WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for June, 1999: Re: chronic pelvic pain lower right side

Re: chronic pelvic pain lower right side

From: Tracy (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 30 Jun 1999 10:11:35 -0500 (CDT)

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At Wed, 30 Jun 1999, brenda wrote: >
>I am a 40 year old woman who has experienced acute pelvic pain in my
>lower right side for about 2 years now. It was always "manageable"
>until this past winter, when I was had up to a dozen bouts of pain per
>day, some lasting over 30 minutes, for a few weeks in a row. Since
>then, it has settled into a pattern...a few days before my period starts
>I have severe pains lasting 5 - 30 minutes, several times a day. These
>pains are so bad I almost pass out. I do not feel feel sick to my
>stomach, nor do I have diarrhea or a fever. I can push on my lower
>right side and not feel any tenderness. These pains feel like someone
>is stabbing me with a knife. Some times I cannot even walk, and when
>I'm driving I have to pull over until the pain subsides.
>In February 1999 I had a laparoscopy...all normal...no endometriosis, no
>cysts, etc.
>Then I went through an upper and lower GI series...no problems found.
>Then onto a urologist...nothing found. I also had a lower abdominal CT
>scan...again nothing.
>Four doctors are stumped. I cannot take the pain much longer. I am
>exhausted from lack of sleep some nights.
>Am I crazy or do I need a specialist in pelvic pain ?
>
>--
>brenda farragher
>

I dont think your crazy, there are many of us out there who have gone through the exact same thing with no cause found.

Go ahead and see a specialist, it cant hurt right?

-- Tracy L. Trull MA, NA, PCT International Coordinator, OBGYN.net http://www.obgyn.net/women/bios/trull.htm tracy.trull@obgyn.net

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