ENDO Messages for July, 2007: Re: Feeling depressed, hoping for luck with new OB

Re: Feeling depressed, hoping for luck with new OB

From: andrea (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu Jul 19 21:17:50 2007

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Hi, Kelly.

You should not feel bad at all that you HAVE to take pain meds. Unless there is a total cure for this, what else do we do to function? It's not like you're taking them for fun. Endo can cause pain on a daily basis and IBS can be everyday or just with your period like I get. If I were you, I would not bother going to another OB. I have been to literally 10 OB's in the last 10 years and my general practitioner and NEW endo & pelvic pain specialist have been the only ones to believe me that my pain was bad enough to give me painkillkers. OB's reallly don't know much about endo and are don't have the extensive training that specialists do to even know how serious this disease is and of all the places it can grow in your body! So many OB's have upset me, been rude & made me feel like my life was over.

I had been to the emergency room about 4 times before finding my practitioner, who is a life-saver. If you go to a pelvic pain specialist they will most likely give you pain meds, but they will want to do some tests first. Mine did a sonogram to see some of the extent of my endo and I told him of all my symptoms. He could tell that I had an abnormally thick uterus lining, I had an ovarian cyst, and my ovaries would not move like they are supposed to, which meant they are fastened down by the endo lesions. They want to make sure you are lot lying just to get meds, document it to cover themselves so they don't get in trouble. You can only use one pharmacy. I was given 60 10mg Lortab with one refill before December. 120 pills for 6 months is more than I need. A couple things that help me are Arnica Montana, an herbal anti-inflammatory you can get at Whole Foods or the Vitamin Shoppe and Bentyl, an anti-spazmotic drug for IBS. I have to watch what I eat the 2-3 days before and during my period or my cramps and IBS get so so bad!

Here is a link to a pelvid pain website that can maybe help you find a doc for this: http://www.pelvicpain.org/

Good luck with this and know you are not alone. We all have to take stuff like that, but it's the only way we can function sometimes.

Take Care, Andrea

At Thu, 19 Jul 2007, kelly wrote: >
>Hello, hope everyone is doing ok. What a crappy couple months it's
>been. My endo is back horribly and my last OB said endo does NOT
>believe it causes pain throughout the month. He keeps saying it's my
>IBS. I am hoping the OB I see Tues will recommend another thorough lap.
>I am on two meds for depression, went through the Lupron after my first
>lap and it was the worst experience in my life. I do not want any more
>hormones inside my body, it's still getting over the Lupron. There is a
>good chance my husband and I can't have children, but we are going to a
>fertility specialist in the fall and I don't want hormones in my body
>messing up the tests they have to do. I feel like a bad person because
>I have to take Percocet every day. I'm afraid if I run out my pain doc
>will not give me more. I just feel like it's a struggle to get people
>to believe me and get what I need to help. I just want a chance at a
>normal life. I am becoming more withdrawn into myself an don't like
>talking to anybody anymore. I am a nurse and it takes all my energy at
>work to be there and be positive when i feel like this on the inside.
>How can I take care of people all day when I feel like I'm not being
>taken care of myself. Sorry bout the rant, this is the only place I can
>let it out. Does anyone alse have to take pain meds daily? I need them,
>but my old doc cut me off because you can't be having daily pain-so he
>says. I know other have pain throughout the month too, right? If anyone
>does not want to answer this, it's ok. I was wondering how may pain
>meds you take or are prescribed for you. I was given 80 percs and i
>hope i don't run out before i'm supposed to.
>Well anyways, thanks for letting me whine, cry, and rant. Thanks for
>your time....
>
>Love To you all:)
>
>Kelly

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