ENDO Messages for November, 2006: Re: How old were you?

Re: How old were you?

From: Julie (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon Nov 6 17:27:20 2006

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Hi Abby--I started at age 12 and it was always painful, but I just thought that cramps were normal so I never told a doctor about it. I just went to the doctor this spring for pelvic pain that lasts throughout the month and they think it is endometriosis because I have a big cyst that showed up on ultrasound. I will hopefully get surgery to remove it and find out for sure if I have endometriosis in the next few weeks (I'm 38 now). So I guess if I do have endo, I had symptoms for 26 years before diagnosis. At Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Abby wrote: >
>I just thought about this and I figured I would ask just to kind of get
>a better understanding of the history of most of the women on this
>website about their endo problems. How old were you when you first
>started having problems? Did any of you start your period late in your
>teen years and is that related to endo? I didn't start my period until I
>was almost 15 where my cousins and friends started theirs around like 12
>or 13. My problems with painful periods started at 16. I wasn't
>diagnosed with endo until much much later around my 20s. My doctor said
>that endo was probably present in my teens and could have been a reason
>why I didn't start my period until much later than most girls and that
>if I had been checked back then when I complained about my painful
>periods that endo probably would have been found then instead of so late
>in my life. Anyone else go through this to?

--
Julie M

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