Re: All in the joints?
From: anonymous@obgyn.net
Wed May 31 02:13:02 2006
Hi Jocee.
Within 2 years of being diagnosed with Endo, I was diagnosed with
Fibromyaglia due to extreme joint pain. I do not have Dysmennorhea,
however, I believe there is a link (somewhere) between the two. I hope
you feel much better.
>Just a quick question for everyone here....
>
>I have a lot of pain in my joints at various times. Sometimes my elbow
>will hurt so bad I just want to cut it off and throw it out the door.
>Other times it's my wrist. Then it's my shoulder. The joints that
>bother me is my wrists, elbows, shoulders, and knees.
>
>My doctor told me last Spring that the cartiledge in my knees have all
>but worn away. He said my left knee is in really bad shape, but I told
>him my right one is the one that hurts the most. He suggested surgery
>to fix the left one and then after that go in on the right one while I'm
>young or I'll end up having a total knee replacement by the time I'm 35.
>That's only 5 1/2 years away. Big surprise!
>
>What I am curious about is, is there a such thing as Juvenile Arthritis
>like there is Juvenile Diabetes? I mean, I've had these problems since I
>was sixteen. I remember laying in bed at night to wake up to terrible
>pain in my knee that I just cried. They never hurt at the same time,
>just one at a time. It's the same way with my other joints. Like I'll
>never have elbow AND knee pain, or shoulder AND wrist pain. It's always
>one joint.
>
>I'm really wondering if the joint pain I've experienced off and on for
>the past 15 years has anything to do with Endometriosis at all. It was
>2 years to the day after I started my period that I started having joint
>problems. And right after I started having joint problems is when the
>doctor told me I had Dysmennorhea. I just wonder if anyone else has
>this same problem.
>
>Thanks! :)
>
>JoCee
>
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