ENDO Messages for January, 2006: Re: Please read, I am almost desperate.

Re: Please read, I am almost desperate.

From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon Jan 30 17:37:09 2006

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Mere,

What you are describing and the fact that they said endometritis and that you had a bacterial infection points to the very distinct possibility that you may have developed a PID from the bacterial infection, your tubes may be swelling, your ovaries may be producing cysts or they may be infected as well. Then you mention you have an IUD - even from here with no medical training the first thing I would consider is that you are either having a bad reaction to the IUD or you have developed an infecton and the IUD is propagating it. Either way it should probably be removed. Nurse practitioner should have known better and gotten one of the Ob/Gyns in for you. Then further reading reveals the IUD was upside down. Again, at the first exam the IUD should have been removed, the infection treated then a NEW IUD reinserted.

The pain in your legs, back, etc. could indeed be from endometriosis, could be sympathetic nerve involvement, quite common to experience, next to impossible to do anything about because standard tests for cause of pain don't really reveal much of anything. Doctor gets frustrated, patient gets frustrated nothing improves. Patient goes to doctor after doctor and before you know it earns the label of "pill seeker". You are experiencing the exact same thing most of the women in the States and other countries have encountered: "it's all in your head, you're depressed, you have an abnormally low tolerance for pain, you're a whiner, you're a pill seeker, you need more rest, you need to reduce your stress, etc."

My guess is that now that the IUD has been removed your insides will heal up and the pain from that will resolve. Please be careful, there may still be bacteria inside you so any sort of vaginal penetration or insertion of a tampon, etc. may force it to your tubes where additional scarring can take place and cause you far more problems in the future as well as the present. Pay attention to symptoms and don't wait to act on them (fever, abdominal pain like you described before, chills, sweats, flu-like symptoms, discharge). If you are in a position (no pun intended) to engage in sexual activity make sure a condom is used! Contact whatever medical resource you have available to you and get an appointment with an ob/gyn for a more thorough exam. Your other option is to perhaps look into a medical leave for a few weeks and go to a different military base (Germany perhaps?) and seek medical attention there, get healed up and return to your duties.

As for how the pain is affecting your military career, well, sometimes in life we have to learn to live within our own personal limitations no matter how much we want to do otherwise. Not everyone can run daily and if doing so exacerbates or creates a condition difficult to live with then at some point a choice needs to be made - your own health and comfort or whatever it was that made you join the military in the first place.

I wish you luck, you need it!

At Mon, 30 Jan 2006, mere wrote: >
>This may be long, but I really need some advice.
>
>I am in the military and currently in Iraq.
>
>Earlier this month I started having really bad cramping, and pressure on
>my abdomen plus a nasty discharge. It felt like Icy-Hot. On the
>outside my skin was buring but inside it felt icy. I went to the medic
>and I was sent to see an OBGYN but none were available so I saw a nurse
>practioner.
>
>A ultra-sound showed several cysts in my left ovary and one large one in
>my right ovary. Also, my right ovary was larger than normal. My last
>pap came back abnormal, but the only licensed person to do the colpo had
>left the day before I came to the clinic so I was told to come back in a
>month. They found a bacteria and gave me a shot of antibiotics-cleared
>up the discharge within a day. They said the cysts could be painful and
>I had endometritis(not endometriosis). Take IB profen(the military's
>cure all) and come back in 8 weeks for a follow-up. They barely gave me
>20 minutes of their time and treated me terribly.
>
>I couldn't wait 8 weeks, the pain got worse. My dr. here suggested
>endometriosis, but since I had an IUD in there was really nothing to do.
>I called my mother and she said that she has endo and had a lot of
>complications with it when she was in her early 20's.
>
>I have also had pain in my hips, lower back, and pain radiating down the
>front of my legs for over three years. I wasn't in any kind of
>accident, it just started one day. I have had MRI, bone scans, and
>X-rays done on them several times and they found no stress fractures or
>slipped disks. Some days I can barely walk, but I am expected to run
>daily. Most nights I cry from the pain and not being able to sleep.
>
>I tried a different medic, and I found someone who will listen and take
>the time to care. He wanted to rule out IBS and slipped disk, but it
>came back to endometriosis. He sent me to a clinic (which requires a
>helicopter ride over a combat zone and days of waiting around) where the
>OBGYN talked to me and did an exam for 15 minutes. He said he was too
>busy to read the 5 pages the kind medic had written and didn't have time
>to perform all the labs that the medic had asked for. He removed my IUD
>because it was upside down, looked and found no cysts in my ovaries and
>prescribed antidepressants because "I have a low tollerance for pain."
>He mentioned endo, and a lapro in passing but nothing more. He said it
>was up to my medic how this would impact my ability to do my job and
>continue the deployment- but I was sent to him to make that decision!! I
>just keep getting passed over because I'm not dying or bleeding. I
>understand that people here are injured, but I'm in pain too. Then I
>was referred to Psych-because "this may all be in my head."
>
>I am no longer able to go to the medic who helped me because they are in
>a different branch than myself (army vs. navy).
>
>I know I'm not crazy. I am in pain every day. I have done research and
>read your threads. I have theses symtoms- so did my mother. When she
>had her lapro they said it looked like someone poured glue inside, it
>was a mess.
>
>What can I do? Is this something that needs to be diganoised and treated
>in the US, or do I have to continue to be in pain and suffer in Iraq? I
>am married and worried how this will effect my abiltiy to have children.

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