Re: my story
From: andrea (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri Sep 14 22:51:17 2007
Hi there,
My gosh, I am sorry you've been through so many surgeries!! But I also
think you are very courageous for doing it! I am having such a difficult
time even scheduling my first lap and I am 36. I just found a doctor
who I trust though, after searching for all these years. He is a
endo/pelvic pain specialist.
I wanted to find the absolute best before I let anyone cut on me,
because it seems so many women such as yourself have had to do this
surgery multiple times or the doctor wanted to give me Lupron and I am
so against that drug. I have heard too many horror stories. I really
think regular OB's are not qualified to find and remove all of the endo,
especially if it appears on your bowels, bladder, kidneys, vagina. There
are places regular doctors don't even bother to look, because they are
unqualified to operate on areas such as the bowels.
They always try to refer you to a GI doctor. I really think you need to
find a good specialist this time to have a successful lap. I think your
doctor keeps missing something and if you are on any kind of birth
control that contains estrogen, the endo is feeding off of that and
growing back. All estrogen should be avoided when you have endo. I
take bio-identical progesterone to supress my estrogen and it seems to
work quite well, but i still get 2-3 days of excrutiating pain a month
where I can't even get out of bed. I used to have many other unbearable
symptoms though, that have really disapated since going on the
progesterone. I had a severe hormone imbalance. So, yes you probably
need another lap, but with a very good, qualified doctor this time! I
wish you the best and I admire you for being so courageous!
At Fri, 14 Sep 2007, jsteed wrote:
>
>I am 27 years old and I'm in a great relationship. I had my first lap
>when I was 19 years old. The second when I was 21, the third when I was
>24, and my most recent this year on my 27th birthday. I have also had
>one leep procedure. I have been having laps about every two years to
>"get cleaned out." This last time, before the procedure, I had had pain
>since December of 2006. I talked it over with my fiance and we decided
>that maybe I should go back in, get cleaned out, and then try and get
>pregnant. I have been told by previous physician's in the past that
>getting pregnant would help. I am at a point in my life in which we are
>ready and that could be possible. So..i had the surgery in February of
>2007. Like the other surgeries, I anticipated being out of commission
>for a week or two. Well, not so. My left ovary was adhered to my
>pelvic wall and my tube was unhealthy and my right tube was blocked.
>Later an HSG was performed and showed my left tube blocked and right
>tube clear. I had a test performed to see if i was ovulating.
>Apparently, in order to get pregnant your level needs to be a 10. mine
>was .5. I was told that the trying i had done for 5 months was somewhat
>pointless since i was barely ovulating. I was told that i needed to see
>an infertility specialist. now i didn't mention that all this time,
>since December 2006, I have had little relief of pain. That is until I
>started the Depo Provera shot on August 8th. I was fine until this
>week, which i'm guessing if timing is right, is the week i am supposed
>to have my period. it feels like a knife went thru my back, i am
>sitting with a heating pad on my as we speak and i am missing an immense
>amount of work. Luckily, I took out FMLA. I am a medical assistant and
>need to be on my feet. but being on my feet for an extended period of
>time kills me. Especially in times like this. I go to see my OB/GYN on
>Monday to see if he has something else up his sleeve. I am wondering if
>i am possibly looking at surgery number 5 and if this pain could be
>because of scar tissue build up. I wonder if I go thru more procedures,
>am I lessening my chances of having children? I am just tired of being
>in pain and discouraged. My depression got a bit better after i had
>initial relief from the depo shot, but now, i dont know. i dont want to
>go back to how i was.
>
>--
>thanks for listening to my story. jsteed
>
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