WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for October, 2000: I need some answers!! PLEASE HELP ME(long)---(peviusly answered by dr.montgomery)

I need some answers!! PLEASE HELP ME(long)---(peviusly answered by dr.montgomery)

From: crystal (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 5 Oct 2000 14:00:02 -0500 (CDT)

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At Thu, 5 Oct 2000, crystal wrote: >
>Hi I am a 26 yr old female who over the years has had many problems with
>her female organs. I just asked to be sent to a endocrinologist to see
>if they can help me but I'd really like to go in at least having an idea
>of what may be wrong with me.
>I don't expect anyone to have the answers but I would love to have your
>opinions as to what I may be dealing with.
> here's a breif history.....
>
>i have always been real regular up until i was 19 then I started getting
>severe stomach pains that were paralizing. they came and went sometimes
>even making me nausiated , lightheaded or dizzy. this went on for years
>no one knowing why.
>at 20 I had such pain that I'd have to leave work so that I could seek
>treatment. One day a nurse at a free clinic I was passing noticed I was
>in pain and asked me to come in. she sat me down and we talked for a
>few minutes about how i had lost my cycles and was having sharp pains
>and then she gave me some anti inflamitory drugs and told me to go to
>planned parenthood for a work-up. I went the next day and had a pap
>done and left because the anti inflamitory drugs seemed to be easing the
>pain. while on the drugs the pain completely went away and I got
>pregnant. 2 days later i got a note in the mail that my pap looked
>funny and I needed to go see an obgyn. went there and had a caloscopy
>due to being pregnant i couldn't do a bio. it came back as reading a
>little funny but he said it wasn't bad and could be monitored.
>after my son was born i returned for a pap and an ultrasound. the pap
>was normal and the ultra sound showed @ 1 dozen small cyst on each
>ovary. they said it was nothing to worry about and sent me home. the
>next month (4 months after having my son) my cycles went away again.
>@ age 22 i was put on bc pills to regain my cycles, it worked for almost
>a year. then i started getting a strange swelling ( gain 30 pounds of
>water litteraly over night) and was put on water pills... they worked
>too. one day i was cramping real bad and had to go to the er. he said
>i had a high white blood cell count in my urine but that he couldn't
>find any signs of infection in my urinary tract (never found out what
>caused this).
>at 23 I went off all meds and was trying for a second child, it took
>forever. it wasn't until the doc put me back on anti inflamitory pills
>for the pain and swelling in my stomach that I finally got pregnant,
>again after having received back a bad pap.
>this prgnancy like before went off without many problems other then an
>excessive weight loss while pregnant (40+ with first child, 100+ with
>second),and on both ocassions my cervics dialated at least 2 months too
>early causing me to have them both a month early.
>now we are almost up to date. after having my son my cycles returned
>for 3 months. then they just disappeared (not that i miss them much)but
>after they left all sorts of weird things started to happen.
> my bladder kept having slight leakage
> my pain in my lower stomach returned
>I instantly gained 80 pounds in under 3 months AFTER HAVING LOST MY
>CYCLE
> my hair started falling out
> my mood swings so much that even I can't tollerate me
> the swelling returned and worse
> still having high white count in urine
> ovaries still very sensitive
> no sex drive, and on ocassion i do .......IT HURTS
> puss being excreted from vagina
> and now i have hair growing on my upper lip---what's that about?
>
>what could be wrong with me.. I need some ideas so that i know what i
>need to research and what i need to ask my doctor to rule out.
>
>see i haven't gone back for a pap since just after my son was born and
>lost my cycle that month..that's right , no cycle for almost 15 months.
>can cry if someone says my name wrong and a total mess.
>
> I need some answers or a gun... can I get any help at all?
> now we are almost
>
>--
>crystal
>

--
crystal

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