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Post by candice on Sept 12, 2006 15:19:13 GMT -5
To make a long story short, I have not yet been diagnosed. I have a gynocologist appointment next month. I've had a few tests done such as a transvaginal ultrasound but everything so far has been negative. My husband and I want to start trying to get pregnant but I'm having a hard time making up my mind on what is more importnat right now, getting pregnant or getting a correct diagnosis. I assume that if I go off birth control and such, many of the tests I need to do to get diagnosed will have to be postponed. The biggest problem however, is that my main symptom is painfull sex. I have other symptoms, but that is the biggest one. Trying to get pregnant will be painfull for me. Yet, the idea of waiting for, perhaps, years to be proporly diagnosed bothers me. Have any of you dealt with this before? How would youi decide?
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Post by ouchy on Sept 12, 2006 15:49:46 GMT -5
Hi, candice. Why would your tests have to be postponed if you go off of birth control? You might actually have an easier time being diagnosed, as being on the pill typically causes endometriotic implants to shrink, making them more difficult for the surgeon to see. Also, if you schedule a lap, unless you have socialized medicine and the system is backedlogged, it shouldn't take a year. You've already had all of the other pre-tests come back negative. The lap only takes an hour or so, which is far from a year. I'm not sure I understand where you are coming from. And regardless of whether or not you do have endo found during a lap, you can usually resume sexual activity in a week-to-two-weeks. There is also a window of time where your fertility actually increases after a lap, regardless of whether or not they find endo, and there is no explanation for that as of now. Please elaborate more. I'm not sure I understand your line of reasoning.
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Post by ouchy on Sept 12, 2006 15:54:20 GMT -5
You could also have vestibulitis, which can cause pain with sex. They can give you lidocaine for that, if that is what it is. It's easily diagnosed w/ a q-tip test, where the doc. probes the vulvo-vestibular tissue and maps the pain. I had a LOT of pain w/ sex, and it has about 95% disappeared since I quit the pill. The pill can dry you out, causing vaginal atrophy by killing cervical crypt cells that produce mucus. Here is a link on that to a study by the top cervical mucus expert. www.billings-ovulation-method.org.au/act/cervix/ageing.shtml
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Post by candice on Sept 12, 2006 16:59:44 GMT -5
Hello again ouchy...I guess in trying to make the post short, I missed a few vital details...sorry. I was under the impression that a lap would not be done unless you were on birth control. I guess my DR. didn't really know what he was talking about? He suggested that I stay on the pill so that I wouldn't have to postpone invasive tests. Mind you, in the next breath he said that I was "out of his field" and booked me with a gyno. Does this clear up my confusing post?
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Post by ouchy on Sept 12, 2006 17:10:59 GMT -5
kind of, and I'm glad HE's not the one doing the surgery on you!!!! You definitely DON'T have to be on the pill to have a lap done! In fact, if I ever have another lap, I REFUSE to be on the pill again, that way the doc. has a better chance of finding the implants. ...Good luck w/ everything!
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