ENDO Messages for September, 2007: Re: Link between Endo and IBS??

Re: Link between Endo and IBS??

From: mdustin (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu Sep 27 08:54:04 2007

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I have almost always had bowel/digestive problems. Even as a child, I ended up in the hospital several times due to my parents thinking that my apendix would burst, which ended up (embarrassed to say) but really bad gas. It was a joke in my family, but nothing ever was really done about it.

I was diagnosed with Endo in March 2007. And now my gyn doc thinks I have IBS, due to problems with passing my bowels. I almost always have diarrhea or I'm constipated. I never really knew how often a healthy person should have to have a bowel movement...daily? weekly? I really don't know what is normal.

My gyn has referred me to a GI doctor that I will be going to at the end of October. In the meantime, my doctor doesn't think ANY of my pain is gyn related..that's what he told me. How can that be? All too often, when I do actually have a bowel movement, I bleed like I have my period. It varies in color from pink to red to brown. And generally lasts about a day or two. But nearly everytime I do, no matter if I am near my period or not...I bleed. Is that normal....and/or not gyn related? How can that be? Also, whether I'm due for a period or not, stress makes me bleed as well. I'll be out at the grocery store or whatnot with my daughter and half way through my trip, I feel it, by the time I get home, I have bled like crazy.

I never had these problems untill my c-section with my daughter over three years ago. Before that time, I did have bad periods...cysts on my ovaries that would rupture with each period, and ended up putting me in the hospital. When I was young, the doctors at the hospital told me that with all of the ruptured cysts, they didn't think I would be able to have children. However, even with birth control pills and condoms, I became pregnant twice. (I have two beautiful children now)With my first, I had eight negative pregnancy tests and bled 'normally', for three months before I found out that I was three months pregnant. All of this cannot be normal.

I guess I just really don't understand how my symptoms are not gyn related? I have vaginal pain, pelvic pain and pressure, bloating and bleeding....how is that not gyn related, but GI related?? Maybe I just really don't understand it...which is why I'm going to go to the GI doctor. Maybe I really do just have it wrong.....I don't know.

At Wed, 26 Sep 2007, jillson wrote: >
>I was diagnosed with IBS 10 years ago and diagnosed with endo in Feb 07.
>I totally think they are related. I was having diarrhea like 3 times a
>week and when I had my period it was everyday and so painful. Now I
>haven't had as many issues with the IBS since feb. I have been on
>Lupron so I haven't had a period. I just found out I have endo on my
>rectum and I am having that excised Oct 9. So I think I always had endo
>on my bowels and that was the problem not IBS. Good luck.
>
>jill
>
>At Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Lisa S. wrote:
>>
>>I was dianosed with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) in college and have
>>recently been diagnosed with Endometriosis. My recent dianosis has made
>>me suspect that either my endometriosis has caused or worsened the IBS
>>or I never had IBS to begin with and it has been endo all the time.
>>After reading some of your submissions I have come to understand that
>>Endo can cause many digestive problems...I am wondering to what extent
>>this can happen? And if it can affect my bowels and is affecting
>>them...should I be concerned and have this looked into further with my
>>doctor?
>>
>>--
>>Lisa S.
>>

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