Endometriosis...please read?

Following from my post yesterday about severe period pain (which,btw Y!A deleted when they were doing their maintenance!) I have been doing more research and came across alot of information about Endometiosis....it seems as though it is very common, and many women are not aware that they have it, many of us just think severe period pain is normal and try and carry on as usual.
By simple surgery this can be fixed...Endometriosis also causes unexplained infertility with women.

I have an appoint at my doctors tomorrow but am wondering, how many women have been diagnosed of this and were you easily treated? Have you noticed the difference in your period pain?

For those of you (like me and thousands of other women out there) the symptoms are so general but if you suffer from the following since going off the pill again ttc, have a look at this website and see if it matches your symptoms, you may be very surprised!

For years I have had nearly all the symptoms listed with this condition and the doctor always put me on the pill, which helped but only for a very short time. I was referred to a physio when I get leg pain, and they kept telling me it was relating to my back when I have never done anyting to it! Im not saying that I know 100% for sure that I have this condition, but its looking fairly positive..and Im actually releived to know that what i have is NOT common and I may not have to actually put up with it or go back on the pill again ;)

www.endometriosis.org

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yes it can be treated but the treatment is pretty much enduced menopause to stop the endo from spreading.

I had this for years, endured 3 surgeries to figure out what was causing the pain with no luck, when we decided to TTC the first year we couldnt figure out why i couldnt conceive, finally i asked my doctor if i was infertile and he said i was but there was a chance it could be endo, he put me through a last surgery, a laparoscopy to be more specific and finally we found endo was eating me out!!! the one thing that helped was that my husband that year got deployed to Iraq with the Marines and shortly after he was deployed i had my surgery and all those months he spent there, i spent back home having Lupron Depo shots and taking BirthControl pills to help with the pain which to my surprise they did, i had never heard before that the BCpills actually helped for the pain but in my case this did.

after been on Lupron for nearly a year, my doctor decided to do a last check just hoping that i was at least healing to the point that i could conceive at my short age, only 22, needless to say, my husband came home and 8 months later after TTC we conceived our baby boy who is now nearly 3 years old, because of the endometriosis and my infertility problem every doctor we saw told us that our baby wouldnt make it, and yet here he is a miracle because my endometriosis pain came back soon after i was told i was pregnant, it was hard for me, now we are TTC again, altho we havent had any luck for 16 months now we are hoping that soon we get that baby we wish for, i can tell you for sure, i hated the lupron depo shots cus i had hot flashes and i was moody all the time, im just glad my husband wasnt here to put up with me or he would have divorced me if he would have been here and saw the crazy state of mind i was on, i guess what im saying is that endometriosis doenst only just hurt on your pelvis but it also can mess up with your behavior, it got me very depressed so my doctor had to put me on antidepressents on the time being because it was really bad, having my husband gone for 9 months and me alone dealing with my surgeries and add to that the worry of not seeing my hubby again if something happend to him in iraq or the fact that i could never be able to have a baby if his was depressing enough, so consider that endometriosis is not as easy to deal with as many think.

i really hope what you are experiencing is not endo, if it is, please get the treatment you need, follow up with your obgyn and your physician in my case both my drs helped me to get trhough this, if they wouldnt have catch it on time, i would have lost my ovaries and then never have the boy i have today.

The best of luck for you.

I had heavy menstruation and was diagnosed with endometrisis in 2006, but i did not encounter any severe pain nor cramps except that there were big clots all the time. It grow rapidly for some 2-3m frm 2cm to 5cm in both ovaries and the doctor decided to remove it since its not going away. Gynae advise that 1) danazol will balance the hormone or 2) pregnancy will also reduce the return of this cyst. However, I was told that this problem do not usually occur in/within 5 years after removal. I do my annual check up since.

Endometriosis is very common, but most women go an average of 9 years before getting a diagnosis - and treatment options are very limited. Hormonal methods do not cure it or reduce the size of endometrial implants, despite what some doctors say; at best, you can avoid menstruation and reduce your pain that way.

While laparoscopic surgery is a relatively simple process, it is not a cure or fix for endometriosis. If your surgeon is an endometriosis specialist, then they can remove any implants they find, but most women will experience recurrences.

Yes there are many women out there who think it is normal period pain. I've had two operations and they helped but the main difference is in the nutrition and diet. I've also found this website to be helpful http://www.yourendometriosisonline.com as well as following the Candida Diet. http://www.candidadiet.healthprogramsite...

There's been some research showing that women with Endo, who follow a Candida diet report greater improvement in their symptoms.

for the last 3 years i have been suffering from really bad periods, to the point where i couldnt get out of bed all day, and if i did i would pass out from the pain. I told my doctor on multiple occasions i thought something was wrong, but instead of looking at the problem she kept just changing my pill hoping the hormones would fix the problem. I think that might have made it worse.

finally in december i woke up from my sleep in such horrid pain, i could not even stand up, i was vomiting from the pain it was so bad, i was rushed to the emergency room where they told me i had a kidney stone. after days of going through the pain i went back for a follow up and after days of testing, they told me there was never a stone to begin with!

i was then sent back to my gyn, and i told her that she needed to test me for endeometreosis, i demanded it basically. she told me that she didnt think i had it from feeling around and doing a pap smare, but i told her that wasnt good enough i want proof. that same day i had an intravaginal ultrasound, which showed that i had a cyst on my ovary from the build up of endeomterois tissue, and that i had it in my fallopian tubes as well.

a month later i went for surgery and had it removed, luckily she told me there was only 3 small patches in my tubes, and that my cyst went away on its own! ive only had one period since, and it was okay, painful still but not as bad.

i would definitly suggest finding out whats wrong, its better then living with the pain and not knowing where its coming from and other people thinking your crazy. I hope this helps!! go with your gut, you know better then anyone else what your feeling!