Ugh. This has started happening to me. This is the third time it’s happened and it makes me so anxious because what should I even do?
My neuro told me the first time it happened that it’s okay to take a ubrelvy as long as it isn’t a frequency occurrence. It makes me so nervous though… should I not take anything since the Nurtec is “still in my system?”
Any advice appreciated.
Hi everyone,
I had a laparoscopy a month and two days ago. My entire life I was convinced I had endo. My periods bring the most unbearable pain that has only gotten worse as I grow older. I sought out one of the endo specialists in my area, and I started off with a trial of the mini pill for five months. The pill helped my period pain for about a month, then slowly my pain started coming back with each cycle. I also just disliked the pill in general, but I wanted to try it. I also got an internal ultrasound which showed nothing abnormal. My doc assured me that endo is sneaky though and doesn’t always show on ultrasounds.
Next step was laparoscopy. When it was recommended I almost cried because I thought finally… this is going to get taken care of. Years of my pain being dismissed finally will have an explanation.
The day comes, and honestly my experience sucked in a lot of ways because I had a couple of adverse reactions to the medications they gave me. But I just went into a traumatic, shock state when I woke up and heard that they found NOTHING. That my insides were perfectly clean, beautiful, no adhesions, no scarring. I even saw the photos too (it looks fascinating and very clean to be fair).
I’ve had a rough time processing this. In my post op follow up, my doctor said I most likely am just one of those unlucky people that has excess prostaglandins in their uterus. And that it has been proven that some people have less pain and prostaglandins after childbirth 🙃. It wasn’t being recommended that I get pregnant by any means but it def didn’t make me feel great.
I had an IUD put in while I was under and that’s a whole different story for a different post lol, it’s too soon to tell how it is going to impact my pain though.
I feel like a fraud for thinking I’m a part of this community, and I also feel so incredibly alone. Has anyone had this experience?