Please tell me...
Hi everyone... been reading the comm. for a long time, and in a fit of depression over the state of my health (as well as several other factors) tonight, decided to post. Its really late, and so I don't feel like getting into all the details of my condition just now, but there is one question that I really need to know...
(Noting first that the type I have most closely resembles endometrial hyperplasia)
Please tell me that there's someone out there besides myself, whom has been diagnosed with endo., has no pain from it, and/or cannot get anything done about it because of inability to take birth control of any kind...?? I feel like such a complete freak of nature. I've been reading about you girls with all the pain you endure from your symptoms, and all of that. I feel bad for you... but I don't have any! But yet my life is hell because of this disgusting condition. I was prescribed birth control, which resulted in blood clots forming in my legs, traveling to my lungs, and nearly killing me in the process. I am now 3-4 years in recovery from that, after several surgeries and more other physical crap than I can shake a stick at... and yet I'm still at square one with my endo. symptoms. Embarassing bleeding ALL THE TIME. The infuriating feeling of just washing every pair of pants I own, only to re-stain them one by one all over again, if I don't remember to wear a pad every single moment of every single day. And don't even get me started about embarassing situations during sex, which I no longer have because of this.
...I went on quite a bit more than I'd intended. Bottom line is... I just really need to know I'm not the only person out there who's going through this. I know other people suffer endo., as is obvious from this community... but no pain to speak of? And especially, inability to take any kind of birth control substance whatsoever, due to impending death...?
I'm at my wit's end, here...
(Noting first that the type I have most closely resembles endometrial hyperplasia)
Please tell me that there's someone out there besides myself, whom has been diagnosed with endo., has no pain from it, and/or cannot get anything done about it because of inability to take birth control of any kind...?? I feel like such a complete freak of nature. I've been reading about you girls with all the pain you endure from your symptoms, and all of that. I feel bad for you... but I don't have any! But yet my life is hell because of this disgusting condition. I was prescribed birth control, which resulted in blood clots forming in my legs, traveling to my lungs, and nearly killing me in the process. I am now 3-4 years in recovery from that, after several surgeries and more other physical crap than I can shake a stick at... and yet I'm still at square one with my endo. symptoms. Embarassing bleeding ALL THE TIME. The infuriating feeling of just washing every pair of pants I own, only to re-stain them one by one all over again, if I don't remember to wear a pad every single moment of every single day. And don't even get me started about embarassing situations during sex, which I no longer have because of this.
...I went on quite a bit more than I'd intended. Bottom line is... I just really need to know I'm not the only person out there who's going through this. I know other people suffer endo., as is obvious from this community... but no pain to speak of? And especially, inability to take any kind of birth control substance whatsoever, due to impending death...?
I'm at my wit's end, here...