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I am going to describe this pain in as much detail as I can to see if I can finally find someone who has felt it. For as long as I can remember I have had episodes of leg pain usually 1-2 times a month (weekly at worst, at one brief point 4-5 times a week). I have only ever been able to describe it as a migraine in my entire leg. It is almost always just one leg but the pain doesn’t appear in one side more than the other. The pain has equal chances of being in the right or left but almost never both at the same time. The pain starts all the way up at my hip and goes down into my ankle. It was thought to be growing pain until I reached 18, then we thought it was early stages of restless legs but it did not occur more at night, it was usually during the day.

I started going to specialist after specialist each more confused than the last. They taken a few gallons of my blood and played with my nerves but all tests are normal. I then found out that this can be a symptom of endo (which I had been suspected of having since I was a teen). While not perfect it’s the closest I’ve gotten to a description of the pain. I am on consistent birth control and have been since I was around 16 so I don’t have a period every month. I can’t say my cycle affects it cause I don’t really have a cycle. I got diagnosed with the surgey a few months ago and have not had the pain since. But it came back today.

Another thing people find strange is the only relief I can seem to find when the pain is at its worst is getting my leg as close to my body as I can make it. I often lay where I’m practically doing the splits (painful leg close to my head), or like a turtle where I just kinda curl into a ball, if I’m having to sit in a chair I have the leg up on the chair (however this does not help much). So really the only relief I can get is testing my flexibility to the extreme for a few hours.

Has anyone else had this? like it might not be endo, I might be just blaming endo but genuinely I have nothing and the doctors have even less.

Hi I’m not gonna write out all the details cause it will just make it worse for me. I have struggled finding and maintaining friends most my life. Till one year I got paired with some random roommates my 3rd year of college and ended up in a friend group. The friend group was one of the worst batches of people I’ve ever met but in that mess I left those people behind with H.

From the beginning I trusted H and everything that happened. I stood by her and made myself enemies along the way. While I regret nothing as these people were genuinely horrible, it hurts knowing I did go beyond just distancing myself for her. I stood for her. Now I am the worst person, I am selfish, I “used” her trauma from her experience?

I moved in with her a year ago and everything went to shit. Now as we move up she calls me the worst things a person has ever said to me. Accused me of being a thief, says I’ve put her through hell, that I’m the most disgusting person in the world. I know it’s not true but it hurts and it’s killing me inside.

I had to block her… my best friend… if 4 years. I don’t even know how to recover at this point. It’s killing me the one friend that always had my back, I always had hers, now hates me more than anyone else. How can she hate me more than the people we met through? Losing a friend is hard but with being called all the worst things and be accused of deliberately hurting a person you would do anything for.

I‘m broken right now. This is killing me.

So I just moved in to a new place, I am living alone for the first time ever. The issue is I am terrified of roaches to an unreasonable degree. A roach dead or alive will send me in to a full panic attack. The place I got was not the best and I knew that but it’s what I could afford in this terrible economy. So far my boyfriend has found several roaches and luckily most have been dead/dying already. We got roach motels, we got sticky traps. Really I just want to know if there is some sort of chemical or smell or whatever around doors, drains, windows, generally just around to repel them or kill them. The only issue I might have is I have a dog, she’s not the type to go eating things she shouldn’t but ya know want to be safe without dying of a heart attack from a roach when I’m alone.

I am desperate for help I need a roommate or a place to live. I have been searching for months, every place I contact goes no where, if I get a response it’s a scam, the only places I can get a response from have no availability or are out of my price range. I make decent money for my age I can do 900 a month but I’d be pushing it but I can’t find even that. 900 is too little?! Please if anyone knows of any places please please help me! If anyone knows people looking for a roommate in Alexandria tell me I need help! Reddit is possibly the worst place to go yet I’m here because I have nothing left and so nothing left to lose!

Hi everyone I really need advice, help, something!!! I’m currently at the ER I came in about 4 hours ago with the worst abdominal cramping of my life! Ive been dealing with severe cramping most my life and recently I got the surgery officially diagnosing me with endo. I thought at least for now I’m good, I’m clear! I’ve been the most pain free that I’ve ever been since surgery and have been doing really good. But today out of no where I had pain, the worst pain. It was different, it felt like I was literally dying. I never go to urgent care or the Er for cramping cause I’ve learned how to deal with the worst of it. Thus time was different.

I got in a minor car accident a few days ago where I was rear ended. I had a bit of pain in my neck but nothing else, then I had blood in my stool. I ignored this till tonight when the pain started. I thought it had to be from the accident, maybe it hurt something inside since I am only about a month out from surgery. Just got my CT scan back… normal. I feel like I’m going through it all over again, pain with no explanation. This can’t just be endo again right?! I know it comes back but so soon? with such strength? what on earth is happenin?! I cannot believe I am already back to drs telling me you are fine and everything is normal. I was done with this!

I’m so upset right now, my scalp is sore from pulling out hair all night and not realizing I was doing it. I just checked and there is a bald spot though hidden behind a curtain of hair. I have had this same bald spot before but it was back in middle school when I started pulling out hair. I’m getting worse the last year or so it feels like. It’s so bad that I get stressed and then immediately start searching for hair to pull even though the hair pulling is what’s causing the stress!! Why is my brain like this my god!!

So I am 24 and at 22 I started working for a small business during my last year in college. My professor told the class of a small family owned print shop that needed a designer, so I went, I got the job on the spot. I stayed there and began working full time once I graduated. Now this job had many ups and downs but that’s too much to go through. Important info is that this place had 4 employees: The owner, her daughter in law (D), the print press guy (T) and me. After about a year of working there everything went downhill really fast.

After about a year work got slow, we had many days of doing nothing. After we lost one of our largest clients the owner let me know one Friday she was closing the place down. While I did partially see it coming I did not expect her to actually commit to it. The business has been open for 30 years. Come Monday I thought everyone knew… I was wrong. D was informed over the weekend and she was the one to tell T. Well shit hit the fan real fast. T was yelling at the owner for a long time until eventually it was over and this solidified to the owner that it was done, she was closing. I don’t exactly know what caused him to blow up as I wanted nothing to do with any of that, but I suspect it is because T has worked there for over 20 years and was not informed by the owner herself of this decision.

Going forward things chilled a bit as the owner’s husband got diagnosed with stage 4 cancer so everyone chilled out. The owner started staying home with her husband and we got a set closing date. Then came the big printing press from a neighboring larger city… I’m gonna call them big print as to not mention their name. Big print is a much larger printing place with capabilities we don’t have. We would sometimes outsource from them for really big project clients needed done. The owner had offered them the business and they declined all but the client list. At first this seemed fine till T asked me to print some business cards out for him. He had made a deal with the owner that he would take the printing equipment home and run business from home. The business cards had part of the name of our business. Somehow owner found out about this and she was still pissed from him yelling at her months before. So she told big printing press and together they drafted a letter for all us (aimed toward T), essentially saying don’t use this name or we will take legal action. They also made it clear the client list and all their contacts were now big print’s and T had no rights to them.

T and the CFO of big printing press had a heated argument that I quickly retreated from. I then would get messages from both the owner and big print CFO that I am not to print anything for T ever again. Then big print would come in transfer our emails to be sent to them and our phone lines to go to them effective our closing date and T was on edge every day. He was pissed and D was trying her best to avoid either side of this but she very much thought owner was screwing over T after knowing him for so long. Big print would then offer me a position, it was out of my field but it was a position and I was soon to be unemployed. However I had real bad vibes and I kinda put them on hold with a maybe. I felt almost as if they offered me the job purely because as the designer I had sole access to all client files and they didn’t want me sharing anything with T.

Well after all this went down then I leave to go get surgery and I had my last day at the place. But D messaged me a few days ago and told me IT GOT WORSE. So something I hasn’t mentioned that I found very strange is shortly before I left I found out big print was not paying owner for the client list, they were essentially getting it for free. While our business was slow at some points we essentially had a client list of every single business in our city! Well D confirmed to me that this was still happening and owner had given them both computers with all of the files and information once again for free. Owner is an adult and can make her own decisions but it does not sit right with me given 1. She is 87 years old 2. Her husband is literally dying and 3. She is having to close down a business she has run for the last 30 years (a business started by her first husband who passed away). Given all this she is not exactly on the state to make these decisions and the big print should not be taking advantage of this! And I don’t know all that happened but sounds like things got really ugly after I left. D had a fight with owner, which is crazy cause D never fights back like that. D called the CFO an a**hole, she never cusses. And big print changed all passwords once they took the computers. I wish I had all the things that went down once I left but it’s insane all this happened in like 3 months! I’m kinda glad I wasn’t there for more blowups but kinda wish I knew what happened lol. Who knew taking a job at a small business would lead to all this?!

Every time I discuss movies with my boyfriend it seems I find a movie he has not seen. I, by no means, have seen every iconic movie but there are some that just feel like canon events for people. I found out he has not seen Halloweentown and that was the final straw. Need ideas for those iconic movies all must see! Especially millennial and gen Z movies!!!

Hi so my boyfriend‘s birthday is approaching and I’m looking to get him a knife. I realize that’s a broad category lol. He is someone who just adores a cool sharp object! Im asking for recommendations for a knife he could use for wood carving possibly as he has been getting into making walking sticks? Im hoping for lower prices as we are struggling college students but I want to get him something he’ll love and want to use. To give an idea of his knife interest he recently got a Kukri knife at an antique fair and he has been glued to it ever since. I’m in the southeast Louisiana area if anyone knows any shops!

I got my surgery Monday and I’ve been doing fairly ok, near end of Wednesday I stated getting pretty nauseous though. Today I am extremely nauseous! Nothing is working I don’t want to eat or even drink cause the idea of any of it makes me want to puke. Called dr instead of an anti-nausea prescription like we’d hoped she told me to get off antibiotics and if it doesn’t improve go to the ER. I want to ask what could the nausea indicate that I would need to go to the ER? I don’t really have the money especially post-surgery to just take trips to the ER. What could be causing the nausea that would require me to get urgent help??

I was diagnosed.

My surgery was today, I had stage 3 endometriosis. My appendix was also removed. Since I was 11 years old and got my first period I knew something was wrong. stated birth control at 13, OBGYN mentioned endo to me at 16, was put on consistent birth control to stop my periods at 18, I was diagnosed today at 23. I turn 24 on the day of my post op appointment. First time my pain has been diagnosed. I was juggled between my GI and OBGYN for the entirety of middle school and high school. Both believed me but neither had actual answers.

I went to college, my GI moved to Texas and my OBGYN (who had actually delivered my as a baby) was out side or out insurance. So in college I dealt with it. Lost my virginity there and it was excruciating, I thought that was normal. my relationship of the time was so careful so gentle yet I was in pain for days. Once I was with my current boyfriend I learned that wasn’t normal and he waited it out with me. I got pelvic floor therapy and he waited for me to be ok. Might be the bare minimum but honestly felt like the best thing in the whole world that he cared enough to wait. My Mon heard me crying everyday on the phone. She wanted Kylie Kelce’s podcast with Bindi Irwin and she for the first time truly believed I had endo. It became her mission to get me diagnosed. With her help and my boyfriend‘s support I found a specialist. She saw me told me it’s crazy the things even my good doctors ignored or brushed off. She did the tests to make sure it wasn’t something else, honestly just making my insurance happy. Once everything came back negative she scheduled the surgery.

Now a few hours post op… I’m in less pain than I was last night. The pain from the surgery is that of my normal day. The pain I experience at work. The pain I have while I go to dinner, watch a movie, go on a walk. Nothing new. Yeah it might get worse and this could be the drugs talking but I don’t care. I’m lighter now, I have a name to the endless days of pain. I have an answer to all the pain the specialists couldnt figure out.

Now as if I’m accepting this endo diagnosis an award. I would like to thank this subreddit for helping me through the panic attacks before surgery. I would like to thank my mom and my incredible boyfriend for getting me to this point. And of course I’d like to thank Bindi Irwin.

Since I got my period at 11, something was wrong. For 2 years I suffered in debilitating pain, bleeding so much I had to wear diapers to maintain it all, missing countless days of school. At 13 a gyno finally let me have an appointment and I was immediately thrown on birth control and have been on it without placebo ever since. At 16 he mentioned endo to me for the first time as a possibility, but I was too young to worry about it now. Now at 23 after years of being sent from gyno to gastro to gyno to gastro, the cycle continues. I found an endo specialist and she has scheduled me for surgery.

At this point my period doesn’t matter, I’m in pain daily. The cramping I’ve become accustomed to in my day to day has become pain so consuming it feels like my pain is just bursting through my whole body trying to destroy me. I can’t have sex, the advancements I made at pelvic floor therapy have resulted in nothing the second I‘m done. I guess I can at least feel pleasure now unlike before but I just will be curled up sobbing for an hour afterward. I can’t clean, I can barely work, I can’t cook, I can’t exercise. If I’m not in pain I’m too weak to move, if I’m not weak I’m in pain. From 12 y/o I thought it was all gastro. I have seen multiple gastro drs been put on multiple medications, they have tested me for everything, they find nothing. I have seen 5 specialists of different fields to figure out my pain all tests are negative, every ultrasound nothing, each mri normal.

This surgery has been a long time coming and while everyone around me tells me you have endo there is no other way. What happens if like all the other times I don’t? There are no more tests, there are no other theories this is it. I have been begging for a diagnosis, I don’t even care how bad it is, I’ve been begging for a diagnosis my entire life. I need something, something to tell me I’m not crazy.