Re: 1st diagnosis and laproscopy 3 days b4 my wedding!!
From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu Jul 17 14:17:13 2008
this does NOT sound like an endo specialist! anyone can call themselves
an endo specialist! (and by the way, have to laugh at the doc who is
idiot enough to say it was muscular pain - HUH!????)
when they start recommending things like zoladex and pregnancy, run -
they're not specialists
they might have helped you this much, but you need more help
start here
endocenter.org
centerforendoc.om
http://centerforendo.com/articles/suppmeds.htm
At Thu, 17 Jul 2008, roxy wrote:
>
>hi, im a 20 year old 3rd year student... i was diagnosed with endo last
>year. i had excruciating period pain for a year beforehand, which i
>used to jokingly call "my ovary pain". my gp dismissed it as muscular
>pain. 3days before my wedding last year, out of the blue i had an
>immense amount of pain, i couldn't even walk upright. i saw my doctor
>the next day who decided i had a spastic colon, and sent me for an
>ultrasound "in case it was a cyst". well i had an 8cm cyst on my left
>ovary half of which had burst. i had emergency surgery that afternoon,
>during the surgery the gynae realised it was endo. i made it to my
>wedding hehe.. very painfully :) i then took a six month course of
>zoladex. at the end of the six months i visited another gynae for a
>second opinion as he is an endo speciliast and has teated my mums endo.
>he discovered that the previous doc only drained the cyst and didnt
>remove it and my endo progressed to stage 4. so i had my second
>laproscopy and hysteroscopy. i then took another dose of zoladex. and
>now here i am. confused! my doc advises that i have a baby otherwise i
>may not have a chance of having kids at all! im so scared.. i want
>kids.. but not ryt now!! i have a year left of my degree to finish..
>any ideas? i wanted to know more info about depo? what good/bad does it
>do? we'v accepted that having a baby now may be a reality and we're
>excited.. but im really scared... im only 20! i dunno if im ready for
>motherhood. and also.. how long does zoladex take to expire from your
>body? my last 3 month dose should have expired 2 months ago! but still
>no period..
>plz help