ENDO Messages for February, 2006: Re: Help!!! Should i have the lap???

Re: Help!!! Should i have the lap???

From: Jenny (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue Feb 28 09:59:47 2006

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Rees, if I could do it over again, I'm not really sure if I would have pushed for a lap at 16-18 yrs old. On one hand if I had, I may have saved myself from a lot of pain. On the other hand it pretty much does seem to grow back so it is putting yourself through more surgeries through your life.

When I was about 18 my symptons were very similar to yours. You seem maybe a little worse off than I was (with the 3 month long bleeding). I'm 32 now and I've had cramps everyday for 13 months. I had a lap 6 months ago and it didn't stop the pain. Either my exdoc missed some of it or - well I'm not really sure. But what the surgery did for me was diagnose me with endo which is very important!

I think what is important is to fing a good obgyn. Yoy need to speak out for yourself and that is very hard when you are 16, female, in pain, and dealing with doctors. Doctors don't know much about endo and especially don't really seem to be in tuned to our pelvic pain issues.

Don't just take my word for it but if I were you, I would try one or two other ideas to treat yout pain (diff. birth control/pain reliever) and I would prepare myself to have a lap in the next couple of years. But I think you need to research and find a good doctor you trust. Try to get your mom on board by printing off some info about endo for her.

Hope I'm not all doom and gloom for you. You may not turn out like me because we are all different.

~ Jenny

At Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Rees wrote: >
>Ok, can someone help me please? I am 16 and have always had horrible
>menstrual cramps. it feels like im being stabbed with a knife and they
>are usually the worst when im lying down. The only thing i can do is
>wait till it goes away and lie completely still and not breath. It
>hurts so much! I normally start getting cramps a week or sometimes two
>before i get my period and i also have them when im on it as well. Also,
>i get pain in my lower back that just aches. In october i went to the
>gyno because i had an irregular period (it lasted 3 months! blah!) She
>prescribed me ortho-evra tricyclen lo. It hasnt helped me with my
>cramps at all. Also she prescribed prescription ibuprofen and it doesnt
>help at all either. Lately my stomach is just in a constant state of
>pain. I went to the gyno last week and suggested maybe having endo and
>she pretty much ignored me, she didnt even make a diagnosis! This doctor
>was horrible! When she gave the pelvic exam she was pretty rough with me
>and i later found tried blood in my vagina. My older sister and my
>grandmother have both had endo and ovarian cysts and i know that it
>makes me 6 times more likely to get it. My doc said that if i wanted to
>look into it further that i could have the laparoscopy done. I have
>read a lot about it and i think thats what i should do. I told my mom
>and she said i was making a bad decision and should look for
>alternatives and that i was being rational? What do you think?????
>Please help!!! Should i have the lap???

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