ENDO Messages for March, 2006: Re: treatments....

Re: treatments....

From: Alyson (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu Mar 9 06:45:55 2006

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Stephanie, I am on Aygestin, a progestin that I take daily....so no period-ever! (unless I go off the meds of course). Essentially it shuts your ovaries down, but not as drastically as Lupron. The only real side effects I've experienced is minor weight gain (I feel the need to eat like a horse)and very mild acne. I can't say that I am totally pain free, in fact I have started to have problems again. It was something that I felt was a good alternative to Lupron. I have also been investigating Letrozole (Femara) and there is a drug called Cetrotide (or Cetrorelix) that I think is not very easy to get right now. I don't know if it is still in testing or just so new that it has limited availability. My understanding is that it is the same class of drug as Lupron, but doesn't seem to carry the side effects. Anyway, the Aygestin may be worth trying as a first step. If it works for you, great! If not you can bump up to something stronger. Good luck, Alyson

At Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Stephanie wrote: >
>Hello again.... I was just wondering if i could get some input on some
>treatments that work for you guys. I will be going back to the dr. here
>soon and I want to have some different options to throw out to him.... I
>know that my dr. always suggests the lupron but my husband and I really
>don't want to try that.... I guess what I am asking for is what types
>of treatment is out there and what good & bad things come with it... as
>of right now I am on nothing... No pain pills & no treatments and it
>has been like that since my lap in aug ... so I've finally had it with
>the pain and all the other fun problems that come along with endo... So
>if anyone out there knows of any could you pls give me some options to
>talk to my dr. about.... thanks Stephanie

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