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Re: HELP ME- natrual ways to help
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From: anonymous@obgyn.net
Wed Jan 10 13:07:09 2007
While you are searching for a doctor who can help, you might consider
taking a fiber supplement to help your bowels move more easily and
frequently. I found a probiotic helpful too. My experience was that I
needed a surgeon to cut out my endo, but that the naturopath I saw (who
specializes in women's health) was able to offer a host of simple and
immediatly helpful recommendations. I also found that I have food
sensitivities and that when I avoid yeast, and, it's looking like,
wheat, all of my GI symptoms dissappear. You can try elimiating things
you might be sensitive to for a few weeks (I tried 2 weeks) then try
them again and see if anything happens. When I did this with yeast it
became easy to give it up. What I've read though, is that such
sensitivites often go away if you avoid the antigen for 3-6 months. At
3 months my response to yeast was much less, though I decided to stay
off it for another 3 months.
I hope that helps. Know that there's a lot of helpful information on
auto-immune, endocrine and other women's problems that traditional gyns
don't know. For examples check out Tori Hudson's _Women's Encyclopedia
of Natural Medicine_ and, more generally, Murray ahd Pizzorno's
_Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine.
Jenn
At Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Alyson wrote:
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>I think a good place to start would be to get the surgical reports from
>your first two laproscopies. Take those reports to a good gynecologist
>if you can get a recommendation for someone in your area and have them
>take a look at the reports. If you need a reference for a doctor you
>can always post here asking if anyone knows of a doc in your area, or
>google "Endo Docs" to get the endo victims web page. There is a patient
>recommended doctor list along with links to web groups for doctor
>recommendations.
>That said, there is a girl I keep in touch with from this forum who has
>confirmed endo, but when she had a second surgery with an excision
>specialist he did not find endo, but her bowels were bound with scar
>tissue. He biopsied the scar tissue and still did not find endo. She
>was exhibiting many of the same symptoms. I would be curious if a
>doctor who is familiar with endo would find anything in your surgical
>reports indicating endometriosis on your ovaries. It is possible that
>you have endo, but also possible that your body has responded to your
>previous surgeries by producing adhesions and scar tissue that are
>affecting your bowels and attaching your ovaries.
>Alyson
>
>At Wed, 10 Jan 2007, manda wrote:
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>>I am a 23 year old female-heavy periods since beginning (11 y.o.) severe
>>cramping, lots of clotting, diarehha with periods. Started b.c. age
>>15. At age 15 diagnosed w/ 4mm cyst on left ovary. Have lapro to
>>remove it. I year later had a 4 mm cyst removed (lap) and a growth on
>>colon connected by what the doc called a "feeder vein." Then put me on
>>continuous b.c. which I stopped doing after 5 months because I
>>basically bled the whole time. Stayed off contraception for about 2
>>years...just started taking it again. Bowel habits have chaged
>>significantly. Constipation, pain as if I may faint, pain during
>>intercourse...and some bleeding during bm's once in awhile. Started
>>seeing 4th gyno in december-did a sono-said ovaries were "fixed" to the
>>uterus-referred me to a gastro-had a colonscopy and it came back as
>>proctitis.
>>
>>DOES THIS SOUND LIKE ENDO? AND IF SO HOW CAN I GET A DOCTOR TO DO
>>SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!
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