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Re: Just when I think I'm feeling better about all of this......
From: Peanut (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed Jun 29 14:28:52 2005
I'm so sorry to hear that your doctor doesnt believe you have
endo...have you had a lap done?
I would suggest getting a second opinion if your insurance allows.
love and health to you
At Tue, 28 Jun 2005, K wrote:
>
>Hello Ladies,
>
>I have posted to this site before, and as always I have found great
>advise and support from you all. I need to ask for some more now....
>
>I had my last lap on May 17 and have been recovering fairly well since
>then. I had a two week follow up appointment at which time my doctor
>gave me Depo Provera. I have had both Lupron and Zoladex before, which
>had helped...but this Depo is doing some crazy things to my body. I
>have a hard time sleeping at night, wake up with hotflashes/nightsweats.
>I've been irratable, moody from being depressed to laughing up a storm.
>Has this happened to anyone else. I am not going to take another shot
>of Depo...I find it's horrible. To top it all off, I have zero sex
>drive. I could care less to ever have sex again right now. This is not
>good at all considering I have a boyfriend (who thank goodness has been
>very good about this all). But I used to have a healthy normal sexual
>drive and it's gone.
>
>So before all this had happened I had my family doctor find me another
>Endo doctor for a second opinion as I've had 4 lap surgeries and thought
>it would be good to get someone else's point of view.
>I went to the doctor today, and it started off pretty well. She seemed
>conserned and reviewed my history of what i've been through with the
>surgeries.
>poked and proded me and gave me an internal exam.
>At the end she said that it looks like I have some sore muscles on the
>inside of me and they are weak. To get a sacroiliac belt to help with
>those muscles??? Then proceeds to tell me that it looks like I have
>Hyperalgesia: which I looked up as soon as I got home.
>Definition of Hyperalgesia: is a condition of altered perception such
>that stimuli which would normally induce a trivial discomfort cause
>significant pain.
>Hyperalgesia is often a component of a neuropathic pain syndrome.
>
>Hyperalgesia - The excessive sensitiveness or sensibility to pain.
>
>This has make me very upset, because she basically said that this endo
>is all in my head and my pain. She said that "we need to put endo on
>the back burner". She said that for all the surgeries i've had and all
>the pain, it can't still be the endo and that's when she used
>"Hyperlgesia".
>
>I KNOW THAT THIS PAIN OR ENDO is not in my head. I can't believe she
>said this to me. It makes me soo upset that that's all she had to say.
>Not looking into anything else. Maybe I do have something else wrong
>with me besides endo. but for her to suggest i'm making it up, or when
>there is really no pain I'm making it out to be alot.
>
>I'M SO FRUSTERATED!!!!!!
>
>Please help.
>
>Cheers,
>K
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