WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for October, 2007: Re: CHRONICPAIN: A long battle for answers with what could be endometriosis

Re: CHRONICPAIN: A long battle for answers with what could be endometriosis

From: Luna (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 5 Oct 2007 05:54:01 -0500 (CDT)

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At Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Rebecca Sword wrote: >
>I have had an on going pelvic problem for two years now so I have a lot
>to say about it but I will try and keep it short. I have been to the ER
>a couple of times and five different doctors who have told me that it
>could be endometriosis but do nothing to help me find answers or relief.
>I am overweight so that has to be it so here are some pills. I have
>lost 70lbs now and I think I deserve a definative answer regardless of
>my weight. These doctors said "I think" and "probably" to me and called
>it a day. I have had my gallbladder out this year and my appendix out
>two years before that so my medical bills don't really allow me to go
>see many more doctors when I know I won't get help. But I am in so much
>pain. Here are my symptoms:
>pain on the left pelvic area when active for more than ten minutes
> this now occurs by itself without activity
>on bad days it spreads across my whole pelvis and I feel bloated and
>tight
>pain and bleeding during sex
>excessive dryness (I think this is chronic. I had to be reopened when I
>was a baby
> because dryness caused my vaginal opening to close)
>fatigue and light headness
>
>Last week I went to my doctor again and he gave me a pelvic exam in
>which he found nothing (thank god) but about ten minutes later I was
>absolutely sick with pain. By the next day I couldn't even move. In
>the spring I started taking birth control pills and it improved for
>about a month or two. I could be active for almost a half hour! But
>they quickly stopped working and with all the other negative effects
>they had on me I stopped them. I am going to start new ones but I would
>still like answers. I have researched endometriosis and know it can
>cause infertility. My doctor wasn't willing to hand out advice so I am
>pleading with all of you to help me so I can stop living my life in ten
>minute increments and before I can't have children.
>
>--
>Rebecca Sword
>"Almost Normal"
>

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