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Re: Not sure if I have Endo
From: Stephanie (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed Jan 30 13:44:21 2008
Hello Claire,
First i wanted to tell you that i also didnt have clots during my cycles
all the time. Many of us who have been diagnosed with endo might have
all symptoms or might only have one. But like you i also had very
painful ovulation besides the very painful periods. The best thing you
should do is get a lap from a doctor who has good knowledge of endo and
that can excise the endo if found at that time.
Steph R. :_
At Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Claire wrote:
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>Hello, I realize from reading the forum here that most of you have
>already been diagnosed and I am going through the process. I feel that
>the Docs I have seen have been dismissing most of what I am telling
>them, so I was curious if my sypmtoms are similar to anyone else's.
>
>About 3 years ago, I had a strange pain in my side (at the base of my
>ribs, high up from my pelvis) this resulted in an ultrasound at the ER
>as that was the only way to get one within the month. The ER didn't
>find anything and referred me to an OB. This OB was convinced I had
>endo, although the only symptom I had was pain from an unidentified
>source. So she did a lap and found some tissue that was removed and
>biopsied. The tissue was suggestive of, but indeterminate for endo.
>
>So fast forward to 7 months ago, and I went off birth control for the
>first time since I was 14 (I am now 27). About 3 months after going off
>BC I got a terrible pain in my ovary and three days later ended up in
>the ER again and the ultrasound said that there was a pocket of fluid
>that suggests that I had ruptured a cyst. I was then in pain for a full
>month. The pain has now subsided except for having the worst menstral
>cramps I can remember and terrible ovarian pain about when I ovulate. I
>don't have clotting in menstration-at least not like all the paphlets
>say I would if I have endo.
>
>The docs have said that I can either have another lap or go on hormones.
>I don't want hormones as we are trying to conceive. I don't want to go
>on a wild-goose-chase-lap, unless it seems to make sense. In the days
>between the pain, I think "why go through surgery, maybe it's gone away"
>but on the days I'm in pain, I don't care what I have to do to make it
>stop, so I am conflicted.
>
>Does anyone else have simmilar symptoms?
>
>Thanks, sorry its so long.
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