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Re: GYNECOLOGIC: Night Sweats . . . not good.
From: William F. von Almen, II, MD, FACOG (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:22:23 -0600 (CST)
Kami
What your doc is doing is pretty standard. Your body is adjusting to
the hormone levels in the ring. You may need to change to a 'stronger
hormone contraceptive' in order to ameliorate your symptoms...Dr. von
Almen
At Thu, 22 Jan 2009, KamiGirl wrote:
>
>Hi all,
>
>First of all, thanks for reading my post as I'm at a complete loss and
>have pretty much extinguished just about all resources . . .
>
>I've been diagnosed (via laparoscopy) with endometriosis after many
>years of extremely heavy and painful periods. To deal with this, and I
>might say, quite successfully, I have been on CBC (NuvaRing) for the
>last few years. While I do have the occasional spotting, I can deal as
>it's nothing compared to what my symptoms were.
>
>Here's my problem . . . for the last 4 months or so, I've been having
>night sweats. Started out a couple of times a month, but now it's
>increased to almost every night. In the last 3 months, I've noticed
>blurred vision at unpredictible times however, it has occurred when I
>have been sedentary (i.e. Sunday morning, lying in bed watching TV.) I
>didn't think anything of it at the time, that I was just tired, but now
>I'm beginning to wonder . . .
>
>I have also had essential tremors for as long as I can remember,
>however, they have also gotten much worse and more frequent in the last
>6 months. Before, I would only notice them with large amounts of
>caffeine or extreme stress/anxiety (like from a car accident), but now,
>while they're still fine tremors only in my hands, they occur almost
>daily.
>
>I have no idea if any of my symptoms are related. I have taken
>medication for the tremors, but have stopped as it was interfering with
>my BC and causing add'l breakthrough bleeding. My main complaint are
>the night sweats. I went to my OBGYN, who did a TB test (negative). His
>plan of action is for me to take out the NuvaRing (which I did last week
>and am having HORRIBLE withdrawal symptoms, ugh) and wait a month to
>have my hormone levels tested.
>
>I'm a grad student, so I've got access to medical journals and have been
>doing all the research I can but keep coming up empty. Any ideas?
>Suggestions? ANYTHING!!!!!
>
>Thanks!
>
>--
>Kami
>
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William F. von Almen, II, MD, FACOG
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New Orleans, La.
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