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Post by grneyes1281 on Oct 17, 2010 0:15:25 GMT -5
Hi everyone! It is helpful to know there are so many women dealing with endo. Makes it a little easier.
I was recently diagnosed (not 100%, just diagnosed based on my symptoms) with endo. I was on loestrin 24 for 2 years, went off it for a few months and now i am back on it for the endo. it has helped a little but I always am feeling some kind of pain daily. i have only been back on it for a little over a month, so I don't know if i am just being impatient and need to wait it out. I am ALWAYS in some form of pain...on my lower right side, my lower back...some days are worse than others. i'm totally depressed and exhausted. I'm in college during my last semester before i graduate and i am so not into it!!! and i'm also worried because I was never positively diagnosed with endo...it was just diagnosed based on symptoms....so it also makes me anxious, thinking, what if i have something else?! sigh. the anxiety, the pain...it's a crappy feeling. just needed to vent. thanks for reading. xoxo to all of you.
-M
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Post by JC on Oct 17, 2010 7:16:12 GMT -5
Hey vent all you want! That's what we're here for. I understand your worry about it being something else. All of us who have had the lap are frustrated that it didn't work but at the same time, we do get a lot of peace of mind knowing that everything was looked at. Have you talked to you doctor about this? I'm also a college student in my junior year. Sometimes I get frustrated that I have to sit in a lab feeling like crap while other students are running circles around me. It takes a lot of strength sometimes for me to even get out of bed to go to school or do my homework. I also come on here and let a LOT of time pass. HAHA oops.
Congrats on being in your last semester though! That's great! You've made it this far!
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Post by Karen on Oct 17, 2010 8:35:58 GMT -5
Daily pain sucks, and I think it's impossible not to get depressed when feeling like that! I swear I lost about 8 months of my life because I felt so awful all the time, and I was NOT fun to be around!
When we're at our worst, it's easy to feel like things will never get better, feel completely defeated, start to wonder what might really be wrong with us, etc. But, I'd encourage you to find one thing that you can do to try to take control of your health. It might be finding some sort of stress release, getting some exercise, getting some extra sleep, finding some way to get some sort of calm when you're not feeling good, taking control of your diet (that's what helped me most), the list goes on and on. Endo sucks, it really does, so feel free to vent here all you want! But also know that some of us have been where you and we've found some ways to cope. And we'll do what we can to help you cope, too!
Sending big hugs your way!
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Post by KSA on Oct 17, 2010 11:20:24 GMT -5
Depression and chronic pain go together. I agree with Karen. Take control of your health. Another way to cope is sometimes with a hobby or art therapy. It may take your mind off your body and help to control the depression part of your life. Vent here we are here to help~
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