Re: décapeptyl s.r.? anyone heard of it?
From: Tracy (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed Jun 30 12:16:35 1999
Hello Emer,
I think your doctor sounds a little uniformed. The stage does not matter
when it comes to pain. There can be women with stage 4 endo with mild pain
and stage 1 endo with severe pain. And as for his assurance that the endo
will not come back as bad after a lap, I am here to say that I have had two
laps and my pain is worse now than it was 4 years ago.
It might be a good idea to inform your doctor and take him some material.
You might even want to consider changing doctors.
--
Tracy
-----Original Message-----
From: Emer <anonymous@obgyn.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list ENDO <anonymous@obgyn.net>
Date: June 29, 1999 06:05 pm
Subject: décapeptyl s.r.? anyone heard of it?
>Hey Everyone,
>
>I was at the gyny today, (with hubby) and we have decided to put me on a
six
>monthly course of injections, the drug is called décapeptyl s.r.
>
>I am presuming that this drug is the same as Lupron, so far what what I
have
>seen on the company'ss web site, it seems to be.
>
>I have told the doctor that I want to be sent to a specialist, which he is
>doing. i wasn't too happy with him at all, he even mentioned maybe getting
>pregnant after the first round of treatments. This was after he said that
in
>past times doctors used to prescribe getting pregnant as a treatment for
>endo!
>
>This kind of annoyed me a bit, especially as my husband was with me, and I
>had already told the dr.( and had my hubby) that we had already decided
that
>we would continue to wait until we were about 30 ( uhoh I am 29 already!
>lol)
>
>He also came out with other stuff that I wasn't too happy with, like he
said
>that the endo wouldn't ever come back as bad as it was before the lap. and
>he kept saying that my stage 2 endo wasn't that bad.
>
>I mean, he was a nice guy and all, but sorry!,,uhuh!,,,,no thank you, plus
>the fact that I was there at 9am for my 9am appointment, and he was still
on
>his rounds in the wards until 10.30am (I know this because my sister is a
>nurse in the hospital, and she was doing the rounds with him) So, needless
>to say, considering that I had a meeting at 11am I was fairly hopping mad
by
>the time he saw me!
>
>Sorry to ramble on, but I am a bit depressed tonight, which is totally
alien
>to me, Its kind of like, now that I have to go onto treatments, there is no
>going back.
>
>So what I would like to know, If you have got this far,,,lol,,,,and you
>aren't asleep by now,,,lol....Has anyone every used this drug?..and id so,
>what were your experiences with it?
>
>Wishing you all a good painfree night,
>
>Emer in Ireland.
>
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