So I was at the doctor yesterday.
I’ve been having severe pelvic pain problems for about 2 years now, and the first three doctors I saw about the issue didn’t really seem to put much care into it.
Now, my latest doctor wants to do laparoscopic surgery to look for signs of endometriosis, which makes sense as I have all of the symptoms.
I don’t so much fear the surgery as I do the thought of finding nothing. Not that endometriosis can be fixed, but having no knowledge but all the pain is just as bad. My mom and I are both doing research to make sure it’s the right option, and my biggest hope is that no adverse problems happen as a result of the surgery.
He estimates the procedure to take place within 2-4 weeks, but if it is too close to my trip to Florida, I will have to bump it forward. I don’t want to be taking my first vacation in years and years while recovering from surgery – that would be negative 200% fun.
I know a lot of you that read this blog have endometriosis and have had this surgery – any tips, advice, knowledge, etc…?
xoxo,
Annie
There’s no guarantee that they will find anything, even if you DO have endo. I had 7-8 surgeries with very little showing up. It wasn’t until my hysterectomy that they found the endo very deep inside. My biggest fear was that they wouldn’t find anything and not do the hysterectomy.
Listen to your gut instinct. I wish I had listened to mine and pushed for a hyster much sooner.
I hate to tell you, Annie, but even after my hysterectomy, there was no endo, and no other cause found for my symptoms. (At least the hysterectomy stopped the constant pain and bleeding.) I was lucky in that, by the time we’d tried pretty much everything else, one of the midwives at the hospital I worked at offered to “pull some strings” – and I had the hysterectomy within a week of giving up on the last of the other alternatives we had tried.