Post by carebear on Aug 26, 2006 12:19:50 GMT -5
Hi everyone, figure I would try to say something different than "newbie here" that seems to be the subject for most threads in here
My name is Carrie, I'm 29 years old. I am married to Paul now for 5 years (been together for 7). I was DX with endo back in 2003, although I know I had it before. Ever since I started my period I had EXTREMLY painful cramps and of course hardly ever had a period.
I stayed away from the doc. becasue I know I didn't want to hear my worst fear of "you have 'X' disease and wont be able to have children". My dh and I had never used any form of BC and we NEVER had gotten preg.
Before going to my doct. I had went to a different doc. and she was HORRIBLE. She told me based on what I told her of my history that I would not be able to have children.
I cried the whole way home. A doc. should not tell a patient that w/o doing some major tests, which she had done none.
So, for over 2 years I would not go to the doc. becaue of the other doc.
Finally my best friend told me to make a appt. with her doc. that he was the best and could help me.
So I did.
He listend to me and I told him of my past exp. and he was very sincre and wanted to help. HE did a U/S and bloodwork. THen he
suggested a lap.
So I had that done and sure enough I had endo.
He removed it and then started me on Metformin.
A few mos. later started me on clomid (I was not Ovulating) 2 mos. of that didn't work, so he added progesterone and estrogen to the mix and uppe my clomid to 100 mg.
that worked and I got preg. in Dec. 03
I gave birth to my beautiful daughter on Sept. 5, 2004
The happiest day of my life.
Now I'm trying to bare through the every day pain of Endo. I take vicodin becasue of how bad it is.
My doc. wants me to get preg. again, but I'm in nursing school and want to finish before I have more children.
So then he suggested lupron and that scares me. but what else is there to do? there really isn't any other options.
So here I am joining here to figure out what I can do and to read your stories to see how you all deal with this horrible disease.
I hope to get to know you all
Sorry my intro was so long
My name is Carrie, I'm 29 years old. I am married to Paul now for 5 years (been together for 7). I was DX with endo back in 2003, although I know I had it before. Ever since I started my period I had EXTREMLY painful cramps and of course hardly ever had a period.
I stayed away from the doc. becasue I know I didn't want to hear my worst fear of "you have 'X' disease and wont be able to have children". My dh and I had never used any form of BC and we NEVER had gotten preg.
Before going to my doct. I had went to a different doc. and she was HORRIBLE. She told me based on what I told her of my history that I would not be able to have children.
I cried the whole way home. A doc. should not tell a patient that w/o doing some major tests, which she had done none.
So, for over 2 years I would not go to the doc. becaue of the other doc.
Finally my best friend told me to make a appt. with her doc. that he was the best and could help me.
So I did.
He listend to me and I told him of my past exp. and he was very sincre and wanted to help. HE did a U/S and bloodwork. THen he
suggested a lap.
So I had that done and sure enough I had endo.
He removed it and then started me on Metformin.
A few mos. later started me on clomid (I was not Ovulating) 2 mos. of that didn't work, so he added progesterone and estrogen to the mix and uppe my clomid to 100 mg.
that worked and I got preg. in Dec. 03
I gave birth to my beautiful daughter on Sept. 5, 2004
The happiest day of my life.
Now I'm trying to bare through the every day pain of Endo. I take vicodin becasue of how bad it is.
My doc. wants me to get preg. again, but I'm in nursing school and want to finish before I have more children.
So then he suggested lupron and that scares me. but what else is there to do? there really isn't any other options.
So here I am joining here to figure out what I can do and to read your stories to see how you all deal with this horrible disease.
I hope to get to know you all
Sorry my intro was so long