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Re: I'm not quite sure if I have endo or not....advice would be appreciatedFrom: Julie (anonymous@obgyn.net)Mon Sep 25 09:10:32 2006
At Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Laura wrote: > >Hello ladies, >I hope you don't mind if I quickly run through my situation, because >although I am in a lot of pain lately, I'm not sure if I have endo or >not so I'm not sure what to do about it. > >About 3 years ago I was having really awful spasms in my rectum during >my periods. At first the problem was aggravated by using tampons, and >when I stopped using them it went away, but after a few months the pain >got worse again without tampons. I went to my doctor and he gave me >Vioxx, which helped a bit but not much. After a bit of research online >I thought maybe I had endo, so I went back to my doctor and he suggested >a laparascopy. I agreed. > >The lap showed nothing, or at least my doctor found nothing. After the >surgery I was in really bad pain, because it was time for my period, but >when I went back to my doctor to get my stitches removed he yelled at me >that it's impossible to have pain because he had scraped the inside of >my uterus, so how can I have a period? I asked him then what could be >causing the pain if it's not endo and obviously he didn't know because >he just yelled at me some more until I cried. > >Needless to say I never went back to that doctor. I wouldn't have even >if he hadn't treated me like that, since he left huge awful scars from >the lap. > >So I continued to live in pain, not sure what was wrong with me. About >4 months after the lap (this was early 2004) I got pregnant. For the >duration of my pregnancy, I had no pain. This reinforced in my mind >that I must have had endo and not some other, non-gynelogical problem >with my bowels. > >After my pregnancy however, with my postnatal bleeding, the pain came >back with a vengeance. I talked to my new doctor (a female) about it, >and she said she couldn't think of anything else that could cause the >pain but endo, my other doctor must have missed it. She prescribed >Yasmin bcp which I was on for a year. These pills helped a lot, I had >almost no pain for the time I was on them and my periods got much >lighter. > >However when my prescription ran out, I didn't get more because my >husband was (and still is!) out of work and we didn't have the money to >pay for them. I thought maybe I'll be fine. Well, I was wrong. Over >the last few months the pain has gotten worse every period, and my >periods have become much heavier too. > >Yesterday the pain was very severe. But this is why I'm not sure if >it's endo or not: The pain I experience isn't exactly pain, but more >like really painful muscle spasms. The muscles in my rectum spasm, and >now the muscles all across the bottom of my abdomen spasm at the same >time too. It's a very strong spasm that lasts for maybe 15 seconds--it >can be brought on by various things, bending over, moving too fast, >having to go to the bathroom. The only way I can control the spasms at >all is by deep breathing like the kind used in childbirth. > >Is this kind of painful spasm consistent with endometriosis? Or might I >have some other kind of condition? I don't usually have these spasms >when I'm not on my period (although sometimes I do). They mostly only >happen during my period, they are very painful, but yet I don't have >very bad menstrual cramps, I know what those are and this is much >different. > >All the info I can find on the Internet just says endo causes pain, it >doesn't specify what kind of pain, hence my confusion. > >Any advice you could give me would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. >Laura
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