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Re: 1st diagnosis and laproscopy 3 days b4 my wedding!!
From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu Jul 17 14:26:11 2008
By the way, when you had that pain, I think a doctor should have done an
u/s, it might have found that cyst long before...also he should have
felt it when doing an exam
i think!
At Thu, 17 Jul 2008, roxy wrote:
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>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
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