Endometrioma rupture, birth control suggested
background information: started my period at 14 and has always been extremely painful that I miss work and school. It makes me vomit and have diarrhoea or constipation. I have pain in the legs, back and anus during ovulation and period. I have bladder issues where I feel urges even when the wee is a drop, painful penetrative sex. Bloating: my tummy bulges even I have not eaten a thing or eat so little and resolves on its own, extreme fatigue. Yet to get a diagnosis of endometriosis.
I have a 8.5cm endometrioma with clusters of small ones around it, this was found in Jan when I was rushed to A&E for a terrible stomach pain that made me vomit multiple times and lasted 10 hours. Since then I have been hospitalised twice for same pain and missed work at least 4 times every month.
2 days ago, I felt this horrible pain more like upper part of my tummy. I started vomiting and sweating. I took Gaviscon thinking it was acid reflux. I felt better after 2 hours but still bloated, tummy hurts when touch throughout the day and could not walk around, could not eat either. I went to the GP and was told to bring in poo sample to test for H.pylori. Fast forward to yesterday morning, while I was cooking at about 9:30am, I felt this sudden pain and I fell to the floor. It is the most excruciating pain ever not to scare you. I vomited 3 times within 30 minutes. Eventually I passed out, my partner called an ambulance and I was immediately taken it to ED. Believe me, I got to the hospital like 10:35 and since then till 5pm all pain medication (paracetamol, dihydrocodeine, morphine) did not work. I cried so much. I could not walk on my own. It was just too painful. I am still traumatised from the pain.
I did a CT scan and one of the small ones had burst which was the reason for the pains. Still on admission as I type this pain now 8/10, reason I can even hold my phone, yesterday it was a solid 10/10. They said the body will absorb the fluid and check me for possible infection which came out negative. I was prescribed antibiotics. I have been on the waiting list for surgery since April with no date yet despite it being expedited. This has really affected my quality of my life because the rupture aside the pains from the endometrioma means I don’t get paid in full every month because I have exhausted my sick pay, another headache in terms of finance. I am scheduled to do a colonoscopy mid July as they would like to check my bowels for endometriosis before surgery. I am getting discharged now with more painkillers even though I can barely walk on my own.
I have been told to consider birth control. Does anyone have experience of this helping?