Endometriosis?

dear lady - i think one of the most difficult things i heard as a young adult was the surgeon say to me that my best option was a hysterectomy. i was 22 years old. i had no idea what i wanted out of life in that respect... was finishing college and beginning my life. i had another surgery 6 months later. after my second surgery, i was on bc for 5 and a half years. i wanted so badly for the bc to work that i lived with 10 - 14 day periods every few weeks and the pain that was just beyond explaining... i went off of the bc and 3 months later began the shots of lupron for chemical menopause. this is a reversible (most of the time) process. that was 4 years ago. i tried everything i could for 10 years to keep my uterus... we as women put ourselves through so much pain and all because we want to give birth.

a friend of mine told me a few weeks ago about another lady we know mutually who had experienced so much pain that she decided to go ahead with the dr. recommendations... and that recommendation ended some of her choices in life.

i'm not dooming here in this response... what i am trying to do is let you know you are not alone in your quest for pain relief and quite possibly anemia relief.

yes, bc pills work for many women.

yes, lupron works for many women.

and many of us... our babies will grow in our hearts and not our tummies.

i will pray that the bc works for you!

you might ask the dr. to do a laproscopy and check if the endo is outside of your uterus to a point that they can lazer it off and let you do the lupron shots after that... the shots last for 6 months... one shot a month for 6 months and then it takes about a year before your body is fully recovered ... after that, you are the most fertile you have ever been because the endo is under control.

my developed into stage iv endo which is the leading cause of uterine cancer. i did not have uterine cancer, praise God...

please remember that often times with even mild endo it is difficult to impossible to conceive on your own. if i were you... i'd discuss lupron with your dr. especially since you and your husband want to have children.

don't be discouraged. just realize that lots of women face these really difficult times. and those of us who have faced them before we can be here for support! (well maybe not all of us chose to do that!)

good luck!

Hey I was diagnosed with endo @ 15 and was promptly referred for a laproscopy (a surgical procedure where they make an incision in your navel and place a tiny camera inside to have a squiz about your ovaries etc to look for any endo - it looks gross like little cysts) and if you do have any they will then make another incision either side of your navel for their scalpels and tongs and then literally "slice" off the endo. The operation is fairly painless although u do feel a bit soft round the tummy for a good month. The operation has an 85% success rate (meaning that for 85% of endo sufferers it will never grow back). Being on the pill also helps to slow down the growth of endometriosis. Talk to your GP about it but I would strongly recommend it - its changed my life :-)

Im so confused too!

I just found out I have endometriosis.. Ive been googleing and I just dont understand.... ?

So birth control help to keep the diesease at bay howvere... whilst on birth control you cant get pregnant.. My mind is swirling...

My doctor says the surgical procedure is about 8k. which im prepared to do if i no it will help... but apparentally it can grow back in a couple of years...

Tell me what you know..please..

Why me?

Any sort of uterine surgery I have ever heard of, including something as innocuous as a laparascopic procedure I had initially to remove overgrown tissue and adhesions. You can get better help from this site.

BEEN THERE, DONE THAT!!! I WAS ONLY 21 WHEN I FOUND OUT. I WASN'T GETTING PREGNANT AND MY DOCTOR FINALLY PERFORMED A DIAGNOSTIC LAPRASCOPY AND HYSTEROSCOPY WITH A D&C ON ME. HE FOUND OUT THAT I HAD ENDEMETRIOSIS. HE SAID IT WAS LOCATED ON THE BACK SIDE OF MY UTERUS AND COULD NOT BE REMOVED. HE DID HOWEVER, CLEAN OUT MY FALLOPIAN TUBES. THEY WERE EXTREMELY BLOCKED WITH SCAR TISSUE FROM THE ENDEMETRIOSIS. ABOUT ONE AND A HALF MONTHS LATER I FOUND OUT I WAS FINALLY PREGNANT. ALSO THE DISEASE ONLY GOES INTO REMISSION WHILE YOU ARE PREGNANT SO UNFORTUNATALLY MINE RETURED SHORTLY AFTER GIVING BIRTH. I ELECTED TO HAVE A HYSTERECTOMY BECAUSE I DID NOT WANT TO HAVE TO GO THROUGH ALL OF THAT AGAIN. GOOD LUCK TO YOU

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endometriosis