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Re: 1st diagnosis and laproscopy 3 days b4 my wedding!!
From: roxy (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri Jul 18 12:39:10 2008
thanks for da web links.. that article about zoldex on the cec site did
help! i've taken a nine month course of it.. anyone have any idea how
long it takes to wear off?
At Thu, 17 Jul 2008, anonymous wrote:
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>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
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>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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