This is just my opinion. In my own experience, the pill helped the pain I felt with my period, but I'm sort of worried that it may give a false sense of having been "cured." My endo - turned out to be stage IV when I finally had the laparoscopy after years of pain - was constricting my bladder (or more precisely, the urethra). Before being diagnosed with endo, whenever I went to doctors to talk about this bladder pain, I made sure to mention the cramps that I had lived with for years, because I thought there might be a link. But the doctors would ask if I still had that pain. I, of course, said no. I noticed many doctors over the years (it took more than a decade for me to be diagnosed) discounting the cramps when I told them they were gone.
That's always made me think.
I had never heard of endometriosis until I was in my 30's, and by then I had seen so many doctors for my bladder problem that I can't even remember them all, (but many were gynocologists). I do remember, though, wanting to lie and tell them I still had cramps, because I had such a strong instinct that the two were related.
I never lied. I just followed their lead. They were the specialists, after all...
and so my cramp pain just moved to bladder pain and neither got diagnosed as endo until years later, after 2 miscarriages, and 5 years of fertility problems.
Doctors tend to treat what ails us, which is normal, but in this case, it turns out to be a missing element in the necessary information for diagnosis. If it's no longer occurring, in my experience, many doctors will not give it much importance, when, on the contrary, it is essential information.
This was my personal experience.
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This is just my opinion. In my own experience, the pill helped the pain I felt with my period, but I'm sort of worried that it may give a false sense of having been "cured." My endo - turned out to be stage IV when I finally had the laparoscopy after years of pain - was constricting my bladder (or more precisely, the urethra). Before being diagnosed with endo, whenever I went to doctors to talk about this bladder pain, I made sure to mention the cramps that I had lived with for years, because I thought there might be a link. But the doctors would ask if I still had that pain. I, of course, said no. I noticed many doctors over the years (it took more than a decade for me to be diagnosed) discounting the cramps when I told them they were gone.
November 20, 2011 - 8:19amThat's always made me think.
I had never heard of endometriosis until I was in my 30's, and by then I had seen so many doctors for my bladder problem that I can't even remember them all, (but many were gynocologists). I do remember, though, wanting to lie and tell them I still had cramps, because I had such a strong instinct that the two were related.
I never lied. I just followed their lead. They were the specialists, after all...
and so my cramp pain just moved to bladder pain and neither got diagnosed as endo until years later, after 2 miscarriages, and 5 years of fertility problems.
Doctors tend to treat what ails us, which is normal, but in this case, it turns out to be a missing element in the necessary information for diagnosis. If it's no longer occurring, in my experience, many doctors will not give it much importance, when, on the contrary, it is essential information.
This was my personal experience.
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