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Re: New to Forum and in need of Serious Help!
From: andrea (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun Jun 17 21:31:49 2007
It sounds like you have a combination of endo pain and Irritable Bowel
Syndrome. Most women with endo have both. I do! It sucks, I know. I
either get really constipated or have diarhea the day my period starts
and am super bloated. I just started taking a pill my aunt told me
about to treat the IBS symptoms called Bentyl, an anti-spazmotic pill.
It has worked really well and has kept the bloating down too. So,
hopefully this advice can you help with that. I never got any relief
from the BC pill and think all the estrogen in them made my endo much
worse over the years. That was all the doctors solutions for 17 years,
just stay on the damn pill. I've been off the pill for 4 years and feel
better than I've ever felt, but still need laparscopy to remove all of
my endo. (I still get 2-3 days of severe pain and have to take
Vicodin.) Good luck to you and I hope you find some relief and help you
need! Everyone on this forum is very supportive and so nice.
At Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Divine wrote:
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>First off, let me apologize if this is to long, but I am in some serious
>need of help.
>
>I started my cycle when I was 12 and it stop about a year later. It
>then came back 6 months later. When I was a freshman in high school I
>started to hemorrhage as I was walking down the hall (most embarrassing
>thing ever happen to me). I bleed seriously for 4 years straight. While
>bleeding the doctors put me on every birth control out there, as well as
>Estrogen; now remember I was about 14 at the time. Nothing stopped me
>from bleeding. The doctor wanted me to get pregnant because that would
>have healed me inside; my mother was not going have that. At the same
>time I was diagnosed with Diabetes and PCOS (tell this day I am not even
>sure what it is), but I was told recently that they could not find any
>cyst. Now I am not sure if that is a good thing or bad thing.
>
>After my graduation, my cycles started to act normal for a little while,
>but then they started to disappear for about 6 months and then come
>back. During that time, I did not have a lot of pain just very long 3 –
>4 weeks heavy cycles. About 6 years ago, I started dating my now
>husband whom gave me a VD (long story, but some antibiotics got rid of
>it). Ok, let me back up a minute before I met him I was engaged to my
>high school sweet heart for 3 years and we wanted kids but it seemed
>that we were not getting pregnant. We would have sex everyday of the
>month and it was not happening.
>
>During the past 6 years, it seems that the pain that I am having is
>getting severe. I have researched everything that could be making the
>pain and I came up with Endometriosis. Here is little of my symptoms
>and you be the judge: 1-2 weeks before my cycle I start spotting and the
>cramps have me in the floor crying; during that time it takes all of me
>not to literally beat my butt because I cant have a bowel movement; I
>get bloated; if I hold my bladder for more than a minute the cramps
>become so severe that I am again in he floor crying. Please tell me
>what this is.
>
>Now I am 32, I am trying to get pregnant, and it is not working. They
>have put me on Clomid which did not have me ovulate a day. However,
>what is so funny, I do not even want my husband to touch me but 1 day
>out the whole month, HOW ARE WE SUPPOSE TO HAVE A BABY AND WE ARE
>TOGETHER ONCE A MONTH.
>
>I went to an Endocrinologist/ Reproductive specialist and told him all
>of this and he wants me to loose 30 pounds (I am a heavy weight) before
>he will go in and do a laparoscopy. I cannot live with pain anymore.
>Although I want children, the pain is becoming unbearable. Three weeks
>out of the month, I am suffering and I don’t think I should have too.
>
>Now to make things worst, my family is has CANCER, and from things that
>I have read that, it can cause cancer. My grandmother passed over 20
>years ago from Ovarian Cancer and now I am afraid that I might have that
>as well.
>
>What next?
>
>Ladies please forgive me for rambling on but I have not been able to
>talk to my husband or anyone else. Therefore, please if you have any
>advice as to what I need to do next please let me know. God Bless you
>all.
>
>I do go to the Reproductive doctor next Friday. I need to know what to
>tell him and how I can become out of pain. He put me on some type of
>narcotic, but I hate that druggy feeling and refuse to take the meds.
>Its not that I refuse I can’t be doped up at my job.
>
>Please advice…
>
>--
>Desperately in PAIN
>
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