Post by sunkissedpr1ncs on May 26, 2013 11:28:58 GMT -5
Hi everyone, I'm 28 and I've only been suffering from endo for a little over a year now since going off BC in early 2012. A few months after going off BC, I started getting horribly painful cramps that would just get worse each month and medicine wouldn't even touch it. My husband and I started trying to get pregnant last summer and I just hoped we would get pregnant soon so I wouldn't have to suffer through the cramps each month. In September 2012 I had a pelvic ultrasound and it only showed one small normal cyst that they weren't too worried about. The months after that just got excruciating to the point where I couldn't function at all and was missing a lot of work. I was taking vicodin and percocet and they weren't touching the pain at all. I finally got another u/s done in January (my health insurance is horrible and it costs an arm and leg to get anything done) and they found two 8cm chocolate cysts, one on each ovary. I'm 5'7" and about 130lbs and my Dr. said I was way too small to have that large of cysts and no wonder I was in so much pain!
She ended up referring me to a gyn. oncologist to perform the surgery of removing the cysts. On Feb. 1st I had a lap done by davinci assisted robot. It took almost 4 hours and they said it was pretty much the worst endo they had ever seen. They drained the cysts and removed as much endo as they could but there was so much that they couldn't get all of it. It's been a little over 3 months since surgery now and I'm doing SO much better! The first period I had NO pain, I didn't have to take medicine at all! The 2 after I've had a little cramping but nothing that isn't manageable. Now my husband and I are just praying that we will get pregnant soon to help slow down the endo returning. I've been researching the endo diet and am planning on starting that as well.
I'll post a more detailed post about my surgery in that topic but just wanted to give you all a brief history and let everyone know there is hope to coming out of surgery and not having the pain come right back! (I read way too many of those stories after my surgery that really freaked me out!)
Looking forward to getting to know everyone here!
She ended up referring me to a gyn. oncologist to perform the surgery of removing the cysts. On Feb. 1st I had a lap done by davinci assisted robot. It took almost 4 hours and they said it was pretty much the worst endo they had ever seen. They drained the cysts and removed as much endo as they could but there was so much that they couldn't get all of it. It's been a little over 3 months since surgery now and I'm doing SO much better! The first period I had NO pain, I didn't have to take medicine at all! The 2 after I've had a little cramping but nothing that isn't manageable. Now my husband and I are just praying that we will get pregnant soon to help slow down the endo returning. I've been researching the endo diet and am planning on starting that as well.
I'll post a more detailed post about my surgery in that topic but just wanted to give you all a brief history and let everyone know there is hope to coming out of surgery and not having the pain come right back! (I read way too many of those stories after my surgery that really freaked me out!)
Looking forward to getting to know everyone here!