It helps me to remember that doctors sometimes have good reasons for not doing things. Sometimes their treatments can make a problem worse. They are not guaranteed successful.
I'm living okay. It's bad, but it's livable. It's not the life I would have chosen, but like a reed, I can bend and not break.
Go ahead and keep trying to find a doctor who treats you seriously and answers your questions, and keep coming back to this forum. I think we patients sometimes have a better perspective on this disease than many surgeons, who are narrowly focused on "procedures." They get in, get out, and if they can't solve the problem, they move on. It's very decisive behavior that sortof leaves me in a lurch, going, "what just happened?"
At Fri, 12 Sep 2008, ScaredMa wrote:
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>At Sun, 7 Sep 2008, ScaredMa wrote:
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>>I have had problems with my periods ever since I started when I was 12
>>but they got worse after I had a tubal after my last child was born, I
>>was 22. I struggled and struggled and was written off by several OBGYN.
>>I tried hormones but they didn't work, I ended up in the ER several
>>times for pain management and they treated me like a was a drug abuser.
>>Finally last year I got referred to a new OBGYN and he took me
>>seriously. He tried an IUD but my body rejected it. Since I was done
>>with having children we discussed a hysterectomy but first he wanted to
>>go in thru the belly button and see what was goin on and do a DNC and
>>see if that might help. This was in Nov. 2007 and he found
>>endometriosis and my ovary was adhered to my abdominal wall, all that
>>was lasered and I had to wait to see if it helped and it didn't. So, I
>>was scheduled for a hysterectomy for Jan. 2008. He did a big incision
>>and found lots more endometriosis and adhesions but left my ovaries and
>>tubes.