ENDO Messages for July, 2007: To Sunam, maybe some help... :)

To Sunam, maybe some help... :)

From: andrea (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri Jul 27 19:06:26 2007

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Sunam,

Me, along with several of my friends have had that experience with NuvaRing! I bled non-stop for 3 months, then got off of it! I have also heard that the Mirena IUD does the same thing! Joint pain or fibromyalgia is often found in women with endometriosis because we have lowered immune systems. I take lots of vitamins and echinacea drops daily. My specialist said women with endo often can have joint pain, allergies, more suseptible to colds....etc. Since I have been watching my diet and taking vitamins and herbal things I feel so much healthier and I only get a cold about once a year. I used to be sick all the time in my 20's.

I tell you, hormonal imbalances can cause their own set of symptoms. You could have too much estrogen or too little. I just know my specialist and a lot of web pages I've read say that endo is an estrogen dominance disease. Estrogen is what makes the endo grow. That is really the only hormone that needs to be supressed - not ALL of them like Lupron does!

Have your doctor test your hormones and that will probably give you a lot of answers to what you are trying to fix. Then, you have the option of taking synthetic or bio-identical hormones to balance yours out.

All synthetic hormones are linked to cancer in some way (it even reads so on the package inserts), and I have yet to read about anyone having a negative experience on bio-identicals, so let me know if you want help finding a doctor who will test your hormones and prescribe them for you. It really is very simple! The progesterone regulates my periods just like the pill would, I bleed every 28 days.

If I quit taking it, I bleed every other week and have cramps all the time, hot flashes, depression, yeast infections. I become a mess without it! I have a 5 day period now and 3 really heavy, painful days, but most my other symptoms that were DAILY have been relieved. Here is a link to a page that says what NORMAL hormone levels should be. You could print this out, take it to your doctor and tell him you want to be tested for these things. Good luck with all of this and feel better soon! Have a great weekend.

-- Andrea

http://www.fertilityplus.org/faq/hormonelevels.html

At Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Sunam wrote: > >I've been on Nuvaring for 4 months and had continuous BTB, sometimes as >heavy as a period with accompanying cramping. I'm using it continuously >as a treatment for endo but am wondering if it's effective if BTB is >this frequent and heavy.

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