ENDO Messages for November, 2007: Re: no pain

Re: no pain

From: andrea (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue Nov 27 18:20:10 2007

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Neverending,

If I were you, I would get another opinion and maybe have a specialist do your next surgery. Doctors have all told me that you can't get pregnant after ablation? Did he not do it correctly? My specialist told me that procedure is not much of a help for anything and most women just start bleeding again. That had to have been hard on you, I'm sooo sorry!!!

And, another thing, endo does not just "clear up", on it's own either, so I don't know if your doctor knows how to recognize endo or not. Maybe your pregnancy just made some of the endo shrink - it can do that, because your progesterone quadruples during pregnancy and it supresses endo. After your body recovers from pregnancy and the progesterone drops back down, the endo can grow again.

You are lucky if you are not having severe pain. Your endo could be minor, you could just have adenomyosis (endo in your uterine muscle) or you may not have endo..... when I was in my 20's, my pain was not so bad, but now, in my 30's, it is unbearable!

I am told that I most likely have adenomyosis too, but NONE of my pain comes from my uterus - it ALL comes from my ovaries and lower back (probably in my bowels.) I think endo on your bowels is probably the worst! :(

I suggest to women a lot on here to get their hormones checked, because a hormone imbalance can cause so many things! I was bleeding heavy about 20 days a month, every month, until I discovered that I had nearly no progesterone in my body. When I got my level back up, the bleeding stopped and my period went to every 28 days, like the pill made it do. I take natural progesterone and felt great taking it for 5 years. Now however, it is starting not to work on my pain anymore, because i think my endo has just grown out of control and it's time to have surgery. If all you're looking for is less bleeding, getting your hormones adjusted may fix that and you would not need surgery - unless you started having pain in the future, of course.

I would really have an appointment or lap with a specialist before I decided to get my uterus out. That doc does not sound like he knows exactly what he's doing. You may not even have endo if you don't have lesions in there, it may be something else that is more fixable.

I will hope for the best for you!

-- Andrea :)

At Tue, 27 Nov 2007, neverending wrote: > >According to my doctor, I have endo. Yet I have no severe pain as >mentioned by many who do suffer from endo. My cycles are never ending! >Even after an oblation a year ago. 6 months after that surgery, I had >an empty pregnancy and misscarried at 4 months. I decided to tie my >tubes after that,which he was able to see inside my uterus and said that >my endo was cleared up. Now after all that, my periods became worse, >but still no pain.I do notice having pelvic pain when my period comes >on,but not to the point where I do not function. I am scheduled for a >partial hysterectomy. Is it possible to have no pain and have endo or >do I have something else? Just wondering?

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