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Post by JC on Feb 17, 2010 20:15:56 GMT -5
I was just watching my favorite show on TLC called Mystery Diagnosis. It started with this woman's story of how she used to bleed through a pad every hour when she first started her period. She had severe debilitating pain with her periods where she couldn't function. Then they went on to talk about other severe symptoms of vertigo, nausea.. etc, she went to nearly 70 doctors before she got her diagnosis! They kept telling her she was normal. She got married, her marriage struggled because she couldn't be intimate. She couldn't have children. Her pelvic exams were extremely painful. Then she goes to the doctor again and they find a large mass on her ovaries. I'm sitting watching this episode thinking, this HAS TO BE ENDO!!! Those are endometriomas, she has endo I KNOW IT!! Sure enough, they do a lap and find stage 4 endo all over the place! If anyone can get to TLC and watch it, it's nice to see someone get the word out that her symptoms ARE NOT NORMAL. She ended up having a hysterectomy and it actually fixed her.
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Post by jjuls22 on Feb 17, 2010 22:24:12 GMT -5
yeah i saw this episode awhile back and thought the same thing.. if only... if only this tv was right... right?
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Post by Karen on Feb 17, 2010 22:32:11 GMT -5
Cool! Well, not cool, but it's always cool when you know that someone else actually has what you have!!
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Post by sunshine78 on Feb 18, 2010 1:45:15 GMT -5
OMG! I saw that episode the last time I was in town to visit my folks. I knew it as soon as they talked about the nausea, pain, and constant vertigo, and was like, "I bet you money that poor woman has endo, and God only knows how many or how large her endometriomas were."
We should be paid to be advocates, or something... people can come to the doctor, and if the doctor isn't sure what's going on, but they have a certain list of symptoms, the patient can talk to us, or the doctor can, and find out how likely it is from a sufferer that it may be endo. I'm just saying... if it ends up being endo, we can get a fee, and it would be a paycheck, and we can all donate proceeds to an endo charity, or something.
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Post by pamelaj on Feb 18, 2010 8:39:36 GMT -5
I seen that episode a while ago when we were trying to figure out what was wrong with me. I was shocked because i had all the same symptoms that lady did and couldnt wait for the diagnosis. When they said the diagnosis i made an emergency appt with my doc to see if i could have the same thing. The good thing is, my doc had seen the episode to and thought of me.
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Post by JC on Feb 18, 2010 9:21:14 GMT -5
yeahh I was really excited to finally see endometriosis on there. Especially since it showed just how horrible it can get and how disabling it can be. FINALLY!!
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Post by KSA on Feb 18, 2010 9:27:53 GMT -5
I have watched the show a few times but not that episode I will have to check it out. Its nice to know a show dedicated a hour to Endometriosis. I would like to see more shows do that House did a show once but it was so out of the ordinary that it did not really tell much about the endo all of us experience. I think the women had it on her brain and she bleed out thru her nose if I recall right. You know House he always has a bleeder that is bleeding in strange places. lol
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Post by Kitty on Feb 24, 2010 18:37:50 GMT -5
I'm going to have to look out for this episode or look on hulu.
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Post by cherry on Mar 14, 2010 20:18:27 GMT -5
Off topic but whenever I see this topic I think of Diagnosis Murder and imagine a weird scenario of d*ck van Dyke investigating a period gone wrong!
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Post by hellsbells on Mar 15, 2010 3:23:49 GMT -5
d*ck, cherry :-)
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Post by Karen on Mar 15, 2010 6:36:49 GMT -5
There go the censors again!
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Post by cherry on Mar 15, 2010 7:25:56 GMT -5
Richard! Aww come on its an adult message board. Blooming censoring!
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Post by desertflower on Mar 15, 2010 18:01:58 GMT -5
I first saw that episode a few years back and was the first time I heard about endometriosis. I remember thinking "wow that sounds a lot like me what I went through" so that is when I started doing research for it.
I knew for a while that my problem was female related but wasn't sure what it is was or what to look for. Still not sure if that is the problem but now I am pretty positive that I may have it thanks to that episode. Who knew you can learn so much from a TV show.
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Post by JC on Mar 16, 2010 8:34:29 GMT -5
HAHAHAH thingy instead of D*ck?? HAHAHA great sensorship!
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Post by hellsbells on Mar 19, 2010 12:13:12 GMT -5
But it's genuinely somebody's name!!!!!!!!!! They can't censor that!! Oh that was supposed to make everyone laugh and they went and completely blew the punchline d*mn it!!!
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