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Re: Question about cycles, pain, and endo
From: amy (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed Sep 20 13:23:15 2006
I am having the same problem right now. The doctors have me on
continuous pills too. I am having pain still and the occasional
break-through bleeding. I have talked to the doctor about it and they
told me that it was because my body was becoming used to the hormones in
the pills and that was why I was having the bleeding. The pain they
said was becasue they thought the endo had caused adhesions in my pelvic
cavity. He said every month the implanted endo would bleed and thats
what caused the adhesions. So even if the endo was gone, I am still
having serious pain with the adhesions. And I have been in and out of
the E.R.(I have to go to a military hospital cause my husband is Navy
and thats what the doctor recommended if the pain got bad). So maybe
adhesions are something to think about where the pain is coming from.
Hope I could help.
Amy
At Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Sabrina wrote:
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>Ok, I started to go continuous with the BCP last month (I'm on Loestrin
>24 FE). Well that was a disaster and I ended up in the ER. Per the ER
>dr's directive, she said keep taking the loestrin till I see my dr again
>(a week and a half later). Now when I ended up in the ER, I had
>switched from Zovia to the Loestrin. But I started having pain a couple
>of days early. Then when I actually switched pills on that Sunday, I
>had severe pain the next day and bleeding. I bled for the next 4 days
>even while on the new pill and had severe pain for a couple of days.
>
>Had midcycle pain around ovulation for 2 days. Still on the Loestrin.
>Saw my dr right before the midcycle pain and he kind of sort of agreed
>to go continuous before my lap and definitely after the lap. He wanted
>a clean cycle first, but hah my body no longer believes in that. I told
>him if I break through, I break through.
>
>So now I am on the last pill of this pack and will break open a new pack
>tomorrow. This pill is a 24 active 4 inactive pill. But I don't take
>the inactive, I am breaking into the next pack. Yet even though I am
>continuous on this pill now, I started having pain a couple of days ago
>(around day 21 of the bcp), last night, and today, I have had severe
>pain but no bleeding yet. Everything but that.
>
>So what gives? I know my body needs time to adjust to this pill. I read
>somewhere (and can't find it) that the endo implants are cyclic too. So
>even though I am trying to control the monthly cycle with the pill,
>because the implants are probably there (havn't had lap to diagnose yet,
>that's next month), I still have pain. I will probably continue to have
>pain around the same time in the cycle each month until they are
>removed.
>
>I hope that makes sense and maybe someone can take a stab at it and
>explain it better. Basically why am I still having pain when on a
>continuous pill?
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