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Re: 15 year old in alot of pain....

From: anon (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 18 Oct 2002 14:41:51 -0500 (CDT)


At Fri, 18 Oct 2002, clare wrote: >
>The following is just my personal opinion based on my experience :0)
>
>Three tampons/hr is too much. How are her blood levels? I think that on
>occasion we need to be more vocal with ob/gyns. If a Dr asks each woman
>they see "do you have pain with menses", virtually all will say yes.
>Cramping is normal, but pain that causes her to curl up into a ball is
>not. If it's the pain that causes the nausea that is not normal.
>
>Perhaps taking her to an endo specialist for an evaluation would be
>helpful - the specialist would be able to advise you best on a
>laparoscopy. If it were my daughter, I'd get the lap done by an endo
>specialist, as they are very adept at identifying endo that can
>sometimes be elusive, and they usually perform excision (which seems to
>have better results than laser etc.)
>
>Best wishes.

This is good advice. Kristy, the amount of pain, bleeding and vomiting with your daughter's cycle is NOT normal, despite what the doctor says. I suppose it's "normal" in the sense that she's not dying, but this has to be affecting her quality of life and must be affecting her schoolwork to some extent. Get it fixed now before these problems have a detrimental effect on her college studies and later, her career. If the doctor doesn't sympathize with quality of life issues, then it's time for a new one.






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