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smoking and endoFrom: Abby (anonymous@obgyn.net)Thu Oct 26 10:34:12 2006
Hello everyone. With a big group like this one I know there are people here that have had endo for a really long time and I know you ladies probably have a lot of education under your belt and have heard almost everything there is to hear when it comes to this disease. I am so glad that you ladies are here for people like me and others that don't know a lot about endo yet because you ladies can give us your hindsight 2020 and save us from the missteps that we might would make otherwise if we hadn't met all of you in this great place. Maybe you veteran ladies of endo can help me out with this one or maybe some of the newly diagnosed ladies have heard this and can help out too but either way I just have to find out if this is true or not. I have been questioning the truth behind being a smoker with endo because I hear so often that women that smoke have a harder time than women that don't smoke. I went to see my doctor yesterday and my doctor made mention that the reason I was having frequent endo episodes and intense pain is due to my smoking. He said women with endo that don't smoke don't experience near the problems smokers do. I'm not trying to defend that I smoke or come across in a way that sounds like I refuse to give up the cigarettes but I've noticed that consumption of a lot of caffiene can do that also. If I take in a lot of sugar my episodes of active endo and the pain can be really bad than on days when I haven't consumed a lot of caffiene. Has anyone else heard this from their doctor before about smoking making endo and endo pain worse? Is there any truth to it or is it just another myth people have put on the symptomatics of endo? I just suspect it is my doctor's way of trying to get me to quit smoking all the while using my disease and my problems as a foreground reason. I would be more accepting of his suggestion to quit if it were really about making my endo better for me but if it's just using my disease to get me to quit under false preceptions that's not fair to make me think I'm going to feel better or fair endo episodes any better if it's not true. I just know when I do have pain and episodes with endo I resort to smoking because it calms me and I've never noticed that the episode got worse after I put the cigarette out, I've just noticed that I hurt the same no matter if I've got a cigarette in my mouth or not. I'm sorry I took up everyones time going over the deep end on smoking and endo but I just don't know what to believe about what my doctor told me because I don't want to go through the painstaking process of quitting spending money on medications or programs to help me quit smoking after I've been smoking all these years just to find out that the endo is still going to continue to overtake my body and be just as painful than it was before I ever quit cigarettes. Thanks everyone for your help and advice. I'm glad I have somewhere to go to get support for this disease because it can be a lonely disease when no one but you knows what you feel and what comes along with it because it's not like it's so common that people know about it. I feel sometimes like I am the only person in the world with endo and coming here helps me to realize that I'm not alone or at least I'm not alone in the world anyway.
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