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Re: Pain in legs and three dr's, ten years and nothing...
From: Alyson (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue Apr 3 08:24:11 2007
It is entirely possible that the endo is causing the back, leg, and hip
pain. I went around and around with docs too and finally went to a
reproductive endocrinologist. He kind of looked at the big picture and
sent me off to all of the doctors he thought I needed to see. One of
which was a rheumatologist. I have been having low back pain, hip pain,
and pain down the inside and outside of both legs, along with broad
pelvic pain. Turns out I have fibromyalgia. Tada! Now that we are
attempting to manage that I can definately tell the difference between
the fibro pain and the endo pain. Again, it may be the endo causing
your pain, because it often does cause pain in those areas. But, it
might be worth ruling out fibromyalgia or other joint/connective
tissue/muscle disorders.
Just an idea.
Alyson
At Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Laur wrote:
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>I am so happy to have found this sight. After all these years with
>adenymyosis and endo I feel almost sane again. I have had right side
>pain and back pain on and off all these years trying to hold off the
>hyst.
>
>Now at age 48 the endo comes back again with a vengence and different,
>in that it started at the back ...went to the hip and down the right leg
>with swelling.
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>My OB GYN said it is probably diverticulitis, refers me to GI dr. who
>orders everything but tests to r/o stomach related causes. GI advises
>it is probably muscles LOL and refers to PCP who discovers I am
>pre-diabetic or possibly diabetic and possible overactive thyroid.
>
>Get the picture ladies, everything but the pain, the awful pain that has
>cost me a great job. This pain is on both sides of my right leg and so
>bad yesterday it literally went numb, I was dragging it around the
>kitchen when making lunch.
>
>I cannot believe the amount of posts I have read in the archives that
>contain leg and back pain. Point of this post:
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>To introduce myself and thank all of you for being here.
>And wondering if anyone had anything like what I am going through.
>Interesting enough when they did the abdominal CT they found both
>ovaries contained two cysts each and my uterus is quite retroverted.
>What am I missing here, that three dr's dismissed this as a possiblity?
>Is it their lack of knowledge.
>
>Thanks in advance, I look forward to "talking" with you in posts and
>helping where I can.
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