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Re: weird combo of symptoms - doctors don't seem to have a clue - need serious advice! From: anon (anonymous@obgyn.net) Fri, 26 Sep 2003 23:12:11 -0500 (CDT) Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: anon: "Re: Allergies and Asthma Exasperated by mentral cycle PLEASE HELP!" Previous message: anon: "Re: Could i be ?? What do you all think?? I'm very worried. Need HELP ASAP !!!!!" In reply to: confused: "weird combo of symptoms - doctors don't seem to have a clue - need serious advice!" Next in thread: confused: "Re: weird combo of symptoms - doctors don't seem to have a clue - please respond again" Reply: confused: "Re: weird combo of symptoms - doctors don't seem to have a clue - please respond again" Birth control pills usually suppress your body's hormones, but only while you're taking them. During the inactive week, the BCP lets go and lets your body go crazy or do whatever it wants for that whole week. That's why many women who do fine during the three active weeks have problems with the inactive week. That sometimes means that their periods are still painful, even on the pill. I'm surprised that your doctor hasn't recommended continuous birth control therapy. You would just skip the inactive week and go on to the next pack. That would mean that you would have no period at all (yay!) except for some occasional spotting. With endometriosis, if you are having a period at all, you can still have pain because there are lesions inside your abdomen that are also "having a period" and bleeding directly into your abdominal cavity with nowhere to go. Continuous birth control therapy is a very common treatment for women with endometriosis and for a variety of other reasons including cramps, headaches, anemia, convenience, active or busy lifestyles, and for women on active military duty. Do an internet search for endometriosis, or visit the Endo forum on this site to read about what endometriosis is, how it behaves, and what the most common treatments are. This might not be what you have, but I think that the continuous birth control therapy is an important option that you should bring up with your doctor. Some doctors might not suggest it as a first choice because they believe that most women prefer to have a period every month. At Thu, 25 Sep 2003, confused wrote:> >To help the cramps, I've tried lots of BCP's. None make any difference. >(Most recent is Yasmin.) Endo took a blood test while I was on Yasmin, >found slightly high levels of FSH (and inverted LH ratio). He >prescribed (2) active Yasmin per day to see if it would suppress things >-- been taking this double prescription for months now, and my FSH level >is still high. My pain is also still very bad, and my period seems to >happen all at once in the middle two days of the inactive week. > >Aren't BCP's supposed to suppress these hormones? (I never miss a pill.) >If I have endometriosis, shouldn't the pills help the pain? Next message: anon: "Re: Allergies and Asthma Exasperated by mentral cycle PLEASE HELP!" Previous message: anon: "Re: Could i be ?? What do you all think?? I'm very worried. Need HELP ASAP !!!!!" In reply to: confused: "weird combo of symptoms - doctors don't seem to have a clue - need serious advice!" Next in thread: confused: "Re: weird combo of symptoms - doctors don't seem to have a clue - please respond again" Reply: confused: "Re: weird combo of symptoms - doctors don't seem to have a clue - please respond again"

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